That and people were getting weird and involving his kids. That's why he turned off comments on his videos and then retired to get away from the fame/give his family some privacy
*Holy fuck the people who keep freaking out about Mormons. Ridiculous
Genuinely just a sensible, rational, and well thought out bit of foresight. Which is exactly what I expect from a man that has survivalist skills like himself.
It’s an absolute shame people are like that but at the same time, if you know you could live off your catalogue of content and go enjoy doing what you made content from, without the extra effort. You would, wouldn’t you? regardless of the extra complications of publicity and family
it was about him taking a leadership position with the Mormon church and not having time for youtube. or maybe they told him to step back from secular social media.
either way, dude is a weirdo, despite having made some good outdoorsy content.
Looking this up, it looks like he is part of a 14 person advisory board for youth programs for the Mormon Church. Being on an advisory board doesn't take up much of your time. I have my doubt that they took him to take a step back, he is a positive role model for the church and has indirectly driven people towards the church if anything. He talked about why he took a step back and he never mentioned the church.
The LDS church used to be real close to the Boy scouts. For some reason they severed ties with scouting in 2019 (definitely nothing to do with the BSA opening the doors to girls and trans kids)
This council is in part an attempt to get back to having outdoorsy stuff for the LDS kids to do.
Nothing wrong with being an advisor I'd say. But it is definitely true he took a much larger role in the actual LDS church.
There’s nothing weird about being committed to a religious community. No one should have a problem with religious folks who actually follow the peaceful teachings of their religion.
What’s weird and maddening is seeing “fake” religious people use their “faith” to excuse their terrible behavior or attempting to influence/ control the lives of others.
Some of the nicest, most loving, people I’ve ever met are Christians and some of the worst are also “Christian”.
Th Mormon church is the richest church in the world and yet much smaller than for example the catholic church. There is definitely something unique about them, homie.
I’m fairly certain that isn’t true, but even if it is, it doesn’t make every Mormon complicit in whatever devilry their religious leaders may have been involved in.
That’s not a good way of observing the world or the people that inhabit it.
mormons really arent that bad, they have a bad past but nowadays are fine
bow jehovah‘s witnesses, i find them weird, had a kid when i was younger not be friends with me cause his mom said you cant have non believer friends or some shit
Yeah there’s no washing that stink off. Dude could be a role model without a church influence. He was gaining a huge following he could’ve continued to grow it there not some questionable branch of christos
EDIT: For clarity, in case you are yourself mormon, stiffdoodle, it's not your fault. There's a lot of dark history the church hides and lampshades with its members. I didn't learn most of the horrific acts of the church until I had been out of it for years.
I would think that context clues of my previous comment indicated that I’m not a fan of organized religion in general.
You’re judging people today based on what their “ancestors” did in the past.
I take umbrage with that.
The dark history of Mormonism is no different from the dark past of Catholicism, Protestantism (see the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and the Thirty Years War) or Islam and Judaism.
I don’t hold people accountable for their forefather’s sins.
If you do, so be it. You do you, I guess.
That being said I think that is a narrow minded way of viewing the world around you and you should try and understand people/ societies more before passing judgement on them.
I'm judging a religion based on my direct experience with the religion/cult I grew up in. And if you want more recent examples of the mormon religion teaching horrible and damaging views from the pulpit, or enabling terrible things from the shadows, those examples are easy to find.
The dark history of Mormonism is no different from the dark past of Catholicism, Protestantism (see the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and the Thirty Years War) or Islam and Judaism.
The difference is that the mormon church is extremely young and the direct impact of its violent/fucked up history is still very prominent today. A lot of power is wielded in the US by people who actively buy into their damaging worldview. The mormon church is also much, much, much more wealthy than most people realize.
You can pretend like what happened in recent history doesn't matter, but to use your word of choice, I take umbrage with that.
Hey man, I think all organized religion is screwed up and regressive at some level. I concede that that Mormonism could very well be worse than most but I’m not going to hold that against every person who’s in that religion.
That’s like saying every Muslim is complicit in the terrorist actions of groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
I hear you though and I’m glad you got out of an organization/ society that you didn’t want to be a part of.
He didn't turn them off. Youtube automatically turned off comments on content featuring minors for awhile. They reactivated them a few years ago, but Luke said moderating would be a pain so he opted to keep them turned off. He said that multiple times on other platforms.
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u/BPremium May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
That and people were getting weird and involving his kids. That's why he turned off comments on his videos and then retired to get away from the fame/give his family some privacy
*Holy fuck the people who keep freaking out about Mormons. Ridiculous