Austin David Whitsitt’s Aetherade Scam Exposed

2025-03-26T00:00:00Z

Flat Earther Austin “Aetherically Displaced” Whitsitt AKA Witsit recently got caught being abusive towards his partner again. In addition to behaving badly at home, it turns out he has been attempting to scam flat Earthers out of their money online. His scheme involves selling an overpriced flimflam drink mix that claims to cure all ailments. This is not a joke — he’s really doing this! Somehow, this operation flew under the radar for over a year until now.

Photo 1 Austin David Whitsitt's latest mugshot for domestic battery.

Let’s start at the beginning. Deep in the Internet lies the saddest page on the web — Austin Whitsitt’s LinkedIn profile. Of course, he has no work history nor education listed. However, he claims to be the full-time owner of the company, Aetheric State. Unsurprisingly, he has zero followers because he is a loser.

Screenshot 1 The saddest LinkedIn profile.

Now, I know what you’re asking; what’s Aetheric State!? Why, it’s Witsit’s online shop of course! And what does Austin’s shop sell? Why only one thing; and that one thing is literal snake oil! It’s a $160 electrolyte drink mix called Dragon’s Blend. However, that name sucks, so let’s call it Aetherade from now on. Anyway, Austin sells this $160 Aetherade to flat earthers who watch his streams.

Screenshot 2 Witsit's storefront sells $160 electrolyte mix.

Witsit lists Aetherade as a pair of two flavors. The first flavor is a spicy cayenne pepper for when you want a little kick with your snake oil. The second flavor is — and I kid you not — activated charcoal. Yeah, Witsit wants to sell you coal to drink. I guess flerfs must enjoy the taste of charcoal or something. Basically, Aetherade is an even stupider version of Brawndo from Idiocracy.

Aetherade: It’s what flerfs crave!

The Aetheric State website sells Aetherade as an electrolyte mix to be used during fasting as a form of detox. Witsit states the drink mix will keep you “sharp, resilient, and ready to conquer your fast.” Additionally, Witsit says Aetherade will “adsorb toxins and reduce detox side effects like headaches and fatigue.” And if you go to the manufacturer’s website, it further claims, “many report recovering from disease, ailments, skin conditions and even cancer [from Aetherade].”

Screenshot 3 The manufacturer links Aetherade to curing cancer.

How does Aetherade cure cancer, you ask? Well, you see… It’s got electrolytes.

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Of course, Austin is a scammer, not a doctor, and no one should buy any supplement from this charlatan. Regardless, how does Austin sell this miracle cure-all for only $160? Well, technically it’s on sale from $300 because Witsit thinks his audience is so stupid that they won’t recognize price anchoring. Ignoring that, where does the $160 price tag come from? Well, GlobeSec worked out the price of going to the supermarket and making Aetherade yourself.

Ingredient	Cost to produce 32 fl oz (two bottles)
Magnesium Sulfate 148,000 mg	$0.54
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt 140,000 mg	$0.94
Sodium Bicarbonate 140,000 mg	$2.94
Potassium Chloride 200,000 mg	$9.72
Boron Citrate 800 mg	$0.12
Cayenne Pepper 32,000mg	$0.38

Total	$14.64

The total production cost is a little under $16 with the additional $142 markup going into Witsit’s pockets. He thinks his viewers are all suckers.

So, how’s his business going? Well, not good. Thanks to Witsit’s backend API, we can view his total stock. He has fourteen 12oz pairs and ten 16oz pairs of Aetherade sitting in his house somewhere. He no longer seems to promote Aetherade on his channel. We do know he’s still twiddling with his Aetheric State storefront though because the backend says there was an update about two weeks ago on March 10, 2025.

Screenshot 4 Data from Witsit's storefront shows he only has ten 16oz pairs of Aetherade in stock.

Screenshot 5 Witsit updated the storefront earlier this month.

Before Austin called himself Witsit, he called himself a3hustle. He fancies himself a hustler; so viewers of his work beware. Even if you give Austin the benefit of the doubt (which you shouldn’t because he doesn’t deserve it) and say he was duped by the manufacturer of Aetherade, everything stated previously still stands. As to be expected, Witsit’s storefront is already another failure in a long list of failures within Austin David Whitsitt’s life. On the bright side, much of his audience seem to have also realized what a snake-oil selling grifter this loser truly is.

Aetherade: The Witsit reputation mutilator!!!!

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Vulnerabilities in the "Flat Earth Clock" app

2025-02-07T00:00:00Z

In October 2024, the HTTP API for Flat Earth Dave's (aka DIRTH) "Flat Earth Sun Moon & Clock" mobile app was found to be leaking passwords. Following attempts to contact and notify Dave and his developers, Blue Water Bay, of this and other issues, and in line with responsible disclosure practices, we published our initial findings of vulnerabilities in our GitHub repo. We have made these results of our investigation public in the interest of the safety and privacy of the app's users, and for the awareness of the broader flat earth research and debunking communities.

We are keeping a close eye on the mobile app and its HTTP API, and following future attempts to contact and notify those involved, we will also update the repo and this site with any further vulnerabilities we find.

Advice for Current Users

If you are a user of the app on either Android or iOS, we strongly recommend you

Change your password! An earlier version of the app exposed passwords, and so you should consider your password compromised. If you use the same password for accounts in other apps or services, change your password there as well (and use different passwords for each app or service).
Remove any personally-identifiable information from the app, including your phone number, date of birth, and anything else you would not want to be publicly known. This data is also currently exposed with few safeguards, and can be used against you in social engineering attacks to gain access to things like your bank account.
Do not use the Friend Finder or any other location-based features. We would in fact recommend not using the app at all until the vulnerabilities are sufficiently addressed. In the case of the Friend Finder feature, the exact location of any user is provided with unnecessary accuracy, exposing your home address, place of work, etc. Even using the "approximate location" setting doesn't help, as the way it works can still be reversed to determine your exact location.