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Outdoor Boys says goodbye.

Luke Nichols, who runs the nearly 15-million-subscriber-strong YouTube channel, partly blames fame:

...Because of people stealing my content and posting it on other platforms, my family and I have been viewed about 4 billion times, in addition to the 2.8 billion views on YouTube. The sheer volume of fans trying to contact me, trying to take pictures with me, or just trying to come up and talk to me in public can be overwhelming ... The time to stop is before this problem gets so out of hand that my family and I can’t live normal lives.

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