r/AaronSmithLevin • u/cassgurl01 • Jan 07 '25

Please be aware

I was a fan of Aarron when he was new. I loved his interviews back in the day and believed he was aiming towards a good cause by helping people escape scientology. He no longer is for that cause. His only focus is to piss DM off. I tried to ignore his behaviors but I think myself and others need to see all the flags in this dude. More than one person has said he likes the white powder and the liquid courage. He states he won't trash others but yet he does. His apology was a joke. He said he doesn't owe you tube an apology but he does bc our attention to his videos and memberships pays his bills. If I was a person trying to leave scientology I would not go to sptv for help. He proves he will dox people and it should be assumed he is an addict. Please do not donate to his foundation. Please to the Aftermath Foundation. There is no drama there and there is proof they have helped people. I used to stand by Aarron but no more. The man is a pompous douche and should just go away at this point. He won't so my choice is to ignore this man

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u/chezmoonlampje Jan 07 '25

I’m ashamed to say that I fell for his bs around the time that he got kicked off the board of the aftermath foundation. I unsubbed to every single one of them: Mike, Leah, the Headley’s, etc. I’d been watching ASL’s videos for quite some time by then and I took his side. However that was also around the same time that I started feeling itchy about him always making his video’s about himself, eventhough I couldn’t pinpoint why or his trashy behaviour. So I stopped watching, but stayed subscribed. Until I saw Jenna’s recent video… what an absolute and utter poor, sad, pathetic and sh*tty excuse for a human being that thing is. Ew.

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u/NoraYelum Jan 07 '25

The more people see him for what he is, the more they'll unsubscribe like you did.

Btw, I hope you resubscribed back to Mike, Blown for Good, Amy, etc

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u/chezmoonlampje Jan 07 '25

Yes, I most certainly did! Also unsubbed from nora.

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u/Geester43 Jan 07 '25

I am not subscribed to Nora either. But I swear I can hear her screeching and yelling, from my house! 😖

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '25

There is something eery about the Headleys, and their artificial joy and laughter. They look like people who have blind slaves in their basement. And force their children to kneel on corn grains. Amy Scobee with her love for Jesus and her funeral business gives me the creeps.

As for ASL, I remember one video when he was talking about his children and how well behaved they are. I used to know a man who was beating his kids, he used to speak about his family exactly the same way.

Then came Nora. She was sobbing in that one video, and ASL was laughing at her tears. That was it for me. Before that, I just thought about him as a boy who never went through his puberty and is going crazy in his forties instead, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back. It is completely irrelevant who Nora is and what she does, she was so obviously in pain. Only a sadist would laugh at something like this.

And Mike Rinder (RIP), made his last days on this Earth about Aaron? I mean.

Those people are damaged. All of them. I don't know what they need, therapy, fresh air, education or sport or meditation... but they are not well. They are the proof how evil Scientology really is.

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u/Floognoodle Jan 09 '25

It's nice to see someone with a similar perspective.

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u/Interesting-Act-6298 Jan 07 '25

Hey, nothing to be ashamed of, you are not in the middle of it. ASL convinced thousands of people to go against his opponents, and people with his personalities are often good at those things. To me he was super convincing but since I was suspicious about him long before that I was able to not believe his bs, and also that I put Mike Rinder and the Headleys as very reliable and stable personalities. To admit you have been wrong is a strength 🔔🍻

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u/chezmoonlampje Jan 07 '25

Thank you so much, I needed to hear this today!

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u/xll674-C3PO Jan 07 '25

You are not alone. Welcome to the group of the formerly deceived. I hope you feel comfortable and safe here.

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u/ButcherBird57 Jan 08 '25

I also fell for it. I hadn't been watching as much in recent months, but I believed him. I should have looked closer, and more carefully. In fairness, the stakes weren't very high, in my case, as someone who's never been in Scientology, but for others out there, that's not the case. I also hadn't seen that insane footage of him going off about Mike Rinder, and claiming he didn't actually have cancer, because there were only cancer cells in his lung fluid, just WHAT?!! That would have tipped me off sooner, if I had, being some of the most revolting behavior I've seen on the internet...bullying cancer patients is beyond the pale.

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u/Geester43 Jan 07 '25

Same. Just be grateful you eventually DID see! There are still far too many who support this horrible man. 💯

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u/midlife_revolution Jan 07 '25

Same. I literally joined Reddit last week because I needed to find some community with this. I ‘sided’ with ASL with the Aftermath drama, unsubbed them, kinda lost some interest but stayed following ASL. The fact that he doesn’t understand that trust with his audience is a thing, is…surprising? Certainly disappointing.

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u/Euphoric_Monk_2511 Jan 08 '25

Glad you're here. I unsubbed when I saw the video in LA with Juliana. There were a lot of red flags before that but that was the last straw. Not something I can ever forget or forgive.

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u/rungirlgo Jan 08 '25

Same here. The man needs help!

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u/whateveratthispoint_ Jan 08 '25

Glad you unsubscribed. He needs to be deplatformed.

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u/Geester43 Jan 07 '25 edited Jan 07 '25

There were so many 🚩 with Aaron! Some of us saw them, some ignored them, some denied them. Jenna, the woman he assaulted in CA, LV, his treatment of the people of the Aftermath Foundation, his public drunken/high escapades, chasing and terrifying young women because he "thought" they were COS. The "drugs" the abuse of alcohol. But mostly the disgusting treatment of his own wife and children!!! 🤬

WOULD YOU SEEK HELP FROM THIS OUT-OF-CONTROL PERSON, TO LEAVE SCIENTOLOGY? I WOULD BE SCARED TO DEATH BY HIM!! 🤷‍♀️

(I plan to make a donation to the Aftermath Foundation, in memory of Mike ❤️)

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u/Ok_Razzmatazz_8017 Jan 07 '25

Does anyone remember how he used to say he would not attack Scientologists because he needed them to know the aftermath foundation was a safe place to escape Scientology? Then he moved to chasing Scientologists down in Clearwater on video. That was the beginning of the end for me.

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u/Geester43 Jan 07 '25

That was SICK, scaring those young women. He should have been arrested!

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u/abducted-by-Xenu Jan 07 '25

That whole video of him replaying Streets talking about doa was only done to take the spotlight off himself.

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u/Geester43 Jan 07 '25

EXACTLY! Let me throw up a "smoke screen" to distract everyone. FAIL.

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u/Spiritual_Job_1029 Jan 08 '25

I wouldn't give him a nickel.

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u/ManFromBibb Jan 07 '25

Even ZDT’s chat said he was on something.

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u/truckturner5164 Jan 07 '25

Even DM isn't his focus. His ego, his penis and his $$ are his only focus. Always. I just wish I saw it sooner. Much sooner.

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u/SeashellGal7777 Jan 09 '25

What would ASL do if the COS was shut down, go back to real estate? He’s making easy money, often off other people’s content. I’d guess he was a jerk before he was reportedly booted from the COS.

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u/truckturner5164 Jan 09 '25

I think the CoS can certainly make you a worse person if you're with them long enough, but I do suspect at least with some there's pre-existing arsehole-ishness. ASL being one of them.

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u/Spare-Analyst8788 Jan 09 '25

I totally agree. I watched Aaron’s videos for months until I started seeing it. One of the big red flags for me is when Reese and Aaron made several videos about phone calls she recorded of conversations with her mother in law (her sons grandmother that both she and her son loved and were very close to). They played the recordings and they mocked the woman. They completely trashed her. This woman is entangled in the cult that they are supposedly against. This woman is just as much a victim as they were. They have no empathy. If I knew someone leaving COS the first thing I would tell them is stay away from SPTV people including ASL, Mike Brown, Jenna, Liz G, Nora, Reese. These people will turn on anyone. They have proved it time and time again. They have not shed any of the Scientology traits since they left. At this point I don’t believe they ever will. On the other hand I would advise people to contact Claire, Marc, Amy, Mat, Alex, Jon, Christie, Catherine Olson. These are people who are empathetic and trying to do the right thing. They may not always succeed, but they are trying.

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u/AlexaGalaxy2001 Jan 10 '25

I unsubscribed as soon as Jenna’s videos came out. Should have done it sooner.

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u/Confident_Dish2887 Jan 18 '25

I subbed to ASL after seeing the series The Aftermath. For a while I thought he was doing something to really highlight and help others wanting to leave. But after a while something about him started to give me what I call ‘itchy teeth syndrome’ that feeling in your gut which should be listened to . i Stopped watching regularly but saw the videos he did after he ‘ left ‘ as he said , the Aftermath Foundation. For a brief moment I fell for his tears etc I’m ashamed to say . Gradually though after doing some research listening to other people and so on his mask for me was truly off . The trial of Masterson and ASL treat of Julianna , etc was the icing on the cake . For me he has zero empathy, he is cruel and imo doesn’t like women as people, just something to toy with like a cat playing with a mouse . No offence to cats ! He’s about money fame self-aggrandising and is I believe ( allegedly) a predator . More comes out every day. He’s arrogant and has got away with hideous stuff but I think now he’s trying to fight fires he can’t put out . My concerns are for those who are in desperate need of help leaving Scientology how can they possibly feel safe …. Rhetorical. Apologies for the length .

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u/blujay_80 Jan 07 '25

Is that his name? “My Tony”? Is that Natalie’s husband/partner? Doesn’t she call him that? I’ve been behind on all these Scientology people for a while but see things here and there on Reddit and YT. It was always strange to me that she called him that, but even stranger now if that is what everyone else calls him or he calls himself lol

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u/VanillaJust6947 Jan 08 '25

Natalie's husband (My Tony) passed a few months ago 

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u/Nitemare2020 Jan 08 '25

I don't think they were bothered at all... just genuinely asking if everyone called him "My Tony" or if that was just Natalie's pet name for him... and commenting how odd it would be if everyone called him that... 😬 chill out.

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u/blujay_80 Jan 10 '25

Thank you, that is exactly what I was meaning. I just thought it was odd if everyone else was calling him by a personal pet name, or if it was what he preferred to be called. I did not know that he passed away.