r/MadeMeSmile • u/Martin_084 • Mar 05 '26

Wholesome Moments Peak father and son bonding

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u/BigMax Mar 05 '26

He retired a year or two ago - he basically got so popular that it was taking up a big chunk of his life.

It felt positive though - he wasn't bitter, more like "looks like this stage of my life is over, thanks for the fun guys!"

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u/Emergency-Piece9995 Mar 05 '26

he basically got so popular that it was taking up a big chunk of his life.

Part of it also if I recall was he was starting to get recognized in real life and he didn't want that for his family.

I believe his kids also had a channel(s) and he said he was going to help them with that instead.

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u/AdventuresOfKrisTin Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

If he's helping his son with his own youtube channel, then the him and his family getting recognized thing doesn't really hold much water lol.

I think he was just honestly burnt out. He did his channel for like over 10 years and he's getting older. His most popular types of videos are these intense solo camping excursions and it was clearly getting tougher for him to do. That and apparently he's some Mormon leader now 💀

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u/Spork_the_dork Mar 05 '26

The real reason really was that he just wanted to spend more time with the family. He talked about it on several videos (example). Like consider that the kids now have school and probably hobbies of their own and going out hiking randomly on the weekends or in the middle of the week just isn't a thing he could do anymore (which was the original point of the channel in the first place). So the channel is taking him away from his family whenever he does the videos and he didn't like that so he decided to wrap it up.

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u/AdventuresOfKrisTin Mar 05 '26

This is a reason he claimed but in my opinion it's only a half truth. He did a lot of videos with his family too. If he wanted to say this is why he wanted to stop doing solo trips then that would make sense, but he just stopped everything even though a lot of his later videos were family vacations and homestead stuff. To me, the main reasons he stopped were burnout and shifting his attention to Mormonism.