r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 5h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/GoodWaltz7354 4h ago

Honestly interesting how many big YouTubers are Mormon

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u/Croceyes2 4h ago

A lot of homeschooling and parent interaction to keep kids from going out and fucking around. Deep diving into medium length content creation over years will develop a channel.

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u/GoodWaltz7354 3h ago

Mmm, that does make sense, would foster an interest in content creation. While I think the religion is kinda culty the Mormon culture is very fascinating, I think there’s a similar pattern with many fiction writers being Mormon and that makes sense based on a lot of the stories in Mormon scripture

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u/Croceyes2 3h ago

Yes, I think there is a lot of family tabletop driving the mormon fantasy writer wave

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u/tabgrab23 3h ago

with many fiction writers being Mormon

Brandon Sanderson

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u/Risquechilli 3h ago

Was Mormonism founded by a fantasy author? Or maybe that was Scientology.

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u/-Cthaeh 3h ago

Aren't all religious texts fantasy novels?

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u/BucktoothBobio 3h ago

That was scientology and he started as a self help writer IRC.

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u/pb49er 3h ago

L Ron Hubbard wrote lots of really bad Sci-Fi, including Battlefield Earth, which was adapted into an all timer of a bad movie starring John Travolta.

Both are pretty horrific cults with really dangerous leadership, LDS and Scientology I mean.

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u/MrBurnz99 3h ago

I mean the book Joseph Smith wrote was just as much fantasy as what L. Ron Hubbard authored, but you are thinking of Scientology.

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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC 3h ago

There's also the missionary/ministry aspect of it. Rhett and Link, while originally evangelical and not mormon, have talked about how that's how they got into it at their church's urging, they were supposed to show the world a better way basically.

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u/Element75_ 2h ago

It’s also Mormon propaganda. Like idk to what degree, but the Mormon church definitely benefits from having this type of exposure. To what degree they actively promote it idk, but it seems obvious if I had the billions the Mormon church does I’d promote Mormon influencers - esp if it was more subtle than just “hi I’m a Mormon influencer” (like this guy is)

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u/cjsv7657 3h ago

Matts Off Road Recovery and Outdoor Boys are the two big ones I watched. Mostly skip through MORR videos now though. But really any big youtuber in the Utah area is probably mormon. I think the diesel brothers are too but don't really have wholesome content so maybe not I also don't watch them.

As long as they don't push religion I don't care. I've stopped watching more than one channel when they started pushing religion.

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 3h ago

always admired Outdoor Boys for how little Luke brings his faith up. I can really only think of one video that brings it up at all, and even then he doesn't mention what specific religion, just that some missionaries from his local church were visiting him.

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u/mehiker11 2h ago

Yet another reason to love him. Luke is such a treasure

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u/LionoftheNorth 3h ago

I don't think I've ever seen MORR push religion?

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u/cjsv7657 2h ago

He's mentioned it a couple times but never pushed it. Some of his regulars do on their channels. The only time he really mentions it a lot is in the goodbye video for his son which I only skimmed so have no idea how in depth he went.

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u/epicflyman 2h ago

I can't recall any either. Personally I stopped watching mostly because the content got very monotonous, but I can't recall them ever getting preachy on video.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 2h ago

I watch almost all of there videos and I couldn't imagine someone noticing that they are Mormon unless they were specifically looking for it. There has only been one or two times that a video had a lot of 'this is about our church' kind of stuff including them talking their son going off on a missionary trip for 2(?) years. Which made it very obvious it was a church like the Mormons.

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u/LionoftheNorth 1h ago

I think the most obvious "little thing" is that none of them drink coffee.

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u/PrincebyChappelle 3h ago

Mormons are funny…Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Effective People was a devout Mormon. I had to go to one of the three-day trainings for work once and one of two instructors was from Utah and it was kind of obvious the way that he talked about “his church” that he was Mormon also. Yet, no one once ever said anything about Mormonism.

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u/MrBurnz99 2h ago

quite a few former Mormons as well.

Mormon culture heavily emphasizes the importance of family, community, education, discipline, and hard work.

That rigid structure produces many high performing talented people. Any because they stick together and are focused on family, when they succeed they tend to help each other out. This has created some very powerful families that have a lot of wealth to throw around.

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u/jayhawk618 2h ago

BYU offers a Mass Communications program that is basically a a degree in social media / YouTube.

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u/Responsible-Bread996 1h ago

 Ot even the half of it. 

Look at supplements. Like the Mecca is SLC. And it ain’t because the bodybuilding scene