The Vanishing Act: How The Afore Turned 32,000 Viewers Into A Literal Ghost Town

[Doctor Scratch]

Part of the production budget is used to pay for his travels, food, and lodging, so that's why he wants to keep that gravy train running. Then again, the fact that part of the production budget is used to pay for his travels, food, and lodging is also a key reason why there is no money for "promotion and marketing."

[drumdude]

It’s funny, I never see Dan McClellan spamming desperate pleas to get his message out. My theory is that the truth doesn’t need much advertisement.

[Doctor Scratch]

I've never heard him or anyone else involved with the project explain who they think their "audience" is. Based on the content, it would be fair to assume that the intended audience consists of white, American Mormons ages 60 and older. It's definitely not tailored for younger people, and despite the fact that most Latter-day Saints today live outside the US, the production is in English and deals primarily with American-based culture, so it's not really "for" an international audience. (And funny, that, since the Afore is fond of pointing out over and over again that the bulk of Mormons live outside the US, especially when he's dealing with criticism that Mormonism is an insular, US-specific institution. Somehow he forgot about all of this in the midst of making his BY project.) And you would be hard-pressed to find very many people who are going to want to sit through *80*(!) episodes of this. I mean, even the Afore himself doesn't have the energy to produce an original script for the episodes: he's lazily and half-heartedly stealing content from an old Leonard Arrington book.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

DCP doesn’t understand he’s irrelevant at this point in time. Whatever vanishingly small influence he held within Mormonism has long since passed.

No angle from which he approaches the scam can withstand the overwhelming scrutiny of the Internet.

Best he just continue to mew on his travel blog about hateful whatevers and stop wasting time. He’ll be dead soon enough. Why not enjoy a meal in whatever-the-“F” place and post some pictures of some mountains or a ruin of some sort?

- posted from bum**** Brazil enjoying life-4Me

[Everybody Wang Chung]

DCP doesn’t understand he’s irrelevant at this point in time. Whatever vanishingly small influence he held within Mormonism has long since passed.

No angle from which he approaches the scam can withstand the overwhelming scrutiny of the Internet.

Best he just continue to mew on his travel blog about hateful whatevers and stop wasting time. He’ll be dead soon enough. Why not enjoy a meal in whatever-the-“F” place and post some pictures of some mountains or a ruin of some sort?

- posted from bum**** Brazil enjoying life-4Me

Solid logic. The Afore is already on borrowed time as it is, so why stop now? I say keep the endless parade of greasy burgers, meat pizzas, and milkshakes coming until his heart finally hits the emergency brake. The Afore should indulge while he can before fading into oblivion, leaving behind a truly unforgettable legacy of fraud, plagiarism, and hate.

[Marcus]

- posted from bum**** Brazil enjoying life-4Me

sounds like life is good. Glad to hear it!!

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

- posted from bum**** Brazil enjoying life-4Me

sounds like life is good. Glad to hear it!!

Thanks! I was in a hammock hanging with cows near the beach when I made the post:



I might’ve, or not, had some wine next to the hammock at the time haha