Youtube gun reviewer seems to have vanished

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There was this youtube gun reviewer named 'faliaphotography'. Back around 2014 I used to watch her reviews on SIG pistols and some gun / prepper related stuff. She had 78k subscribers, so her channel was pretty substantial. Suddenly, around 2015, she disappeared. Her social media went silent too (facebook). With such a large social media / youtube presence, typically someone who decides to 'move on' would make some sort of announcement saying as much. Apparently her name is/was Falia Leigh, out of Michigan. Anyone here know what happened her?

It's really eerie.
 
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She probably decided to go off the grid and that's not generally the kind of thing you announce publicly
 
Here is is a Q&A response she provides on her web page about why she conceals her face on her videos......perhaps this has something to do why she has decided to vanish........”I highly value my privacy in day-to-day life, and I carry concealed and would like to keep it that way. I love helping people and sharing information about things I am learning or passionate about, but call me old-fashioned - It's my belief that people have become too relaxed about sharing too much about themselves on the Internet. I actually think it's so important that I hope younger girls who watch my videos can see that it's possible to make videos without sharing so much personal information online.”

I also have no idea who has seen my videos and will therefore recognize me in public, and I don't think it's fair (or safe) that I wouldn't recognize them in return. Even though I'm armed, that doesn't mean it would stop a crazy person from having bad intentions or following me home. Being recognized in public gives complete strangers the ability to have more information about me than I'd have about them, which doesn't seem smart to me. Honestly, with a world that's scattered with evil, dishonest people (often unrecognizable from the good, honest people until it's too late), why would you want to show your face to them (along with an expensive list of guns and gear you might own) when they are unknown to you?”

Maybe it was time for her to do something else or life happened to her.
 
Gun reviewers, gun gurus, gun preppers, survivalist preppers,and doomsday counselors are a dime a dozen on YouTube.

If one vanishes, there are a hundred others to fill the void. Some know what they're talking about. Others' videos resemble something you might see on the Comedy Channel.

Hickok45 is worth watching (my opinion). He's family friendly, doesn't rant, and doesn't go on and on about paranoid fantasies and tinfoil hat conspiracy theory nonsense. He's also a really good shot. I don't fool with any of the others.
 
She might have also taken a job that forbids social media presence. I know of a lot of companies now that expect you to not exist on the internet as a condition of employment.
 
She might have also taken a job that forbids social media presence.

Or maybe she simply got tired of fooling with the whole YouTube and Internet thing. Who knows?

Besides, keeping her face covered with a mask that looks like something a gang member would wear while robbing the 7-11 would've significantly lowered my interest in anything she had to say.
 
Sounds like she might have had an real life encroachment by a viewer that possibly made her realize revealing to much about oneself on the web can have unwanted consequences. Like she said they can see what you look like but you don't see them.
I knew someone that her friends put a profile on a dating site for her. They gave her real first name and what she did for a living. A man called all businesses that did what she did for a living and he would ask if so and so was there. He finally found where she worked and actually showed up where she worked.
Perfect example as she said why not to reveal personal things on the internet. It can bite you when you have no expectation of it happening. I think she might have had a scary situation in real life so she backed out of the probing public eyes.
 
YouTube has been coming down hard on gun channels. Apparently they don't consider them as advertiser friendly and many have been demonetized.
Many of the ones that remain are getting funding through Patreon and outside sponshership.
 
About 8 or 9 years ago Falia requested a holster and belt from me, which she used in producing an on-line video demonstrating concealed carry for women. In our correspondence she impressed me as an intelligent young woman with solid personal values. Have not heard from her again.

I hope she is doing well and prospering.
 
There's some real clowns out there. If I had a dollar for every time I heard one of them talk about a grips "economics", never having learned the meaning of ergonomics. Or Browning Hi "Point".
 
Sure there are plenty of morons with gun related YouTube content. That number pales in comparison to know-it-alls on gun forums that regurgitate the same nonsense all across the internet. If you aren't familiar with the specific subject of the discussion, general thoughts on random yokels with a camera and cheap editing software are irrelevant, and opinions of Hickock45 are as irrelevant as yelling "just get a Glock" in a discussion of of the Registered Magnum.

But I'm sure that is common knowledge also.

The specific subject of this discussion is one single known entity. Any and every other clown with a YouTube channel hasn't anything to do with this.
 

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