Born and raised in Jamestown, Wolfe graduated from Jamestown High School in 1986. These days she runs a media company called Cambrick Yard LLC, with several YouTube channels, social media channels, and websites with millions of followers. Her book, “Disney Adults” was just released with Simon and Schuster on Aug. 5. The book has spent two weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list so far.

The “Disney Adults” book came about because Simon and Schuster reached out to Wolfe, she said, and that after talking options with her editor she decided to focus the book on the “Disney Adult” subculture.

“Disney Adults”, Wolfe said, are people who have carried their love of Disney into adulthood and will go to Disney World without their kids or remain very passionate about things like Disney music and movies.

“This subculture is somewhat maligned online and we wanted to do a deep dive into the subculture, taking a look at who these people are, how many of them are there and what kind of drives them and makes them tick,” Wolfe said. “Also, what does that mean for the Walt Disney company? If you have this huge, huge passionate audience for what you do, how does that affect what you do?”

AJ Wolfe is pictured at the book launch of her book “Disney Adults”. Submitted photo

Wolfe said her book is a journalistic deep dive and non-fiction, looking into this subculture that is massive but something she said is also maybe misunderstood. The goal of the “Disney Adults” book is not to defend the subculture, but rather better understand it. Wolfe added that the book looks to help people better understand this subculture in the context of the larger world of fandoms in general, something she said is moving more online now rather than in their neighborhoods, where people used to connect.

“The book is written for two types of people,” Wolfe said. “It’s written for ‘Disney Adults’, who are actually a part of the subculture who are interested in seeing themselves be represented in a book like this, but it’s also for people who are looking at this particular subculture and going ‘what in the world is this? Why are these people like this? Why do they love Disney so much?’ Sort of, looking at it as something they genuinely don’t understand and want to learn more about.”

The book provides somewhat of a cultural look into what humanity is moving into in regards to their tribes and people they connect to as well, Wolfe said. The book is overall for the group of “Disney Adults” who have grown up loving Disney or who have just recently found Disney as a hobby.

The book is something that is important to her, Wolfe said, as she is a “Disney Adult” herself, growing up with Disney and also having it as something that connects her to her bond with her father.

“I used to go to Disney World once every couple of years with my family and I really bonded over the music at Disney World with my dad, John Fuchs, a lot of people in Jamestown will know him, who passed away about three years ago,” Wolfe said. “This book is dedicated to my dad, because it’s an opportunity to sort of talk about how we evolve as ‘Disney Adults’ and how that connected us in a really special way as well.”

Wolfe’s debut book, “Disney Adults” is available now.