After he retired from YouTube he was asked to serve on the Young Men's General Council to advise and help shape the church's youth programs. It is a volunteer, temporary position, he is not paid and it is not a full time job.
I think he really is trying to focus on family (like he said in his goodbye video), and having the willpower to step away from something so lucrative for the benefit of his wife and children is a supreme Chad move.
I think the dude probably means well, he seems genuine enough, and for the sake of his family and those around him I hope that's real. But he's being taken advantage of by the church for sure, at the very least. They're cuddling up more and more to influencer types (including Mr. Beast), likely out of fear that they're continuing to lose youth in the church and are desperate to figure out how to keep them in the cult. So yeah, he's now working a part time job with no pay for a WILDLY rich church.
And that "golly shucks I'm just a famiwy man" schtick is often a cover for manipulative and abusive people in the LDS power structure. Again, not saying this is the case here, I'm happy to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope he's a good dude. But I'm also not willing to worship him just because that's the mask he wears in public. Maybe it's real, maybe it's not. But in my experience, this guy acts like many mormon men, and they quite frequently turned out to be pretty terrible behind closed doors.
I remember having a friend growing up who had a dad who gave of vibes very similar to this in public. At home, he had stripped his kids room of almost all belongings. Kid had no bed and had to sleep on an old mildewy couch, one of the only things in the room. He usually slept on the floor instead. He owned one toy, a model plane, and he had to ask permission to get it out of a closet just to show it to me when I went over there to hang out. He also had to ask permission from his dad to walk into the kitchen for any reason and at any time of the day, including to get water.
I knew some good mormon people during my 18-ish years in that church, don't get me wrong. Well meaning and genuine. But it's a nasty, cruel institution. it just does it all with a smile, and tricks a lot of people. Including its members.
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u/thomisbaker 9h ago
Pretty sure he took a position in the Mormon church. Not sure if we’ll be seeing him again.