Popular travel videographer Adam Williams, better known as Adam the Woo, died on Monday at his home in Celebration, Florida. He was 51.
According to the Victorville (California) Daily Press and other media outlets, sheriff’s deputies conducted a welfare check and found him deceased in bed.
An autopsy is pending, but friends said it appeared Williams’ death was peaceful. Williams had just returned from a trip to Europe.
Fellow travel blogger and Route 66 enthusiast Justin Scarred on Tuesday put his thoughts together in an emotional video that feels like a eulogy:
Williams’ death shows how internet creators have become their own sort of celebrities. News of his passing was carried by TMZ, People and USA Today, to name a few.
Adam the Woo had two YouTube channels — adamthewoo and TheDailyWoo. The former had more than 400,000 subscribers, and the second totaled more than 700,000.
He posted dozens of Route 66 videos on his first channel and dozens more on his second channel, including a 12-day trip on the Mother Road in 2018.
It was during that long trek that, by happenstance, I met him briefly at the Road Runner Lodge motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico, when he checked in for the night there.
(Screen-capture image from video of Adam the Woo at the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle in Collinsville, Illinois)
Thank you so much for the acknowledgement of Adam’s passing. I feel like I lost my best friend and I never met the guy. A sign of the changing times for sure. I found Adam thru looking up Elvis info on Youtube, he was born in Tupelo too. He quickly became my favorite Youtuber and I watched him daily. He has a large catalog of travel videoes, I highly recommend checking them out, not just the Route 66 ones. He helped so many people get started vlogging, many of them with autism and he kept helping them with anything they needed. My condolences to his precious parents, whom he took with him on many trips, and to his friends and Youtube friends, this one is a gutpunch.
Adam was a special person both on YouTube and off. He will truly be missed.