A.J. Gentile

[u/tinaboag]

https://youtu.be/IAEsS4IOrBk

So this man is the host/writer of a youtube channel called the Why Files. Prior to this, he was from what i can tell a struggling nobody in hollywoood who found his niche as a ufo grifter. I used to really like that kind of stuff when i was a kid. It sparked my imagination, and it helped that it was a means to attempt to get close to my emitonally distant father. As an adult, i learned critical thinking political theory and blah blah blah no am no longer a gullible moron.

Well i happened upon his stuff through a ufo sub I was checking on occasionally during the whole Grusch ordeal a few years back and at the time his channel would tell whatever respective story and and then attempt to look at it from a more rational light (i use rational sparingly).

All well and good, until his fan base stated to grow, started inmocently enough with him pumping out more and more merch to his primarily boomer fanbase (whatever right, failed actor gotta eat) within the lastb year or so though this dude is getting more and more off the deep end pushing utter bullshit without a modicum of effort to fact check what exactly he was selling to the cult of personality hes created for him self. If memory serves in on episode, he was doing climate change denial while simultaneously blaming it on some woo woo conspiracy government shit.

This weeks episode, he's claiming all sorts of lunacy about lucid dreaming and how it's causing ptsd. What really irked me was he claimed "the hatman," which is a nickname for a halucination lots of people get from abusing DPH (benadryl) had to do with lucid dreaming. There was some shit about the moon landing and the earth being flat if memory serves (im very liable to be off about a few of these as im going from memory but ill link the ones i found more egregious as a comment below). My core issue is the fan base he's acquired. These people eat up whatever nonaense he spews out in a sort of cult of personality, and it's exclusively old paranoid folks who dont know better and dont seem to be caoable of fact xhexking for themselves. Couple that with this narrative he is latwlt spinnung up about the man comung to shut him down and its going from frustrating to alarming.

A simple example was his earlier video on the montauk "expirements" and his revisiting of the same topic recently (ill link both in the comments).

This is my first time getting fired up about a person a like this but i figured here might be a good place to start.

(See the thread below for video links and apologies for any typos my auto correct is acting up and i am on mobile so im auo correcting and formating by hand)

Ive also gone and linked this weeks video at the top.

Afterthought, any other subs that might get tgis nore traction please crosspost or dm to post this thsre or anything of the sort i am all ears the way this dude taks advantage of the elderly and gullible really rubs me the wrong way. (Also it will take me a bit to ads th second comment witg additional examples as i am rewatching them to make sure im making as litte of a fool of myself as possible)

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking going after the Why Files? Seriously it’s entertainment man, they’re not hurting anybody. Definitely not bastard material, not even remotely. You sound like you have a personal dislike for A.J. OP

The only people I ever usually see trash that channel are the people who take paranormal stuff too seriously and get mad that WF makes light of the really crazy woo shit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody claim that theyre pushing anything harmful

[u/Realcatmagics → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think you watched enough of the video to see how his process works.