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Well, this is incredibly sad news. My thoughts go out to his family, and the people closest to him.

Of course criticizing someone's work, someone's lifestyle and someone's attitude is not, in ANY way, wanting something bad to happen to them. People who put themselves in the public eye every day open themselves up to criticism, but the FAR majority of Adam's critics never wished this on him or wanted this for him.

In fact, along with all the joking, the ribbing, the criticism, and the lambasting Adam got on here from me, I always felt I was telling Adam that he was going down a bad road. Mentally, physically, in every way. Adam annoyed the shit out of me with his attitude and his stubbornness in many aspects of his life, but his refusal to listen to advice was near the top of that list. How many times in my posts here did I tell Adam to go to the damn doctor, to see a therapist? We suggested that he revamp his channel and his life to put his well-being first. It could have reinvigorated his channel, but more importantly, it might have saved him.

So I can't say I'm shocked. I really can't. We all knew this was coming, sooner or later, with the way he lived his life. And he was looking worse and worse every day, with the way he gave up and went back to every day of soda, sweets, fried foods, etc. He said in the comments the other day that he was running on fumes. As someone who watched every vlog, it was a bit like watching an addict descend back into madness.

Earlier in the day, I said he could just be taking the day off, or something could have happened that prevented him from posting. Sadly, the worst thing possible prevented him from posting.

I feel sad for him, and of course for his family. I SO wish he had listened to the advice. There was something there with Adam - there's a reason we all watched him in the first place. But the way his life went, there was just too much for him to overcome. I don't lay it all at his feet, but he had the power to turn it around, he was given a lottery ticket to be able to take the wake up call and he never did. And I said that many times, too - that he was too far gone. And it's truly heartbreaking that he was.

I hope that Adam can rest in peace.

From his sister -

Adam’s friend and neighbor Kevin Heimbach responds to BLAB video:

It's getting contentious in here, so can we all just agree in unity that BLAB absolutely sucks?

Hey Justin,

Adam the Woo #34: This Won’t Be the Last ATW Thread

This wasn’t a joke post - he was deadly serious. I can’t with these Woovians anymore.

Sofie going out with a real bang today... (of course, she ends with some non-trip photos Adam sent her, so who knows how long she'll keep posting Adam-related stuff)



After a full dinner, they got double scoops of gelato. Then they went back to the room and watched Gladiator 2 and ate potato chips and drank Fanta???



TWO lattes each???






Then things go to another level...









I mean, I was kind of kidding when I first posted this...



But now...YIKES.

I am probably going to sound like a horrible person........but why post those photos and private messages? Adam didn't want "us" to know you existed.......but 48 hours after his passing you want "us" to know you existed. And every photo seems like this "friend" is super clingy.

Glad he had someone to share his travels with..........just not sure why private moments had to be shared.

(I know, I know terrible. It's the cynical Gen X-er in me).

OK, now I DO believe that Adam is haunting me...

I went out to move my son's car, and I get in and swivel my head around and almost jumped into the backseat when this was my view...



After I moved the car and got back inside, I said to him "where did you get that air freshener?" and he said one of his friends gave it to him for Christmas.

Now I'm afraid the next thing will be waking up with the Urkel doll in bed between me and my wife!

So, just to kick this thread off...

Many tributes to Adam have been mentioning that he was the OG vlogger (at least in this sphere) and Justin said he was always amazed because Adam was always "further down the road" than him and had the ability to concentrate on something and make it happen, others talking about his work ethic and codes and consistency and all that, and none of them have been able to approach what Adam did.

And then I look around at the rest of them, the bizarre little family of vloggers he knit together...and Adam was the only one that truly made vlogging his life from the moment he started it. Because he had nothing when he started it - no hopes in his late 30s to suddenly become successful at music, no prospects for anything else, no normal job that anyone would care about (just lower-level, minimum wage-type retail work where he bounced between a million different franchises), no wife, no kids, nothing.

So many (if not all, I don't know everyone's backgrounds fully) of his "friends" are married, engaged, divorced and re-married (or close to it), and a bunch have kids from those relationships, and some have or had good jobs that aren't easy to throw away.

We often say that he hit the lottery with YouTube, he was in the right place at the right time, and that's true. Certainly he did throw himself totally into it, but it was the kind of thing that he'd always wanted to do, it was really sort of his dream job, so of course he threw himself into it - especially because, as noted, he had nothing of value to give up to pursue it.

So not only was he in the right place at the right time, and worked hard to establish himself and blaze a trail early on, but he was also "uniquely available" to take advantage of the opportunity.

And everything was kind of frozen in time for him one he "made it" on YouTube in 2015. Other than getting older and lazier and slower, his life stayed the same. He traded the van for an RV for shared apartments for solo apartments for a house with first class fights and a golf cart. But he ate the same, drank soda the same, behaved the same and remained interested in the all same things. The settings changed, but not much else did, except that lazy factor.

For some, the repetition was an attraction. For many over the last few years, it was a turn off, based on the dropping views. Repetition plus laziness was a bad recipe for his channels. And his lifestyle was, likely, a bad recipe for him in the end.

This was supposed to be the final ATW thread with tributes and remembrance...
then along came Sofie..

You know, I had a pretty violent stomach bug over the summer. Guess who I didn't tell as it was going on? The entire fucking internet.

NOOOOOO!!

51 is too young.

We don’t have to scold him after death for not going to the doctor or whatever because we have no idea what his cause of death is. And even if it was something preventable, does it matter? Is it still not tragic? Or are we just trying to find reasons that this won’t happen to us. But it might. You never know what could happen any day.

Rest in peace Adam. You deserved more years.

Very sad news.

Like most of you, Adam's videos entertained me for a great stretch. His videos also introduced me to Best Life & Beyond - which led me to this community and lots of additional entertainment reading the chatter here about them and the fascinating world of Disney Vloggers.

While I may not have followed his adventures closely over the past few years (more of my schedule getting busier than a comment on his latest content), I did catch the series of more recent videos about his first trip to Disneyland Paris and I enjoyed the genuine curiosity and happiness that he had exploring it for the first time. I thought how fantastic it was that he made his International travels happen by just YouTube Adsense (no manipulating for Patreon, SuperChats, etc. like the Predatory Grifters that hung on his coattails) as a result of being appealing to such a wide variety of people (Woovians) on a daily basis.

I personally enjoyed Adam the most when he was showing slices of Americana. I liked it from his perspective while he was essentially living out the American Dream of providing for himself/building something all from his own non-traditional grind and ingenuity.

While I am not a fit female of age 18-25 and therefore my presence may have caused social anxiety for the Big Guy, I did think a few times that it would be nice to give him a fist bump in the wild one day (in an appropriate setting) and say "Thank You for inviting us on so many adventures and motivating me to make time to go out of my way to explore more on road trips of my own".

As many have stated, there is going to be a hole for A LOT of people who had Adam's videos as part of their daily ritual. I hope his family and fans can eventually find some comfort by revisiting at times some of his 4,000+ videos and enjoying his adventures again on demand (for posterity).

Gone to soon, Woo. But for sure will never be forgotten. R.I.P.

Since I don’t see us stopping any time soon:

Adam the Woo #34 I’ll see you in the next thread - the vlog is not over.

I don't know man, I'm fucking tired these days of grown ass manchildren being so fucking fragile and everyone else having to put up with their fucking fragility because they refuse to just go to fucking therapy. Maybe my patience today of all days is pretty dang low. I'm still grieving the death of a beloved family member from a couple of months ago, but I'm also grieving *gestures at everything in this fucking crazy world* and I don't have the time to keep lamenting to everyone who is near me that I'm fucking sad just about that. I had to get myself together and keep fucking going.

Will people have permission to judge people after a certain date of constantly begging for attention and making everything about themselves or do they get to use grief as an excuse to continue to not grow the fuck up? What do some of these fuckers who are lamenting that they can't imagine posting themselves on the teacups think the rest of us do? We fucking go to work even though we want to curl up in a fetal position and cry our hearts out. We get up and shower and take care of the family and pets that depend on us because that's fucking life. We go to therapy, we talk to our doctor about temporarily upping antidepressants if we have to. These people are not children. I'm tired of them being coddled. And frankly, if some of the vloggers can't imagine doing their "job" then maybe that's a fucking sign to change direction in life and do something else.

I think we could stand to coddle these emotionally and mentally stunted GROWN MEN a little tiny bit less. If that makes me cunty, so be it.

I mean honestly, the friends I've had die young have died terrible fucking deaths. I feel like crying thinking about any of them (but without making a scene about it and feeling sorry for myself). I only wish that at least their deaths could have been while asleep in their bed. To have even made it to 50, which none of them did.

Go to the doctor everyone. It might not save your life. Plenty of people who go to the doctor still keel over and die. But it could find something that you wouldn’t know about otherwise.

I would like to say Adam taught us other lessons too. Be kind to people. Foster friendships. Don’t gatekeep. Embrace what you love. Get out of your comfort zone. See the value in the mundane. Make your dreams come true. Honor your parents. Remember the past. Set goals. Fail. Set more goals. Don’t pull up the ladder behind you. See the world. Be weird. Let people into your weirdness. Don‘t forget your roots. Make time for others. Collaborate. Get excited about the future. Appreciate the present. Screw up and still keep going.

Adam was no saint. However, I know more about what he did everyday than people I know personally. He didn’t do everything on this list all of the time. But he did it more than most, on camera, for us all to see.

Adam the Woo #16: grooms young women but not himself