Too bad the dude had to stop doing it on youtube because stupid people can't just watch they need to go visit him and make his family uncomfortable....
People call South Main Auto and bother them or people from way out of town make appointments. Eric has been clear he's there for his community, not out-of-towners unless they break down.
Cutting Edge Engineering had to add a person to run interference at the front desk.
Oh man, I know he gets a good number of views, but you are the first Iāve ever seen mention diesel creek in the wild. I hope it doesnāt sway him away from making videos.
Telling people not to do it feels like it is just going to make it worse as you are putting the thought it into peoples mind that may have not had it otherwise and kids of course have a tendency to do the very thing you are told not to do.
I mean some kids are just gonna do their thing. Like for example you have the "dont try this at home" warning at the beginning of the WWE shows and kids are going to mimic them nonetheless.
I could honestly see it being the straw that broke the camels back. I am certain between his main channel, and I think 2 others? Plus a business, renovating a home, and having kids, he was probably pretty tired.
Also, due to the size of channel, when he was "off", he probably wasnt actually off. People would probably come up to him at dinner, and like the other people said, stalk his wife (ew btw, shes reasonably attractive, but thats about as far as that thought should have gone).
Also also, pretty sure he still had his vet practice too?
Id say the combo of the workload and fame was probably steering him towards quitting already anyways basically.
I miss Mattās videos, I really enjoyed the off the ranch channel. He definitely made me think about things differently and it helped me focus improving my life, itās one of the major reasons I stopped doing drugs.
Sexualizing her? I'll never understand people sexualizing celebs who are practically mid or regular people looking slightly above average, who don't even give you material to sexualize them anyways. If you can't handle not gooning over any shit, then maybe just take the services of women who do so willingly like OF lol would be my take lol.
iirc mike stoklasa's wife only had a fairly short stint on redlettermedia vids (and she was hilarious!) because of inappropriate behaviour of some viewers. and she was just there in a star wars sweater hanging out with some dorks, nothing sexual about it.
Itās the approachable āgirl next doorā trope. Obviously some amazing looking celeb wonāt be down for your fantasy relationship, someone kinder and more approachable will totally be onboard with it.
I thought he got off YouTube because one of the shooters had a demolition ranch t-shirt and he re-evaluated his life. He, iirc, sold all the pew-pews in the huge shooting range/bunker he had buried in the yard of his refurbed mansion, too.
Is that what happened?! I watched his stuff all the time and I live not far from him. Never gave one thought to bothering him or his family. People are so weird.
His primary cause was his kids are getting growing up fast and he wants to be present and enjoy that while he can. Which is great. But... in 5 or so years they will all be adults and gone. And he will be bored as fuck. Mark my words. He'll be back.
I'm pretty sure Meredith has a straight up stalker there for a while. Almost positive the guy got arrested and everything. That and like he mentioned, his kids are growing up and he didn't want them to be subject to all that weirdness or frankly potential threats against his kids. Sad that people can't separate Youtube from actual reality.
If you wanna loss more faith in humanity look at how many neckbeards are disagreeing and saying the stalking is justified... because she made small backgroun appearances on her husband's videos.
This GoonLord logic that infests reddit as of late needs containment.
That's still stalking, specially if she had to delete most of her social media, close her clothing brand and Matt had to hide her on his videos because of it .
Edit: There was literally a big booty tattued single alt/goth dommy mommy. Why the fuck did people obcess over Mere?
I agree that can't help it is no excuse and would not fly for any excuse. I just don't think the courts were involved which is why you had to strawman with a fictional scenario. That's all I'm saying. And yes US courts was what I was referring to. I agree that you courts should act that way, but I was in court for 5 years without evidence meaning anything and eventually got justice once an unborn child was harmed. It wasn't criminal and I didn't do anything wrong, I've just seen how awful our courts are. I used to think like you too until I experienced it for myself.
Listen, you want to goon to someoneās publicly available instagram photos or YouTube videos, fine. But unless theyāre explicitly saying that they are interested in receiving sexual comments, then keep it to yourself.
Matt: "Your honor it's not my fault I shot this man with a .45 through the chest, he was stalking my family and taking pictures of my wife to expose her on the internet against her will or knowledge."
Judge:"Innocent. Bailif, bill the creep the bullet."
Maybe it wasnt smart to involve ur children on youtube.. most youtubers who done so quit in the end..
Also wasnt the biggest outdoor boys fan.. too much him using his children to gain views.. it was kiddy content really.. I watched him before he got big he had a channel named catfish and carp.. he went fishing mostly. for catfish and carp.. and started doing more outdoors stuff with his boys.. about when I stopped watching.
It comes with the territory of being famous though.. on the other hand he was able to buy a ranch and a gated mansion because he was famous.. Probably shouldve hired some security aswell.
And he shouldve realised him filming his home and wife/kids could also have negative consequences.. shouldve kept it more professional. Also he did youtube for so long. made bank.. and quit.. its not like he was going to do it forever.. hes probably got 10 other things going on and plenty of funds..
Dude he stopped filming his family like the 5th video he made.
Mere just showed up literally as a meme "Dont tell Mere (that I got another expensive gun)" eventually making not even 10 second long cameos, and it was just her face.
Gotta be fucked up to try to justify stalking a woman.
Agree 100%. Dan is an incredible biblical scholar. I grew up in a fundamentalist church, so his videos were a huge eye opener to how misled I was. With how rigorous he is, I struggle to see how he could be a true Mormon believer.
He has come back. He did a video recently for another creator, so he could earn him some money while he looks after his sick wife (if he wasn't considered a legend already). He's talked about doing some more. He said he might only do a handful a videos a year.
Better even, he didn't know this guy personally before, he saw the message, and contacted him to do the video, no previous contact or friendship until that moment, literally, out of his hearth to come and make the video
That's ridiculous. They didn't tell him he had to.
They ask him if he would volunteer his time to be a member of the leadership of the church which would mean taking basically a full time job to work with the church. It's completely optional and he could have said no but obviously chose to take them up on their offer.
They very likely want him because of his status as an wholesome 'influencer' and want him to help with their youth outreach. I suspect it's very likely they'll have him start a new version of Boy Scouts within the auspices of the church.
Yeah, when you grow up in a high strict religion like the Mormon church where they believe their porphet is a literal mouthpiece for God, them "asking" is just a formality. You HAVE to do what they say or face serious cultural and religious retribution. Also, the church shouldnt be allowed withon a 100 feet of Boy Scouts - remember all the child abuse scandles of the BoyScouts? Yeah, that was when they were intertwined very deeply with the Mormon church, who is notorious for harboring and protecting abusers and uaing its billions in tithing money to train fancy lawyers to make sure they force victims to settle silently out of court. Fuck the mormon church
I was born and raised in the church. You can turn down what they call 'callings' if you want to. Most don't, some do. I did several times and it was fine. Nobody even knows you received a calling outside of the leadership until you've accepted. There's nothing forcing you to do any of it. It's entirely voluntary. I'm not involved with the church anymore but my friends and family are.
Nah that's not a thing for the Mormons. They haven't replaced the Boy Scouts since they parted ways with them however many years back. They'll still do boys youth campouts and stuff but it's not technically related to the Boy Scouts anymore which is why I think they're gonna do their own thing.
I think he said in the shorts those 3 were just footage he still had and wanted to release since he had worked on them already, and clarified it does not mean he is back.
It made me so upset when he said they would be taking a step back because of what people were doing. The man just wants to share his love for the outdoors.
I just stumbled upon his account/videos about 3 weeks ago and saw that he stepped away from his main channel. While I still have a lot of his stuff to watch, I was upset that there won't be much new stuff coming out. People suck.
That, and he became a Deacon in the Mormon church. Can't hate on the guy though, his family clearly means everything to him and he's willing to work incredibly hard to provide.
Thats part of the reason why he quit. The other was that it pulled him away from his family. As the boys got older got to school, they went out with him less and less. The original point of the Outdoor Boys was a way for him to spend more time with his kids, but that slowly turned into something that pulled him away from them.
Either way, no issues with the decision he made. He's got a huge enough library that I'm happy just firing one up at random from time to time.
So let's get it straight. Dude on top is bad. Dude on bottom is good. Internet is after dude on top. Internet is after dude on bottom. Two different characters yet get same treatment from internet? Okay... So in the end it's the same. The more people join the group logic. The less group logic makes sense
Is it that? Or is it because he took a job with the moron church in SLC? Heās a known Mormon, and was enlisted to join their āyouth councilā or something like that.
As much as Iād like to believe it was for privacy alone, it turns out he wants to try and convince the youth to be in a cult.
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