Adam the Woo #33

[dirtnap101]

Sophie posted all the her videos of their trip on Instagram. You can hear Adam in some of them. If this was such an amazing trip and friendship, why not share it before....

Definitely not AI, and you can see Adam in some of the videos. Example:

I can hear Adam say "if you know, you know" in front of the Pantheon, which is what he said in the vlog when he took his "Clark Griswold" selfie in front of it, and other videos where you can hear him narrating his vlog.

Zero doubt about her story now.

I just don't understand why anyone would want to live like this...hidden, constantly making sure you're positioned correctly, "stay in the hallway with your bags while I do a 'room tour' and I'll tell you when you can come in".

And as @LillyinHou said, this is not solo travel on Adam's part. I'm sure Adam paid for all of it, but how much of it did he actually research? I can see him telling Sofie what he wanted to do, where he wanted to go, what he wanted to see, and then she told him to book here, we need to do this, etc. Even just dealing with being in Italy - according to her IG, as she's based in the UK, she's traveled around Europe and specifically Italy before this, so she can advise him on pretty much anything. 99% of people watching thought Adam was doing this on his own, but he wasn't.

Adam seemed to be stringing her along, too, with this whole "bring your mom over and you and I and our moms can meet up and hang out at WDW" thing. Was that to be the unveiling of Sofie to the channel? Or Sofie and her mom were going to show up in Florida, and Adam was going to calmly explain to his mother that this is a woman he met in the UK and he likes her, but she doesn't want to be on camera? And he was going to film vlogs with him and his mom staying at Bay Lake as if it was a mother-son staycation, but hidden behind the scenes would be Sofie and her mom? And how much of the bill is Adam footing here? DVC, sure, but was he to pay for flying Sofie AND her mom over from the UK?

Sheesh...what a tangled web to weave

 

[dirtnap101]

I don't see it on her page. Can you screenshot it?

It's not lost on me that his mom already has on her mind "as we go thru Adam's belongings"...

 

[dirtnap101]

Came across a user (houseofthehill) on the ATW sub-Credits that indicates they are a female from the Illinois/Iowa Quad Cities area that "knew" Adam...which helps explains to me why he spent so much time in the past few years in the Quad Cities area (even when he wasn't visiting family)

She claims Adam never asked her to "stay secret" and that it was her choice to remain off camera and not wanting the Wooverse in her face. Says he used to "chuckle" about people finding out, so it was no big deal to him.

She is very supportive of Sofie's posts, and as far as Adam making future plans with his various ladies...

"He always made more travel plans with people. I was supposed to go back with him to House on the Rock. He wanted more trips when they decorated it for different holidays and when he had more time to go through it intricately. We often also talked about Chicago and St Louis (did go to StL with him once already though)."​

Says she knew he had other women in various places...she describes Adam as "solo poly"

This tracks perfectly...a narcissist considering themselves their primary partner.

Finally:

"Adam orchestrated his life the way he wanted and he was far from lonely or unhappy. I just spoke to him Saturday. He checked in on me to see how I was feeling because I had been sick. We joked about being ready for Santa."​

I assume Adam was in contact and getting ready to line her up to "hang out" for the first part of his Route 66 jaunt in 2026.

Remember the many times we asked what he was doing all day when he would start filming at 6pm and do a lazy 30 min video based on driving around Celebration for an hour or two? I think he was spending all day juggling all his "best friends" and "good friends" and "friends with benefits" in every corner of the US (and in 2025, the globe). Vegas, LA, Quad Cities, Europe, Orlando, so at this point I have to assume he had a FWB everywhere he went, possibly multiple. Amazing, really, that it was only recently he got caught with Wystri, and only by chance with the mystery woman on that livestream in Vegas.

 

[eatcherheartout]

For those of you that don’t follow the Tim Tracker threads, Tim and Jenn have uploaded their tribute to Adam on YouTube. It’s monetized and they linked their Amazon storefront.

 

[minimax]

Well, I didn’t expect to see this one, but I guess grifters gotta grift.

These two bottom feeding pieces of trash are a cancer on the vlogging community and have lost 70% of their audience since doing what they did to Adam.

I only wish the absolute worst for them and their ambitions as they try to profit once again off a tragedy. (Last one being multiple videos about the LA Wildfires that didn't impact them at all).

 

[2020planner]

Adam seemed to be stringing her along, too, with this whole "bring your mom over and you and I and our moms can meet up and hang out at WDW" thing. Was that to be the unveiling of Sofie to the channel? Or Sofie and her mom were going to show up in Florida, and Adam was going to calmly explain to his mother that this is a woman he met in the UK and he likes her, but she doesn't want to be on camera? And he was going to film vlogs with him and his mom staying at Bay Lake as if it was a mother-son staycation, but hidden behind the scenes would be Sofie and her mom? And how much of the bill is Adam footing here? DVC, sure, but was he to pay for flying Sofie AND her mom over from the UK?

Sheesh...what a tangled web to weave

I honestly hate to say it, but I think he was stringing A LOT of women along.
Women who, for whatever reason, were thirsty to be with some quasi-celebrity vlogger.

Now that so many are coming out of the woodwork, including extra clingy Sofie, I truly believe he'd visit them, pay for EVERYTHING (even if he dictated what they'd being doing), give them the attention they craved, and who the hell knows what else happened (well, we can imagine).

Because, despite what he'd say when Wysteri (or however you spell that) was spotted with him at HS, it's NOT "normal" to have multiple gal pals - as a 50-something single male - who "just happen" to be OF... or "just happen" to look a type... or "just happen" to meet up with him in all these nooks and crannies across the U.S. (and now Europe).

It doesn't "just happen" unless there's some sort of transactional thing occurring (paid or unpaid).
These gals can say what they say, but we weren't all born yesterday.

 

[Spagoot]

I’ve been seeing a lot of, “well…at least he was happy and was doing what he loved”, which kind of negates a lot of the years and years of snark on him. I’m not sure I understand the mental turnaround — and I’m not trying to be mean: Adam, in a lot of ways, was beholden to his channel; to his routine. It was deep, deep seated. There would be long stretches in his life where he would be outwardly dissatisfied, trying to fill a void that swirled inside him. He felt a responsibility to vacation, to tirelessly be out in the world “having fun”. People would dog on him for saying he was overwhelmed or “burning the candle at both ends”, but that was always something I sympathized with. He could never find the leisure he was chasing, because leisure was ultimately his occupation; his duty. It was like an endless loop of non-fulfillment.

As he got older, the desire to settle in locally and do the things he loved to do the most was at war with this gnawing compulsion to fill his channel with variety and to maintain a fanbase that could appreciate both sides of his life. It seemed aimless. It seemed lonely. Despite being surrounded by cohorts who loved and respected him, Adam seemed like a really lonely person. I don’t think Adam could ever allow himself to be truly introspective about his life and that left him incomplete.

At the end, I don’t really have anything but sympathy for Adam the Woo. I found him to be a tragic figure. A lot of what he got on the snark sites was baseless and undeserved. Not all of it, but he ultimately was just a guy trying to please people, including - and most importantly - himself.

 

[Beezlebubba]

I also noticed the wording by multiple people and was shocked to see that everyone is talking about possible heart issues / stroke... when my mind (unfortunately) went a totally different direction when I first heard the news

You are 100% correct in your initial thoughts on what happened. If he didn't do something to make it happen that last night it was still slow suicide by his behaviors.
Almost every one of his "best friends" comment on his stubbornness. Justin (a true long term friend) even talked about how he'd have to talk around a good idea to make Adam THINK whatever was really his idea so he'd do/consider it. It's like walking on eggshells around a disturbed person.
If just have to say that being pig-headed stubborn is NOT a virtue. It's a sure sign on deeper mental problems.
I do think it's cool how he's clearly touched many people's lives. I don't think he was a malevolently bad person but was far from being the saint he's being made out to be by so many.

Ultimately he DID win the game. His channel was slowly going down hill. The revenue stream was getting smaller and smaller. There is no fucking way he'd go back into retail work. Slow or fast, 100% deliberate or not, his train was bound to end up at this station one way or another.
My guess he saw his finances dwindling and his with his stubbornness he would not allow himself to pivot to fix the problem.

Like many of you, my wife and I (she passed in 2024) enjoyed his content until he clearly lost his passion for what he was doing and starting phoning it in. That's ok. It was his channel to do with as he pleased, but we moved on. Why was/am I here? It's been said by others already. I wanted to see him do better. On the even more human nature side it was hard to turn away from watching (via @dirtnap, PTP, The Sheriff, and everyone in here) the slow train wreck.

The character Adam the Woo is (as many have already said) a cautionary tale that unfortunately few will heed.

I meant it when I wished David Godspeed. I learned when my wife passed to treasure every fucking moment you have on this earth. Use your words with your friends and loved ones. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow.

Harrumph!

 

[eatcherheartout]

I didn't realize when we were talking about a Go Fund Me that one has actually been setup! I find that ridiculous. Regular and even financially tight people find ways to pay for their funeral expenses. Probably Adam himself would not like it. I think the stardom thing is going a little too far now with the statue suggestions and memorials. Its sad, its tragic, he had a lot of people who loved him, his family is hurting, but this also happens to Joe Bus driver, who might be even younger and leave little kids behind. Someone even called him a "fallen warrior"
The worship is getting out of hand.
I probably should step away myself from it because I am starting to not like the Wooisphere again and I don't want to be like that when a person has died.

I agree. I used to criticize him pretty harshly and I don’t think he was this nice generous person that people are now saying he was but I am sad that he passed away. That being said, it’s getting to be too much. Multiple women coming out saying Adam was their best friend, setting up a go fund me for someone who paid half a million dollars for a home and traveled to multiple countries first class, woovians getting tattoos and claiming Adam is now haunting them. It’s a bit ridiculous. Adam didn’t want to have a 5 minute conversation with a random fan, I doubt he wants to haunt one.

 

[Mr Pewtey]

So, we’re to believe that this ”Sofie” person accompanied Adam on a bunch of his international trips, and he kept her a secret? She was following him around behind the camera, eating alone at another table, staying out of reflections, not saying a word when he was filming, etc. Turns out Adam was a better editor than we ever imagined!

 

[Sophie peach]

It’s his elderly parents I feel sorry for.

 

[eatcherheartout]

I can’t believe I’m siding with Adam on this but I would not want to have a conversation with these whackos either. I’d claim social anxiety too if these were the kind of people who were approaching me.

 

[Chandler Bing]

It seems Justin knows how Adam wanted to be remembered.

 

[dirtnap101]

Meanwhile, 20 hours ago KT was "royally done with this".....just 18,000 more stories and she'll be done

 

[Iwantallthetea]

Very interesting....someone named Sofie posted in the other place:

"I’m a close friend of Adam’s and was recently on the Italy portion of his trip with him, he was extremely happy the whole trip, we both had the best time and made beautiful memories together that we said we will cherish forever He has changed my life, and nothing will ever be the same again. I am absolutely devastated and just wanted to share some photos. When flying out of Rome airport together (going to different places) I was crying and said to him “I’m just going to miss your presence, having you next to me every day” and he said “you’ll be with me in spirit” And also “don’t be sad sweetie”, “don’t get upset or I’ll get upset”, and “don’t be sad, we’re going to see each other in April, and we’re going to go on a lot more adventures”. We had plans for the future including WDW in April 2026, a possible Great River Road trip in September 2026 along the Mississippi, and a month long trip in March 2027 to London/Copenhagen/Stockholm/Oslo and Norway, and possibly a Northern Italy trip we had started drafting an itinerary for. I can’t believe I won’t have my friend around for the rest of my life."

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Why does she have the same look on her face in all the photos?

 

[Mr Pewtey]

That Carpetbeggar scumbag has now made four videos about Adam, raking in clicks and cash. This is how he celebrated Adam in his latest video:

 

[MojoFilter]

I know she’s grieving her friend, but Sofie posting all of these details is just gross. What is her goal with this? To one up the other girls? “See how happy he was with me and he called me sweetie”. It’s weird.

And him not being alone when he was traveling was dishonest. He was portraying his videos as a video diary of what was going on in his life, and while we may know better, the majority of the Woovians didn’t and should feel deceived.

 

[DidYouJustCallMeBLOB]

From Daphne's Threads

 

[westville]

So many here would lament Adam making promises we knew he would break. But that’s because there was always the assumption there would be a future during which he could break them.

I know people were worried about his health. But there are tons of people who abuse their bodies and don’t die in their sleep at 51. Some are lucky and don’t even have any medical diagnoses until later in life. I certainly never thought it was likely to happen that he would be gone this early. Maybe a wake up call event? Sure. But death? No.

I remember a couple of years ago that he talked about retiring, even maybe doing it at 50. That he didn’t see himself doing this into old age.

And it is hitting me so hard today that the universe agreed with him and ended the vlog.

 

[dirtnap101]

Justin promoting someone basically saying "Adam is dead, I was gonna do a video with him in 2026, please buy my book on Amazon"

I'm beginning to think that the #1 lesson Adam taught all his friends is to monetize everything, even his death, and that he'd be proud of it.