I have wondered one thing. How much of it was Aaron's choice WITHOUT the influence of Scientology, and how much of it was Scientology putting a gun to his head, and possibly his family, figuratively speaking? I never thought it was that simple that the others got screwed, but also if you look up the videos "I am a scientologist: Aaron, Skateboarder" and note the upload date compared to the very first video on Braille Skateboarding as well as the first tutorial video "HOW TO PUSH ON A SKATEBOARD THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL", the very first Braille video came first, the Scientology video came second, and then the first tutorial video came third. It could be pure coincidence, but could Braille Skateboarding have simply been a design and long term investment of Scientology from the very start, and the massive fallout was simply a result of "cashing in/out"? Remember, he had a low point in his life with his skateboarding career falling flat quickly... the perfect time to recruit and invest in someone. He may have always wanted to be friends to the others but never truly had the option if Scientology had him and possibly his family in a compromising scenario.. perhaps getting the others to leave and muting their input on the matter may have even saved them from a hidden hand?
It's possible. Lance was also a scientologist and they were the only two on the channel at the beginning. So either Aaron met Lance at scientology saw he was good with cameras and editing and said "we should make a UA-cam channel." Or Scientology told them to make the channel. It doesn't really make sense to me though, because they never push scientology on the channel. They never even talk about it. From my understanding the deeper you get into scientology the more money you are expected to pay them. So I feel like Aaron just ended up getting sucked deeper and deeper into this cult and ended up feeling like he had to give them all of Braille's money. It's the sunk cost fallacy. The deeper in you get the more you're like "well, I've already payed this much. I can't leave now."
@@PatLund Scientology is very dangerous, it's not a matter of the sunk cost fallacy. You just CAN'T safely leave, they won't let you. Also they wouldn't want you to talk about them on a skateboarding channel. If Braille Skateboarding really was a result of scientology's long-term investment, they would say "No mention of our group on your channel. Keep it strictly skateboarding and do as we ask you to and it will all be fine." It's in their best interest to literally NEVER mention them! We'll never know the full story, but it was the best guess I could come up with. It's all so tragic too because I actually enjoyed watching that channel :(
as soon as L. Ron Hubbard comes back or david miscavige finally releases OT-9 and 10. there's about 20,000 members worldwide, they just have to recruit 5.99 billion more members to become clear!
@Roman-e7bway different, Scientology pretends to be its own alien-like religion, at least Freemasons go in under the idea that it’s a Christian brotherhood and do actual community work at lower levels
@Roman-e7bI take a number of issues with Freemasonry (many male-only sects, must believe in a monotheistic universe) but Scientology and Freemasonry are two very different things lol
@@louistorres What it say's when you are monetizing an apology video is - I am most interested in the financial incentive/reward for apologizing. That's not an apology
@@sathanas420that's not really what went wrong tho, that's what Aaron decided to do with his business. The real question I think most would want to know is why? Everybody was paid what they agreed to work for, and it sucks everyone was let go, but that's the way it is when you're employed by a company. I gotta believe Aaron is gonna rebuild in some way
This dude is toast now. He has made millions of dollars, but gave away most of it to a cult that will discard him like spoiled meatloaf now that he's not able to donate any more money. And his credibility within the skate industry is gone, so the well is about to run dry. Time to get a 9-5, Kyro.
The problem: Scientology. Money went to Scientology and not to his employees. Now as the new Scientology leader of San Francisco he ghosted his team and the situation finally escalated. Without the cult nothing of this would have ever happened...
8 years ago I tried to talk about this in the Braille's comment section multiple times and nobody ever cared. Apparently, it was none of my business... You guys always only start caring about these subjects once the drama is exploding.
@@Alfred-Neuman Yeah true, I never cared so much about the Scientology shit back in the day, as long as it was kept separate and everything seemed fine in the videos. Now he doesnt have money and people are coming out being pissed about things, its all made clear how bad it actually was.
he's not trying to spread the word of skateboarding, he's trying to get on the VaultTec chairmans board so he can be cryogenically frozen and thawed out to rule the san francisco bay in 200 years
The big point is contention for me wasn't whether or not they got to skate at the warehouse one last time.... it's that he just flat out lied about how much money was being made and how he "couldn't afford it" when he had been giving millions of dollars directly from the business to scientology. He misappropriated the profits of the business to his cult and that is what has forced the warehouse to close.
Not unless he was the return of Hubbard himself 😭 it's lunacy that perhaps the most impactful modern day contribution to scientology financially, was friggin skateboarding of all things
These is.....David Miscavige and Tom Cruise are top guns in the cult. I think Tom would do ANYTHING to please David, and I mean anything. This cult is SICK
He doesn't come off as someone sorry he let down his friends, he comes off as someone sorry that everyone noticed and now it's impacted his bank account, which he needs to keep pouring increasing cash-loads into because scientology are constantly draining it like a hungry leech.
Scientology, lying to everyone, and ghosting his team ruined and end braille add in that Aaron threw the you make it we skate it board in the garbafe shows how little Aaron valued his team and fans
@@michaelbuddy they had been trying to low key auction them on IG for months, I'm guessing either they didn't list a large volume of them or just nobody was buying
@@michaelbuddy he could have put them in a box to give it to fans as a giveaway or something or give them to a local skate kids. We got into braille to learn and because of the community
I’ve been digesting so much Elden ring content, my brain just assumed I was watching a lore video when the scadutree came into frame. Took me a minute to remember this is about skateboarding
My name is Aa-Ron Hubbard, a sponsored scientologist from the San Francisco Bay area, I don't give a damn about my employees and just want to climb the ranks of the cult, now I'm the executive director of the San Francisco Scientology Day, I no longer need those guys anymore.
I know it can be hard but try not to put humans on a pedestal this isn't a defence of Aaron guy sucks pretty bad but not putting people on pedestals protects you from let down put respect into yourself and the people closest to you
Unless they change their format they will fail. Whoever was in charge of deciding on content is in large part to blame for brailles downfall. Aaron crapped on about skateboarding getting smaller, but unless it was to the tune of a 90% decline or more this really wasn't the case. 30k views for years.
@@joel6376i unsubbed the moment i learned Aaron was in Scientology and never watched any braille video after that except for his „apology“ video which was - in true Scientology fashion - just talking as if reality doesn’t exist and trying to manipulate with simple psych tricks. Scientology is evil and will break people, I saw that first hand in a close business partner.
If those guys did that and continued their same style of content, I'm not sure I'd wanna watch. The content itself just got boring or annoying. I'm not sure that's Aaron's fault.
Yeah I haven’t watched in years, I enjoyed the old worst board at the park or like the first glass board but after awhile it got repetitive and vloggy which I could care less for.
Don’t forget this guy believes an alien took the souls of other aliens and put their souls in humans and those alien souls are the reason we have emotions or some shit
He must have unloaded all his inventory too. I got a Braille skateboard at Ollie’s for $15. I got back into skateboarding after decades and started watching his channel. When I saw he was begging for money to save a skatepark meanwhile donating money to Scientology, I blocked the channel.
Are you boys truly putting a channel together? Please say it’s true. You’re what made Braille what it was. I tuned in every week to watch you, Glo, JD, Nigel, Ricky, Mo, cool guests. ESP you and Glo. Ex Skater in the UK, but still love watching. ( Couldn’t skate if I wanted to now, disabilities and stuff ) anyway, hope you find a brighter bigger future now Uzi, you got this! From Soap aka Paul from across the pond. :)
7:46 "Brain dead vlogs with so little substance that they make Andy Shrock's child labour driven content look like cinematic masterpieces." Brutal! lol
That honestly says more about you than anything Aaron will be fine. He has an entire cult behind him that has convinced him nothing any of us think matters The only people that got fucked here was a crew of skaters that dedicated 10+ years in some cases and celebrating that make you just as disgusting as Kyro is
The issue isn't the Braille house shutting down, or even shutting down with no notice. The issue is Aaron Kyro treating the people who contributed their talent and their time to his business like shit in general. Skateboarding is countercultural by default, its not a point to debate, it's just how it is, and while it might be culturally important to an American CEO in any other business to be a smoking tire fire of a prick to their employees, you can't be that kind of toolbag if you're the boss of a skateboarding company, because it obliterates your credibility. We expect that shit from Musk, Gates, Goldman Sachs and a whole host of greasy, disgusting creeps in suits, but you can't do that shit as a person in the industry he is in. It's for the streets, by the streets, or it's nothing at all. In addition to the aforesaid, I think this shituation proves without doubt that if there is a group of people one should NEVER do business with, whether as a customer, employee, or service provider, its Scientologists. Don't be their employee, don't go into business with them as a partner or contributor, don't take contracts from them as a supplier or contractor, don't even converse with them or even say "Hey" back or nod in greeting. These people need to become non-existent, ignored, like a pot plant in a corporate office. Yeah, it's there, but you aren't going to feed it or water it, because it isn't your job, and the damn thing is plastic anyway.
A skateboarder that says he didn’t think about other people getting one last session…yeah, nobody’s buying that. Any real skateboarder, that’s the FIRST thing that comes to mind is letting others get a last shred in.
I find it fascinating that everyone ignores the fact the Aaron is not the only cult member in the skate industry. As you mentioned the other guy shut his warehouse down, too.
@@DylanMahoney Regardless of status, he is still a member. Becoming a higher up doesn't quash your membership status. And yes it was understated, it was part of the idea to draw people into looking into this on there own instead of having a rant in the comments. Yet here we are. Hope your having a better day today.
You also forgot to mention that Gabe who was the main content creator and planner left a few months ago. Meaning that the direction of the channel fell back to Aaron. I've heard people from the crew say that AK was basically absent for the past four years so he probably doesn't have the time or energy to keep it going at the level you need to sustain the algorithm.
I used to work for a tree company owned by a young Scientologist couple. It basically shut down in the same way Braille did. Massive amounts of debt to the Church for loans taken out from the Church basically forced them to sell their company and properties, as well as fire everyone on a 2 day notice. This is giving me flashbacks lol
I'm impressed you had the patience to sit through the entire apology video to find the small part where he actually "apologizes", truly the most scrupulous dumb data analyst
He has been for the last 15 years plus. It just took all of you utter morons this long to finally get it through your heads. It's the hordes of kids who have supported/defended this pack of cunts who look like fools now.
5:41 I disagree with this take. Skating (like the rest of the economy) isn't zero sum. A sale of a shoe or board from braille doesn't negatively impact a core company, especially considering that those core companies were unlikely to sell to the audience braille is targeting (mainly young beginners.) Braille targeting this market might even help more core brands as new skaters get introduced to the scene, and quite literally outgrow their braille gear and move to more core brands. A kid might buy a braille complete board, but then buy reds for new bearings, new spitfire wheels, a new baker deck, etc.
Corporations actually have meetings about this, and how the economy is zero-sum. They don't plan for future "roll offs". They want to grab every corner of the market for themselves because consumer dollars are finite. It's so predictable that financial officers can mostly plug these numbers into an algorithm to analyze it. So, Braille has diverted a ton of money away from the good skate companies, the same way Walmart has destroyed local shops.
The moment i saw his first scientology commercial like, back 9 or whatever years ago, i just knew this crap would blow up. It sucks at its core it was cute and cool at first but it just. Unraveled into crap more and more
@@chriscaravello3138 It's not good and pretty wild. Involves abuse of his wife. If you paste your comment into Google I bet it brings it up if you're more curious.
@@chriscaravello3138his ex wife came out and said he was physically abusive to her. And their son pretty much came out to confirm it saying "his mom deserves the space to tell her abuse story". He's also been dropped from zero
He wasnt transparent about scientology... He lied about his position in scientology... he make it sounds like he is some low tier scientologist when in reality he isnt.
I could hardly agree with anything you said from 5:42-6:38. Should I not start my own company and attempt to flourish financially because I may get in the way of the profits of another company? Should I not reach for the sky with my company because I may step on the toes of another business that came before me? I don’t agree with that. Braile is (or was) it’s own entity with every right to be successful regardless of how downward another business is or isn’t spiraling.
Skateboarding industry isn’t like tech industry. Much smaller with fewer players. He might’ve avoided this current collapse if he was well connected/respected by people in the industry.
@@dumbdata34 his lack of connections and respect with skate companies didn’t have anything to do with his official downfall, in my opinion. His downfall came from allowing others to run braile for 3 years whilst he was out the picture and then proceeding to, allegedly, not pay them for their work because his contributions to scientology left his pockets empty. He then proceeded to block employees, destroy the braile house without allowing them to know, and trashed countless amounts of new skate gear that would’ve brought happiness to those in need. I don’t see how being cordial with core skate brands could have helped that.
@@JopeyPajatrick yeah fetty was lied to by a minor who said she was 20 but carlos seems to be an actual predator with multiple victims and lance is a scientologist just like some other "non skaters" in braile
I saw the Braille Walmart boards at a local store here called “Ollie’s” (lol not a skate shop, it’s a liquidation style store). So my initial thought was that - that particular business venture didn’t go over great for someone involved. Now seeing they went under, I’m seeing dots connected.
Why does no one … ever … bring up Aaron’s eyes. They are sickly… what’s going on there… can’t tell me it’s not about the 2.5 years he was gone at “business school”
Could be because for 3 years his training at Scientology flag in Clearwater was happening during the night - his sleep system has to be all messed up now
I have searched this like three times. I still can't get a clear answer what happened to Braille. What the legal document he is talking about? I know that one guy got fired for hooking up with a 14yr old when he was 21. But what is this?
Only part of this video I don’t necessarily agree with is comparing this company with other skate companies. Obviously I can see why with its tangible and intangible products, but I see this the same way I view other large UA-cam channels. For instance, I care a lot about fashion/style, yet I wouldn’t even think about comparing popular UA-camr merch with a fashion company of similar scale. Of course there are some that have bridged that gap, but I doubt that many competitors would have sympathy or would lend a helping hand if the business was failing (they don’t even do that for companies they’re are “friends” with). But I guess that relates a lot more to whole new money vs old wealth discussion. To me, Braille is no different than a popular vlog channel that sells accompanying merch. In this case it just happens to be skateboards. And I know I can’t be the only person that feels that way since from even with early Braille, people from “traditional” roots in skateboarding didn’t like their approach to the sport. It’s almost a more extreme version of those who used to hate/still hate Nike, not necessarily for business practices, but more so because they didn’t start in skateboarding or didn’t do it a certain way. That aside, I appreciate the hard work that goes into these videos. I’m sure we’ve all seen large channels, which are just businesses at that point, fail due to either controversy, bad business, or simply the content getting boring; and this has all 3.
yet another reason why apologies are meaningless on social media. little to no reason to do them. To everyone shitting on an apology, well guess what you're less likely to ever have your feelings considered or any kind of apologies to anything you percieve as wrongful to you. slow clap, way to go.
@michaelbuddy You know nothing about relationships. Aaron Kyro ghosted his employees. Whether in personal or business, it’s weak and unprofessional. Not only that, he’s an exec for the SF chapter of Scientology.
What Aaron fails to acknowledge is, sure he pays them and hourly wage but they only come and film 1-3 days a week. That is at best a part time jobs pay for the people who create the content that generates his money. That is no benefit to that compared to traditional skateboarders pay at all.
Nigel said it on the Lamont Holt podcast. he said he told aaron that they should partner with established brands and sell other brand on they website and he said Aaron said no because he wanted to corner the market the braille stuff smh aaron been showing signs
I've read so many comments saying they're confused about the Elden Ring footage saying it's out of place. It's not! It's brilliant and uses Elden Ring as a way to go deeper in explaining what is going on with Braille. Basically the Elden Ring and the Golden Order that formed around it represent Scientology and Braille respectively. The war in the Lands Between represents Aaron Kyro giving money to Scientology, and the collapse of society at large that resulted from that represents the tearing down of the Braille house. The dissolution of the Golden Order represents the disconnect between Kyro and his skaters while calling back to the war with the Dragons (struggle between mammoth Scientology organization and doing what's right and the aftermath of said struggle). After the collapse of the Golden Order, the Lands Between and its inhabitants carry on in this sort of pointless deathless state of suffering, which represents what Kyro is currently doing with his channel by not letting it die. We, the viewers, by calling for Kyro to end his channel are the Tarnished trying to unlock Destined Death to return things to the way they should be of letting things finally end when they should. Very astute of the creator to make these connections!
I have wondered one thing. How much of it was Aaron's choice WITHOUT the influence of Scientology, and how much of it was Scientology putting a gun to his head, and possibly his family, figuratively speaking? I never thought it was that simple that the others got screwed, but also if you look up the videos "I am a scientologist: Aaron, Skateboarder" and note the upload date compared to the very first video on Braille Skateboarding as well as the first tutorial video "HOW TO PUSH ON A SKATEBOARD THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL", the very first Braille video came first, the Scientology video came second, and then the first tutorial video came third. It could be pure coincidence, but could Braille Skateboarding have simply been a design and long term investment of Scientology from the very start, and the massive fallout was simply a result of "cashing in/out"? Remember, he had a low point in his life with his skateboarding career falling flat quickly... the perfect time to recruit and invest in someone. He may have always wanted to be friends to the others but never truly had the option if Scientology had him and possibly his family in a compromising scenario.. perhaps getting the others to leave and muting their input on the matter may have even saved them from a hidden hand?
It's possible. Lance was also a scientologist and they were the only two on the channel at the beginning. So either Aaron met Lance at scientology saw he was good with cameras and editing and said "we should make a UA-cam channel." Or Scientology told them to make the channel. It doesn't really make sense to me though, because they never push scientology on the channel. They never even talk about it. From my understanding the deeper you get into scientology the more money you are expected to pay them. So I feel like Aaron just ended up getting sucked deeper and deeper into this cult and ended up feeling like he had to give them all of Braille's money. It's the sunk cost fallacy. The deeper in you get the more you're like "well, I've already payed this much. I can't leave now."
@@PatLund Scientology is very dangerous, it's not a matter of the sunk cost fallacy. You just CAN'T safely leave, they won't let you. Also they wouldn't want you to talk about them on a skateboarding channel. If Braille Skateboarding really was a result of scientology's long-term investment, they would say "No mention of our group on your channel. Keep it strictly skateboarding and do as we ask you to and it will all be fine." It's in their best interest to literally NEVER mention them! We'll never know the full story, but it was the best guess I could come up with. It's all so tragic too because I actually enjoyed watching that channel :(
If it looks like a weasel and acts like a weasel, it might be a Scientologist...
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ha does have a scientologist nose.
Oh waaaaow. Has dude even seen the south park episode??!
Weasels and Scientologists don't mix, but Squirrels do :p [Squirrel is a "technical" term in scienfakology ; ) ]
Ayyyye 🥁
When there was nothing left to burn, Aaron set himself on fire..
I like how that quote was in his first ever video. Should be in the last video too
Best comment 😂
Doing videos 1 day after all that mess: the work of a Koo-koo nested mind.
Wow, it came full circle.
😂😂😂😂
Jokes on you guys, Aaron is being granted with invincibility and X-ray vision soon.
Ima firing mah lasers type shit 💀
I heard he opted for the metal leg upgrade package. They say going half cyborg is painful but worth it in the long run.
as soon as L. Ron Hubbard comes back or david miscavige finally releases OT-9 and 10. there's about 20,000 members worldwide, they just have to recruit 5.99 billion more members to become clear!
I saw someone say that at braille, there is no separation of church and skate 😂
😂😂😂
Gold comment.
*NOFX disliked that*
The goat jack perry😂
😂😂😂
this is ur brain on scientology
This is Xemu!
@@skeven0Xenu not temu
yeah, them oment i learned of that, i stopped watching that guy, not into being adjacent to cult stuff.
@@TheLunarSurfacealso temu
You guys will be eating crow when Xenu gives Aaron the power of flight
The Scientology part is no speculation. He legit donated millions to this cult for a rank. It’s sad and pathetic really.
Freemasonry has nothing to do with the cult of Scientology
@Roman-e7bway different, Scientology pretends to be its own alien-like religion, at least Freemasons go in under the idea that it’s a Christian brotherhood and do actual community work at lower levels
@Roman-e7bI take a number of issues with Freemasonry (many male-only sects, must believe in a monotheistic universe) but Scientology and Freemasonry are two very different things lol
And his business
Kid diddlers
Monetized apology video is fucking hilarious 😂
Those donations don't stop just because he got promoted. Gotta feed the machine.
As a UA-camr, you monetize EVERYTHING, always! You have zero subscribers. Start a channel, you'll understand.
Gotta stay on top of donating to the cult of scientology, otherwise they wont let him hold onto his paid position as leader 🤡
@@louistorres What it say's when you are monetizing an apology video is - I am most interested in the financial incentive/reward for apologizing. That's not an apology
@@louistorres So basically, his apology is not genuine and simply another money-grab, got it.
Millions were donated by someone who wasn't a millionaire. During which time, a skate team that functioned on thousands, went broke.
It really is sad. Because for all the criticisms of Braille, they likely got thousands of people to pick up a board for the first time.
Millions over the course of 20 years.
Probably hundreds of billions
(I’m mentally r*****d)
And that wasn’t even mentioned or thought about in this video trying to explain “what went wrong” like it’s literally in your face what went wrong
@@sathanas420that's not really what went wrong tho, that's what Aaron decided to do with his business. The real question I think most would want to know is why? Everybody was paid what they agreed to work for, and it sucks everyone was let go, but that's the way it is when you're employed by a company. I gotta believe Aaron is gonna rebuild in some way
This dude is toast now.
He has made millions of dollars, but gave away most of it to a cult that will discard him like spoiled meatloaf now that he's not able to donate any more money. And his credibility within the skate industry is gone, so the well is about to run dry.
Time to get a 9-5, Kyro.
Dude they owned him from 20 years ago before the companies started. THE COMPANIES ARE SCIENTOLOGY
It’s called laundry
The problem: Scientology.
Money went to Scientology and not to his employees. Now as the new Scientology leader of San Francisco he ghosted his team and the situation finally escalated. Without the cult nothing of this would have ever happened...
8 years ago I tried to talk about this in the Braille's comment section multiple times and nobody ever cared. Apparently, it was none of my business... You guys always only start caring about these subjects once the drama is exploding.
@@Alfred-Neumani might have seen your comments back in the day 😂😂 i remember people talking about it way back then
@@Alfred-Neuman Yeah true, I never cared so much about the Scientology shit back in the day, as long as it was kept separate and everything seemed fine in the videos. Now he doesnt have money and people are coming out being pissed about things, its all made clear how bad it actually was.
It's a religion, not a cult.
@@tboogz284 cult or religion - the message stays the same..
he's not trying to spread the word of skateboarding, he's trying to get on the VaultTec chairmans board so he can be cryogenically frozen and thawed out to rule the san francisco bay in 200 years
it has nothing to do with the warehouse and everything to do with him underpaying them and dumping 3/4 of a million dollars to his cult
I think he already went over the million threshold
It was a one time 3/4 mil donation, definitely not the only donation though, I'd be willing to bet in total it's closer to 10mil+
this video has the same immediate ending as kyro's career.
Sudden and a bit shit
I agree, this video has a very abrupt ending, and
The big point is contention for me wasn't whether or not they got to skate at the warehouse one last time.... it's that he just flat out lied about how much money was being made and how he "couldn't afford it" when he had been giving millions of dollars directly from the business to scientology.
He misappropriated the profits of the business to his cult and that is what has forced the warehouse to close.
Spot on!
Involved with Scientology pretty massive understatement, right- he’s the Executive Director of the San Francisco Chapter. There is no higher position
He's balls deep in that cult.
Yup, and "dumb data" says he was "transparent" about it....
Bullshit !
Not unless he was the return of Hubbard himself 😭 it's lunacy that perhaps the most impactful modern day contribution to scientology financially, was friggin skateboarding of all things
There are far higher ranks. $750k is nothing. Tom Cruise is donating likely close to a billion since he joined. Lmao
These is.....David Miscavige and Tom Cruise are top guns in the cult. I think Tom would do ANYTHING to please David, and I mean anything. This cult is SICK
Saying you want a "positive" community while all your actions have been negative is fake af. Aaron is displaying Toxic positivity at its finest.
Agreed. Accountability isn't inherently negative
He doesn't come off as someone sorry he let down his friends, he comes off as someone sorry that everyone noticed and now it's impacted his bank account, which he needs to keep pouring increasing cash-loads into because scientology are constantly draining it like a hungry leech.
this
Scientology, lying to everyone, and ghosting his team ruined and end braille add in that Aaron threw the you make it we skate it board in the garbafe shows how little Aaron valued his team and fans
to be fair, he didn't say "you make it we keep it forever. Should have ebayed a lot of them though, but that takes a TON of time.
@@michaelbuddy they had been trying to low key auction them on IG for months, I'm guessing either they didn't list a large volume of them or just nobody was buying
@@michaelbuddy he could have put them in a box to give it to fans as a giveaway or something or give them to a local skate kids. We got into braille to learn and because of the community
@@michaelbuddy There a more ways to do this honorable than there were boards!
To also be fair that was a fuck ton of boards I wouldn’t keep that shit either
I’ve been digesting so much Elden ring content, my brain just assumed I was watching a lore video when the scadutree came into frame. Took me a minute to remember this is about skateboarding
Based
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Dumb Data should team up with Vaati!
Hahahahahaha
too real lmaoo
My name is Aa-Ron Hubbard, a sponsored scientologist from the San Francisco Bay area, I don't give a damn about my employees and just want to climb the ranks of the cult, now I'm the executive director of the San Francisco Scientology Day, I no longer need those guys anymore.
It’s crazy how much you can respect someone, just for all that respect to disappear in a flash
I know it can be hard but try not to put humans on a pedestal this isn't a defence of Aaron guy sucks pretty bad but not putting people on pedestals protects you from let down put respect into yourself and the people closest to you
Xenu called, he wants his warehouse back. 👽
Aaron Kyro literally donated $750,000 to the church of Scientology and received the highest donor award. @4:35
More money than that. He sold his soul and mind to them for close to 1.5 million in total, so far. He is trash.
Skateboarding only needs one Cairo and that’s Cairo foster 😊
His name is Kyro, not Cairo, dummy.
Cairo is a legend for me. First ever pro skater i ever met in my life. Such a nice dude.
Yo you know his last name is Kyro not Cairo right?? lol
There was only ever one Cairo 🤦
@@DROK278r/thats the joke
So true.
The other braille guys need to make their own channel. Those guys deserve to stay on YT
They are. Jd, mogly, nigel, glo, and uzi(ricky to I think) are in works of making their own thing
Unless they change their format they will fail. Whoever was in charge of deciding on content is in large part to blame for brailles downfall. Aaron crapped on about skateboarding getting smaller, but unless it was to the tune of a 90% decline or more this really wasn't the case. 30k views for years.
@@joel6376i unsubbed the moment i learned Aaron was in Scientology and never watched any braille video after that except for his „apology“ video which was - in true Scientology fashion - just talking as if reality doesn’t exist and trying to manipulate with simple psych tricks.
Scientology is evil and will break people, I saw that first hand in a close business partner.
If those guys did that and continued their same style of content, I'm not sure I'd wanna watch. The content itself just got boring or annoying. I'm not sure that's Aaron's fault.
Yeah I haven’t watched in years, I enjoyed the old worst board at the park or like the first glass board but after awhile it got repetitive and vloggy which I could care less for.
Don’t forget this guy believes an alien took the souls of other aliens and put their souls in humans and those alien souls are the reason we have emotions or some shit
You win!! 🤣🤣🤣
He must have unloaded all his inventory too. I got a Braille skateboard at Ollie’s for $15. I got back into skateboarding after decades and started watching his channel. When I saw he was begging for money to save a skatepark meanwhile donating money to Scientology, I blocked the channel.
thankyou for mentioning what the real issue was
Homeboy needs to get his theatan levels in check. Not gonna meet Xenu at this rate.
Scientology is absolutely why he couldn’t foot the bill
Told ya don’t blame the skaters when you didn’t have all the data,data.
Uzi what’s up with Aaron’s eyes … i can’t be the only one who’s noticed they always look sickly
Uzi your a goat for sure
Are you boys truly putting a channel together? Please say it’s true. You’re what made Braille what it was. I tuned in every week to watch you, Glo, JD, Nigel, Ricky, Mo, cool guests. ESP you and Glo. Ex Skater in the UK, but still love watching. ( Couldn’t skate if I wanted to now, disabilities and stuff ) anyway, hope you find a brighter bigger future now Uzi, you got this! From Soap aka Paul from across the pond. :)
@@usedconn41 if your entire life is feeding a poisonous religious machine with huge sums of money, youd look similar
@@PaulGraham1977 yes we are. 👍
Aaron is living in a simulation lol
Xenu
We all are.
He just has a different conceptual belief regarding it than you.
He really is in the matrix
the crazy thing is the lie he told about donating those ramps. like nigel wasnt going to say "we did not get a mini ramp".
7:46 "Brain dead vlogs with so little substance that they make Andy Shrock's child labour driven content look like cinematic masterpieces."
Brutal! lol
I love that all the people I’ve hated for years eventually tumble , P diddy, braile, lol
What an idiot
drake
Boogie
Hope that Tim pool is next
That honestly says more about you than anything
Aaron will be fine. He has an entire cult behind him that has convinced him nothing any of us think matters
The only people that got fucked here was a crew of skaters that dedicated 10+ years in some cases and celebrating that make you just as disgusting as Kyro is
The issue isn't the Braille house shutting down, or even shutting down with no notice. The issue is Aaron Kyro treating the people who contributed their talent and their time to his business like shit in general.
Skateboarding is countercultural by default, its not a point to debate, it's just how it is, and while it might be culturally important to an American CEO in any other business to be a smoking tire fire of a prick to their employees, you can't be that kind of toolbag if you're the boss of a skateboarding company, because it obliterates your credibility. We expect that shit from Musk, Gates, Goldman Sachs and a whole host of greasy, disgusting creeps in suits, but you can't do that shit as a person in the industry he is in. It's for the streets, by the streets, or it's nothing at all.
In addition to the aforesaid, I think this shituation proves without doubt that if there is a group of people one should NEVER do business with, whether as a customer, employee, or service provider, its Scientologists. Don't be their employee, don't go into business with them as a partner or contributor, don't take contracts from them as a supplier or contractor, don't even converse with them or even say "Hey" back or nod in greeting. These people need to become non-existent, ignored, like a pot plant in a corporate office. Yeah, it's there, but you aren't going to feed it or water it, because it isn't your job, and the damn thing is plastic anyway.
A skateboarder that says he didn’t think about other people getting one last session…yeah, nobody’s buying that. Any real skateboarder, that’s the FIRST thing that comes to mind is letting others get a last shred in.
I find it fascinating that everyone ignores the fact the Aaron is not the only cult member in the skate industry. As you mentioned the other guy shut his warehouse down, too.
He’s not a member, he’s the Executive Director. That’s been pretty understated
Can you elaborate? I heard something like that earlier with no detail, and for the life of me I can't find any info on other scientology skaters haha
@@nickbeattie3077Jason Lee is who he/she is referring to
@@nickbeattie3077 it's berra
@@DylanMahoney Regardless of status, he is still a member. Becoming a higher up doesn't quash your membership status. And yes it was understated, it was part of the idea to draw people into looking into this on there own instead of having a rant in the comments. Yet here we are. Hope your having a better day today.
Xenu taught Auron to kickflip.
Underrated comment
You also forgot to mention that Gabe who was the main content creator and planner left a few months ago. Meaning that the direction of the channel fell back to Aaron. I've heard people from the crew say that AK was basically absent for the past four years so he probably doesn't have the time or energy to keep it going at the level you need to sustain the algorithm.
7:52 - This Braille/Schrock sentence is the most accurate thing hahahahaha
I used to work for a tree company owned by a young Scientologist couple. It basically shut down in the same way Braille did. Massive amounts of debt to the Church for loans taken out from the Church basically forced them to sell their company and properties, as well as fire everyone on a 2 day notice. This is giving me flashbacks lol
I'm impressed you had the patience to sit through the entire apology video to find the small part where he actually "apologizes", truly the most scrupulous dumb data analyst
all the money he made with the braille channel goes for the church of scientology.
He has been for the last 15 years plus. It just took all of you utter morons this long to finally get it through your heads. It's the hordes of kids who have supported/defended this pack of cunts who look like fools now.
Those 5k likes were scientologists and 6 yr olds
5:41 I disagree with this take. Skating (like the rest of the economy) isn't zero sum. A sale of a shoe or board from braille doesn't negatively impact a core company, especially considering that those core companies were unlikely to sell to the audience braille is targeting (mainly young beginners.) Braille targeting this market might even help more core brands as new skaters get introduced to the scene, and quite literally outgrow their braille gear and move to more core brands. A kid might buy a braille complete board, but then buy reds for new bearings, new spitfire wheels, a new baker deck, etc.
Corporations actually have meetings about this, and how the economy is zero-sum. They don't plan for future "roll offs". They want to grab every corner of the market for themselves because consumer dollars are finite. It's so predictable that financial officers can mostly plug these numbers into an algorithm to analyze it. So, Braille has diverted a ton of money away from the good skate companies, the same way Walmart has destroyed local shops.
this video has taught me that i can listen to anyone talk about anything over elden ring footage
"andy shrocks kid labor"
WILD alligation right there xD
The insults on AK’s IG are better than UA-cam
kyro should be jailed for his crimes against graphic design
The graphics were pretty wack, lol.
Lmao fr idk who’d buy that shit let alone rock it
@@sathanas420 You can tell it's made for kids. Which makes it kind of creepy too.
That’s why Gabe got out early , bro knew to dip
Business + Skateboarding = Yuck
Braille never appealed to me and just from what I’ve heard about Scientology idfwi
Aaron leveled up in Scientology. He's the bay area big cheese now. The cult has bigger plans for Aaron.
aaron paying for xenu lore 😂
The moment i saw his first scientology commercial like, back 9 or whatever years ago, i just knew this crap would blow up. It sucks at its core it was cute and cool at first but it just. Unraveled into crap more and more
the random elden ring gameplay in the middle of the video is killing me
The fact you are still smashing it after the GiftedB8er stuff, is amazing.
the cut to elden ring footage had me choking on my soda lmaooo idk why it was just so unexpected
You had me at scientology this dude is lost till he jumps the cult ship
Make a video on what’s happening with Chris cole
Whats happening to Chris cole?
Domestic abuser
@@chriscaravello3138 It's not good and pretty wild. Involves abuse of his wife. If you paste your comment into Google I bet it brings it up if you're more curious.
@@chriscaravello3138his ex wife came out and said he was physically abusive to her. And their son pretty much came out to confirm it saying "his mom deserves the space to tell her abuse story". He's also been dropped from zero
@@iownall2222shit 😥 Chris is cool
The elden ring clips in this are my favorite part lmao
He wasnt transparent about scientology... He lied about his position in scientology... he make it sounds like he is some low tier scientologist when in reality he isnt.
Here for the braille drama stayed for the Elden Ring footage. My two loves FromSoft and skateboarding
Ngl Aaron is a strange fella
How many years of Aaron’s million year contract does he have left?😂
Aaron is probably secretly happy that braille is failing so that he can focus all of his energy on his thetan levels
I could hardly agree with anything you said from 5:42-6:38.
Should I not start my own company and attempt to flourish financially because I may get in the way of the profits of another company? Should I not reach for the sky with my company because I may step on the toes of another business that came before me?
I don’t agree with that. Braile is (or was) it’s own entity with every right to be successful regardless of how downward another business is or isn’t spiraling.
Skateboarding industry isn’t like tech industry. Much smaller with fewer players. He might’ve avoided this current collapse if he was well connected/respected by people in the industry.
@@dumbdata34 his lack of connections and respect with skate companies didn’t have anything to do with his official downfall, in my opinion. His downfall came from allowing others to run braile for 3 years whilst he was out the picture and then proceeding to, allegedly, not pay them for their work because his contributions to scientology left his pockets empty. He then proceeded to block employees, destroy the braile house without allowing them to know, and trashed countless amounts of new skate gear that would’ve brought happiness to those in need. I don’t see how being cordial with core skate brands could have helped that.
Such a shame, I miss the days of Lance, fetty, carlos ,etc.
Fetty and Carlos got the pedo allegations
@@theghostfacekza4549 oh man no waaaay.
And Lance is a scientologist too. Wtf.
@@JopeyPajatrick yeah fetty was lied to by a minor who said she was 20 but carlos seems to be an actual predator with multiple victims and lance is a scientologist just like some other "non skaters" in braile
@@JopeyPajatrickapparently carlos was even worse than fetty .. showing up drunk and groping minors
I saw the Braille Walmart boards at a local store here called “Ollie’s” (lol not a skate shop, it’s a liquidation style store). So my initial thought was that - that particular business venture didn’t go over great for someone involved. Now seeing they went under, I’m seeing dots connected.
Bro taught me how to ollie when i was like 15 😢
Why does no one … ever … bring up Aaron’s eyes. They are sickly… what’s going on there… can’t tell me it’s not about the 2.5 years he was gone at “business school”
He was leveling up in scientology when he was away
My ex Gf always said " does he have aids" lol
The thetans are trying to escape through his anus at all times
Could be because for 3 years his training at Scientology flag in Clearwater was happening during the night - his sleep system has to be all messed up now
Forget the eyes. He looks like he had a smaller man’s lower jaw and chin grafted onto the bottom third of his face.
Closed the warehouse = dismantled the warehouse build
Looks like Unfamiliar Guest joined at the worst time
I have searched this like three times. I still can't get a clear answer what happened to Braille. What the legal document he is talking about? I know that one guy got fired for hooking up with a 14yr old when he was 21. But what is this?
Only part of this video I don’t necessarily agree with is comparing this company with other skate companies. Obviously I can see why with its tangible and intangible products, but I see this the same way I view other large UA-cam channels. For instance, I care a lot about fashion/style, yet I wouldn’t even think about comparing popular UA-camr merch with a fashion company of similar scale. Of course there are some that have bridged that gap, but I doubt that many competitors would have sympathy or would lend a helping hand if the business was failing (they don’t even do that for companies they’re are “friends” with). But I guess that relates a lot more to whole new money vs old wealth discussion. To me, Braille is no different than a popular vlog channel that sells accompanying merch. In this case it just happens to be skateboards. And I know I can’t be the only person that feels that way since from even with early Braille, people from “traditional” roots in skateboarding didn’t like their approach to the sport. It’s almost a more extreme version of those who used to hate/still hate Nike, not necessarily for business practices, but more so because they didn’t start in skateboarding or didn’t do it a certain way. That aside, I appreciate the hard work that goes into these videos. I’m sure we’ve all seen large channels, which are just businesses at that point, fail due to either controversy, bad business, or simply the content getting boring; and this has all 3.
I could never skateboard, but used to watch Braille all the time years ago, this is just wild :(
Yeah it's crazy. I knew something was weird though. Most UA-cam stars are part of the Illuminati.
This data isn’t dumb, it’s fried
Kyro’s shoes aren’t being sold in high volumes 😂
random sote clip in the middle😭😭
yet another reason why apologies are meaningless on social media. little to no reason to do them. To everyone shitting on an apology, well guess what you're less likely to ever have your feelings considered or any kind of apologies to anything you percieve as wrongful to you. slow clap, way to go.
@michaelbuddy You know nothing about relationships. Aaron Kyro ghosted his employees. Whether in personal or business, it’s weak and unprofessional. Not only that, he’s an exec for the SF chapter of Scientology.
Thank you for making this video! You earned a sub
Didnt even know about Dwindle shutting down. That sucks but I guess thats how the industry goes. Glad Louie is still keeping going, he's the man.
None of the “core” skateboard brands were ever gonna respect Braille or their riders because they’re UA-camrs
And mediocre at skateboarding at best lol why u think Kyro failed at being a pro skater so made his own company to be pro
donated 10 mil to $cientology
What Aaron fails to acknowledge is, sure he pays them and hourly wage but they only come and film 1-3 days a week. That is at best a part time jobs pay for the people who create the content that generates his money. That is no benefit to that compared to traditional skateboarders pay at all.
Monetizing ad break up to Monetizing ad to see a break up... thank god we dont have to hear" a sponsored skateboarder from the san fransico Bay area."
When will people learn you never trust a man with a fake laugh its super simple a man with a fake laugh is always off
Lease? Purchasing a building is wiser.
They still selling the boards tho?
Aaron should’ve started a bmx brand if he was so involved with his “CULT”
Nigel said it on the Lamont Holt podcast. he said he told aaron that they should partner with established brands and sell other brand on they website and he said Aaron said no because he wanted to corner the market the braille stuff smh aaron been showing signs
“Brail is embroiled in a barrage of comments berating Aaron Kyros behavior” bro just casually dropping a mix tape
Aron lied about his role in scientology he is head of the church in san Francisco that's where all the money went!
5:52 which core brands?
why you running my exact elden ring build
dual wield great katanas are the only way
Old braille used to have well known pros in videos but at some point they stopped getting good guests to come on
There’s something about people in cults and being disingenuous. Strange
Sup with the videogame footage
I've read so many comments saying they're confused about the Elden Ring footage saying it's out of place. It's not! It's brilliant and uses Elden Ring as a way to go deeper in explaining what is going on with Braille.
Basically the Elden Ring and the Golden Order that formed around it represent Scientology and Braille respectively. The war in the Lands Between represents Aaron Kyro giving money to Scientology, and the collapse of society at large that resulted from that represents the tearing down of the Braille house. The dissolution of the Golden Order represents the disconnect between Kyro and his skaters while calling back to the war with the Dragons (struggle between mammoth Scientology organization and doing what's right and the aftermath of said struggle). After the collapse of the Golden Order, the Lands Between and its inhabitants carry on in this sort of pointless deathless state of suffering, which represents what Kyro is currently doing with his channel by not letting it die. We, the viewers, by calling for Kyro to end his channel are the Tarnished trying to unlock Destined Death to return things to the way they should be of letting things finally end when they should.
Very astute of the creator to make these connections!
🤯🤯