WhatIfAltHistory Is IMPOSSIBLE To Take Seriously

[@CH4R10T_TV]

Hearing WhatIfAltHist say, "Have you haard of Crypto?" felt like discovering an Elder Scrolls NPC who escaped from the game into our reality.

[@Gormathius]

I saw an AI bro once. Horrible creatures.

[@TheMadTurtle]

Have you even heard of the high elves?@@Gormathius

[@Ruosteinenknight]

"I used to be a bad historian like David Irving, but then I took reality to the knee....and became even worse." - whatifalthist, probably.

[@saragos1216]

FYI he's a college dropout and refuses to read any history or anthropology book written after the 60s because thats when academia became too woke or whatever.

[@logoncal3001]

In this case, no joke, his "too woke" is "they treat non whites as human beings". Hes comically racist, its morbidly funny

[@Gchildwarrior]

What an absolute loser 😂

[@stephennootens916]

His dad was a preparer.

[@LadyMajolish]

Oh Nah, oh now that makes so much sense why he makes these historic fanfics.💀

[@vokkera6995]

Worse- if fredda’s deep dive on the guy is accurate, he refuses to read anything produced after the Second World War lol

[@FearlessLeader2001]

"The civil war is scary and coming this year" followed by a hard cut to copyright free rock, followed then by a hard cut to a crypto ad is a rollercoaster of emotions only comparable to the fucking euthanasia coaster.

[@Juanpablomorenoarango]

One of his arguments is no joke that he's an empath and can tell that the vibes are civil-war

[@westsidetyler]

Lmao

[@mergenocide]

Crystals and auras...but for fascists

[@PharaohsNews]

The ultimate Gen Z internet spawn baby.

[@farkasmactavish]

Only narcissists call themselves empaths.

[@matthewthiessen2173]

I just started this video and had to pause at "We as humans naturally like killing." No. No no no no no. First of all most, if not all, species on Earth have a natural aversion to killing their own kind. It's very advantageous for the survival of the species to be generally unwilling to kill itself. As to humans: there are people who do, and they're a very small percentage of the population. In WW2, both sides discovered that only a very very few soldiers were really willing to go into combat and aim to kill other humans. It was actually a serious problem! That's why we developed and implemented dehumanization training, to turn the enemy into merely targets, to try and bypass that natural aversion. In a book I read it said that if the number of "willing to kill" humans was higher by just a few percentage points, the casualties of the WW2 would have been dramatically more catastrophic. It should be clear that this is not true of fighting. Many many people love fighting in many many different ways, but most of those are non-lethal.

[@stephennootens916]

One can easily realize that view makes no sense. If humans liked killing we would not see massive of war vets having major psychological problems after coming back from war.

[@ecyor0]

Turns out, a great many people do in fact draw a distinction between "competitive physical challenge vs another person" and "I'm going to end an existence today"

[@coreyander286]

You've just bought into the woke mind matrix. We're literally, biologically _animals._ We're _BEASTS._ We *_can't be contained._* We can only _keep each other in check..._ or get bit. 🐺 Start watching Fresh & Fit before it's too late for you. 🏋

[@theplan-m6c]

Thank you.

[@KateeAngel]

True. Humans rather have predisposition to divide into in-group and out-group, and be empathetic and good towards members of in-group while being hostile or suspicious of members of out-group. Which sometimes results in large scale violence towards them. But that just means that trait (xenophobia) was useful to our Australopithecus ancestors, it doesn't means necessarily that it would be useful today.

[@Pebphiz]

"If I met this kid in real life, I would shake him upside down and sell all the little fucking toy trains that fell out of his pockets," is going in the hall of fame.

[@vykos99]

I love how you can literally click on a random spot in a WIAH video and immediately hear the stupidest thing you will ever hear in your life without fail. I'm just mad I missed seeing this live

[@BenjaminSchollnick-tu2xb]

Ah well, You see; the original "oof" was removed from Roblox as part of the Great Replacement doctrine.

[@Watcher900]

Just looking at the recent videos made is like a boomer's brain fried by memes: "Did the CIA Discover the Spirit World?" "The Anthropology of Real Life NPCs" "How Death Creates Everything" "Why Communism is a Failed Religion"

[@NitwitsWorld]

We going to the spirit world summon the hole Korra

[@JayBrekken]

He sounds like the kids I grew up around who were never able to escape homeschooling.

[@TasTheWatcher]

*The right:* _Constitution! States rights!_ *States:* __ *The right:* _NO! Not like that!_

[@chrisball3778]

I can't stop myself reading WIAH's initials as 'WHY? ARGH!' He's probably the most Incel-coded human being on KZbin, if not planet Earth.

[@gallusgallusdomesticus281]

Whatifalthist is THAT type of nerd.

[@ConventionalChaos196]

He's the "ackshually" meme in real life

[@LadyMajolish]

@@ConventionalChaos196he is basically this “🤓”

[@gallusgallusdomesticus281]

@@ConventionalChaos196 Except he's rarely ever right or smart.

[@tjenadonn6158]

​@My-cat-is-staring-at-you He's what Ben Shapiro would've turned into if he wasn't born rich.

[@lolasdm6959]

@@tjenadonn6158 his Ben but somehow less mentally coherent

[@PatheticApathetic]

That actually is where the etymology for “pornography” comes from. It’s based on the Greek words “pornē,” which basically means “prostitute,” and “graphein,” which means “to write.” That developed into the compound word “pornographos,” and then it became “pornographie” in French, which was then Anglicized to “pornography”

[@honestlordcommissarbrighte7921]

So WIAH, every time he talks or writes his script, is indulging in his own pornography??? Christos Almighty someone save us 😂

[@justanidiotmk2749]

Didn't expect to be on the floor immediately

[@BubbaDredge]

Tyler laughing at the Y'all Quada idiots always raises my spirits. Who SHOULDN'T want a race war: southern white people. I've been there, it's not exactly Sparta, that's all I'm saying.

[@lolasdm6959]

It buffles me they aren't afraid of all the Mexican cheap labor they hire.

[@dubspool]

Whstifalthist is easier to comprehend if you interpret him as describing a shitty modded HOI4 focus tree. Especially with his fucking maps. Look at all this empty land, it makes your name on the map look big so therefore you’re going to win the civil war

[@xevious4142]

The thinnest veneer of intellectualism

[@teecee1827]

Sacrebleu translates to sacred blue for the same reason people say Ho my Gosh. It's a self censored version of saying sacredieu (sacred god /by god) because bleu is phonetically close enough from Dieu. It also hasn't been used by a living french person in decades.

[@westsidetyler]

Actually v cool

[@ArtFreak17]

I just want to say, I love minced oaths as a linguistic concept.

[@seraphinasullivan4849]

Why did i never consider that? I thought it was referring to the Virgin Mary wearing blue this entire time. I feel like such a dingus now lol

[@teecee1827]

@@seraphinasullivan4849 some people also said "Nom de bleu" (by Gosh) for the same reason

[@farkasmactavish]

See, I thought it was because the sky is blue and that's where heaven is.

[@Merble]

I will never forgive myself for the week I was subscribed to this kid. I don't even remember what video got me thinking 'Maybe this channel will have neat ideas' but in hindsight, I must have just been high af.

[@coa8752]

@@Merble Same, but when he began his more political videos he was more reasonable

[@Fangesuey]

WIAH has always been a lunatic but early on, a lot more people gave him the benefit of the doubt. He was also probably less psychotic a few years ago than the type of shit he talks about now

[@rita_calamity]

Your laugh is so goddamn contagious

[@nanowithbeans2511]

Hearing whatifalthist talking about civil war is like hearing China's 1 millionth warning to taiwan and the philippines.

[@Elin-dd4hk]

bro's got that forest gump cadence

[@karlwikman3874]

"Spectrumed beyond the anihilation point."....can we have this insult engraved on a marble tablett with Golden paint inlays?

[@unyu-cyberstorm64]

Several people have called him out for his stupidity.

[@unyu-cyberstorm64]

@@shreksnow1918 wait what?

[@Tinblitz]

I can't believe the number is that low.

[@NatalieFullmerWriterandNerd]

The beginning of this broke me in the lab. Thank you.

[@Spruehwuerstl]

Tyler my dude. Have you ever considered a career in comedy? You are genuinely funnier than any big comedian I know. You are even funnier than Bill Burr because you have more variation in jokes.

[@westsidetyler]

Funnier than Bill Burr? Nah, but thank you very much

[@beepboopbleep3695]

nailed the modern history of this country in under 40 secs. its good to hear it put so concisely

[@MollTheLioness]

I subscribed after 45 seconds. That intro brought me to tears 😆

[@pixeldeath5846]

He sounds exactly like the special kid on the bus trying to tell me about his Yugioh deck.

[@rogirek3362]

19:22 "This woman is drawn the way his speech patterns are put together." Was listening while working, had to see what that meant. You were not wrong.

[@PhilosoShysGameChannel]

We're so happy for you that you're having such a good time with this! Honest! It's amazing to watch! Keep it up, dawg!

[@dhoffnun]

I'm sitting here waiting for guy to start talking about chads and stacies

[@officialvernonbrose]

It just occurred to me Whatifalthist sounds like the White Bowser. I suppose the difference the two is that the latter of the 2 ruined his life and reputation to the point nobody would hear him out on schizopost history videos.

[@AvengerAtIlipa]

Laughing at these absurd and childish ideologies is probably the best way to deal with them. Why bother lending them undue credibility by debunking them and so appearing to take them seriously?

[@Cajaquarius]

These types of guys make me actually mad as a guy who actually studied Roman history. I wish I could be more like you and RM Brown and just laugh at them.

[@scottbrayton9484]

I agree with every other point you've made except i think the guitar intro is sick nasty.

[@Gormathius]

14:32 This is the weirdest question I've ever heard that I don't believe anyone actually needs the answer to.

[@Crowley9]

WhatIfAltHistory recently uploaded a video about a potential future incel revolution. I think that tells you everything you need to know about how seriously you should take the whole channel.

[@westsidetyler]

Video on that soon

[@Crowley9]

@@westsidetyler Oh boy!

[@maxattacks25]

4:02 Hitler was LARPing when he said he was a socialist, yet this continues to be a talking point for the right to this day

[@PhilosoShysGameChannel]

Whatifalthist is the perfect example of how all of those extremist ideologies are run by the people who least resemble their ideals! XD

[@seanbeadles7421]

9:21 straight up Home Depot rock

[@farkasmactavish]

Tyler's wife needs to tell him he's being too mean again.

[@ZackThoreson]

Coming out HOT with that one lol

[@freakishuproar1168]

I remember the first time I watched one of his videos after going a bit of an alternative history binge. For several minutes I genuinely assumed that I'd stumbled across a parody of a wacky conservative conspiracy theorist, and that the deliberately badly edited revanchist rant I was being subjected to was intentional - I literally thought it was a joke! I went down to the comments expecting to see my fellow terminally online chuckle-fucks tipping our fedoras in collective appreciation of the artfully constructed silliness WhatIfAltHist assembled for our edification and amusement. Alas, I was mistaken. I have a theory about how WIAH creates his videos. I genuinely believe his entire process involves taking a fat bong rip, and then within a timeframe of about twenty minutes or less (even if the resulting videos that are like fourty/fifty minutes long) he sources all the images, writes all the text, records his narration, compiles and edits the entire thing, and then uploads whatever result emerged from his frantic production. No amount of sound reasoning or logical nitpicking from any of you will convince me that I'm wrong about this ;p *edit:* _"If I were in Staw Twek, my crew would be nothin' but gurls..."_ xD (you have a new subscriber for that line alone)

[@osoisko1933]

Whatifalthist is...I don’t have the words.

[@WellDoneOnTheInternetEverybody]

Man yt algorithm is goofy lol the first time whatifalt appears on my feed, this video is two below it 😂

[@Conejoazul2018]

Past good modernity bad.

[@Awaken_To_0]

Human don't like killing. We like the stuff killing sometimes provides like food, security, territory, etc. Anyone could choose to quit their job and go live and a pirate or serial killer. Almost no one chooses to do that. If anything, Humans are highly risk-averse.

[@gvd72]

Yeah we tend to hate others we see as “the other”. In-groups and out-groups. But the vast majority of humans aren’t violent (although it’s questionable on what could make a regular human a killer).

[@nohiddengames3408]

I feel like whatifalthist was the guy even the bandkids hated but he was a bandkid because he had nowhere else to go

[@dyotoorion1835]

You're such a reprobate Tyler! xD lol

[@zondervonstrek]

I saw this video a while back and found it sad. The "watch out the end of society is just around the corner" people are always sad losers dethatched from society.

[@justzisguy]

You seem like someone who'd be a hardcore Republican if it were 2003

[@egilskallagrimsson2941]

I kept waiting for a point. There was none. Just some goofball practicing his unfunny standup routine.

[@westsidetyler]

Shit slapped stop being a cuck lmao

[@monsterguyx]

whatif thinks that the US has been moving steadily to the left since the 1960's, an opinion that could only be held by someone born well after the Reagan-Bush era (1980-1992) and too young to accurately recall the W. Bush era (2001-2009.) The tendency toward reactionary politics and regressive social trends have existed - and have enjoyed widespread popularity in America - for as long as I can remember (I just turned 55.)

[@exploringthedepths74]

this guy reacting is like the reddit replies if they were a person. just childish and arrogent

[@westsidetyler]

Arrogant dipshit

[@AtnH]

TLCR: Video and community of people hating on someone that knows more than them, majority of video is just making fun of the dude and counted less than 3 full minutes actually watching the content to properly criticize him. This guy does nothing but ride on the coattails of popular topics and try to farm it for relevance which obviously isnt working. This video is based around hating someone that's read more books and linked more sources to each and every topic he's covered than you will in your entire life. The majority of the people in the comment section right now dont even have legit criticism of the guy and are just insulting him, which is crazy when you're genuinely just lying about someone's character and their work. Im sorry if youre offended by legitimate history and the fact the dude has no holds barred against either side of whatever political spectrum he still calls it out historically AS ANYONE SHOULD NORMALLY DO. If you find it offensive or racist or even dumb that he's literally providing information straight out of books and documents recording events then please consider glueing shut your eyes and filling your ears with cement so you dont ever have to see or hear the real world ever again. The amount of time taken out from this video just making fun of the guy and not even doing a proper review or assessment of what he's stating and literally skipping from beginning to middle to end of the video and not watching past 30 seconds is just disappointing. I came here to be shown evidence against this guy I could put under consideration and now Im here watching through 20 minutes of literal insults 4 minutes of regurgitating a story not relevant to the topic, and around 2 minutes of actually watching the video he's supposed to be criticizing while of course pausing every 20-30 seconds to spend at least 5 minutes per just making an ass out of yourself and proving why your channel wont ever take off from this type of content. It genuinely feels like WT just replicates the Hasan style of watching a video and critiquing the creator which just nothingburger arguments and statements that have no actual value or merit to make a claim against WIAH. The thumbnail literally accuses him of racism and I see no evidence of it whatsoever, especially when you play less than 3 minutes of the whole video and make us stare at it for over 20 minutes. If you consider this guys video "good content" please find a specialist to talk to. If you're mad about what I've said then go ahead and straw man and correlate meaningless assumptions about me, I still dont give a shit. Tired of seeing lackluster unworthy content like this all over KZbin in general.

[@justalurker3489]

Look man, yeah this video is making fun of someone, but it's not exactly pretending to be anything else. Frankly WIAH 's content is literally just making up alternative scenarios, which on its own isn't bad. However the amount of ridiculous assumptions he makes is staggering: the beginning of this video shows a bit where WIAH claims that humans naturally enjoy killing. It took a few seconds for him to say that, but for someone to explain why that's a stupid thing to say takes much longer, starting with the lack of consensus on human nature generally. Why do you expect anyone to treat WIAH's ideas with any sort of respect or rigor when he clearly doesn't put any serious research into his videos? Frankly he's getting laughed at because that's how people should treat ideas of his, because they're so terrible it's funny.

[@mallardofmodernia8092]

Anyone can link a source and read books however, accurately using that ability and not spewing ill thought out bs is more impressive. This guy is mocking him, because proper criticism simply isn't needed when the other side is shotgunning low effort arguments and reasoning. Again on the whole humans killing eachother, there were cases in many wars in the opening hours or weeks of the conflict before dehumanisation set in or after dehumanisation wore off where troops either had stalemates/staring contests, waited for one side to just surrender or avoided confrontation all together either by fraternisation or going separate ways, it takes pretty strong justification for someone to kill another, now the justification might not be logically sound or factual in nature but it will be strong. For war propaganda or financial incentive is always needed. Those who enjoy or want to kill with 0 strings attached are in the minority and if they weren't we would not be a social species.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

Sorry, I missread your user name and thought you where WhatIfAltHistory himself. You're still a c-u-n-t, but in a normal way that didn't call for an insult

[@SwipSedai]

thinking whatifalthist has read more books than anyone is really fucking funny, he won't read a book written after 1960.

[@AtnH]

@@justalurker3489 Thank you, more well put together than a long video of someone just insulting him. Though this does the same a little.

[@SabracadabrO]

You’re just as bad…old news..l

[@westsidetyler]

Lead poisoning ellipsis

[@SabracadabrO]

@@westsidetyler You from Detroit aye?,punching low with a low effort clown like wtfist,isn’t the victory you think it is,you’re just following a cringe script thats Well worn & boring now,chuck in some spongebob clips & you’re fitting in nicely..

[@matthiassommer8084]

not sure if you are aware, he's a canadian

[@Merble]

Netnadians are just Americans anyways. He's never been outside, in actual Canada, to be called a Canadian.

[@matthiassommer8084]

@@Merble prolly right, and just to cover my @ss, didn't mean anything, except for him meddling his nose where it don't belong, cause if I'm not mistaken he's hispanic immigrant descendant too (latam boy here, btw)

[@Merble]

​@@matthiassommer8084 Any race can be racist against any race and Rudyard Lynch is definitely racist against several races. It is weird that a Canadian would be so militantly supportive of US right-winger nonsense though, it's almost like some external group/country/dictator influences vulnerable people online. Weird right?

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

That explains why he seems to think twitter activists who share Buzzfeed articles are the only type of left-wing American that exist