I think his weird stigma as a mischief-causing troublemaker on this forum goes like this:
- Adam gains attention for uploading a video of him exploring the abandoned River Country. This is 2010, a while before he became a noted YouTube personality and yes, he was more crass back then, but he was always well aware of the risks.
- WDWMagic forum users huff and puff over this video because its someone breaking the rules at their precious resort, even though every single one of them also wished they'd had the guts to sneak into River Country
- WDWMagic forum users watch Adam's other urbex videos from that time, not realizing that exploring and documenting abandoned places is a hobby for some people and, although they are technically trespassing, it doesn't mean they have ill-intent.
- WDWMagic forum users stop paying attention to Adam until he is banned from WDW. This confirms their assumption that this is a bad man who only wants to cause trouble and break the rules.
- They ignore him once again, not realizing he has a huge YouTube following and has changed his channels and image into a family friendly content about his daily adventures. The shift is from entering abandoned places to just filming and documenting interesting locations in general.
- Adam is banned by Universal. WDWMagic: "See?? Yup. This is a BAD MAN."