The Decline of History Channel

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Following up on my last video, about Netflix's Tiger King, this week we look at the history of... History Channel! Studying what happened to this station which used to be so revered. From Modern Marvels to Ancient Aliens, we study the shows that have made History anything from renowned to infamous. Get 65% off using my code QUINTON65 at GlassesUSA.com here bit.ly/Quinton-GlassesUSA + free shipping to US & Canada (Receive free basic lenses, premium and marked down frames excluded) Aliens Don’t Like White People Merch ➱ www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/47209297?ref=studio-promote My Twitter ➱ twitter.com/Q_Review My Patreon ➱ www.patreon.com/QReview

[@skibidibap4411]

I can imagine you saying this completely stone faced.

[@jezzyj9892]

love u quinton

[@nolimits3117]

Oh my word welcome to my life! Subscribed *

[@marine3300]

How about you follow up with an episode about bigfoot titties.

[@googamp32]

YES to Bigfoot video!

[@dustinbrock6670]

I got my degree in anthropology and the first thing that my archeology professor told us was “ignore all that bullshit on the history channel. If you write anything about aliens I’m failing you”

[@dasboom7133]

So they’ve taken over the schools to say that aliens don’t exist? Nice try big Bigfoot industry! Your lies will be exposed!

[@stephanj306]

Lol, that's immediately what I thought of too. My arch prof *immediately* brought up Ancient Aliens and spent like a whole class session on how it's incredibly racist.

[@NugicusStreetPhotography]

In the archaeology class I was in we'd sometimes troll the professor by asking him obviously stupid questions like "are those the temples where the ufo's landed?"

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

Good professor.

[@NugicusStreetPhotography]

One little thing to add: one of my collage professors was on this show. Her name was prof Sabina Maggliocco. She teaches anthropology and folklore studies.

[@beesknees4178]

Don’t you just love how everyone in Ancient Aliens can’t even fathom that ancient cultures had a different religion?

[@nenmaster5218]

Question: Know Sci Man Dan, the Science Man?

[@AgentSteffi]

And apparently languages and writing are bonkers as well. Because which culture has writing, am I right fellas?

[@dracocrusher]

All religion is basically just one kid asks where people go when they die and people have to make up a story for it, but because countless generations pass everyone forgets it's fake and just buys it unironically. "You see, Billy, when we die there's a god and..." "What is it?" "Oh, it's... ehh... a sky snake? Sure. And it carries your soul in its mouth to heaven, where everything is good." Ancient Aliens: "IS THIS FLYING SERPENT MISUNDERSTOOD TECHNOLOGY?!" "You see, these ancient people were being abducted and instead of giving any specifics or details around that at all they all just chose to describe UFOs as sky serpents!"

[@missmoxie9188]

Yesssss

[@giancosheridan1490]

@@AgentSteffi nah, it’s people trying to interpret what the Egyptian wrote on the walls

[@YellowCapeInvincible]

What I found hilarious about Ancient Aliens is that they said “The Mayans disappeared completely off the face of the Earth” and they were claiming Aliens or the “Mayan Gods” took them away to live with them to another planet, like what? They Mayans are still alive today in the millions in Mexico and Guatemala. They didn’t go anywhere. They are still here.

[@SisterGertrude842]

@@ramenlover1727 true, I watched the season finale of like sesson 2 and a woman whos father and friends found the gold brought it home and made them rich brought proof and said there is no more was discredited and they are still digging and have found nothing. Like the ark of the covenant is more likely in the vatican than some random island with a weird chamber.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

They all became a biker gang. There's a show about them on tv.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

@Tiago Ferreira sad but true lol.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

@Tiago Ferreira they give off a certain energy. Obviously Mayans had help from ancient astronauts to build motorcycles and learn to drive them.

[@hardlo7146]

Same thing happened in Wonder Woman 2. They too claimed the Mayans has vanished mysteriously lol

[@Amber-di4vg]

My personal favorite Ancient Aliens moment was when they said aliens were responsible for sushi. This is not a joke. This was a real episode. Edit: my most popular comment ever on KZbin is about alien sushi. Amazing.

[@BrianGriffinW]

What episode is it

[@karanaher5030]

There was a time they called Shiva an alien and when they asked the locals they didn't get a response, instead she just passive aggressively stared at them.

[@Dave-ds2ek]

@@karanaher5030 is y you ffyy

[@joew1865]

What you think stupid humans really invented sushi? PERHAPS impossible.

[@Lumberjack_king]

Lol for aliens that supposedly created humans that seems so beneath them

[@bldhf]

how could the aliens have POSSIBLY developed this technology on their own? they must have gotten them from OTHER aliens!

[@flyingcapsicum]

Ancient Humans confirmed

[@dwighttheislander7369]

But where did the other OTHER aliens get theirs???

[@lancerguy3667]

@@dwighttheislander7369 is there an unending chain of aliens providing technological secrets to other aliens?

[@jimmisdoomed6001]

I read this while it played and it was the funniest shit ever

[@jimbo5276]

@@dwighttheislander7369 it must've been from GOD

[@punkrckr6889]

"They can't prove themselves right, but I can't prove them wrong" kinda perfectly sums up the most frustrating aspect of every conspiracy theory.

[@suzanneclark7706]

Except for the moon landing one, that one has been proven false “Adam Ruins Everything: Why the Moon Landing Couldn’t Have Been Faked”

[@youradhere3476]

Most popular conspiracy theories can be and have been proven wrong - the hard part is getting believers to accept the proof as anything other than fabrications that prove the existence of a cover-up.

[@suzanneclark7706]

@@youradhere3476 point taken

[@slicedegg6992]

@@youradhere3476 Unfortunately, our brains are actually very good at going through hoops just to prove ourselves right. You prove them wrong and they instantly come up with another conspiracy for how you can disprove that conspiracy. Suddenly you’re a government agent or something like that. Tom Scott talks about that in his very short video on the Bielefeld conspiracy.

[@SeekerLancer]

That's what makes the burden of proof so important. It's their job to prove their nonsense is true, not your job to prove it isn't.

[@WeirdWonderful]

It gets me how this one guy says it's naturally impossible for a society to develop writing on their own when that is literally how ALL writing had been independently developed, all over the world.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

21:27 for timestamp and exactly what I was yelling in my brain! How on earth can you argue humans are incapable of coming up with writing, when humans literally came up with writing. 😑😑😑

[@RillianGrant]

Don't they claim it's aliens? Isn't that the whole point?

[@thunderspark1536]

@@RillianGrant Well we see languages develop on their own even in the modern day. Like you could use just images of memes to communicate if you really wanted to, so saying aliens developed language (especially one as stupid as English) it's silly

[@enotsnavdier6867]

​@@RillianGrant How did the aliens get writing? Other aliens?

[@eliasmg9144]

Exactly. If anything, had the aliens visited us and had they shared their speaking and writing language with us, would we all collectively have a similar speaking and writing style than the rest of the world? If not the same style? Are this guys implying that the aliens purposely taught us different languages in different locations? Or that the earth was visited by multiple alien species, all with their own language and typography? This show really destroys anyone's brain

[@kuri3494]

I remember when I first heard somebody explain that the phrase "We don't know how the pyramids were built!" just means "we don't have enough proof to say for sure which exact tools and methods were used" and NOT "we have no idea how they could have possibly been built" I think about that now every time I hear about some scientific "mystery". Conspiracy theorists love to twist normal scientific inquiry into some out there crazy thing.

[@yltraviole]

On behalf of all autistic people everywhere: I really want to congratulate train guy on living the dream.

[@creativepseudonym9872]

He likes trains. 🚂

[@deereye87]

Train guy is out here living his best life

[@tugmylantern4244]

As a fellow autistic person, i agree.

[@stanstorm]

i just wanna be train guy. kool public transportation is dooooope

[@daphnerogers4277]

PREACH

[@federicovolpe3389]

the virgin history channel vs the CHAD golf channel

[@thefricking5407]

Imagine losing to some guy playing golf

[@EchoHeo]

saluton!

[@igloo8159]

I see a man of culture

[@toadfromthat90smariotvshow93]

Mi vidas kulturulon

[@rhinomonster6765]

Yep

[@voidify3]

2020 quinton: I cut out a few topics into their own video because they would have made the video an hour long 2022 quinton: here's an 8 hour video about the second half of victorious

[@Levi_Parish]

This is hilarious

[@Cat-fz1uu]

Wait until you find out about 2023/4 Quinton

[@forbiddenchannel4901]

Non-European Civilizations: (Exists) History Channel: Coincidence? I THINK NOT

[@bradjarvis4963]

I just though these were harmless nuts trying to keep their bills paid but my heart dropped when you started talking about the irreparable damage they have done to actual archeological sites

[@KittyPieVibes]

I remember my 6th grade history teach out on a documentary about a frozen caveman found in ice once. In one of the clips one of the archeologists is seen carelessly tossing an artifact to the side (it ended up broken) and I remember my teacher pausing the video to tell us a real archeologist would never do something like that

[@jlirving]

Imho they've done nothing to sites of significant worth.

[@Amberrogers]

@@jlirving I mean who are you to decide what a site of significant worth is? To archeologists, it's ALL important.

[@jlirving]

@@Amberrogers Sometimes a rock is just a rock. It's ludicrous all these simps are acting like they're running around defiling the next Rosetta Stone. I don't think some stupid show has done THAT much damage, happy to be wrong I think it's just being blown out of proportion.

[@Amberrogers]

@@jlirving but at archeologically important sites that are still being excavated and worked on, literally everything is important

[@PingasMonkey3rdClass]

“The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” -George Orwell

[@timmyturner327]

Good quote.

[@jirojhasuo2ndgrandcompany745]

@@timmyturner327 a quote from a leftist too. good stuff.

[@JaymeSplendid]

I mean, If one is relying on TV to get their history then there is already some major problems going on...

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@Gupster 23 Don't worry 95% of the people who use the term "orwellian" haven't either. Which really sucks for Orwell because he hated conservatives (the ones constantly using the term nowadays) and terms that are used to cover broad ideas without adding much descriptive value. And yes, I have learned more about Orwell himself than his works (I did read Animal Farm though, 6/10.)

[@Tu_ta_lu]

As true as it ever was.

[@NeODeLeuX]

I gotta say as a Geologist, what people in these programs say and do bring me both extreme joy and sadness. Can't believe people can delude themselves to such degree as to ruin the topographical features of an area because "hills do be looking like pyramids tho" or straight up actually destroying pieces from our cultural heritage of humanity because "ayy lmaooos"

[@JamesWillmus]

Also a geologist. My guess is experts like the geo guy was giving sensible answers (such as living creatures and inorganic rock are made up of elements that originated early in the history of the universe) but the 5 second clip is taken from that interview and mashed into the show.

[@NeODeLeuX]

@@JamesWillmus I believe the same thing, they just over edit and take out of context whatever they want to make their program more "watchable" instead of factual.

[@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat]

@@NeODeLeuX Quite a few scientists of various stripes have come out saying that Ancient Aliens completely removed the context of their comments to make it look like they agreed with the theory.

[@raekat8470]

As an anthropology student, watching you dunk on ancient aliens brought me peace.

[@cortc3177]

Okay. So many people that have PHDs that actually go to these locations and made this stuff their life’s work have started to lean towards at least some of the stuff the show is saying, even more so today. This is outside of the show. Also stone masons, engineers, mathematicians, etc. say this stuff goes beyond just “people had time” or imaginations. But hey watching this stuff as a student gives you peace so my comments here are self explanatory by this point.

[@qwer9676]

looks like you offended the racist alienologist

[@Zoe-gp4uv]

One of my history professors was tricked into being on Ancient Aliens and he hates that they used his footage. He says History Channel just came to talk to him about Chinese gun powder and did not tell him what show his interview would be used for. He’s extremely embarrassed about it and warns every historian about working with the History Channel.

[@sayjinpat4life]

In his profession. Having a show portray him like that. Can have many doors closed on him. Those jobs are very serious. Base on fact. And revising old information that needs to be changed. That's really messed up.

[@Elsenoromniano]

@mule vpn Is not threatening people, is not being taking seriously and not because you don't conform, but because you are tied to a show that contradicts all the ethics in your profession. Academics have to adhere to very high standards of honesty (always citing your sources, not making unfounded claims, not presenting opinions as facts) and these shows spit on those standards often be if not outright lying, bending the truth or misrepresenting opinions to fit their narrative, so of course institutions are weary of people who appear in those shows. To put into perspective if like saying that being weary of contracting a known unrrepented fraudster as an account is discrimination.

[@boundary2580]

mule vpn I imagine not that much.

[@ELJason2006]

I love the crazy guy with the weird hair so crazy yet so funny

[@veganmonter]

​@mule vpn So experts shouldn't have standards and accountability? I am not sure what your premise is.

[@higashikatajosuke9324]

Aztecs: "Oh boy, playing this ball game sure is fun." New-age woo peddlers: *"Hm yes the procession of the cosmos"*

[@alexs5744]

Honestly the new agers are like the Conquistadors. They bastardize and destroy everything they see and touch. Same with conspiracy nutters.

[@bernebelmont1857]

Volleyball will mean some serious shit in a couple hundred years

[@allymog5228]

@@bernebelmont1857 you see, the ball represents the spirit of the earth, while the net represents string theory. The ritual of volleyball is used to symbolise the passage of time as the planets move around the space-time net and hit humans (representations of ancient aliens) who play will the ball to represent how aliens(human players) play with humans (volleyball)

[@mayo8776]

Aztecs: "Oh boy‚ playing this ball game sure is fun. I just hope we don't lose and get sacrificed to the gods".

[@puncass]

Ok, not to lend credence to the A L I E N S at all, but it's not a stretch to say ball game = just innocuous fun overlooks things. The Popol Vuh, the text that recounts the quasi-historical/mythological story of the K'iche' people, one of the Maya peoples, links the ball game to human sacrifice. The Myth of the Hero Twins links the game to death as well. And there have been compelling arguments that the game was played to avoid or as proxy warfare, or a rigged game might be played against prisoners of war leading to execution. I will not pretend I am an expert by any means and as Quentin points out, we should be skeptical of biases, but the general modern archeological consensus would give the ball game more signifigance than just a game. I will absolutely back down if someone wants to come at me with some decent evidence to the contrary, or point out biases from the translators. The real issue is Ancient Aliens seeing "x item that has cultural signifigance" and claiming that aliens out here because they have a belief system at all.

[@thelongestrose]

I'm surprised you didn't talk about The Curse of Oak Island, which is a show all about destroying archaeological sites in search of proof of a treasure story that's been debunked 30 times over

[@ZeroGDucks]

That's kinda what bothers me more about the show 😅 There's artifacts showing people were settling/trading there well before Columbus was born, fundamentally challenging the traditional story of the New World's discovery. But no, let's focus on a hypothetical pile of gold 😑

[@highjumpstudios2384]

@@ZeroGDucks to be fair, they do put those Artifacts into the oak island museum, but they don't focus on that part of history. At the very least they've attempted to be far less destructive than the last people who were looking for treasure.

[@masterseal0418]

Holy shit, it's that same show my father likes unironically! He didn't stop watching I know!

[@ShabazzTBL]

Clever how they got the geologist saying “Rocks and us are made of essentially the same thing.” Which doesn’t mean they’re alive, then they took that and spun it haha.

[@santiagoo.8958]

it's also blatantly untrue, most rocks are made from silicates and metal oxides, and living things are mostly made from carbon oxygen hidrogen and nitrogen. yes we have trace minerals like iron and calcium but it's not like you can rearrange a rock into a living thing or viceversa.

[@ShabazzTBL]

@@santiagoo.8958 it’s crazy how people will just believe it too.

[@mabhatter4294]

@@santiagoo.8958 Indeed, save for oxygen there is very little crossover with Aluminium, oxygen and silicon being the most abundant element in the earths crust, while we have carbon, hydrogen and (can't remember if it oxygen, nitrogen, but oxygen makes me think it makes more sense)

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Yeah I caught that - truly ridiculous. We're all made of atoms...therefore, everything made of atoms is like us - alive! 🤦

[@ShabazzTBL]

@@sorryifoldcomment8596 that’s how you lie to folks.

[@sophiagoodman-merel7453]

As a Jewish person, the amount of times this show has written Hebrew backwards is so ridiculous and upsetting

[@natestern2021]

Thank God someone noticed

[@CherriNGT]

ikr

[@michaelboydston313]

Pfft, HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, ARE YOU SERIOUS? MY GOD THAT IS FUCKING HILARIOUS

[@GoliathFish75]

That "show" is 100% racist and stupid.

[@mickeyray3793]

How would any non-Jewish person be expecred to know? If Chinese was printed backwards, would YOU know it?

[@zxylo786]

"Ancient Aliens is set up like a MatPat video". LMFAO

[@TeeOhh12]

Lol I DIED 😂 FNAF flashbacks

[@irgendwer3610]

after all, Sans is Ness

[@KertaDrake]

​@@TeeOhh12 I'm not saying it was robot ghosts... but it was robot ghosts.

[@dosito86]

I fkn love matpat

[@HIMMBelljuvo]

The shade felt around the world lol

[@carnuatus]

Thank you for consistently addressing how history, especially in the US is anesthetized and reduced to simple terms to the point that so many adults don't know the whole story. I'm forever thankful that my elementary school teacher recognized I was a super empathetic kid and actively encouraged me to read the Dear America books. Most of them were from the perspective enslaved black and indigenous children. There was one that was specifically about the Trail of Tears. For that reason, Andrew Jackson will forever be a despicable monster to me.

[@FirstnameLastname-he1ov]

I was really into history growing up, so I loved those books back when I was younger! I don't remember them all now well enough to name many specific ones, or say how accurate they were, but I do think they helped me to learn more about the different perspectives of history that are often ignored in our textbooks. I think those were the first time I'd ever heard about residential schools.

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

But he was a complicated man, most "brilliant men" are!

[@oldasyouromens]

​​@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Mao Zedong was "complicated" and certainly brilliant. Stalin was "complicated and brilliant". Henry VIII was "complicated and brilliant". COMPLICATED, BRILLIANT PEOPLE ARE STILL MASS MURDERERS. THESE PEOPLE HAD THE POWER TO COMMIT GENOCIDE AND THEY DID IT. They killed MILLIONS of people with their policies. there's little complexity here except the fact they were human. I fucking hate Ancient Aliens. as an anthropology student, it makes my life so damn hard and we have to constantly combat not academics, but mass media and non-academics who like to demonize what we do. We only focus on what we can prove with absolute certainty, like Quinton says - and all of this mass media crap hiding the perfectly reasonable science is incredibly racist to people of colour.

[@ciphergacha9100]

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 most people are complicated

[@thunderspark1536]

@@ciphergacha9100 *Everyone is. If you live long enough to make it to adulthood, yet alone become recognizable enough to be in a history book, you got a lot of interesting (and horrifying) stuff going on. Hell, we can even look at Hitler's upbringing and see the reasons for his beliefs.

[@adumbooctopus1115]

I remember being hyperfixated on this show when I was little, I took everything as fact. My dad would record episodes for me to watch and I would be telling everyone at school that aliens were real and this was why. One quote I remember exactly, from the guy who me and my dad called "Crazy Hair Guy", is what really sticks out to me. "Everything we know about the world...is wrong!" This show is literally engineered to have people believe this bullshit wholeheartedly by convincing you that your world view is just completely incorrect

[@andresocegueda4178]

"Crazy hair guy "how dare you sir the man's name is Giorgio

[@MyNextTrickLoL]

Native Americans don't have beards Me, stroking my beard: Hmmm. Interesting.

[@DavidVillaTorre]

Native americans don't have beards, the expert said so. You obviously had alien DNA mixed in your genomes or something.

[@alivrah]

Keith Knox better not connect his brain with Easter Island’s stone heads’ WiFi or the aliens will come back to Earth

[@ReadObituaries]

Keith Knox my ex was 1/2 lumbee and he couldnt grow a beard. A goatee and mustache, yes. He also had long hair- but he couldn’t grow anything on his cheeks. Most native Americans I know can’t. Same with chest hair, tho my ex had a small amount.

[@MyNextTrickLoL]

@@ReadObituaries I don't grow much chest hair, but with my mix of blood I can grow a beard and moustache.

[@Xondar11223344]

Yep, the Indigenous people I know who have beards will be surprised when I tell them this.

[@ohimork2284]

It sucks that we can’t just have a modern show that explores and appreciates ancient cultures for what they are. I find the technology and ingenuity of those cultures far more interesting than blanketing everything under “iT MuSt Be AlieNs.”

[@lazydelibird]

@My names Jeff You also don't go to the history channel for history.

[@mothsanchez944]

For real. So so many ancient cultures were wildly advanced, especially when comparing them to what we were taught in school and on the History channel.

[@KristinkaAranova]

@@mothsanchez944 yep. Like the fact that we weren’t just hunter gatherers 1200 years ago, we were building pyramids

[@muhamadsayyidabidin3906]

@@KristinkaAranova uhh, 1200 years ago means 800 A.D. at the Viking age (or early middle ages, dark ages it's essentially the same) lol

[@KristinkaAranova]

@@muhamadsayyidabidin3906 lol I meant 12,000

[@synchronizedelbow5702]

"This is the equivalent of reading through ancient religion and arguing that each and every one, was just Jesus in a wig messing with people." The idea of a bald Jesus being chased outta India yelling "It's just a prank, bro" now lives in my head rent-free.

[@erkl8823]

No, the conspiracy theories about that are just the opposite, they like to say *Jesus* is just "rah" or "amun" or whatever crap in disguise. So you've got it a bit backwards with your analogy here...

[@synchronizedelbow5702]

@@erkl8823 So they just debunk any original religious figure of an indigenous race has with their own interstellar belief, right? Still sounds disingenuous of something from a supposed "History" Channel.

[@kappacat2506]

imagine being that good of an architect, making future people think that "ancient aliens" were the ones behind your work. arguably one of the biggest compliments that anyone can get tbh.

[@quynlanvuorensyrja5484]

Or it would be, if not for the fact the reasoning behind the assumption is “these people were way too stupid to have done any of this on their own! Obviously their gods were just aliens who built all this stuff for them for some reason.”

[@harmreductionman4474]

It is truly the equivalent of the "bruh you're hacking" accusation in a video game or "obvious Photoshop" comment when you post a thirst trap pic on Instagram

[@RankStankulon]

Ah yes, credit for your work being given to somebody else. Truly one of the compliments of all time

[@thunderspark1536]

@@RankStankulon And that's why we have watermarks these days

[@DrMadd]

I’ve actually worked on one of these kind of shows, the one I worked on was about first responders recounting paranormal experiences they’ve had. The real interesting part of these shows that you don’t see is the editors struggle to turn these people’s insane rambling into any sort of concrete point.

[@NankitaBR]

I would watch a show about that.

[@LLL124Original]

Now that is interesting.

[@siy202]

If it was the one on the discovery channel i used to watch the shit out of that.

[@DSDaly]

I read this article by this guy who said one of those paranormal shows ruined his life. I believe it was the show A Haunting or something like that. His family just had the usual strange bumps in the night, nothing's special. But they called the show and they agreed to come. So the people working for the show made up a lot of crazy stuff. They basically made the guy into a satanist and people in his town never looked at him the same. I'll have to see if I can find that article

[@mylifeisadumpsterfire5194]

Wait whats the shows name?

[@aspentheeh4386]

My grandfather watches Ancient Aliens for the soul fact he finds it hilarious.

[@laurenberck55]

Your grandfather and I have something in common

[@OfficerDva444]

It is indeed very funny, dat guy with the hair tho :P

[@AtemiRaven]

Sounds like a pretty chill dude. Would love to share a beer on a patio.

[@leolunchbox4543]

My parents watch it to fall asleep.

[@karlallspach5309]

Soul porpoise, sole purpose. Engrish shminglish.

[@nat-coffeebat]

my personal favorite ancient aliens moment is when they made a whole episode about how cephalopods must be aliens bc their way of evolution is slightly different

[@alyssaanderson576]

my archeology professor was in an episode of ancient aliens about Rapa Nui. He was at an archeology conference and they offered him 20 bucks and a sandwich to film a segment. He had no idea what the show was and he was heavily misquoted, but its still really funny lol

[@irgendwer3610]

This video was too advanced for Quinton to have made it, I am not saying anything but it just resonates a lot of energy and I think Quinton knows it, could it be possible that this isn't Quinton at all? I mean, it looks like him and sounds like him, but with enough technology you could fake anyone, artificial intelligence isn't quite there yet but it's getting close. The answer to that is a quite astounding yes, it's absolutely possible that an alien from the future could have used advanced technology to travel back in time and hijack his channel, if you think about it, they would have a lot of motivation to do so, because they can use his channel to fool people into thinking aliens don't exist so they can continue to build pyramid a while longer. Aliens also need wifi you know

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Yeah, honestly this video is too good to be Quinton's work. It has to be aliens!

[@samuelschmitt853]

Agreed

[@katatat2030]

Yes, this channel does have an energetic quality. I could feel it immediately

[@dude9318]

oke

[@umsurejan8388]

let’s not forget his glasses. i feel like they’re a misinterpretation of visual enhancements techologically advanced civilisations used, but the question still stands: are these visual enhancements gifts from said civilisations? possibly, yes.

[@bigdaddy5156]

Just like that one meme said : Just because white people didn't make it, doesn't mean it was aliens

[@imperfectly_megan]

That's the saying I would love to see on a t-shirt.

[@FALLOUT20rads]

dumpster.

[@MaterialMenteNo]

Sadly, the meme actually said "couldn't make it". Your version is the most correct, the original was really dumb.

[@thaconnection8201]

There are plenty of things white people have made that are so ahead of their time people have pondered whether aliens were involved with it.

[@bigdaddy5156]

@@thaconnection8201 but people speculate that the pyramids came from aliens but did white people make that. No people of all colours have made and produced things that look futuristic, not just white people

[@brewski118sempire]

In the 90's the history channel, discovery, and animal planet shaped my life and view of the world. They made me curious about things. They helped spark my love of science. They literally played a huge part of who I have become as a person. It breaks my heart that it has become a cesspool. But I'm also hearted by how much great science and educational media there is on KZbin.

[@catarinaverduro2966]

that vague concept of "energy", bad energy, good energy etc is the prime example of new age pseudocience bs. if these people just accepted this stuff is a spiritual belief they have there would be no problem but they keep insisting there's some link to actual science. you tell them there's no such thing as good energy and bad energy and they'll react as if you're questioning the very physical phenomenon of energy.

[@coolieo2222]

I think neil degras tyson said it best "yea its a show about white people saying that ancient brown people were stupid and needed massive assistance "

[@riley8385]

Man, I miss the time when Neil DeGrasse Tyson was coherent.

[@MrJoebrooklyn1969]

Who was brown?

[@karanssharma]

@@MrJoebrooklyn1969 Indians, Egyptians, Mayans, Incans and Mesopotamians. Most of the ancient civilizations were.

[@coolieo2222]

@@MrJoebrooklyn1969 Egyptians, Mayans, Aztecs, Native Americans, Rapa Gui (they made the easter island heads) I could go on

[@Alex_Barbosa]

They also talk about ancient Rome Greece and the Jews and Christians. All of which American civilization takes inspiration from. I don't know why everything has to be brought down to racism.

[@ettorebus811]

A friend of my family was interviewed for the Sardinia episode of ancient aliens, he said he didn't even know what exactly they were asking him or what the show was. All the questions were bizarre and unclear, the script was vague and the crew never specified the name of the show. They even quoted him when he said that the Sciardana were incredibly advanced and that the Monte Prama giants are one of the biggest mysteries of archeology. He meant this regarding the huge problem that the Italian government does not give enough funds to fully research nuragic culture and the Monte Prama civilization, they are mysteries not because the ÆlîënS did it, but because sardinians do not have the money and resources to research fully their history. Ancient aliens could have brought attention to actually interesting archeological sites and instead tricked local experts into saying bullshit.

[@allnaturalfigjam310]

Aw, that's a sad mystery :(

[@whisperingwillow8271]

Ecco, gli alieni sardi mi mancavano

[@icrissa]

I live in Sardinia and watched that episode! It's weird to see them speculate on an argument that I'm more familiar with, they really can slip aliens into anything eh 😂

[@zealousdoggo]

Oh my god this makes me so angry because if they did actually good reporting on this history they could make a vested interest in Sardinian history which I have never once seen in a history book ever not even a history book about Italy. They could have gotten more funding and expertise to uncover more of the history but instead they decided hah aliens and robbed us of making actual historical discoveries

[@nonsononessunooko4066]

dio can

[@pancakes8670]

The MatPat comparison if very justified imo, because what a lot of people don't remember is that Game Theory actually began as a parody of Conspiracy Theorists. It... still is. If anyones actually watched his videos they know he's very ironic.

[@greenarchetype]

Yeah there's no harm in MatPats theories. The ancient alien stuff in the other hand has some detremental consequences

[@razorback8300]

One of the funniest moment was when they ask the question if “ but was the cowboy vs aliens movie inspired by historical events ? “

[@Jekyllstein_Gray]

"Backyardagains Archaeology" is an insult to the Backyardagains.

[@kyokuslaps2411]

Fr at least the backyardigans tried to teach us true events not trying to spin shit into folkore

[@kitts4879]

Backyardigans was pretty dope

[@jaimeg309]

Agreed, it my childhood

[@codycox2272]

@@kitts4879 it was my shit

[@marymccann3500]

The Backyardigans are children having fun, not adults trying to be taken seriously.

[@mojavefry2617]

It’s so stupefyingly bigoted to say that non-Europeans could not figure out math, writing and engineering that I am shocked it’s allowed on national television.

[@WeirdTale]

Actually, they said the same things about European peoples. If anything that show is a complete insult to the entire capacity of human ingenuity, and ambition and at some point it will piss you off.

[@skeleletonboi4533]

especially cause modern day math is generally agreed to have not been invented by Europeans (assuming I've been taught correctly)

[@mojavefry2617]

@@skeleletonboi4533 It’s a bit more complicated than “some culture invented modern math.” Modern mathematics, like every broad field of human endeavor, is the end-result of centuries upon centuries of cultures building off of the achievements of the ones before them, information spreading via many means (usually trade or religious missionaries) and being tinkered with by numerous individuals. Modern mathematics can be traced back to the mathematics of the Ancient World, which was collated by Greek mathematicians working off of what Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations developed, adding some of their own improvements and ideas. Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, many of the Greco-Roman mathematical treatises would eventually be translated into Arabic and Persian, where the next major phase of mathematics began. Critical to this was a breakthrough development of the concept of zero by the people of India, sometime shortly before or after the beginning of the first century AD. Arab merchants realizing the usefulness of the numeral for trade and calculations, it then spread around the Muslim World throughout the Middle Ages, and at some point in the later Middle Ages the improvements made by scholars throughout the Muslim world were introduced to Europe via Spain, Italy and France. Then next major phase in the proper study of mathematics then began, with various influential mathematicians such as Descartes and Newton making significant strides. For most of the 17th-19th centuries most significant mathematical breakthroughs were the product of the labors of European or American mathematicians, but since the start of the 20th century nearly everywhere with a halfway decent education system produces mathematicians who continuously work together in the common goal of advancing the study of mathematics and how they can be used to further other areas of study.

[@t.s9021]

@@mojavefry2617 I suppose a lot of that comes down to who happens to be the global hegemon at the time; you've a lot more spare time to think about non-essential things like math when you have a economically powerful, wealthy society that doesn't necessarily need your labor specifically to continue - it's a lot easier for some rich British empire type to sit around Oxford solving theoretical problems than some contemporaneous subject of that empire, who must work like a slave merely to survive - and to provide the luxury that the former person enjoys. Greece and Rome being comparitively economically developed and well equipped compared to, say, Germanic hunter-gatherers allowed more labor to be spent thinking, rather than looking for food. Then of course intercontinental trade took off and the Islamic golden age began, allowing them to develop algebra (the clue's in the name) and other concepts. It reminds me of a line from one of Bertolt Brecht's songs "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" about the struggle for survival of the working classes: "Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral", which basically translates to "First feed us, then you can talk about morality"

[@mojavefry2617]

@@t.s9021 That does seem true to a large degree, but it doesn’t really explain everything. A lot of great mathematical breakthroughs from the Greek world came about during times of incredible upheaval in the wake of the Wars of the Successors (the century of fighting between Alexander’s generals and their descendants). Archimedes made his great breakthroughs when his homeland was in the midst of civil war, and later Roman conquest. Most examples not from early modern Europe don’t have the same context of most of the war happening away from home. So while it is indeed part of the answer, it does not answer every question of “why x developments in y location at z point in history.”

[@allnaturalfigjam310]

Aww, look at baby Quinton, worried his video would be over an hour long!

[@La_Criatura_UwU]

As a mexican (and a souther from a rural town with very heavy indigenous culture and presence) history channel just feels like a hate discurse enveloped under lots of dumb mysticism.

[@The5lacker]

"Aliens don't like white people" was NOT a take I was expecting to hear today and I must say, it is SPICY.

[@dasboom7133]

Especially illegal aliens!

[@evamiller4886]

It must be why they always attack the White House and Big Ben in movies

[@samcotter6236]

We don’t like us either

[@sebbee8240]

@Shadow Skull ya kno how the whole iq measuring systems kinda flawed anyways so the whole genetically higher iq thing doesnt actually mean anything

[@starsparkle78]

@Shadow Skull That is the most racist whitest thing I have ever heard.

[@slyfox7452]

Energy is just them saying magic without actually saying magic

[@NayrAnur]

And what's worse is that they didn't bring with them seismographs or Geiger counters or anything of the sort to determine what kind of energy are they picking up. But then again, that would be too much work on their part.

[@M1GarandMan3005]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/en6QhqGMbrl4sLs

[@dx1450]

Yep, I think you've decoded wacko speak. Besides, "energy" can mean anything they want it to mean, and to the rubes they're trying to convince it sounds good.

[@vickielawson3114]

@Ueu Ch. Haha. Exactly!

[@TheGabrielryu]

@Ueu Ch. The funniest thing is that they actually did this, I still remember their episode of the wizard merlin being an alien

[@FurikoMaru]

As a pagan, my favourite part of Ancient Aliens is the episode where the memelord says "They couldn't be gods, because we know gods don't exist." Like, thanks for making me look less crazy by comparison, dude. At least when I believe shit with no proof it's not "STARGATE IS LITERALLY REAL LIFE," it's just "human consciousness is really weird and so is our relationship with time."

[@ARedMagicMarker]

I said peace-out to the history channel when they started talking about "maybe" mermaids existing. And that's bad, because I grew up LOVING mermaids.

[@Hanon16]

As not only an archeologist but a Chilean one who spent all my life studying south american history, the footage of the people using the saw to cut this ancient items HURT MY SOUL! I mean, when I have to scrape a pot to collect sediment samples, I feel terrible because I am "damaging" historical material...and they are CUTING THEM WITH A SAW ;OOO;

[@publioaurelioperonciniano3403]

I'm just disgusted, I was kinda mad at my neighbours when I was a kid because they sometimes took pieces of ancient cargo amphoras and shards of medieval pottery from their fields when they were ploughing them. But yeah, apparently people just straight up destroy artefacts with power tools in their free time

[@FukaiKokoro]

There should be certain protections against the destruction of historic artifacts and ancient history.

[@raphaelc7653]

They are so aweonaos it hurts

[@estebanmorales6487]

@@FukaiKokoro There are. Enforcing them is the difficult part.

[@WorldWokeApeCult]

It's a destructive science...I don't mind taking things apart if it will help us learn more about the past.

[@noelleross2125]

"art depicting people coming out of CLOUDS" bruh maybe they just didnt wanna draw the legs???

[@Catkeeper]

Right? Feet are fucking hard to draw, man.

[@wadespencer3623]

@@Catkeeper Just ask Liefeld, bet he wishes he could draw everybody on clouds.

[@LnPPersonified]

Like how when I was a kid, I'd draw horses in profile so I could just draw one front leg and one hind leg, because I didn't want to try to draw all four. That doesn't mean I thought horses only had two legs, jeez.

[@sycastells1212]

Yeah what idiots. There aren't any clouds in space.

[@DuelistKoi93]

Hot Take: Rob Liefeld was actually appropriating ancient civilization's art all along

[@imsomewhatcertain1024]

My father is very ‘no nonsense’ when it comes to television and documentaries. He used to be a History Channel addict until Ancient Aliens came out.

[@Jmorris3265]

I actually remember really enjoying ancient aliens, not because I believed they were correct but because I literally couldn’t find any other shows talking about many of the cultures and regions of the world they claimed aliens had a hand in. Specifically Meso- and Latin-America. Where else could I as a kid with basic cable and no internet experience the carving of King Pacal or see cool temple excavation sites? I knew it was full of shit but it was fun. It never occurred to me that this was anything else but a quirky look at history and I didn’t think anyone really believed in what they were saying. I guess I was giving people too much credit.

[@kashiichan]

I was similar. I wanted to see the frescoes and interesting building structures and different religious iconography etc, and for a long time, shows like this were the only way I could do it. Even then I largely ignored the presenting person; for episodes I'd seen before I'd often mute the tv and just look at the video.

[@lennongrad13]

I like how the Aztecs are considered “ancient” but if you called Hernan Cortez an “ancient Spanish conquistador” people would probably look at you weird

[@MiyahElise]

lennongrad13 every culture has their ancient people people are just in cultures that’s all

[@lennongrad13]

Fuego ! Yeah but my point is people tend to act like the Aztecs and Mayans are ancient civilizations when in reality the Aztecs were a fairly new empire when Cortez arrived and the Mayans reached their height around the same time as the Viking Age was happening in Europe. If we call them ancient then we should call Queen Elizabeth I the Queen of Ancient England.

[@magdavillafuerte505]

It's because they were one of the first civilizations of that region, so it's ancient. By the way i'm race mixed.

[@lennongrad13]

Magda Villafuerte they’re not though. The Olmecs are the earliest known Mesoamerican civilization dating back all the way to the 13th century BCE.

[@Enel97]

@@lennongrad13 thr culture of cortez isnt ancient. It still exists. The culture and people of the aztecs incans etc are ancient. They no longer exist. Cortez himself is indeed an ancient historical figure. Never seen anyone object to that statement.

[@MxPokirby]

"How did this culture manage to figure out how to make a written language without influence?" How.. do they think... the very first language was written, if it needed to be copied from another culture? Imagine trying to apply that logic to the invention of light bulbs or the telephone. "They never could've come up with it themselves. It must be aliens!"

[@nothingposted9056]

Meanwhile the Cherokee people made their own written language TWICE (the second was by a chill dude and his daughter)

[@crimsonking6246]

@@nothingposted9056 Nope, aliens

[@LevitLevit]

the people who say these things are diffusionists who think that everything comes down to a white person spreading their knowledge all over the world because every other race is intellectually inferior :/

[@nothingposted9056]

@@crimsonking6246 Sequoyah was an android piloted by tiny grey men

[@OutSinGaming]

To be fair, it is believed that writing was independently created only four times in human history. In Sumer, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. All other writing system are variations from these original ones in some way. Though to be fair fair, according to wikipedia, RongoRongo is one of 3 other writing system that are suspected to have also been independently created, though we aren't sure because it hasn't been deciphered.

[@MrByebyelove]

"stop! Stop! Oh my god, stop!!" being subtly shouted in the background got me 😂

[@rainyrainold]

Take a drink every time somebody says "ancient alien theorists say yes!"

[@01782644468]

Yeah thanksh, I'm really pished now zzzzzzzzz

[@shapescolours8105]

“Rocks aren’t as dead as we think” oh that’s cool probably like bacteria and moss can live in and on them. Alien boi: No it’s aliens the rocks are literally alive.

[@viscountrainbows6452]

I feel so validated, and also maybe am an alien plant👽

[@maqsoodhassan8978]

Was full expecting that they'd explain a phenomenon of stones or rocks moving in the right conditions (as some do in certain desserts). Therefore, creating a mythology by the people and then modern day people interpreting this in the modern day. But nah. Fucking aliens 😂😂

[@LnPPersonified]

@@maqsoodhassan8978 Did they prove rocks move in the desert due to a quick flood that pushes the rocks along, then dries up and makes it look like they move by themselves? I remember hearing that as a theory, but I don't know if it was proven.

[@stevenyukabacera160]

Also, you can decapitate a rock

[@peterprime2140]

@@LnPPersonified Close but not quite, you need a flood that doesn't cover the rocks which then needs to freeze, the ice floats and slightly lifts up the rocks then the wind pushes them.

[@heartpng]

"If extra terrestrials landed on the White House lawn, I don't think people would panic, I think they'd be more worried about what would happen to the stock market." Wow thats... actually very true.

[@orsonzedd]

I'd be worried for the aliens....

[@CallMeMrRook]

@@orsonzedd agreed... because these are the dumb ones who didn't heed the warning signs on the edge of our solar system saying to stay away from the dumb bipeds

[@KnoxCarbon]

Well the feds recently confirmed the existence of UFOs, so...

[@excalibur2772]

I think it would be both

[@finnsword8286]

KnoxCarbon UFOs doesn’t automatically mean aliens. It just means we don’t immediately know what it was, you know, unidentified flying object.

[@jordenhynes767]

As an archaeology major, ancient alians angers me so much. It just gives me a stroke anytime they open their mouth.

[@thomaspaine7098]

FCC should require that they are spreading misinformation but then again it’s viewers would only double down

[@REfan001]

"right now I'm really worried about making content that people actually feel comfortable clicking on" *8 hour Victorious video has 3.5M views*

[@ConWolfDoubleO7]

Did you notice the "Aliens" guy is always trying to wear ""archeologist"" clothes to subtlety imply he knows something about the culture. This dude is so far removed from real the archeology profession he really thinks we all look like Indiana Jones.

[@deepspacedruid7673]

You don't? Damn

[@dwighttheislander7369]

If I see a real life Archeologist without a Fedora and whip I'm gonna lose it!!!!

[@rainedans8684]

1st time I saw him, Aliens! guy reminds of Andrew LET ME IIIIIN no kidding

[@ConWolfDoubleO7]

@Professional shit poster Every picture I see of him he's had on what looks like diet Indiana Jones clothes. I'm pretty sure he's worn Panama hats as well. Basically every picture I've seen of him he looks like he's wearing the movie stereotype for archeology. Unfortunately, we don't end up being that sexy in the field. 90% of the time it's old t-shirts and pants.

[@morfy2581]

if i was an archeologist i would legit dress like indiana jones

[@unknownuser3926]

Every single Ancient Aliens episode: Look at this culture, they had technology we wouldn't expect them to had Look, their gods game from the sky, just like aliens would Look, this one piece of art looks like a ufo or alien. Pudgy old white dude who wrote a bad sci-fi book in the 80s says it was aliens. Conclusion: Where they visited by aliens? It's possible, but we'll never know.

[@rayray9254]

The worst part is that they just flat out lie, A LOT. I'm a historian and it's my passion and job to study history and boy oh boy do they get me riled. They do everything they can do make it seem like every culture worships gods that came from the sky in some sort of vehicle like a chariot or whatnot. I love watching the show because it is just so dumb, but sometimes it actually depresses me to think people really believe that shite

[@gushyjushy]

Holy shit watch their episode or mini documentary about how king Tut died. i fell asleep like 15 min in because they kept repeating "could this be how he died? we can't know for certain, but maybe... there's another explanation." the entire time

[@augustgreig9420]

You forgot that they refer to them not as aliens but rather as "ancient astronauts" and these people aren't called UFO nuts, but rather " ancient astronaut theorists".

[@ArninoStorm]

There's a really good 2-hours long video debunking the whole thing. Basically, ancient people were just as smart as us and could figure things out, even if they might not have had the full science.

[@cloudbloom]

@@ArninoStorm got a link to that debunking vid? I wanna see it

[@christophertomasello1227]

I am in egyptologist and when that show "Ancient Aliens" suggested that humans were actually hybridized with various animals to create Anubis,Sobek,Hathor etc I thought this is absolutely ridiculous almost as though they were deliberately sabotaging their own credibility

[@midnightrambler8866]

I like how they explain the "unexplainable" by going straight to ancient aliens.

[@imjoesmama]

So these aliens were so sophisticated that they had flying saucers that can travel through space and just decided to come to Earth and help humans stack/carve rocks.

[@alex_roivas333]

and build a sewer system

[@henkhenk4396]

They probably traveled decades/centuries assuming they can get near light speed. Would make sense to mess around a little bit with the monkeys.

[@Ashley-lm4nv]

They were trolling.

[@dinosaysrawr]

It's like the Peace Corps, but from outer space. The aliens were doing it for college credit.

[@cernunnos_lives]

Yeah and even put human remains in many of them (instead of extraterrestrial ones). Not to mention the tons of tools and even depictions of people building up their lives.

[@screamingcactus1753]

"They just didn't have the kind of precision machining required for this level of detail." It's called a hammer, a chisel, years of experience and lots of patience. Artists to this day are making detailed statues out of solid rock with hammers and chisels.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

This is exactly what I was thinking!

[@screamingcactus1753]

@@sorryifoldcomment8596 It's a very common mistake that these people seem to make. They assume you need advanced technology to do anything big when all it really takes is LOTS of hard work.

[@dracocrusher]

It's not even clever speculation, just take literally anything and say "BUT COULD THE NATIVES HAVE REALLY DONE/THOUGHT OF THIS THING???" Dude walks into a church. "Local historians say this building was erected in the 1600s, but could ancient man have really crafted such a thing without the aid of modern technology? How would they have even gotten high enough to paint this mural on the ceiling? Could the workers have used some form of levitation machine?" Hard cut to an actual historian: "Yeah, so they just used a really big ladder and worked on this piece for months, if you look closely you can actually see where the painter missed a stroke and accidentally got paint on a side pillar."

[@mathias3721]

@@dracocrusher The cathedral where I live took almost 100 (!!) years to build, so buildings like that really did take a long ass time. The craftsmanship is astonishing though

[@angelmonstera]

I've never seen this channel before. I have no idea how, but here I am two years after this video was made.... That rant about not chopping artifacts earned a like and a follow hahaha

[@michaeleastman9884]

I loved ancient aliens so much, I would watch it to help me sleep. Come to think about it, I don't remember finishing any of the episodes.

[@andrewfoyne2606]

Very funny.

[@XxInfinityxXTimer]

imagine you made rule34 art and memes. Then 1000 years later it become a topic about about aliens conspiracy

[@HBGamingTD]

“This looks strange! This might be made by Aliens!”

[@Sorrelhas]

"Could it be, that penis in this 'anime waifu' is not an actual penis, but a misinterpretation of alien technology? As you know, the people of the 21st century were not advanced enough to come up with dickgirls, so is it possible that this is the result of a visitation by extraterrestrial beings?"

[@ciara.eason13]

Lol but what if people thought that their pp parts were the cause of everyone being abducted by aliens and been tested on?

[@majorblitz3846]

Furry porn is refer as "Ancient god literacy" and all the weird fetishes symbolize the creation of random bullshit. Technically, Egyptian god are a furry, so it's fine i guess.

[@Sorrelhas]

@The Very Edgy Yoshi The funny thing is that "2D women" being an object of desire is not far from being historical. Don't quote me on this one, but I remember that a lot of ancient tribes and civilizations idolized goddesses of love, sex, and fertility that had exaggerated features, like massive breasts and being comically plump (I say comically plump and not obese, because it's less like a fat person and more like a videogame character that had it's "thickness" value set really high)

[@raspberrymilkshake5782]

"Hey, my kid learned how to read today!" "No, that's impossible, he's too stupid for that." "What do you mean...?" "IT WAS THE ALIENS. THE ALIENS TAUGHT HIM HOW TO READ."

[@robiking011]

Unless the kid is white. Aliens never teach white people anything.

[@RagunaBlade13]

"I was worried about making an hour and some change video, it would have been too long" definitely hits different these days... Fun Vid

[@thecellulontriptometer4166]

Never underestimate the need for under educated people to believe that they have some secret knowledge that proves they are intelligent. People want to believe because it feeds their self esteem. I suppose one can't blame the channel for feeding this need, and getting viewer numbers to make money from it. I appreciate that Quinton points out the ethno-centric nature of these shows. But, given the viewer demographic this is part of feeding this need to feel special.

[@theespers5263]

I miss calling it the 'Hitler Channel.' That's what we called it as kids because it was 90% WW2 documentaries.

[@NugsSlugsBugs]

you could still call it the Hitler channel since the ancient aliens show is eerily similar to crackpot nazi archeology, they basically tried to prove that the ancient aryans were the cause of many ancient civilizations and that aryans were the superior culture and race, one of the leading nazi archeologists Alfred Rosenberg even believed that the aryans originated on atlantis, so if you replace aryan with aliens you could publish a history channel episode trying to argue for Alfreds wild theories

[@toughtittypdiddy4634]

Remember when you learned something from watching the learning channel

[@MemeMarine]

@@NugsSlugsBugs Ancient Aliens Ancient Aryans It rhymes, so it has to be true.

[@GreekDudeYiannis]

I hope you saw the video he just uploaded

[@EmoBearRights]

We called the Nazi channel for the same reason - it was the days before Fox ....bah boom!

[@matthill5426]

You know what's fascinating about ancient people? They had massive amounts of time on their hands to figure things out, without distractions! Sure, they were mainly agrarian world-wide, with the odd bit of hunting, gathering, and fishing to make up their diet, some of them were employed year-round making tools and clothing, and there was the occasional war here-and-there, but for the most part, they had vast amounts of time to devote to sit and ponder the sky, the stars, the various stone formations in their areas, the utility of different plants and trees, and without distractions, guess what happens?!? They figure out math! And language, and music, and better ways to make tools to cut rocks, and better ways to stack rocks on top of each other! Of course the universe was mysterious to them, they didn't have the tools we have today, so of course they would dream big and want to build monumental structures like the pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Easter Island monoliths, and of course they would have had some religious, spiritual, or ritual meaning to them!... ...which some racist doofus nerdy old white guy centuries later immediately co-opts into his own agenda of making a living by lying to people!

[@wolfgirl737]

Thank you! I don't get why it's so hard for people to wrap their head around this! People had so much more time back then unlike today where people have to commute to work, work for 8 or more hours, than be dead tired at home most of the time.

[@newsystembad]

People seem to have a really hard time understanding that humans aren't actually all that much _smarter_ than we were 2000 years ago. Like, biologically, neurologically, our brains are not that much more complex or developed than our (relatively) recent ancestors--but the vastly greater repository of common knowledge available to us tricks us into thinking that we are.

[@szarur-abi8665]

I love that, i think it was Pierre Montet, egyptologist. Wrote about life cycle of average peasant and he said, that after the Nyle flooded there was usually nothing to do till the harvesting, so they could do like anything, like build a big pyramid of Chofu, I like reading about its construction: almost 30 years in construction, arround 20 thousand people in a specially builded work-town where they were living with they families. They were working 10 hours a day, placing big blocks (2m to 3m if i remember correctly) every 2 minutes, and they were transporting them from a quarry placed several kilometers and there was a problem, how to transport them to Giza? where there were no river, they found a solution; just hire some guys and tell them to place water before guys who were transporting blocks, there were also a improvement but that was during Chofu son reign: Making a artifical chills and getting blocks to top of them, and they were sliding from the chill. Ok, so you have all this strict system which was possible mainly because there was food and centralised power in person of Pharaoh, and there is a pyramid of Chofu which when finished contained arround 2 million blocks... holy shit, it does impress me today, its amazing that people contstruted this 5 thousand year ago Ps. Chofu is the correct way of the name Cheops (Which was called like this by good guy Herodotus) so i have heard Also, check out "Pomeranian culture" and check out their Urns, you will thank me later And i could talk about this for like a hours, but the things was different in different places like in ancient Mesopotamia people had lots of things to do even in aggrocultural sector, because the Tigris and Eufrat used to flood a lot, but not like in Egypt where the flood had bringed lifefull soil. In mesopotamian the flood could easily destroy all farms (and it once did, which inspired the biblical tale of flood, check out Gilgamesh tale about flood, it was also confirmed by archeological evidence that there was some kind of huge flood in several cities: Ur, Szukpar) So, in order to prevent floods, Mesopotamians had to build endless cannals, and floodgates which maintaince costs a lot and it was important to keep them in good condition. So it depends, and i dont think the ancient civilizations had that much of free time, i mean it depends like i said egyptian farmer most of time had pretty much nothing to do expect praising the actual prima dei

[@sroevukasroevuka]

You mean "gasp" they had brains? They must have received brains from ancient astronauts.

[@quynlanvuorensyrja5484]

To sum up, the only reason we think we’re smarter than ancient people is because they figured everything out for us.

[@OhsweetOhno]

I went to New York with my mother once and the hotel we stayed at was amazing but the TV wasn’t great, sure it was a fancy TV, but the only channels we got were discovery channels so we basically had Ancient Aliens on 24/4 (seeing as we only stayed four days). We both had the grandest time debunking and half-jokingly yelling at the screen about how stupid it was.

[@iprobablysuck9107]

''If aliens landed on the white house lawn, I don't think people would panic, I think they'd be more worried about what would happen to the stock market nowadays'' My man was dead on then and probably dead on today LOL

[@milk.meister.mcChonky]

Throwback to when the government literally admitted aliens might be real and they're still looking into it and we barely noticed lol

[@melisosh]

When I tell you that I CACKLED OUT LOUD when Quinton said, “aliens don’t like white people.” I DIED.

[@rsvlogph9372]

He's just trying to sound woke.

[@someonerandom8552]

@@rsvlogph9372 Aliens support cancel culture confirmed!

[@ogolow570]

@@rsvlogph9372 No he's pointing out Ancient Alien's bs. Claiming ancient POC cultures from Egypt to China are all alien built is basically racist on its own

[@GeoNeilUK]

What I'd lie to see is an Ancient Aliens type show that's made entirely by POC from a third world country, visiting European monuments and buildings and ending with the line. "White people are using these monuments to this very day... is it possible that the reason why is because some aliens stayed behind, made their home and interbred with the indigenous humans? Is it possible that white people aren't entirely human, that white people or some form of human-alien hybrid? The answer to that que4stion, to that possibility, could only be YES!"

[@micahfoley9572]

@@rsvlogph9372 see, now, saying stuff like that unironically is why aliens don't like us.

[@zxKAOS1]

Ahh, we've reached the age where the History Channel is no longer about history, MTV doesn't really have music, you don't learn anything on The Learning Channel, nor discover anything on The Discovery Channel. . EDIT: Holy $#%! There were *fifteen seasons* of _Ancient Aliens_ !?

[@ryancoulter4797]

I would tolerate this if all those channels offered their old shows on DVD. I used to sit my ass down on a weekend for a Great Books Marathon on TLC. Hell my favourite dramatization of The Great Gatsby is the Great Books version.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

15 (F-I-F-T-E-E-N!!!) seasons of ancient aliens?! Ugh, that’s depressing.

[@cooladam2167]

Stop watching tv..

[@ryancoulter4797]

@@cooladam2167 That’s what i did. A 36 hour bout of insomnia and the inability to flip through all my cable channels every hour of those 36 without finding another storage auction show episode was the proverbial straw.

[@karina_martinez420]

Well you never learned anything on tlc

[@hesgoneplaid6478]

We stan the golf channel. We need that kind of stability right now

[@blacktitan6704]

this guy answers questions no one can answer and for that i am grateful

[@user-zd6lc5fz2n]

Maybe the real Dan Aykroyd's Crystal skull was the friends we made along the way

[@josephbennett2457]

You, sir, win the internet.

[@grantsmith608]

HA

[@grantsmith608]

221 B I can’t get over how funny this joke is 😂😂😂

[@jasonfenton8250]

So that's it, huh? We some kinda Ancient Aliens?

[@bigshow196]

"Im not saying its vodka, but, its vodka" -Aliens Guy

[@robertrulebirtannia]

The History Channel is to history what MTV is to music.

[@haroldsullivan2036]

robertrulebirtannia long live the republic and the international brigade

[@phillipmagnifico5155]

...what the Food Channel is to food.

[@rspeak5768]

Early MTV was a lot weirder than early History channel. Also ¡No Pasarán!

[@BudgetFilmmaking]

@Shaman Xeed It is. MTV doesn't show music videos anymore. History Channel doesn't show history anymore. Just this retarded alien and ghost bullshit. It works.

[@manjsher3094]

Off the mark on that.

[@TGging]

Ancient Aliens cast members think all past humans were idiots at best.

[@caramanico1]

I was in the cable industry for 14 years starting in 1987. We all loved THC when it first came out, then after a while it became known as "The Hitler Channel." I am a WW2 buff, but there is more to explore and learn. I guess since then they've mucked it up real good...

[@mnbgt101]

To this day, I maintain that the golf channel is more entertaining than the history channel. Because a lot of old people who are susceptible to marketing watch it, there's lots and lots of very specific golf-themed commercials that are absolutely hilarious.

[@ZergRushJohnny]

Gotta love that golf club you can urinate into.

[@violethaye6987]

hah my old dad who is very susceptible to marketing watches both.

[@kauswekazilimani3736]

@@violethaye6987 my dad in a nutshell.

[@TheDeadAlewives]

I used to love watching Mail Call with R. Lee Ermey back in the day though.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

At least with MattPatt he’s just talking about shit like Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddy’s or whatever the hell. At least HE isn’t consistently making the racist assumption that ancient societies were too stupid to make any significant accomplishments.

[@IIIGioGioStarIII]

He's just saying Sans is Ness xD

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

And it's all clearly tongue in cheek for entertainment. Because of its silly nature it actually does a pretty good job of highlighting the bs conspiracy theory tactics.

[@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214]

They did a video on stone henge and something in Norway and an arrangement of large stones in Europe.

[@L16htW4rr10r]

His Food Theory channel is pretty cool if I say so myself.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Junior Sanchez I could ask YOU the same question.

[@fluffiebear2]

Interesting hearing Quinton say he decided to split this video up so it wasn't too long considering his recent batch of videos

[@dracorex426]

Remember when Quinton thought one hour was too long for a video?

[@KittyPieVibes]

“You’re telling me, a self proclaimed historian, that the same type of people that were able to construct damns, aqueducts, temples, shrines, farmlands, houses, and roads are able to construct pyramids with rocks? Nah, it was definitely beings from another planet millions of light years away that came in to construct a mud structure and then peaced out forever”

[@nicodemusedwards6931]

No, I don’t think you quiet understand broseph... They didn’t construct the damns, aqueducts, temples, shrines, houses, farmlands or roads either. That was all aliens too.

[@KittyPieVibes]

Nicodemus Edwards shiiieeeeeet

[@eliasalbarracin5549]

No, wait. But what if... humans are more complex than we've originally thought in the past and have created cultures and communities for as long as we've been around, and that we have to face the fact that just because we can make bigger buildings with metal doesn't invalidate how these people were able to make complex structures and systems of governments with very limited knowledge and resources? Naw, that's stupid. Gotta be fucking aliens, I guess.

[@sara.rae08]

And the sad thing is, those aliens couldn't even make those things straight or even. you would think with all their advanced technology though should have done better!

[@quinnholloway5400]

Basically the theories boil down to 'Humans can't make achievements on their own, everything is aliens, yatta yatta' Every single culture and group on this planet has had great achievements, events, aspects, and people you'd call heroes or legends And that continues even into our current time of Twitter hell holes and corrupted poltics The idea that aliens are the ones who build pretty much every little wonder that humans have built, like the prymaids of central america and Egypt, Stonehenge, probably Jerusalem, and the wonders of the ancient world, many of which were destroyed due to time and wars Is just so self hating and stupid

[@sidney4022]

There was an interesting quote I gathered from one of these shows: "The only way we can prove if aliens never visited Earth is if one day they actually showed up and said ''Nope we never came here.'"

[@masteroflions1183]

But the ancient aliens fanboys will say , its a different alien that visit earth in the past 😣

[@KertaDrake]

I do so hope the aliens are trolls who show up and claim the most bizarre things are all true, even if they conflict with each other, then just leave and never come back. "Oh yeah, Scientology is real, but we're actually the Roman gods except for Jupiter. Jupiter it actually the collected psychic energy of the Bigfoot species made manifest by crystals in Atlantis that we provided before they sank themselves in an attempt to avoid developing 5G too early in your planet's development. If they hadn't, every human would have melted in 2012 and their spirits would have been trapped in a comet for all eternity."

[@chebic5095]

Burden of proof fallacy at its best

[@michaelterrell5061]

@@KertaDrake Comments like these are the reason I go to the comments.

[@dx1450]

But all the alien believers will either say they are lying or that it was aliens from another planet who visited in the past.

[@BKFan342]

I'm convinced Netflix didn't take off only because it made streaming a thing and rentals easier. I'm convinced it took off like it did in the early 2010s because so many TV channels put out utter garbage (not just History Channel, but also TLC and other networks) and Netflix offered shows on their platform as an alternative.

[@semicharmedlife311]

"Therefore, Aliens" guy is legendary, though.

[@TheDwightMamba]

My dad's cancer came back a 3rd time and he refused treatment, saying he didn't weigh enough for another round of poison. He was given 3 months and Hospice came to help him at home. I was the only single kid in 2009, so I came home from New York. He made it almost 3 years and we watched The History Channel in a loop. He started acting like he was seeing all those episodes for the 1st time and I played along. I will never forget all that time I spent with him, watching reruns of Swamp People.

[@SynGirl32]

That is surprisingly touching. May he rest in peace.

[@Quackervoltz]

Damn

[@TheDwightMamba]

@real human , it was pretty cool. We got his life's story typed out into a book over those 3 years. He was an interesting dude. VP of a pretty big motorcycle gang in the 1960s. I'm working on editing it and moving some the stories around so it follows a timeline and then I'll self publish. The world will remember him.

[@TheDwightMamba]

@real human will do.

[@rezarfar]

@@TheDwightMamba that's awesome my guy. May your father rest in peace.

[@nindiegamer790]

"Am I really going to defile this archeological site for ratings and money? OF COURSE I AM!" -History Channel

[@jenlea845]

One time on Fox they had a special where they were going to open a tomb live on air. In the lead up head of antiquities Zahi Hawas planted artifacts for the host to find on air, then lost his footing and stepped on them instead.

[@fandomguy8025]

As long as there is greed, Mr. Krabs will remain relevant.

[@supermutantsam1160]

@@jenlea845 That sounds fucking hilarious and sad at the same time

[@Lulu_Lime]

@@jenlea845 lmao. Do you have like a link to this? I have to see this.

[@warringtonfaust1088]

At its inception, my friends and I referred to the History Channel as the Nazi channel. This because of the huge quantity of WWII stuff. I assume that was because it was all public domain and could be aired without costs or royalties.

[@Smellbringer]

I wanna do a thing where I try to pass off historically set Doctor Who episodes as fact. See how long it takes until people realize I'm full of shit.

[@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree]

People would catch on the second you refer to a box that was bigger on the inside 😋

[@captainkirk4637]

We have this running joke in my HS world history class, that every time our teacher talks about something a culture achieved or did, we just say it’s aliens.

[@SynGirl32]

But you did meet aliens right? On a weekly basis I must add.

[@igyl2867]

HS (Homestuck) world history class

[@acreativename7999]

World history? Isn't that just history?

[@acreativename7999]

@@igyl2867 IM HAVING HORRIBLE HORRIBLE FLASHBACKS!

[@SynGirl32]

@@acreativename7999 In big countries like the US and Britain, standard history is very much centered on the home country.

[@blaineishere3851]

Any time someone says the word “energy” when talking about an ancient artifact, you can immediately discount everything they say or have ever said, because they’re just trying to sell you a book.

[@shawnhoelscher8164]

What about Kanye's Dragon Energy

[@daviddragoon82]

Energy can it make Kamehameha Waves? ;)

[@wadespencer3623]

Addendum: Any time someone says the word energy when they don't specify what kind of energy they mean.

[@user-nw1je1ur6t]

this also applies to dateing, in fact i'd say its more prevalent in dateing just, dont date people who talk about "energy"

[@sycastells1212]

Or maybe it's a heuristic, not a law?

[@grimli16]

Okay this is a long one. Pls endulge my essay. Imagine being a stone masons son in ancient egypt... Your grandpa is a stone mason and everyone before that, that you know of carried this trade. When youre 5 years old dad gifts you your first hammer and chisel and makes you work with the rocks of egypt. Your morning is about rocks Your midday is about rocks Your evening is about rocks... You learn to read the stone and youre teached every possible wisdom on stone masonry With 26 you made more statues that you could count and you know how to hit any boulder to make a perfect split. You cannot read or write on papyrus but youre able to read rock and form it to your will... Your son turns 5 tomorrow and you already have his first hammer and chisel ready as a gift. For you will teach him to look at a sandy mountain and know how to work precisely on it. And then 5000 years later a person that spent his life at a desk, who never formed art.. or even a masterpiece he cant even tell the quality of a rock by smelling its dust and he says "Welp impossible.. had to be freaking Marspeople forming the thing with a laser or.. a rock 3-D printer!" You wouldnt roll around in your grave.. your bones would fucking rotate fast enough to power a generator.. Them saying it was aliens is like me sitting in McDonalds calling usain bolt a speed wizzard