When The History Channel Made Up a Bunch of Stuff

[@billiam]

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[@AiLoveAidoruVT]

its alright. better than history channel. I've learned just as much about Ancient Egypt watching Yugioh as I did watching History Channel tbh tho.

[@MortalKombatDad]

Watch the Russian Yeti the killer lives you'll love it 💯

[@PerFectCell92]

Is that a Manda shirt? If so where did you end up getting it?

[@binkbonkbones3402]

KZbin is doing the thing where it's removing my subscription to you occasionally Maybe remind the audience to make sure they're still subscribed

[@CardPicker-xo2hg]

Don't be too surprised. You know who runs the history channel. Disney.

[@thunderkrux7745]

4:38 "An upright being, walking bipedaly" Diogenes interupting Plato again "Behold! A bigfoot!"

[@SsnakeBite]

Plato: "I GET IT, DIOGENES!! YOU MADE YOUR FUCKING POINT, DIOGENES!!"

[@HeatherQuinn-Psykhae]

Plato proceeds to smash him into the ground

[@missdenisebee]

Fuckin Diogenes. I’ll get tired of hearing how he trolled the shit outta Plato😂

[@vylbird8014]

@@missdenisebee Diogenes trolled the shit out of everyone.

[@wm9482]

In all seriousness though, do Bigfoot hunters realize many species of bear are capable of bipedal walking over at least shorter distances?

[@cousinted]

I want to see an alternate version of the ancient aliens conspiracy where aliens kept showing up and trying to teach ancient humanity how to do things, but all the aliens' ideas are dumb and unworkable. The ancient Egyptians are in the middle of building the pyramids and the aliens are all "You should build it so the pointy end is facing towards the ground, it'll be totally sick" and the pharaoh's all "Zarthaxx, you know what would really help? If you could supervise construction from the other side of the solar system..."

[@curtailedbike4123]

I love that idea so much, like imagine they’re the reason there’s no other humanoid besides homosapians. Like “gerr im telling you those homosapians have it all wrong, they’re making their settlements near water and farming, nah you guys should instead build your settlements on the top of that volcano, that way you don’t have to worry about heat since it’s giving off heat”

[@v.styles3545]

🤣💗

[@footballrestored171]

Look, if the pyramid is upside down, the pointy end will go into the sand like a giant dart. That's just basic Zarthaxxian science. The only question is how do you get the pyramid to be upside down? I'm guessing you build it right side up and then, once it's at all together, you build a giant fan and try to blow it over.

[@asmrtpop2676]

@@footballrestored171So his name is also his species name? Like a person named Humano?

[@kid14346]

There's a comedy interview show called V.I.P. and thi is the premise of the interview with Denzel the alien. He keeps trying to be like "Well there's an alien technology that can achieve this" and then the host just will respond like, "Oh, you mean traffic signs?"

[@hannahlarge5738]

it still baffles me that "the war of the worlds " and "ghost watch" got so many people in so much trouble, when they were never intended to be anything but fiction; and yet this shit is fine because the network held on to the pretense of realism.

[@Byrdffv]

ehhhhh i heard the war of the worlds wasnt actually that big of a deal, it was instead played up by newspaper articles because they were in competition with the radio format at the time. ghost watch however was crazy

[@lbjcb5]

Agreed!

[@kylemendoza8860]

The media hyped it up because they felt radio was taking their business.

[@SeanMahoneyfitnessandart]

No one actually got in trouble for those things.. at least not War of the Worlds.. idk the other one..

[@guiltygearalonecompl]

When I was unemployed back in the mid two thousands I spent a lot of time watching the History Channel during the day, and the way they would block whole days out to single topics always struck me as a sort of depression trap. So many times I’d be bummed out on the couch flipping through channels, get to History and check the layout for the day and go “Ok, cool, today is all civil engineering stuff, I can lose a few hours mindlessly ingesting this.” Other days would be less cheerful, like all day serial killers or biker gangs. I appreciate all the History content, their journey into being utterly unhinged is magical

[@deathsyth8888]

I remember 'Gangland'. Some of the stuff those gangs did was wild, blatantly violent and full of so many human vices & foils. It was so interesting to watch the underside of the organized criminal lifestyle.

[@Mischievous_Moth]

The 2000s version of doom scrolling. Glad I was a kid at the time.

[@jessicawalton3497]

It was probably 2003, I was severely hungover, and I spent the whole day watching the History Channel. They programmed an entire day that span from the Civil War up to Prohibition and ended with NASCAR. RIP History Channel.

[@ticket2space]

​@@deathsyth8888that show was incredibly inaccurate

[@galazore]

I see we spent some of the same exact time doing the same exact thing!

[@icceboxx]

Growing up, until 2013, my dad and I would spend weekends afternoons watching the History Channel and H2, because he and I have a shared love of history that my dad was more than happy to help foster in me. It was also a way for us to spend time bonding. I was a kid (under the age of ten) when this was happening, and my dad would make sure we were only watching actual history documentaries. And pawn stars sometimes. There was one time I convinced him to let me watch Ancient Aliens because I was curious, and I remember thinking it was ridiculous. The episode involved Ancient Egypt, and during a commercial break, I remember running upstairs and grabbing my book on Ancient Egypt, which had included real theories as to the construction of the pyramids. My dad and I spent the rest of the episode looking through my middle school level encyclopedia about Ancient Egypt and basically trying to debunk the rest of the episode based on what was in my book. The few times we watched Ancient Aliens after, I would ask my dad to look up the actual facts behind the topic of the episode on his phone to the point that he just handed it to me and let me look it up myself and read off the results to him. I even ended up doing this with the more “historical” episodes, because some of the facts sounded weird to me, or because they contradicted what I was being taught in school. Some of the stuff was true, some of it wasn’t. Now I’m applying to graduate schools and a semester away from getting my BA in History, a large part in thanks to my dad watching the channel with me to foster my interest and implicitly encouraging me to question what I was being shown, a key factor in actual historical research. Thanks History Channel for sucking so much that a literal ten year old could see through you!

[@DrErikNefarious]

The irony of Invader Zim, an alien, is telling the history channel that it's lying is not lost on me.

[@RhiSoundsLikeRye]

Did I miss something? What is this referring to?

[@mista414]

​@@RhiSoundsLikeRye24:30 in the video

[@philip5513]

Superimposing the pawn stars mug shots is amazingly cold lol

[@karenamyx2205]

Wow, im so stoopid.. i thought they were head shots. In a way. They kinda are.

[@someoldaccount]

"Did aliens kill the dinosaurs????" Yes, I saw it happen in transformers :3

[@fjordivae3007]

yippeee!!!!

[@saphirawinters7028]

Actually it was the 4th Transformers movie. Transformers 3 was Dark of the moon and on how the first men on the moon discovered Transformers on the moon.

[@someoldaccount]

@@saphirawinters7028 oh the :3 was a cat smiley

[@poponolo4307]

@@saphirawinters7028erm actuallyyyy👆🤓

[@clementineshetheyfae8312]

:333333

[@bloodofthelamb13]

The missing person problem in Alaska is literally just booze. There’s a rolling list of missing persons every year that get found when the snow thaws out around the bars. I have too many drinks in Alabama, I’ll wake up in a field. Have too many drinks in Alaska and you won’t.

[@angelman906]

Them moose get hungry as well.

[@Demonspaces]

It's not just booze. There is a constant problem of native women going missing, most too young to even drink. Yes booze with snow is a problem, it is nowhere near the actual problem with people going missing here. I would suggest doing research into how often native women go missing across the country and how they are the biggest demographic to be abducted.

[@bloodofthelamb13]

@@Demonspaces Who are you suggesting is kidnapping them? Why specifically native women and is there a reason they’d be easier to take from a normal American household?

[@bloodofthelamb13]

@The rates at which crimes happen to natives would only be relevant if the overwhelming majority of blue collar criminality weren’t committed inside of ethnic boundaries; to say there is a crime problem specifically targeting a specific group is also saying that there are more attackers from that group. The only thing the statistics proves is that reservations have more crime than usual.

[@Demonspaces]

@bloodofthelamb13 you're joking right? I didn't say shit about crime rate amongst race. Learn to read.

[@liamodynsky4871]

19:04 oh no, who would have guessed that the man trying explain how ancient non-white races couldn't have done things without outside help would have been racist.

[@katconley9702]

As someone who was raised on Dr. Hawass 8:48 and who is now an archeologist, it pains me that they just effed with him so much but also it’s so upsetting that he was kind of an asshole

[@phantomkrieger2744]

One of my archaeology professors Dr. Hoopes was asked to be on a bunch of history channel documentaries around the whole 2012 Mayan calendar craze. He responded by dedicating huge parts of his lectures to disproving pseudo archaeology and showing us how it essentially becomes a pipeline to racist and extremist ideologies.

[@WinglessMoonstone]

I feel the exact same way. While I may not be a full-blown archeologist, I do have an associates degree in anthropology and have a deep love for the study of people, both ancient and modern. The blatant disrespect that the History channel has for the people who work in the field, and by extension the cultures they study, is incredibly disheartening and frustrating. And learning that Dr. Hawass, somebody who clearly has a lot of passion for his work, was hugely misogynistic and difficult to work with is so disheartening.

[@walrusArmageddon]

​@@phantomkrieger2744pipeline to extremism? That sounds... really interesting actually

[@carolyns4519]

​@@walrusArmageddonQuinton Reviews did a few videos om the History Channel and how, intentionally or not, they promote a lot of bigotry. Like how Ancient Aliens credits most amazing things built by noneuropeans as being built by Aliens instead (as if only Europeans were smart/skilled enough to male col things), or how a lot of their wwii shows seem to gush about how cool the nazis were (emphasizing their awesome weapons, for instance, when in reality most of their weapons were inefficient). Probably similar to what their teacher said.

[@diebesgrab]

I still hear him whenever I read the word “pyramid” too many times.

[@sierrajohnson717]

I still remember years ago arguing with my moms bf bc he believed mermaids were real bc of that one doc, and I’m a 15 year old girl at the time with a 40 year old man yelling at me that there was a doc about them so mermaids were definitely real.

[@EvilDick1995]

That's crazy lol

[@caro31099]

lol I remember having to watch that in earth science. I still think about the dragon doc occasionally.

[@HotTakeAndy]

Yess!! You weren’t the only one. Except I was a twice your age.

[@kl6960]

My mom buys into the Ancient aliens and von Daeniken's bs... I hope she never sees the mermaid "doc", she'd probably believe it too... It's terrifying how gullible people can be, and when it's combined with the tendency to believe every outlandish conspiracy theory over simple logical explanations that are based in facts... well, it's a lost cause. Having someone like that in your closest circles is a bit of a nightmare.

[@HopeGardner3amed]

I was your age and I believed that documentary. Kinda got over it fast though.

[@carolyns4519]

OMG no way, America: The Story of Us being given free to classrooms explains SO MUCH. I had to watch in in LITERALLY EVERY history class I took from 7th to 11th grade. I'm not joking, literally every year, to the point that we remembered specific scenes or quotes and would yell them out because we'd seen it so many times. I distinctly remember Diddy's cameo and was waiting for you to bring it up, it's so wrong that he was allowed to be in something that lots of kids and teens watched. I thankfully didn't get the ebook, though, that's one thing my school spared us of.

[@MysteryMii]

Yeah. What’s actually funny is that it ended up being a bit of a conflict of interest in one of my classes because one of my classmates’ parents was actually involved in the production of the series.

[@carolyns4519]

@@MysteryMii lol! did they keep showing it, or did they have to stop because of that?

[@MysteryMii]

@@carolyns4519 No they kept showing it.

[@ExceptionallyUndersizedThanos]

Knowing Better like blackpilled me to American education, and the Story of Us was such a key component to my education as a kid. I'm not even a history buff or anything and I'm still absolutely FLOORED at how wide the gap was between KB and actual literal school. Pretty sure he's also floored at that.

[@obeseperson]

He was kinda all over for some reason

[@deathsyth8888]

I've been waiting for this! When the History Channel went from the "Hitler" channel to the "Hysteria" channel.

[@AeonKnigh432]

The first was never very good either tbh

[@yeoldegunporn]

Well that’s the same audience

[@SuperRat420]

​@@AeonKnigh432bs

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

It's actually still the Hitler channel when you consider where all that Ancient Aliens crap originates from.

[@bread64]

Did Hitler have contact with aliens now on the History Channel

[@fishmanhari]

history channel and animal planet, the GOATs of making up stuff... still can't believe that the mermaid "documentary" had me convinced as a kid

[@Teodora4537x]

You just brought back a memory I thought was lost to time

[@Satnanat]

Don’t forget the dragon one

[@IAmMightyMike]

The Future is Wild was basically Animal Planet just making up their own pokemon

[@josephdurham4950]

The dragon one got me even tho I heard them say at the beginning it wasn't real. I was still like, "You guys sure?" 😂

[@GoldSayaProductions]

The mermaid one fooled me. I was an adult

[@grahammckoy9102]

People will say, "The History Channel sold out!" They were never in stock, my man.

[@Loreignss]

I saw Ancient Aliens live. They sold out a large building and all the stars from the shows came out and went over their top theories and how its real. And it was crazy as hell. I went as a meme but SOOOOO many people showed up dressed as aliens and all sorts of costumes. And they were VERY serious during the 90+ minute show. It was crazy

[@American_Heart]

Bigfoot Banished gives the same energy that Animal Planet's "Mermaids: the Body Found," possesses.

[@claudiobizama5603]

I am actually really glad that Latin America still has History2, which is History Channel without the Reality TV stuff and aliens (mostly). Whereas it died in North America, it keeps going here. It's classic History Channel, full of WW2 Germany documentaries.

[@Code7Unltd]

In America, that stuff is aerial. Are you familiar with the network "Story Television"?

[@WoobooRidesAgain]

That said, bear in mind that a lot of those WW2 documentaries are loaded with outdated information and stuff made up by wartime German propaganda, Holocaust deniers, and just bad history. Stuff like "the harsh Soviet winter stopped the German advance!" (it was actually terrible logistics and bad planning on the part of the Germans) and "the Germans had the best tanks of the war!" (they were playing catch up for most of the war in terms of tank design to the Allied and Soviet powers and were hilariously inefficient) and the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht". These are just a few of the generalizations I can think of, and only from the German side. It's still hand over fist better than our History channel trying to claim that Aliens were whispering in Hitler's ear in exchange for the vrill power generated by the Spear of Destiny or some such garbage, but always take those documentaries with a pinch of salt.

[@AzureRadio]

I've never been a fan of WW2 Docs, but I 100% agree they are important. I just can't be like how my dad was 20 years ago and just watch nonstop WW2 Docs for 3 days straight lol

[@elnyoutube123]

Sounds full of gay. War documentaries are for emotionally stunted pansies who want to hear about other people suffer and feed off tragedy and negativity. People who show an interest in this stuff are what keep wars going and line Lockheed Martins pockets. If you don't like or agree with what im saying you are probably guilty of this, usually either a child or an adult who was born in the image of satan and has no connection or understanding of human beings or animals. The gay planes they were flying to massacre people are not going to give you the answers you desire. You will probably never find them if you were born a degenerate. There is hope though. Maybe you will come across a human being one day, and they can show you how to think in ways that improves your mental and physical health, and bullshit detecting skills. However these are usually futile attempts on the humans part, because the degenerate WANTS to be shrouded in negativity and confusion, because they were born this way, so they will never be fully cured of liking fully rigged sociopathic manipulation tactics and gay planes that massacre people piloted by self loathing demons who were responsible and willing to end the lives of thousands of innocent people wrapped up as the illusion of protecting their country.

[@kylemendoza8860]

Why? Wasn't Brazil like the only South American country in WW2?

[@CrabKFP]

Ans don't start on Jurassic Fight Club a.k.a. "Let us make up a lot of stuff for the sake of cool dino fights". I can't forget the "thunder raptors"

[@billiam]

How did I miss such a thing?

[@finnhaverkamp]

​@@billiamI eagerly await your video

[@cadencenavigator958]

the *what*

[@CrabKFP]

@@cadencenavigator958 I suppose these are spoilers from the new Billiam episode I manifested, but in the episode centered on Deinonychus and Tenontosaurus the narrator said that Deinonychus used storms to cover their tracks thanks to the thunders, so, thunder raptors. It sounds as stupid as you think it does and it's not the only stuff this "documentary" does that is completely bonkers, like Ceratosaurus bullying and raptors using hand signals. Again, it's a really bad documentary

[@amberhernandez]

​@@CrabKFPObviously Deinonychus should've been in the Fire Raptors, because its venom burns like hell! Even Fossil Fighters got that one right!!

[@SsnakeBite]

I love the guys acting like visiting the inside of the Great Pyramid is an extremely dangerous expedition and one guy coming out exhausted, covered in dirt and saying "I got turned around!". My brother in Christ, they give tours of this place and it's basically one long corridor, what the fuck are you talking about?

[@kevinhernandez2594]

Aliens turned dinosaurs into birds to make them more manageable? Australia went to war with the emus and lost, how is this more manageable?

[@offensive.sewing.0538]

now imagine giant lizards with laser cannons instead of birds that just run away 😂

[@marzana07]

When I was little, my dad used to watch the History channel a lot. Especially Pawn Stars. At Thanksgiving, when I was six, I walked up to my dad/uncles and told them that ''daddy likes to watch porn stars!''

[@bunnyluver2176]

That’s f’ing hilarious. I like to imagine it being this last thanksgiving 😂

[@obeseperson]

CLASSIC

[@asmrtpop2676]

@@mrviking2mcall212Ya it’s almost like kids have trouble with that

[@napalm_lipbalm86]

My ex best friends step dad was obsessed with WWII documentaries especially featuring about Adolf Hitler. It was on in their house almost 24/7😮

[@carolyns4519]

As someone who grew up watching Animal Planet and Discovery, and was there for the painful transition between education and reality shows, I sympathize so hard with old-school History Channel fans. Network decay is so painful. People like to point to MTV not showing videos as the ultimate example of network decay, but I think the best example (by which I mean worst case) of this is all the formerly educational channels peddling bs-even if they claim "it's all entertainment!", lots of people don't bother to further question the things they see, they just know that this is a channel that at some point was credible and thus think the newer stuff must be real too. Not to mention how often such programming often veers into destruction of history or promotion of conspiracies (see Quinton Reviews' series on History Channel). At least MTV no longer promoting music is just annoying, not actually harmful.

[@darkninjafirefox]

The day they took down the most extreme was the day I first felt betrayal

[@PredictableEnigma]

​@@darkninjafirefoxThe Most Extreme was my favorite in 3rd/4th grade! Also shoutouts to K-9 to 5 and Backyard Habitat

[@Kaelynsmusicchannel]

Also Travel Channel turned into a food and paranormal channel for some reason

[@PredictableEnigma]

@Kaelynsmusicchannel Them too?! Please can the networks stop giving impressionable people brainworms?

[@Kaelynsmusicchannel]

@@PredictableEnigma the last time I remember Travel Channel being mostly travel shows, I was a kid in the 2000s. I remember when they transitioned to random slop in the late 2000s/early 2010s.

[@jaymeVos]

To be fair, I would also get pretty upset & annoyed at someone telling me that "extraterrestrials built the pyramids", especially if I was inside of one and trying to educate idiots on a subject they clearly didn't comprehend.

[@pedrovallefin8406]

Yeah, that's certainly his one warranted reaction. The old man seems kinda like a creep so maybe fucking with him this mich was justified, but that may have been one step too far. I would even argue that should have pointed him to the truth that they're all actors pretending to be stupid, but seeing that there's actual people believe those alien conspiracy nonsense, I guess I can't blame him for only being rightfully mad instead of doubtful of the sheer idiocy of it all.

[@TheCrowReviewer]

You know who else made up a bunch of stuff? My mom

[@ORIONSTARGATE]

same lol

[@Caal9]

Okay Muscle Man

[@thespaldo]

Really? She told me yesterday that it was YOU who made up a bunch of stuff. Who to believe?

[@AGenerousLove]

*high five*😊

[@OldObscureUnpopularGames]

Your mom Shit, wait-

[@OldObscureUnpopularGames]

A family member of mine was on Pawn Stars to sell a motorcycle! It wasn't even his motorcycle, he just knew someone who knew someone that could get him on the show if he really wanted to be. Not that I believed it before that, but that was a really good confirmation that it's not real lol

[@SuperRat420]

I mean Pat the NES Punk was on it

[@nicholasrella6904]

I think it's actually illegal to film inside a real pawn shop in that state. They don't hide the fact that the show is filmed on a set made to resemble the real shop. They obviously just find people with cool stuff and pay them to pretend to sell it so they can tell the story.

[@OldObscureUnpopularGames]

@@nicholasrella6904 Interesting about the legality part there, that’s something I didn’t know for sure! I didn’t really watch the show and only saw it in passing when my grandparents had it on the tv so I really wasn’t familiar with much except small bits and pieces. I just knew it was reality tv so it wasn’t real haha

[@nicholasrella6904]

@ I believe I saw it or read it somewhere. Maybe a behind the scenes type of thing. I'm not 100% certain, but I do believe that it's most likely true. Pretty much everything is fake these days. I just don't think it's right when fake stuff is portrayed as real in an attempt to deceive others.

[@sigilpaw]

ancient aliens terrified me as a kid!! i was scared to go outside after dark, i saw airplane lights in the night sky and tell my mom that aliens were coming, anytime anything "weird" happened with technology (common during 2000s) i would immediately blame aliens then vacate the area. why were they allowed to do that,,, i loved animal planet and the history channel i just wanted to Learn

[@phantomkrieger2744]

My primary issue is that ancient aliens holds up Danniken’s “chariots of the gods” as a sort of show Bible. Danniken was a convicted felon and the book was extensively rewritten by his editor Wilhelm Utermann who was not just a Neo-Nazi but like an actual Nazi as in he edited the Nazi party’s official newspaper during the height of World War 2. In short ancient aliens while at surface level can be seen as harmless and weird fringe content, upon closer inspection parrots and sanitizes a lot of the esoteric beliefs that made up Nazism’s more obscure idealogical tangents. From world ice theory to hyper diffusion.

[@Drewdapew]

Where can. I watch a 3 hours youtube essay on this 😊

[@phantomkrieger2744]

@@Drewdapew most of this stuff I picked up on while writing an undergraduate thesis on how Nazism and the German volkish movement affected the study of archaeology . That being said if you are interested in content that debunks pseudo archaeology I’d recommend Miniminuteman on KZbin he has some very good long form videos that are well researched, written and edited debunking this type of stuff. I believe he actually talked about world ice theory and hyper diffusion when debunking a bunch of tik toks by this guy named Filip Zieba, and I believe he also approaches this topic in his critique of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse documentary series (this series falls into many of the same conspiratorial pipelines as ancient aliens does)

[@ikonic_artworks]

Ancient Aliens used to be one of my favorite shows. I still credit it to giving me my since lifelong fascination with archeaology and learning about past cultures, places, and things. But man, once I learned all the stuff with the Nazi association and how it also basically started from eugenics was incredibly disheartening. Shoutout to Milo aka miniminuteman who does a great job covering this type of stuff!

[@MasterTangerines]

Yeah there's a lot of crossover between the harmless alien conspiracy and global jewish plot audiences that gets overlooked sometimes. Obviously not all of them are on the more harmful side but it's definitely something to consider when looking at this stuff. It functions as an extremism pipeline for some people who get too deep into it.

[@walrusArmageddon]

I... feel weird about having a copy now 😬

[@tattedupluv]

Bigfoot's favorite foods? Sounds more like they're hunting Elf's Will Farrell than Bigfoot.

[@bfnfamily]

Why is Bigfoot obsessed with only sweets? 😂

[@KarmaVanBuuren]

19:20 "Extra one for the yellow race" SENT ME TO ORBIT LMAOOOOOOO

[@leinycat]

SAME

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

My first thought was "like the simpsons???" bc i forgot the sterotype abt asians supposedly having yellower skin 😭

[@MysteryMii]

The only thing I thought was worthwhile on The History Channel was Modern Marvels. That show (plus How It’s Made) made for perfect “just throw it on if nothing else interesting was on” TV.

[@obeseperson]

YUUUUUP 💯💯

[@bishielurfer]

How it's made is great. I can't tell you how many times I've been like "you know, I never considered it, but now I really want to know how that's made."

[@terrencelockett4072]

The sad part is, a lot of this type of stuff is a part of what so many use when they claim to "do their own research".

[@redkingrauri3769]

I once wrote a paper at university about dramatization of historical events used for teaching purposes using "Midnight Express" as an example. Great movie, horrible thing that happened to Billy Hayes, but significant parts of it were made up to keep the narrative flow of the movie and changed how he escaped from prison to give it a mirrored ending in order to match the opening sequence. I justified it as for the curious about the situation, Hayes's treatment did show how horrible Turkish prisons are and how gross their justice system can be for wanting to push a life sentence on him for a drug offense whilst much of the story elements changed didn't come across as propagandising or blatant disinformation about the broad story. What THC does though, that's just spreading misinformation at best and disinformation at worst. I remember in high school they were so obsessed with WWII my friend called it The Hitler Channel and the rise of Ancient Aliens was just creationism via scientology.

[@bishielurfer]

I also think there's a big difference between a movie based on real events but ultimately emphasizing entertainment and something being shown on a channel claiming to be educational. Like when I watching the tv show Chernobyl, I'm assuming while the general events may be mostly in line with what really happened, at the end of the day it's a drama and I'm not going to take it is as fact. But if I was watching a documentary on the Chernobyl disaster, I would expect it to be accurate, or at least as accurate as it can be based on the available information. So when a channel presents itself as educational, people are going to expect a level of accuracy, and the channel should hold itself to a higher standard in that regard. Discovery Channel and history channel both of guilty of failing to meet that standard. Animal planet is guilty of this as well but I think is a little better about the ratio, probably because "animals being cute and awesome" is much easier to market without having to make stuff up.

[@dragonmaster613]

I think what they did to Dr Hawass was try to inorganicly create a Gordon Ramsay type show.

[@KenLinx]

Gordon Ramsay's shows are inorganic in itself.

[@dragonmaster613]

@KenLinx yes, but this is even more so, because at least Gordon was in on what was expected of him rather than this twisted menagerie.

[@KenLinx]

@@dragonmaster613 I've heard both the contestants and Gordon himself are faking it in some instances. At least in this case, the archeologist guy is sincere and the crew is trolling him for reactions.

[@dragonmaster613]

@KenLinx that's what I was saying was the difference, they gaslit this poor dude.

[@bosarvinski907]

I forget the name of the episode, but my favorite episode of "Ancient Aliens" is a whole episode concentrating on Erik Von Danniken. He outright says it is just a theory and that he is a practicing Catholic and all he did in "Chariots of the Gods" is ask questions. What makes the episode hilarious is Von Danniken is sincerely saying that it is just a theory......then it goes to the other "experts" and they are extreme about the Ancient Astronaut Theory. It is so evident they were never shown the footage of what Von Danniken said.

[@berryNtoast32]

My uncle worked at the History channel before working at Nintendo

[@emclovin6962]

My dad works for Microsoft and will ban you for talking crap on Halo 3

[@themischief420]

​@@emclovin6962your dad sounds insecure

[@HotTakeAndy]

Would have been funnier if it was the other way around.

[@berryNtoast32]

@@HotTakeAndy maybe it really was

[@weik-2936]

what confuses me about the whole ancient astronauts theory is how does it work even? If all of mankinds achievements are just stuff learned from aliens and nothing was done on our own, how did aliens become so advanced? did they come up with their own stuff? why were they able to but humanity isn't? or did the aliens learn from even older aliens? how does that work? if no one came up with anything on their own, how did anyone come up with anything?

[@bria243]

If people think that far, they assume other aliens had taught those aliens, sort of a congo line of uplift. Of course, that would still require a 'prime' alien species who escaped on their own.

[@James11111]

Nah you see The aliens and *white* humans were smart enough to figure stuff out on their own. It's the non-white people who couldn't do it without help.

[@weirdotzero7065]

Why didn't the aliens just give us Spaceship right then and there? Like they apparently gave every culture at least ONE thing each. But not space or even basic flight travel? Like man, you know how much easier humanity could've been if they gave us schematics for planes thousands of years ago? No, it's just stuff comparatively lamer like pyramids and stonehenge.

[@Ragnarok540]

They learned from ancient ancient aliens, like when the flat earthers say it's turtles all the way down.

[@deathsyth8888]

It's always been aliens since the beginning of time because those aliens came from the future to the past to influence those earlier aliens. This theory is undebunkable and therefore true!

[@picklerick8785]

The best History Channel content was anything back in the 1990s narrated by David Ackroyd, because his voice WAS the History Channel to me when I was young. History's Mysteries and In Search Of History will forever be the GOAT.

[@kayakat1869]

My grandpa used to watch all of these crazy conspiracy shows, and it made him believe so much crap. He believes the moon isn't real and Biggie and Tupac live in a 2D dimension.

[@dannydamnmendez]

I thought they were still alive in New Zealand

[@napalm_lipbalm86]

My ex best friends step dad was obsessed with WWII documentaries especially featuring about Adolf Hitler. It was on in their house almost 24/7😮

[@BriSand1993]

There's a cable channel called Story TV that's more in line with what old history channel used to be. They even show a lot of older documentaries that used to run on both History channel and A&E which itself used to be a biography channel. I think they even run some series that played on older Discovery Channel.

[@bfnfamily]

My stepdad watches that channel.

[@Artemis101full]

So I met a creationist. They came to a bible study I was hosting. I was teaching about a few tactics jesus uses in education and as an activity, each would give a mini lesson using a tactic. This dude came up and used the 'cathedral' tactic (talking to big groups) to explain how dinos and humans lived together and how the earth is only a few 100,000 years old. When he was done, I got up, shut my powerpoint off and it turned into a science and history class. Had to use evidence and background on scientists and what not. Dude was pissed when I said we believe in God but are and shouldn’t be blind to the science God has provided us with through people He has blessed. Dude never came back. He also was sexist but that’s another story.

[@Pipkiablo]

I'll never forget my bible study welcoming a special guest, a creationist paleontologist who complained that they 'threw him out' because he kept claiming that evolution was all made up. He then gave a presentation about how there's no evidence for evolution, while I sat there and wanted to ask him, "Explain why whales have vestigial legs and fingers and we have tailbones."

[@bigfootsdemise]

@@PipkiabloI love telling people about whales having finger bones.

[@LUM-kb2rl]

In the first verse of the first book of the old testament, god creates "day" and "night" and "light" and "darkness" two "days" before creating the Earth. Earth being that rock we live on that spins once per day. A day is defined as one time that the Earth spins. Two days happened before the Earth was made. If someone cant accept the figurative nature of the bible and its timeframes, they arent really benefitting their religion and probably couldn't care less about science.

[@cctomcat321]

​@@LUM-kb2rlI'd say the problem is concluding the writers weren't being literal because they just made stuff up and there is no divine inspiration. I'm not saying there is 0 poetic license but that's just apologetics, at this point. At least the creationist is cherry-picking less. The Westboro people are probably the most "real," in terms of following the book.

[@LUM-kb2rl]

@@cctomcat321 i personally believe that all religions that have existed for millennia have spiritual insight to provide. As the saying goes, "dont throw the baby out with the bathwater." In the context that YHWH was a sun god, it makes perfect sense that ancient people would believe that the sun came and went once per day, rather than the earth spinning and getting to view the sun once per day. Im not here to defend christian science or whatever. Im just pointing out that the bible has a lot to offer when you treat it as poetry and dont nitpick the details, nor treat them as objective declarations about the nature of reality. If you can read the bible as "a highly edited version of the philosophical musings of dozens of spiritual people" then you can gain as much from it as other religions.

[@mrviking2mcall212]

Calling it the History Channel these days is like calling a demolition derby an ‘automotive engineering seminar’.

[@levizilla-rf1pm]

this is like a sequel to "when animal channel made up a bunch of stuff" and I love it

[@tofanpurnomowaisaka503]

I'm glad Billiam is done with Lost & can focus on shorter random stuffs like this. I hope he reviews some obscure toys from the 2000s again too.

[@highpriestofzuul2926]

Maybe the true Bigfoot was the friends we made along the way.

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

The Zaslav-O-Sphere is so goddamn infuriating. Like as someone passionate about science, it's like being stabbed in the eyes and the ears and then spit on by Executive Producers whenever you watch Animal Planet, History Channel, TLC, or Discovery. And I wind up screaming the same thing I always scream at my TV when people are hunting Bigfoots and ghosts and Hitlers: "You people are ADULTS."

[@coffeebubbles22]

The history channel was my dads favorite when i was growing up. He took a weird turn after my parents got divorced and was all into bigfoot, ghosts, aliens, etc. I thought it came out of nowhere. But after watching all of these videos... I'm starting to think maybe it wasn't that out of nowhere.

[@Spacething7474]

Georgio's always looked like a cross between Eric Andre and Ash from I'm in the Band.

[@michelg3811]

Also reminds me of Justin Pierre from the band Motion City Soundtrack

[@molotera8789]

Im in the band mentioned!!!

[@gerardoalexandergarciamend7053]

I hadn't thought about I'm in the Band in over a decade, thanks for making me laugh

[@PrimeDirective91]

Where the history channel shined was when they brought in WW2 vets to discuss the parts of the war they were in. These guys wouldn’t have charged an arm and a leg, AND THEY WERE THERE! I recall a Black Sheep marathon wherein between episodes surviving members of Pappy’s flight would talk about the fact or fiction of the episode. Pretty cool stuff.

[@monolophosaurus]

22:16 oh my god they just took some footage from Dinosaur Planet and slapped a UFO on top of it

[@bluchismoon]

Its so weird that they veered into conspiracy bull, criptids and aliens, because history is chock full of interesting people, stories and events. And it doesn't just have to be nazis and WWII related either.

[@justjordyn6729]

So glad you touched on how the ancient astronaut theory is rooted in racism. I used to think it was interesting, but then I realized how most of the sites aren’t in Europe and truly downplay the intelligence and sophistication of ancient peoples, particularly people of color(everyone not in Europe). Also, despite the lies from Hunting Hitler, it was such an entertaining program.

[@tankeater]

31:30 she was attempting to fly across the world and was going over the the Pacific when she went missing... What do they teach you kids in school?

[@TheRedBallCalls]

But she was attempting to fly across the Pacific. Yes the world was the larger goal, but the Pacific was the largest and most dangerous leg of the journey. Also, she went missing OVER the Pacific, when she was in fact, flying across the Pacific Ocean

[@tankeater]

@TheRedBallCalls I laugh at people like you that contradict themselves in their own statement. Cool story guy. I'm glad you think that. 😉

[@justsomeguy5390]

I beg for a billiam and crew parody of a ridiculous history channel special

[@MusicalSeizureGuy]

I was a total slacker, pothead, grunge kid in the 90’s, skipping school and breaking something daily… but one thing I never missed was history class! I just love our history and human history, it’s crazy! I liked the History Channel before it changed and got popular lol 😂

[@finn4786]

Thank you so much for defending non western premodern peoples and their incredible accomplishments, for pointing out the harm that is done when their works are written off as magical, for correctly identifying that "stegosaurus" as a native animal surrounded by flowers -- it's so nice to see someone defending reality on the internet!!

[@AzureRadio]

"Our oceans are in fact 'Great extraterrestrial laboratories'" now has a WHOLE LOT more credibility given the fact the Gov straight out said "yeah, the ocean is filled with extraterrestrials and we've been in contact with them". Also, Giorgio Tsoukalos came to Roswell, NM one year for the UFO Festival and did a panel and boy howdy it was a great panel. He did the full event in an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt and flip-flops and was a total dude bro the entire time. I went up to ask him questions after the panel and he sat there and just talked with me for like an hour then got up, have me a HUGE hug, grabbed my face, kissed my check, wished me well and walked off lol. He's a really chill dude but is CLEARLY a showman first lol. He is educated and intelligent though.

[@mmrw]

Honestly you’re not even late to the party since you’ve been tearing down these same kinds of programs from other networks for a while. You just finally made it to the godfather of all of them

[@planescaped]

I loved Wild West Tech hosted by David and Keith Carradine. Definitely my favorite History Channel show. Even then I remember noticing some of the information they were providing didn't sound right... It was also literally the only show I ever watched or liked on the History Channel, lol.

[@caseyjones5145]

This channel deserves SO many more subscribers.

[@zippersocks]

Prior to this period, it was colloquially known as the “Hitler Channel” due to its high affinity towards WWII. Every other program was about the European Theater.

[@samholdsworth420]

THC!

[@BenShapirosLowerLip]

6:56 I randomly check out ACTUAL pawn shops around my city and they are mostly filled with shitty flat screen TVs, stolen tools and iCloud locked Apple watches. Would not recommend a real pawn shop 2/10.

[@bZman]

Props for wearing a shirt of Manda one of the oft forgotten Godzilla characters! Always loved Manda

[@MykiiMescal]

14:07 the aliens just kept asking for my “banana organs”

[@eversobritish1335]

I understood that reference

[@theleaderturtle]

There's also Jurassic Fight Club, the show that inaccurately made dinosaurs blood thirsty-monsters. Watch Red Raptor Writes' review video for that rant.

[@jamie.smith98]

The overlay of the mugshots was pure genius.

[@mintman325]

It was my trash tv, when I was in high school. I was never a jersey shore guy. I have anime now and that is some quality stuff when it happens. I watched Pawn Stars, and Chasing Mummies A LOT, and in the end I figured this KZbin has everything, so I’ll just watch that.

[@thespaldo]

You mean to tell me that History Channel used to make content about... *checks notes*... History related subjects? The heck? I thought that it was always Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens from the beginning. Why would a channel called THE HISTORY CHANNEL of all things, make content about history? It just don't make sense!

[@eatatjoes6751]

And they’ve fucked that up too.

[@woundedsanity]

@@eatatjoes6751 lmao

[@SenatorStink]

The same reason TLC (The Learning Channel) has shows like “My 600lb life!” And “My strange addiction.”

[@steinschlange1457]

35:00 "He loves kids!" Holy crap, man

[@ori5315]

The thing that always gets me about this genre of television is that if this is supposedly top-secret information, why is it allowed to be broadcast on public television with absolutely no consequences? Kinda breaks the illusion and makes me question the sanity of anyone above the age of 10 who takes it seriously

[@Name-ot3xw]

I was surrounded by dinosaurs this morning, they cawed at me until I got past their bagel.

[@CallMeNoa]

Around 2010 or so the History Channel had a second channel called "H2" that still mainly did historical content. I have fond memories of watching it with hot chocolate at my grandparents' over Christmas. But it fell to the reality shows and ancient aliens soon enough as well.

[@eeniemeeniemini]

I could feel how stressed the Dr on the Mummies show was and probably still is. 😂

[@DeathKhan]

Hi, so, history professor here. I too grew up on the History channel, but didn't realize just how *awful* it was. Mind, it was before the days of Ancient Aliens, but that older stuff (America, the Story of Us, for example) looked legit to an ignorant child. I do occasionally use clips from History channel "documentaries" in my classes, but always give context and correct the more blatant mistakes/lies. Also! A Manda shirt *and* a Tom Lehrer shoutout? Billiam, you are a cultured nerd.

[@robdotgif]

Bigfoot? Bro that's Kang from Deep Space 9! They caught Michael Ansara in a cage with trail mix and maple syrop, ON HIS ONLY DAY OFF FROM BEING STUCK INSIDE THE TV!

[@The_PokeSaurus]

"The History Channel! The truth, is History."

[@cam_like_ham]

So basically Chasing Mummies is like the fake show from The Even Stevens Movie with much more of a front?

[@HistorysRaven]

I was thinking Spike TV's "The Joe Schmo Show".

[@jonathonlong5796]

Pawn stars was just the antique roadshow for men

[@intern_dana]

the sad thing is the people who need school the most are being pulled out by their fundamentalist parents 😔

[@trinityanderson3511]

the most terrifying (and perhaps only) fact that ancient aliens ever dug up was one they never meant to, by virtue of having 20+ ongoing seasons.

[@HistorysRaven]

Monster Quest is one of the best cryptid series. You know the only thing that pisses me off more than History's "The Story of Us"? The "show" at the US pavilion in Epcot. You think "The Story of Us" handwaved off the horrible shit that colonists did to the Native Americans? The US pavilion show is even worse.

[@weirdotzero7065]

The American Adventure?

[@nijinatsume1365]

I was in middle school and my history teacher would have us watch America The Story of Us and have us do worksheets on it. Literally wild. At the time, I did notice how they glossed over the slavery and violence against Indigenous people, but didn't want to be "that person" who complained and got the easy work taken away from us 😢

[@molotera8789]

Yikes 😬

[@FusionDeveloper]

I don't understand why they show conspiracy theory stuff as "History". It makes it appear to be educational. That's how we end up with the people we have today.

[@brendanthedreamer]

They show it because it makes them money because idiots watch. It's really that simple, unfortinately.

[@droppedcombofiend2707]

It's been so great seeing more frequent uploads again. I loved the lost series, but it's nice to have stuff that's shorter and more frequent again.

[@lovesplus3879]

I remember the Egyptian show 😭 It was middle school, sis pissed in the pyramids; my dumbass didn’t know it was fake.

[@Fimbleshanks]

The fear the History Channel's Mayan Calendar/apocalypse content put into people I knew (and by some extent, myself, as I was a kid who trusted these people) is a whole can of worms I should probably be talking to a therapist about.

[@-MrFozzy-]

Tv shows that are made for entertainment, should be made to make it very clear that it has no historical value or facts of any kind.

[@DaikaijuDiscussions]

Instant like for the Manda shirt.

[@The_PokeSaurus]

And Ebera in the same video! Makes me giddy.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Kaiju fans!

[@lovepeople777]

everyone knows Amelia airheart was really kidnapped by coconut crabs

[@Neo-le9iq]

1:29 saw the name and recognized it and realized i was subscribed, i used to watch your stuff probably 10 years ago now, keep up the good content mane

[@prettypic444]

There’s a popular drinking game in historical community for shows like Ancient Aliens: take a shot every time they repeat a white supremacist theory with the offensive terms search replaced with “aliens”

[@shlappymac2926]

Hey Billiam. Thank you for your content. I feel that I may be growing out of your format but I still appreciate your efforts and perk up when I see your videos even tho they dont hit the same anymore. Your're great and it sucks I'm becoming jaded.

[@wisterian8619]

"I swear Ive seen this exact video like 3 years ago" I say to myself before seeing "When Animal Planet Made Up a Bunch of Stuff"

[@justinanderson267]

So... that scene in the opening first few minutes... Do people really think a captured Bigfoot would be slamming his fists on the inside of his cage like we've seen happen in so many movies?

[@dysnomiaalvey]

It's kind of crazy just how ahistorical so much of their programming was, even the stuff that was actually meant to educate.

[@beepster991]

They sometimes show "historical" movies like "2001 A Space Odyssey"... No jokes...

[@ratchetxtreme6591]

You mean the history channel would do that, go on tv and tell lies .😢

[@motorphina]

Absolutely not the history channel is that only 100% reliable, undoubtedly trustworthy source in the modern age. They are bound - both by god and by law - to show the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on their REALITY shows. (I mean, duh, otherwise they'd be called NOTreality shows. )

[@blackphoenix77]

20:51-20:57 "Aliens are coming to Earth and doing strangely evil things...." 🤣🤣🤣🤣