Wranglerstar's Descent Into Madness - Is the man a complete lunatic or an elite level troll?

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This thread isn't intended to be a "lolcow thread" or a comprehensive deep-dive highlighting every nutso thing that this person has ever done. I just wanted to know kiwi's take on this dude.

So there is this youtuber currently descending into utter insanity right now, and it is either a fantastic troll or 100% legit, with both possibilities being equally hilarious. Many of my fellow youtube browsers may have come across a channel called Wranglerstar in the past. He is an outdoorsy/bushcraft type channel on youtube that has been active for quite awhile now. I know I stumbled on him because one of his axe videos popped up in my feed one day.

One of his more normal videos

He seems honestly very normal and knowledgeable on many outdoor topics, and I found his stuff mildly interesting - not enough to sing praise but more of a "hmm...cool" type of reaction.

One day, a video of him talking about water witches and how he believes in dowsing, along with him attempting to use dowsing rods came out called "Why I Just Banned 100 Subscribers". Uh, okay. I thought for sure it had to be a joke, as it sort of came out of left field.
Pictured: Left Field

The video smacks of either acute lunacy or an expert prankster at work. I wasn't entirely sure which, until...some now deleted videos came out of him politisperging about some unimportant shit that I honestly can't even remember. I'm sure they are reuploaded on youtube somewhere, but that's not really the important part. I mention these because that is what began to lead me to believe that he probably wasn't joking.

A couple days ago I saw these two shorts of him grounding his bed (yes, the bed he sleeps in, grounded like an electrical apparatus) just the other day. The comments are almost the funniest part: "This is what happens when the US Forestry Service forgets to take its meds"...Wranglerstar always opens his shorts by saying "This is how the US Forestry Service does X..." I laughed and moved on with my day.


Today, he is talking about eating firewood.

Look, I know I am on KF but I am really not one to make fun of other people. It's just not my style. But what the living shit is going on here? How do you go from such a seemingly normal channel to...this? In any case I am glad it is happening, this is an entertaining little event and the best part about it isn't even the insanity itself. It's those fucking comment sections lol.

Anyone else following this, or noticed this? idk man what do you think? I purposely didn't post some of his other videos so there can be more engagement with this thread because I am actually interested in talking about it rather than just sharing. Don't think he is quite funny or loony enough for his own official lolcow thread, unless he starts getting REALLY mad at everyone and chimping out about the comments.
 
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I'm not saying I'd do that but I have seen animals eat charcoal. Eating charcoal seems kind of gross but apparently people do take charcoal tablets for reasons
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I can't say I am surprised.
There has been a subtle yet long decent in to madness on his channel.
I noped out on him a few years back.
I can't remember what exactly pushed me over the edge.

I suspect this all ends after he starts his own cult.
Not sure if the feds take it out like Waco or if a fire fight amongst true believers will end it.
One way or another, this ends in a cult.
 
Oh, is he going crazy?

I never knew the deep lore, but I always got the impression from the videos I've seen that he was one of those dissatisfied insecure middle aged conservative men who were always 6 inches from a liberalism-induced mental breakdown. There was always a neuroticism about him that made me think he wasn't handling things entirely well and made me not love watching his videos.

He's had politisperging videos on his channel in the past and other subtle hints were there, just in his mannerisms and whatnot (I always noticed how easily he got tired/out of breath. Like I said, he seems very uptight).

Honestly I didn't so much expect a schizo arc, I suspected more like a "descending down into misery and eventually capping himself" arc.
 
I noped out on him a few years back.
I can't remember what exactly pushed me over the edge.
Same here. I don't remember why I started to actively avoid his videos, though I suspect it was a combination of clickbaity video titles and lowkey politisperging (at least it was lowkey back then).

On the plus side, if YT hadn't forced Wranglerstar onto me I never would have discovered AvE or Project Farm, so I should be grateful to him for that.
 
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Recently discovered him from YouTube hyper recommending him and when i went to check his older videos most where lamenting him becoming a angry political crazy person. Since then I've checked his comment section and there's always some angry comments saying that "he changed man". Just not familiar enough with him to tell if it crazy political melt down changed or just the mundane asshole sell out changed
 
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AvE and Project Farm are great.
I am actually impressed how many really good content creators there are on YT.
Sure there is way more crap but jewels like AvE, PF and Forgotten Weapons make it worth sifting through to find the keepers.

I remember what soured me on Wranglerstar.
His channel morphed from an advanced DIY one to where he spent all his time showing off cool toys he got for free becase he is a big YouTube star or things he could buy with his YT money.

A viewer mentioned that there was really nothing on his channel anymore for a guy just starting out.
Watching WS play with a tractor he got for free isn't helpful if you can't afford a tractor.

Rather than address what the commenter said Cody turned this in to some huge multigenerational insult and went off for 10 minutes about how he "has been broke but he has never been poor". Then it was "You can say what you want about me. I will NOT let you besmirch my father and dear departed grandfather. No sir."

That was just very strange to me.
It led me to believe on some level Cody knows he is a sell out and is sensitive about it.
He also knows if he invokes his dead grandpa his fans will attack whoever he points them at.

I asked Cody if he would share more tips from back when he was "broke but never poor".
He hasn't always had sponsorships and he does have skills.
I never noticed any change and he just kept getting stranger so I left.
 
Some of these responses certainly give another perspective. And again I'm really not trying to mock the dude or make fun of him even if he is hilariously insane. All of this shit just came so far out of left field for me that it was jarring to say the least and I think that is how many others feel. Like even though I do think it is stupid, if someone wants to believe in dowsing, whatever. In fact my comment on that video was "You're a little bit of a lunatic, but that's okay I guess" But then the charcoal eating video dropped and god damn. the comments sections just made it even better.

I am actually hoping he doesn't chimpout over these comments even though I know the reaction will be great if he does. I have a feeling he will though after recalling the more political videos he has made and seeing how he reacts to things he feels strongly about :[
 
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I remember what soured me on Wranglerstar.
His channel morphed from an advanced DIY one to where he spent all his time showing off cool toys he got for free becase he is a big YouTube star or things he could buy with his YT money.
Oh yeah... thanks for reminding me of the main reason I stopped watching. He turned into Boomer Linus. Wranglerstar's non-stop shilling, especially for the shit sold via his Amazon affiliate links, also got super tiresome.

Meanwhile Project Farm is the exact opposite. He buys everything with his own money and won't take sponsorships. Heck, he won't even set up Amazon affiliate links lest it taint his reputation as being one of the most impartial (if not the most impartial) tool testing channels on the entire internet.
 
I haven't seen to many wacky videos since the one where he talks about eating charcoal. Some of his stuff is kinda cool I guess. I like how he seems to have a real disdain for government and stealthily hints at doing ted kaczynski type shit at the end of some of his videos. Definitely a little bit of a lunatic but I'm surprised reddit doesn't liek him he is very anti-police
 
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Last time I checked up on him he made a video titled something like "I got divorced" but it was a fakeout, there was also some chatter about him being a cuck or his wife cheating on him. At the time he seemed way lonelier(and a bit deranged) in the videos he made.
 
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Oh yeah... thanks for reminding me of the main reason I stopped watching. He turned into Boomer Linus. Wranglerstar's non-stop shilling, especially for the shit sold via his Amazon affiliate links, also got super tiresome.

Meanwhile Project Farm is the exact opposite. He buys everything with his own money and won't take sponsorships. Heck, he won't even set up Amazon affiliate links lest it taint his reputation as being one of the most impartial (if not the most impartial) tool testing channels on the entire internet.
This guy is getting crazier by the day... now he shows people how to put fucking metal strips in a beany to keep EMP waves from bombarding your brain. It's an incognito tin foil hat. I saw that bed grounding and about keked so hard I pissed myself.
 
This guy is getting crazier by the day... now he shows people how to put fucking metal strips in a beany to keep EMP waves from bombarding your brain. It's an incognito tin foil hat. I saw that bed grounding and about keked so hard I pissed myself.
No doubt there's an affiliate link for viewers that want to buy their own beanie hat with embedded metal strips.
 
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