Five Reasons Why 2024 Was
Alex Barnes-Ross’ Worst Year Ever

5. A newly uncovered document revealed that Alex Barnes-Ross pleaded to return to Scientology after being kicked out, while resurfaced videos exposed Barnes-Ross’ hate campaign as an utter fraud.

In a request to be permitted to return to the Church, Alex Barnes-Ross wrote in 2014: “I am a Scientologist, my goal in life is to help other people.”

Even after Barnes-Ross—at a loss on how to make a living—turned to anti-religious bigotry and began spewing hate against the Church for profit, he made the following statements on YouTube, exposing himself as both a lunatic and blatant hypocrite:

• The Church “was just a nice place to be. The people are really friendly.” [December 2, 2022]
• “One thing I miss about Scientology [is] the people—it’s the friends and the friendships and getting on with everyone, and having this united cause to do something together to help save the planet.” [December 2, 2022]
• “Scientologists are genuinely good people.” [December 2, 2022]
• “I ended up on staff at the Church of Scientology in London. And then, in a nutshell, yeah, I got kicked out. I got kicked out the first time and I was a bit upset about it. And when I rejoined, I said to them, ‘I’m a bit upset. You guys kicked me out.’ I was fighting to stay. And I probably still considered myself a Scientologist for two or more years after that happened.” [March 22, 2023]
• “Scientology is the best way to help people.” [March 22, 2023]
• “I got kicked out [of the Church], which sucked.” [March 22, 2023]
• “[I was] making all these friends—spending all day, every day with them—going out selling books and having a great time and helping people.” [March 22, 2023]
• “Everyone in the [London Church of Scientology] was around the same age as me, like in their early twenties. It was cool, it was hip. It was a fun, vibrant place to be.” [October 9, 2023]
• “The last time I felt truly inspired to do something, or like a feeling of meaningfulness in my life—like the last time I was like, ‘This is who I am’—was in Scientology.” [November 15, 2023]
• Scientology “was everything to me. It wasn’t just something I believed in, something I did. Everything about me was Scientology. It was everything to me.” [November 15, 2023]

Today, Barnes-Ross admits that his harassment and anti-religious bigotry have made him miserable. “I’m horrifically depressed and think that there’s no point in doing anything,” he stated on YouTube in February of 2024.

4. A review revealed that Alex Barnes-Ross’ life’s work—his hate site—gets less traffic than the elevator in any random apartment building.

STAND analyzed site traffic patterns, performance metrics and user behaviour for the anti-Scientology hate site of Alex Barnes-Ross, who claims to be a marketer. STAND found that Barnes-Ross gets an astonishingly low average of 1 visit per day to his site, with the average visitor staying for 14 seconds. This means that Barnes-Ross’ site receives no traffic at all for 23 hours, 59 minutes and 46 seconds of the day, or 99.98% of the time.

3. Alex Barnes-Ross began whinging about the fact that he consistently violates privacy rules and has his videos and content removed from the internet.

In November 2024, Barnes-Ross began promoting on YouTube that the platform was removing his videos for terms of service violations. He posted in the Community section: “Today, YouTube removed the first of my [videos]. In case my channel gets shut down please make sure you are following me on X/Twitter.”

According to Barnes-Ross, multiple videos he posted have been removed to date because he cannot stop violating YouTube’s privacy rules.

2. Alex Barnes-Ross’ Google search results have begun to reflect the way the public really feels about him.

Search “Alex Barnes-Ross” and the top search results inform you: “Alex Barnes-Ross is a grifter with a history of mental instability who was rejected from Church of Scientology staff more than a decade ago.” He uses “social media to literally beg for quid to pay his bills.”

You will also discover that Alex Barnes-Ross is a “broke bigot,” who “needs money, your money, anybody’s money, right now—please! He needs money to fund his frequent sallies to a city where he doesn’t live to gripe to a town council that doesn’t know him about an employer that’s already said ‘no, thank you’ to his pleadings to take him back. Big surprise: Nobody pays attention.” 

1. Credible allegations of Barnes-Ross’ stalking and harassment of a female colleague came to light.

Recent testimony revealed that Alex Barnes-Ross was dismissed from Church staff after stalking a female colleague.

In 2011, after pleading to volunteer for staff at the London Church of Scientology, Barnes-Ross quickly began a campaign of harassment against a female member of the Church’s staff—a young woman about whom, as he later put it, he had “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings” that he could not control.

She unequivocally rejected his advances and made her lack of interest abundantly clear.

Nevertheless, “Alex continued to engage in behaviour that made me extremely uncomfortable,” she said. He continued “always trying to get physically closer,” cornering her at her desk. “He would linger far longer than necessary, often with this glazed, Cheshire cat-like grin,” she said. “I felt like a sitting duck, and like I couldn’t escape him.”

In a desperate effort to get Barnes-Ross to cease his harassment, she took a photo with a male friend and set it as the background of her phone, to give Barnes-Ross the impression that the man was her boyfriend.

Barnes-Ross was undeterred. “The whole time I’ve known you don’t like me, but I’ve just always clinged on to the hope, however small, that you’d just at least give me a chance,” he texted her. “And I just don’t know what to do or how to carry on because I have literally no [control over] my feelings.… It’s something that’s really ruining my life right now.”

“I had no idea how to handle statements that made it sound like I was somehow… keeping him from self-harming,” the woman said. “I remember feeling so overwhelmed by the situation that I ended up crying.”

Today, just like the woman he obsessed over and harassed who rejected him, Barnes-Ross harasses and obsesses over—online and in real life—the religion that turned him away as a result of his own misconduct.

There’s no doubt 2024 was Alex Barnes-Ross’ worst year ever—and it was all self-inflicted.

Of course, we should be prepared to have this same conversation again next year regarding 2025; Alex doesn’t seem very good at learning from his mistakes.