Before Paul Haggis left the cult, he had Tommy Davis's video pop up, where Tommy talked about there not being disconnection, as in where the Church asks members not to associate with that person. Since Paul's wife was disconnected from her parents, he knew this was not true. That made me think of a purpose of Marty Rathbun's series of videos, and the absence of Scientology spokesliar videos from Karin Pouw, or anyone since Tommy Davis.
The cult now wants any videos that pop up for members of Scientology to be Marty's new videos, instead of old Tommy Davis videos or anything put out by a spokescreature lying for Scientology, which is partly why Karin Pouw isn't allowed to appear on TV. Can you imagine her being asked about whether Miscavige beats his staff, or what he did with his wife, and a member seeing that? The video would just pop up, looking rather harmless to a member. They wouldn't think of it as entheta. They would think it was just something they should listen to, which might help them if they get some questions about Scientology or something which happened recently.
I don't know exactly how the YouTube algorithms work. I know that I get an occasional pro-Scientology video in my page of recommendations. Or after I watch a YouTube video, in the right-hand column sometimes there's a recommendation of a pro-Scientology video to watch, but not many. Most of the videos I get recommended to me are critical of Scientology. I don't know about ads because I block those, and don't click on any if I do get them.
I assume the popularity of the video has something to do with it, so Scientology has a problem right there with most of the popular videos being ones that are critical of the Church. But how current it is also can have something to do with it. After a few years after a video has been posted, it tends not to appear. But for a few weeks, probably, Marty's videos may have been popular enough to pop up, but that didn't last. I mean, I watched most of Marty's videos, but recently haven't gotten any recommendations to watch the ones I didn't see. I also watched as many as possible which were posted not by Marty. Marty's videos have just died out in popularity, and I doubt any got enough views to become classics like the videos of Tommy Davis.
And there's little Scientology can do now to make Marty's videos pop up as recommendations, rather than something about Leah's show, for example. But what the cult saw as especially damaging are videos of their own spokescreature lying their ass off. A church member wouldn't see that as entheta, and that would be the biggest danger. A Church member would just think, "There's Tommy Davis, I should listen to this."
Maybe cult members could be confronted with this. They should be told that the reason Karin Pouw can't appear on TV, as Tommy Davis did, is because like him, she would have to lie about everything, and then too many active members would realize that and leave.
In general, this episode on Scientology celebrities was very well done. It'd be a huge eye-opener if a celebrity Scientologist did watch it, and found out things like the reg got 10% of a course fee for enrolling them.