Grading Horrible Maps Sent By You

[@matthewbrandin6947]

When you're a PhD historian writing an article, but you choose the first cheap fan-made alt-history map you find on google images to be your heading image

[@gordontaylor2815]

Judging from the type of website it is, the article writer may not have had any idea about the map attached to it. At least, until now.

[@timothymclean]

PhDs mark you as being educated, and intelligent when it comes to your field. That does not necessarily extend into the details.

[@fyang1429]

Bad rep is good rep. That Ph.D. guy is tricking you all to see his website to bring in ads revenue. Quite a 3D chess move.

[@seneca983]

@@gordontaylor2815 Though, it might be a good idea to at least check the website afterward.

[@FezEmerald]

Labrador both broke free for Newfoundland, but fought by itself, without any Canadian aid?

[@KingsandGenerals]

3:38 my hometown is under water. Thanks, I hate it.

[@mwhd629]

oh heyy

[@theparadigm8149]

What is your hometown? Also, I love your videos!

[@cavejohnson982]

The Paradigm well obviously in the caspian sea

[@AnuDugala]

kings and generals where you live

[@bubbedebub]

@@AnuDugala maybe greece judging by the profile picture

[@fringeflix]

This man truly is the Menace of Maps

[@BuRsTiNxMLB]

The cartography criminal

[@cameroff]

Map menace, map menace, map map map menace

[@ecurewitz]

the map menaces are clearly those inept cartographers that made the maps in the first place

[@maracujoojs]

Map sommelier

[@ihatebritain3942]

He’s the MoM

[@maxbuster1508]

That last map kinda looks like a colored version of "If the Central Powers won WW1" as it shows Mexico having the land promised by Germany in the Zimmerman telegram (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas) or where the Brest-Litovsk treaty is withheld. Although I can't defend the author, he has a PhD cmon

[@Vrangelrip]

Yeah, but I am amazed that someone with a phd would not know the borders, you would at least know that Canada participated in WWII

[@TapOnX]

He's a traveler from another timeline

[@sonwig5186]

He is an Ottoman empire fanboy and added an alternate history map of the Central Powers winning WW1.

[@TapOnX]

@@gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 There's always a possibility that he uploaded this map as a joke

[@flametitan100]

@@Vrangelrip Or that Newfoundland _and_ Labrador were a single british colony, thus it would be weird for _only_ Labrador to have been an ally without its more populated other half.

[@FourOf92000]

"Kuwait is absorbed by Iraq" Saddam approves

[@carlosmarte428]

4of92000 *The 19th province of Iraq is absorbed by Iraq.

[@Meirstein]

@@carlosmarte428 The branch is returned to the tree

[@Bot-gy9gx]

@@Meirstein * Plays "Land of the two rivers" *

[@wildfire9280]

There is no Kuwait in Baghdad Sing Se

[@joemamaobama6863]

@@wildfire9280 bruh

[@matthewk2175]

As a native Hoosier, I really appreciate the first map 😂

[@Nick-zl5xf]

“Wait, it’s all Hoosiers?” “Always has been.” *cocks gun*

[@jakebhenry2228]

I am a proud Hoosier, nothing like wondrous Corn Fields and road construction... and whatever Gary is trying to do

[@jaredanonymous4154]

Let’s Go!

[@mrinfo2821]

I know really unexpected cuz I just found this channel

[@Ash-zm1vx]

Jakeb Henry “whatever Gary is trying to do” Say they’re from Chicago?

[@jamm6_514]

"this video is sponsored by! no one"

[@089roblox1]

lol

[@JustanotherrandomTom]

Thought he was going to say, “this video is sponsored by NordVPN.” How Ironic that would be.

[@brettd2308]

@@JustanotherrandomTom That's the joke.

[@katitobyt]

VPNs aren't illegal in Turkey.

[@089roblox1]

@@katitobyt ok

[@henryanthony8154]

About the Allies of world war 2 map. I'm pretty sure that Canada was fighting in WW2 for the allies... long before either the US or Soviets Lol

[@robertjarman3703]

Places like India, South Africa, and more are also missing from the blue, and Italy isn't clearly labeled.

[@Cyber_kumo]

There are other things wrong about the map, like Ukraine and Belarus being independent. South Africa, British Raj, Egypt, and Brazil are also not being labeled as part of the Allies. Italy did eventually join the Allies, but that was after the Allies started their invasion of Italy. Saudi Arabia was neutral in WW2, but is labeled as part of the Allies in this Map.

[@robertjarman3703]

@@Cyber_kumo The Soviet Transcaucuses region is also independent. They wish.

[@flametitan100]

Apparently Only Labrador was an Ally. Apparently Canada fought for Axis.

[@a_can_of_soda]

Another thing that should be pointed out is that Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan are shown as independent, *even though those three countries did not gain independence until the USSR collapsed in 1991.*

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

And apparently on the Tour De France map, Andorra and Monaco don’t exist either. Don’t forget about them

[@TapOnX]

Stay

[@thezipcreator]

@@tahalifedive139 where is that map from

[@schaumerrikk9859]

@@tahalifedive139 omg... i think im gonna 🤢🤢

[@thezipcreator]

@@schaumerrikk9859 me too

[@thescorch1163]

no stop it i found you on 5 different videos today

[@Iberian_XAVO]

4:32 Our geography teacher gave us this and I made a joke about how Spain is deformed: Spain was hit in the Basque and now his Castiles (close to rib in English) hurt.

[@_extrathicc]

Ay, mis castillas

[@hueylong7989]

Wait wasn't Castile also an old Spanish nation?

[@parjai97]

@@hueylong7989 yes, so were Navarra and Aragón

[@robrot404]

Textbook editor: "Hmmm I need a map for my history textbook" *googles map *first page filled with lavishly detailed maps "hmmm... no." *goes to page 10 *shows a mom posting the USA drawing her 5yo made on facebook "ah, great! this map will be excellent for my textbook!"

[@NikkiMKarLen]

"I know the Dutch have to worry about floods, but I don't ever remember the floods winning that badly." HAH!

[@robertjarman3703]

Global warming for the win?

[@flaviusstilicho3167]

They just need a plan!

[@bificommander]

The floods redeployed all the water from the Mediterranean for an all-out assault to finally destroy their bitter rivals.

[@captaindonut5240]

*Sad mill noises *

[@chasedavidson2855]

It's clear they sacrificed their homeland in favor of conquering the whole Mediterranean

[@TheMrCtoer]

As someone from Chile, yeah no we don't have a pregnant coastline.

[@Ninefour7]

Lmao

[@elickson7340]

T H I C C. C H I L E

[@CheapSkateGamer96]

I love how everything else was so screwed up on the last map that Tigerstar didn't even mention that Canada wasn't included as an ally in WWII and apparently only Newfoundland was participating in the famous liberation of Holland.

[@JeremyRoman-jbroman]

Not even Newfoundland. Just Labrador.

[@poliorcetix979]

Let's be realist : American is a so confusing name, so let's recall them Outdianans!

[@timothymclean]

As a Hoosier, I am offended. Let's call them Antihoosiers instead. (For those who don't know, people from Indiana are called "Hoosiers". There are at least three guesses why and they all sound ridiculous; nobody knows the term's origin for sure, but given how ridiculous the name is the origin is probably also ridiculous..)

[@theofficialsikris]

The syntax in this comment hurt my brain.

[@jakebhenry2228]

It’s ironic because Indiana comes from lands ruled by Indians, so even us Hoosiers are outdianans.

[@casualhoosier2813]

Lol, this just attracted some of the few other Hoosiers on KZbin.

[@jakebhenry2228]

Casual Hoosier Cornfeilds and Road construction 4 life

[@robertquiggleiv8696]

4:47 Texas: "Aight, imma head out."

[@bconroy328]

I cant belive the republic of tejas reformed!

[@nextdoorneighbour]

1:55 The Dutch didn't lose to the floods, the sea lost to the Dutch. The white is obviously the Netherlands.

[@bificommander]

Ah yes, the XKCD New Netherlands.

[@CollinBuckman]

That Allies of WW2 looks like a map made for some kind of alternate history.

[@saddelta6785]

Damn, how much did you get paid for that sponsorship?

[@aqui1ifer]

Patreon/10

[@tomasavendanozacarias5205]

at least 3 dollars

[@merrittanimation7721]

6 and amount of something.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

He got paid exactly no

[@Hohhot]

He got paid X amount.

[@drm9694]

2:10 - OMG I've seen this map. I stopped watching the Netflix documentary after I saw this in the first episode.

[@mows6356]

What's the documentary called?

[@drm9694]

@@mows6356 I think it’s “Greatest Events of WWII in Colour”

[@mows6356]

@@drm9694 oh ok, thanks

[@rohanr.9714]

Same

[@Robi2009]

Yup same. After like 10 min I have seen TWO of these (I also sent EmpTigerstar 2nd one with Anschluss) I laughed and turned that off

[@stjanscrabeck7423]

3:27 Forget Mali, what the hell happened to to Tanzania?

[@mrgoo7509]

forget tanzania tf happend to chad they got no more chin

[@jackespinos7138]

Looks like Uganda lost a war against Tanzania

[@outerspace7391]

East Africa has almost been achieved

[@marshalljarnagin9370]

Ethiopia borders Tanzanian Uganda. Gross.

[@autumn64fromdeltarunechapter3]

Forget all that, what happenee to poor georgia and Azerbaijan?

[@domino_201]

2:15 - I watched that documentary. It's WWII in Color on Netflix. I lost my sh*t when I saw that map, I couldn't control myself.

[@big_alsgaming]

“allies of world war 2” italy >blue yes, but no

[@jankubiak324]

And Poland is apparently non existent, not even as an Ally, and somehow the Soviets are counted in..not to mention the rest.

[@gokbay3057]

Italy did join the Allies late in WW2.

[@leonardopessanha5128]

Brazil was the only SA country to fight at WW2 but hey, let's ignore

[@ferbthe2gadgetguy]

Papa New Guinea isn't a part of Australia anymore? Then what was their obligation from stopping the Japanese there? (Other than the obvious launching point to Australia.)

[@ferbthe2gadgetguy]

Oh hey, and Finland is also part of the allies. True but also false, depending from what era this map is from.

[@ottovonbearsmark8876]

5:44 good to see that even though Canada abandoned the allies in WW2, we can always count on Newfoundland.

[@edgelord8337]

5:50 ah yes that one time where texas fought with Germany against the USA You know right? Honestly all the maps including Germany tend to be the most messed up and goofy looking.

[@subatenome]

I know you're joking but the map depicts Texas being part of Mexico, not being independent. Plus the map is "trying" to show only the Allies, that doesn't mean that the grey countries would be the Axis or even the Central Powers.

[@digitalizedmind1216]

@@subatenome bro it's an inside joke, just laugh and keep scrolling

[@subatenome]

@@digitalizedmind1216 I acknowledged the fact that it was a joke and I made a comment on it. No need to scold my behavior or actions. I didn't attack anyone nor am I doing anything wrong.

[@digitalizedmind1216]

@@subatenome Ok i'm not trying to be offensive because that's how i'd get you to ignore me, I just want you to know there is no point to explaining why a joke is wrong. It's not funny and most if not all of the people that read it already know

[@subatenome]

@@digitalizedmind1216 There doesn't need to be a point for me to say anything, I made a comment on the joke and that's it. I don't care if it's not funny or if most people already know the contents of my message, and that btw is a bit of an assumption on your part. Neither you nor I know how many people know or care about my comment. That is still irrelevant to this conversation since I don't care in any case.

[@thebarber4397]

1:07 He had us in the first half, not gonna lie

[@TheREDVIRUS7]

"Kuwait is absorp by Iraq" Hmmm where did I see this before 🤔

[@dorkfish1275]

The infographics show's maps are looking more terrible every day

[@MMFan2004]

Just like their content.

[@dorkfish1275]

sadly true XD

[@professorcube5104]

@@MMFan2004 they were always terrible

[@FourOf92000]

5:50 ah, yes, our most steadfast ally, the part of what is now Saudi Arabia where literally nobody lives

[@alejandropalenciano2319]

The capital (Riad) is actually there lol

[@seneca983]

It's just the part that wasn't a part of the Ottoman Empire.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Indiana/Outdiana sounds like something Romans would do.

[@Razaak666]

Bizarrely enough, I've seen another map where Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were absorbed by China. They even took the time and effort to include Liechtenstein, as well as correctly placing South Sudan.

[@Snoweagle0]

2:40 Hungary's bird

[@TheLegend1800]

I like how that last map forgets that Canada was an Ally, except for Labrador, a subsection of a province that has fewer people in it than my apartment block.

[@gabrielgodinho3187]

I think that weird US-Mexico border on the last map includes the states that Germany promised Mexico in the Zimmermann telegram. Which is also from WW1, not WW2.

[@JoeWithTheHoesBiden]

top tier ww2 map

[@officialromanhours]

hold on...

[@Robi2009]

2:07 Yay the map I send :) I knew you make good use of it ;)

[@davehill4878]

4:30 the Suez Canal tripled in with is so boats don't get stuck.

[@Cnimail]

“It’s also like 2020, in that it’s bad and has several mistakes” - EmperorTigerStar

[@aspielm759]

2:39 I watched that documentary and everytime they showed this map. I had to look away in despise and shame. How could they mess up this badly?!

[@robertjarman3703]

Also, Labrador apparently decided to declare independence from the dominion of Newfound and joined the war on it's own.

[@Dafoodmaster]

in 2012, we briefly lost terrain in our own country when we conquered mare nostrum from Neptune. never spread your windmills too thin.

[@ryshow9118]

4:40 South America do be looking kinda thicc tho

[@mohdadeeb1829]

4:35 I laughed at that joke more times as I would like to anticipate.

[@gragas8571]

3:31 . Didnt even cover the mess in the Malaya peninsula lmao.

[@hoo7797]

4:34 those earthquakes really do be hitting hard these days

[@outerspace7391]

This no one is surely a worthy sponsor, I'll make sure to try them out.

[@saldan3985]

3:58 can't believe you didn't mention the fact that half of Indonesia is missing in that.

[@freewheels7544]

1:48 it changes every year but stage 21 , the last one , alaways ends with Champ Elysees in Paris . But it remains roughly structured the same each year , 10 flat or hilly stages in northen France( or neighbouring countries ) 10 mountainish stages and the 1 flat in Paris

[@tahoangnguyen6159]

Update on that nope/10 map: The site just ditched the map entirely and removed the author's bio. Instead of a map, there's now an image of the Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

[@SaintLevantine]

5:10 love how Newfoundland seceded from Canada to join the allies.

[@kaynines5996]

Well it was actually part of the UK at the time.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

My favorite sponsor: *No one* And since when are we in Siberia? Bruh

[@christopherellis2663]

But you would be, if you could!

[@Lucas-po6mn]

These are just the rightful borders of north korea, but the western imposters unlawfully claim it

[@Vrangelrip]

You are everywhehe

[@Yeeter000]

"Kuwait is absorbed by Iraq" *Laughs in Baathist*

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@bobmarvin5693]

2:40 in this map Ukraine is also given the part of Carpathia, which belonged to Czechoslovakia until after ww2

[@dawsonsnyder2996]

2:44 I took that course last year and had that textbook. I can verify, the borders throughout the entire book were that bad. In fact, I would contest that that wasn't even the worst one in there. There was a map of colonial America that gave the United states all land up to the St. Lawrence as well as Newfoundland and Greenland.

[@applesyrupgaming]

based

[@MrsStormtrooper]

PhD dude submits that map and has his article published, and my stuff got rejected because of a grammar mistake...

[@DaZeebo]

4:53 Bruh that's the lands Germany said they'd recognize that Mexico owned on the Zimmerman Telegram

[@jopaljopal4256]

Tiger-daddy: Speaking of which this video is sponsored by- Me: oh no Tiger-daddy: *No-one*

[@europaarroyo3334]

I never thought I'd hear you even mention that the IB program even exists

[@jamesburdian56]

5:10 wwii if kaiserreich was put on speed and the ottomans were buffed 450%

[@evanreza4712]

3:10 every IB student knows that they must uphold the superiority of their program over AP while simultaneously complaining about how much worse they have it than anyone else.

[@elmooo9597]

My exact thoughts. As an IB student this is true.

[@promethiux309]

Could the map at 2:49 of Poland in 1920 be referring to the Polish invasion of Lithuanian-controlled territory, where at one point Poland invaded Vilnius?

[@8015908]

"Speakin of which, this video is sponsored by..." *Everybody sweating nervously with finger on the right arrow button "..no" *gasp, lets go of right arrow button

[@Ok-wn6nq]

1:43 Brittan: Am I a joke to you

[@jankubiak324]

3:02 Also, there was no such thing as the "General Government of Poland", it was just the General Government, run by Germans..

[@prestonjones1653]

0:50 Xi Jinping: Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!!!

[@deepspacewanderer9897]

5:33 also ukraine and belarus arent parts of USSR for some reason

[@finden3362]

Theres quite some maps where China just annex some-stans on internet Finally someone talked about that

[@JonatasAdoM]

Is it me or his Badmaps sounds like Batman? Probably only me, sorry.

[@buddy5196]

They kinda do

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

There is a city of Batman ..

[@Perririri]

There is an actual city in Turkey called Batman.

[@NithinJune]

4:12 this globe looks more like pangea rather than earth

[@JustinY.]

It's a little known fact but the first map is actually the election map for Kanye

[@InterloperBob]

Not only did the map at the end have TX, AZ and NM in Mexico (throwback, I guess??), it also didn't list Canada, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Egypt, and Finland as allies. And frankly, if your country was successfully invaded by the axis and you kept resisting, that makes you an ally. So not only is Indonesia an ally but so is most of the balkans.

[@someguysomeone3543]

Mexico in the Allies of ww2 map had the borders promised to them by the Germans lmao.

[@point_decascadia]

1:38 I guess Atlantropa succeeded in this map’s world?

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

You can’t embarrass the Ap test it’s run by the college board

[@johnburn7000]

damn, that "sponsored by noone" remark got me. you definitely produce sponsor worthy content man, keep up the awesome videos!

[@euphoric1183]

1:01 even the data is wrong. As a turk, VPN isnt banned here.

[@HD-np7eb]

Kaçak kullanıyoruz

[@euphoric1183]

@@HD-np7eb valla ben bir tane vpn uygulamasi indirdim onu kullaniyorum. Ama kacak mi degil mi bilmiyorum

[@qussarbasker]

5:13 Relax, they just love Kaiserreich

[@flametitan100]

I'm a fan of the fact that only Labrador apparently fought in WW2, and not Newfoundland or Canada.

[@EiriktheNordAndersen-ju4gl]

that's because the rest of Canada doesn't exist.

[@Panzerfan93]

2:24 that map also shows that germany envelops the rhine at the south, which is wrong, the Rhine is the border between switzerland and germany

[@ethanrepublic]

1:07 I was about to skip lol

[@Storeenzo]

I found out VPN is illegal in my country 2 hours after using it, from here.

[@Reuel-Jazwa]

2:55 oh i recognise this page! we used these books in history class

[@TheMilitantHorse]

The Allies of WW2 map was real in my friend's Hoi4 playthrough.

[@Some_guy_and_his_games]

1:12 actually VPNs are mostly legal in China

[@jas1007]

4:00 I have a globe very similar to that that I got at a garage sale for like a buck. It was so sloppy I figured it was either a beginner metalwork project or a depiction of the world at somepoint between the breakup of Pangea and the last ice age.

[@rampageblizzard]

I was expecting this to be a video on meme maps instead historically/geographically incorrect maps. No worries, I enjoyed it still! Good video.

[@tokiponafan4126]

3:14 I have the exact same globe and I have a keychain globe that has like a thousand errors more than that one, which has like 100 errors.

[@Vonellion]

The WW2 Ottoman Empire doesn't exist, it can't hurt you. The WW2 Ottoman Empire:

[@simplyacube]

4:50 Not only that, this is a template used on MapChart, a map-making map. They used the 'World - 1914' template.

[@jaojao1768]

5:00 could this be a "German victory in WW1" alternate history map?

[@goyomain0774]

Okay but can we talk about how the map at 3:31 has Cambodia spelled as “Camboia”?

[@JagerLange]

That first map looks (from the typeface) a lot like something from the UK Mirror or Express papers. Haven't seen a copy of either in so long that I can't pin it down, though.

[@kotzpenner]

Speaking of VPNs, this video is sponsored by No one Absolute legend lmao

[@johngao2485]

5:50 search up "three worlds ep 5" and you can see that us-mexican border later in the video

[@toxic_shr00m]

Seeing how this was in my recommended, I was 100% expecting this to be either GMod or TF2 lmao

[@bobmarvin5693]

3:55 both parts of Malaysia are show in different colours too

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@user6122]

ok so this ha been bugging me for a while multiple years in fact is your name based off of the warrior fascist cat or is it entirely separate, also i forgot if i had already asked this it is 2 am i am in physical pain

[@guy0111]

no

[@themediabros]

3:28 are we going to ignore the fact that Greece is literally a giant peninsula

[@caseygraham]

I like that your channel is named after one of the most famous and devious characters/villains in the Warriors series.

[@adewin1955]

2:08 Also Luxembourg is apparently a big lake because it's the same color as the ocean and has no name on it. Also it shows Scotland, as if it was an independent nation at the time or something.