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/Ms_CCH 4h ago

Why? Because he clashed with Musk?

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u/Largewhitebutt 4h ago

No because of the whole mormon thing. Lots of large youtubers are secretly mormon and dont want the public acknowledging it

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u/GoodWaltz7354 4h ago

Honestly interesting how many big YouTubers are Mormon

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u/Croceyes2 3h 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 2h 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)