WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch - History youtuber, galaxy brained, no credentials and no sex

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

"I nearly died four times"
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The picture of his dad earlier in the thread (no offense to Mr. L) should tell you everything

He does not live for himself he lives for others he seems to want others to see him as "acceptable"
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I wonder if his techbro friend had something to do with it (the timeline sort of lines up) because from a new short "I barely escaped Peru!" he puts the time around the start of lockdown for him leaving which is around the time his techbro friend made an appearance

Found this comment on his newest video.

For someone who complains about his generation, he sure does share a lot of traits with them.

 

[vettii]

This is more speculation, but my theory is that he took ayahuasca when he was in Peru, and that started his spiral into drugs. He's mentioned multiple times that he lived in Peru for a while, and in another video (How Death Creates Everything) he says that he almost died when he "went on a shamanic spirit quest and went to Hell". This isn't too far-fetched because there is a company called SpiritQuest which operates out of Peru and uses ayahuasca, and having a bad psychedelic trip around 2019-2020 aligns to around the first time he started diverting away from his normal alternate history content in mid-2020.

If Rudyard did psychedelics he would tell us about it in every video. Suspiciously mentioning it once and never again, at a time when half his content is about mysticism, is all you need to know he's lying here.

He can't let the Appalachian trail go after 5 years. If he did shrooms once that would be his entire Twitter feed for the next decade.

 

[Frederick Weber]

If Rudyard did psychedelics he would tell us about it in every video. Suspiciously mentioning it once and never again, at a time when half his content is about mysticism, is all you need to know he's lying here.

He can't let the Appalachian trail go after 5 years. If he did shrooms once that would be his entire Twitter feed for the next decade.

That's fair, but he actually has alluded to it in his Did the CIA Discover the Spirit World video. As per his own words, "I've personally had some spiritual experiences when I wasn't ready for it, and it can be horrible." Given that he talks afterwards of the negative effects it had on people he knows, especially describing personality changes, to me that sounds far too powerful of an effect to be a spiritual experience that doesn't involve drugs. He also has alluded to it a few times on twitter when talking about his "near death experiences," posting about it from March 2022 to November 2023.

I think the difference between this and the Appalachian trail is how he perceives the events. To him the Appalachian trail story is a form of proof to how successful and brave he is whereas this was obviously a negative experience for him, so he's much more likely to brag about the Appalachian trail story since it has potential to feed his ego in some way. IIRC, he has only mentioned the story of his suicide attempt when he was 15/16 a few times as well, with one being a massively verbose twitter post where he ultimately ended up using the story to brag about his accomplishments again.

I don't think he's entirely lying about the event itself because the thing to remember about Rudyard's lies is that they're usually not invented wholecloth but rather an extreme distortion of an actual event. He's a "professional historian" because he talks about history and makes money from it, he's a geopolitical consultant because he's talked to people about geopolitics, a branch fell in a place that potentially could have killed him so he had a near death experience, etc.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Views + watch-time bump. The shorts are genuinely thoughtless but he posts four or five in a day usually, and when it's all said and done he has at least 50K extra views to show for it. It's super helpful for him in YouTube's algorithm and it takes five minutes to do.
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I like that he stopped wearing his glasses too. Between this and his CBD experimentation we may be entering the Dark Rudyard era.

>High school never ends
Sounds like something straight out of a blackpill channel like DBDR.

 

[scathefire]

the thing to remember about Rudyard's lies is that they're usually not invented wholecloth but rather an extreme distortion of an actual event.

Yeah the suicide thing is also an exaggeration because all he did was hold a kitchen knife and consider hurting himself, the phrase “suicide attempt” implies you actually did something, like swallow pills, jump off a bridge, etc. and survive. If he had deeply cut himself and almost bled out I’d consider that an”attempt”.

 

[Frederick Weber]

Rudyard's horrible grammar and misspelling is supposedly done on purpose to own his teachers. Really not beating the high school resentment allegations.

 

[Southern_Cowboy]

His entire personality really is "High school and my parents did not stroke my ego failed me and this is why my life is shit the west is going to collapse"

"Boomers who know nothing about MY problems"

"Don't blame me it was my mommy and daddy who made this happen"

 

[Elite Kipchak]

i know i'm late but the dismissal of the "vikings" (and pirates? lol) as some kind of unified political system in the most recent video genuinely made me MATI. what a fucking retarded faggot. I know it's been brought up before but he definitely gets his entire understanding of history from strategy games.

 

[MajinGoku]

Rudyard has an ugly as hell beard, its too bottom heavy to look good. He should either shave it or grow more facial hair on the midpart of his face.

Also two questions

Where the fuck are rudyard's parents and why arent they helping their son who is a schizo drug addict its not like they dont have the money

What is the cause of rudyard's ptsd some people are saying from almost dying on the applachian trail but rudyard was schizo before that

 

[Foxxo]

Given that he talks afterwards of the negative effects it had on people he knows, especially describing personality changes, to me that sounds far too powerful of an effect to be a spiritual experience that doesn't involve drugs.

So Rudyard THOUGHT he had PTSD, took psychedelics and kratom because he heard they would cure PTSD and addictions, and the psychedelics GAVE him PTSD and a kratom addiction?



(Rudyard goes over his kratom habit a lot in other videos.)

 

[Mudkipcorn]

So Rudyard THOUGHT he had PTSD, took psychedelics and kratom because he heard they would cure PTSD and addictions, and the psychedelics GAVE him PTSD and a kratom addiction?



(Rudyard goes over his kratom habit a lot in other videos.)

This has been spoken about a bit in the thread by I want to put this out there with the knowledge I have from myself and others I know in real life.

Kratom has effects very similar to pharmaceutical opiates. But the peak effect is far lower in terms of positive feelings or being obviously intoxicated. It's not like 'real' opiates in that you can't just take more and more to the point where you're nodding off into a pleasant dreamlike state (or dying). Past a point, taking more of it won't do anything but make you throw up. It produces the same general feeling but the extremity of it is far lower.

Like pharmaceutical opiates (or heroin, I suppose) it is absolutely addictive. But, just as the feelgood effects are much weaker than with opiates, so is the manifestation of the addiction. You will experience withdrawal if you take it for long enough. That withdrawal is much less intense than what people addicted to stronger substances get. All but those with serious addictive personalities can wean off the substance or just deal with feeling like shit for a few days without too much struggle.

Like with nicotine/alcohol/classic opiates, the early stage of withdrawal manifests itself as relatively mild anxiety, both physical and mental (if you understand what I mean by physical anxiety). So a lot of people who are just ignorant or in denial get addicted without realizing it. Kratom, like nicotine, is great at relaxing the user. The problem is that if you take it too frequently, it produces far more anxiety than it alleviates. Sounds like what Rudyard has gotten himself into.

So if Rudyard is using kratom daily, he needs to reconcile himself to the fact that he is addicted to a drug (albeit a fairly mild one).

As for psychedelics, it takes a truly deranged person to develop an addiction to those. He's just yet another one of those kids who wants to talk about their trip far too much. I mean, I get it, these are incredible, indescribable substances, but the people who talk about them a lot tend to be a lil cringe if not totally off the wall.

Edit: People also have discussed drugs changing Rudy's personality. Psychedelics absolutely have, as evidenced by all his spiritual nonsense. Even if you only trip once a year, some people do react that way to psychedelics. As for kratom, I would say that it has a far lower impact on how a habitual user comes off when you compare it with how being an everyday weed smoker, a wetbrained drunk or a speedhead changes people. Not saying it doesn't affect people who are addicted, but the changes are more subtle. Based on people I know, I would say it might make you a little bit more confident (in a manner that's annoying to others) and less able to let small frustrations slide. It could also make you have a generally flatter affect. Perhaps more glowy for a couple hours after dosing and more vacant in the following period.

So I think kratom could make him a little bit more likely to sniff his own farts but psychedelics are responsible for the broader changes in his views (or at least the expansion of his areas of interest into more subjects).

 

[Southern_Cowboy]

Where the fuck are rudyard's parents

Divorced

 

[vettii]

I take it back. He's definitely fucked up on drugs lol.

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[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Where the fuck are rudyard's parents and why arent they helping their son who is a schizo drug addict its not like they dont have the money

Earlier it was brought up that Rudy's mom is borderline insane and the dad is rich and presumably didn't care. So you can put the two and two together.

>High school never ends
Sounds like something straight out of a blackpill channel like DBDR.

If you haven't grow out of your high school phase by the time you're 20-21 at latest, you got big problems.

I take it back. He's definitely fucked up on drugs lol.

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He says he intentionally misspells words as a way to flip the metaphorical bird at his high school teachers. If that isn't a way of saying "I'm a sore ass petty motherfucker" I don't know what is.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

If you haven't grow out of your high school phase by the time you're 20-21 at latest, you got big problems.

That's a common side effect of never leaving your hometown but not everyone ends up that way.

 

[Breadbassket]

It's sad that for all of his success as a Youtuber, Whatifalthist is still somewhat driven by resentment about his past and high school. He's relatively young and still has plenty of time to sort himself out but life is too short to dwell on that so much even if the feelings surrounding such notions are genuine and legitimate.

As for his habit of distorting actual events of his life to make himself seem more grand then he actually is maybe that has something to do with some kind of insecurity issue. Maybe he wants to impress his audience or get them to like him more? People undervaluing their accomplishments is one thing and others making exaggerated claims about their own history or status are another.

 

[JesterTheMad]

That's a common side effect of never leaving your hometown but not everyone ends up that way.

Bull fucking shit. for 1000's of year people were born and died in the same fucking home, let alone city.
It's a modern problem, too many games/toys, not have any responsibility for 18+ years, and not being allowed to bet the shit out of retards.

I'm 33 and live with my parents so I can help them out, I pay for the home, food, car, internet, phones. I cook and clean.
I work 1 and for 6-7 hours a day and I can pay for all of it alone.

Not everyone is getting kicked out of the home at 18 like Amretards. multi generational homes was and is the norm in all of history and most of the world.

If your are a fucking loser, you going to be a loser no matter where you live , you can move too any place in the world and you still be a loser.

 

[Star Spangled Bogger]

Where does Rudy think his life will be in 20 years?

Top General of one of the sides of the 'inevitable' Second Civil War of the United States of America.

 

[Lindy64]

Rudyard sadposting

 

[Frederick Weber]

As for his habit of distorting actual events of his life to make himself seem more grand then he actually is maybe that has something to do with some kind of insecurity issue. Maybe he wants to impress his audience or get them to like him more?

In my opinion it mostly has to do with needing to inflate his success to stick it to his classmates and teachers from high school who thought he wasn't intelligent or important. I've put myself through the terrible burden of actually watching most of his videos and he did reveal an 'origin story' which explains a lot about his ego. In his podcast Common Ground episode 6 he revealed that he now considers himself to be pretty intelligent, but no one in his school ever told him he was, it was amplified by also getting bad grades, and his opinion on his own level of intelligence didn't change until he started youtube, where people began telling him how intelligent he was. He also even admits that he's resentful about the educational system because they made him do things like have proper grammar and do math correctly which he considers unimportant.

Now for one, he's not actually intelligent as he claims, and I can elaborate more on that if anyone would like but I'll keep this post on topic on the origin of his ego. The origin of his ego is entirely from the feedback he received on his youtube videos when he blew up during the pandemic. As by his own admission, he never really thought he was intelligent during high school (which was affirmed by the fact that no one else thought he was alongside how he got bad grades) so he was a lot more normal back then. When he got popular, people would constantly say how intelligent he was since he had a lot of history knowledge, and this just grew over time until he began to actually believe he was intelligent. When he evaluates his past now, he does it from a perspective that he's intelligent, which leads him to believe he was some smart kid who was held back not only by his classmates and teachers, but by the entire structure of the education system.

To me this is really the key narrative that explains most of his positions, he perceives himself as an above average, intelligent, successful, etc. person who was treated as average or below by everyone around him and he's extremely bitter about that. Everything he does ultimately HAS to be contextualized within this oppression narrative: education is completely broken (because it failed an intelligent man like him), the ruling class are evil (because they are mean leftists like his teachers and classmates at his leftist quaker private school), academia is wrong and broken (because they didn't let a brilliant academic like himself into their elite circles), etc. He certainly does hold rightwing positions, but in my opinion this more likely because it fits better within his personal victim narrative than because he just believes it that deeply. All his politics seem to be derivative of the fundamental idea that modern institutions are irreparably broken (because these institutions oppressed him), which then expands into him finding every reason as to why society will completely collapse because of these failed institutions. To evidence this a little more, if you pay attention many of his posts about wider societal problems do ultimately seem to be (in some way) about himself. For example, in the tweet below he makes a point expounding on the virtues of not overthinking, citing how giving academics money and power in society is a negative, when someone pointed out how odd it is that he mentioned a random example of riding a bike. He flatly admits that this was about his own experience, which is a fair piece of evidence that he will insert himself and his own issues into posts that are supposed to be generalized about politics/society.

Furthermore, he seems to view himself now as some sort of counter-academic/revolutionary intellectual figure, as evidenced by some tweets below alongside a clip from his A Manifesto for the New Right, and that's not even to get into the delusions of grandeur about how he views his credentials.

TLDR: All of this is to conclude that his ego comes from youtube comments constantly calling him intelligent, which led him to believing he actually was, which then led him to becoming resentful towards his high school classmates, teachers, and most institutions in society who he now perceives as having wronged him. This (and likely his potential psychedelic/drug/alcohol problems) has led him into a downward spiral of egotistical insanity where he believes he's a revolutionary counter-academic intellectual guru spiritualist who is making an actual academic body of literature, alongside influencing some sort of revolutionary rightwing movement against the far right and far left. Just to add some icing on the cake, here's him saying in his video How to Survive the Coming Crisis that he's more successful than everyone in his high school and college, including those who went to Ivy League universities.