title: Laravel: static::create vs DB:insert
body: <p>If I use the following code snippet in my model it inserts the data:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$instance = DB::table('users')-&gt;insert(compact('email', 'username'));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But if I do this instead:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$instance = static::create(compact('email', 'username'));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It inserts null, but created_at and updated_at are inserted.</p>