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

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Radola Gajda said:
As we can see in @Mudkipcorn post most of his family are far more successful than minor e-celeb and internet schizo he is. So of course he is insecure.
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He honestly doesn't even have anything to be insecure about, he DOES have a channel with 700,000 subscribers, which is nothing to scoff at.
Even if all of what he brags about (Audi, house) was bought with daddy's money... there's literally nothing wrong with that, unless you're an insane lefty.

He could shrug and laugh off all criticism easily, but the insane delusions of grandeur, the obvious chip on his shoulder, and his insistence on being respected by strangers is what earns him all this ridicule.
 
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Doinker Marmalade said:
He could shrug and laugh off all criticism easily, but the insane delusions of grandeur, the obvious chip on his shoulder, and his insistence on being respected by strangers is what earns him all this ridicule.
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such is the plight of cows. 90% of the people featured on this site, including rudy, could solve all their problems by simply logging off. he should at least take a break.
 
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Doinker Marmalade said:
Even if all of what he brags about (Audi, house) was bought with daddy's money... there's literally nothing wrong with that, unless you're an insane lefty.
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There kind of is, if you want to portray yourself as some smart, charismatic, succesful young man.
There IS nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't carry the same weight at all when a person gets any of that through their own hard work.

Rudy wants to be admired.
Saying you have a house and an audi would be admirable if it required hard work. Not as much if you just have rich parents.
 
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Syntaxion said:
There kind of is, if you want to portray yourself as some smart, charismatic, succesful young man.
There IS nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't carry the same weight at all when a person gets any of that through their own hard work.

Rudy wants to be admired.
Saying you have a house and an audi would be admirable if it required hard work. Not as much if you just have rich parents.
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Yeah, exactly. If he could go 20 seconds without bragging about it, people might actually be inclined to believe he is a successful guy living lavishly off his 700k subscribers.
He is different from other cows in that he doesn't really seem too bad at first glance. His videos are full of stupidity and inaccuracies, but so what? There are a million other breadtubers with absolutely deranged videos who are lower-hanging fruit than he is.
 
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Doinker Marmalade said:
Yeah, exactly. If he could go 20 seconds without bragging about it, people might actually be inclined to believe he is a successful guy living lavishly off his 700k subscribers.
He is different from other cows in that he doesn't really seem too bad at first glance. His videos are full of stupidity and inaccuracies, but so what? There are a million other breadtubers with absolutely deranged videos who are lower-hanging fruit than he is.
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I think that's part of why he stands out; if he was dyed-in-the-wool progressive he'd be indistinguishable from the mass of pretentious white guy video essayists once he moved his content away from alt-history. But because he has some opinions that are vaguely right wing it lets him garner a lot more attention by virtue of having less competitors and more scrutiny.
 
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Computer God Autism said:
I think that's part of why he stands out; if he was dyed-in-the-wool progressive he'd be indistinguishable from the mass of pretentious white guy video essayists once he moved his content away from alt-history. But because he has some opinions that are vaguely right wing it lets him garner a lot more attention by virtue of having less competitors and more scrutiny.
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For me, the best Rudyard stuff has always been unique to him.

There are a lot of right wingers on the Internet promoting ideas which are just as dumb, and often more dangerous, than anything Rudyard has ever proposed. At least he's never stooped to "Hitler was based".

I don't think Rudyard is uniquely stupid or immoral for a right wing "leader", but there's a levity at play which is exclusive to him. I love his misspelled slides. I love the choppy editing and AI graphics in his videos. I love his stilted ad reads and his boomer fear of Communism. I love how he's clearly never kissed a girl, and really wishes that he had.

Also, in my view, the contradictions in his "philosophy" are the interesting part; not the ideas.
 
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vettii said:
I don't think Rudyard is uniquely stupid or immoral for a right wing "leader", but there's a levity at play which is exclusive to him.
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I want to agree, but I've seen enough people that were like him in the video essayist sphere either troon out, get outed for something dark (I've said it before but his talk about mass rape in the incoming incel revolution gives me Linkara vibes) or go completely insane that I can't bring myself to be that optimistic about the chances of any laughs at his expense being over just him being a harmless midwit in the next few years. Even if he doesn't go off the deep end and remains relatively unchanged in the next four or so years I'd just find it more depressing than laughable.
 
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I wanted to forget about this guy since I was fed several of his videos a few years back. Nothing bothers me more than self-aggrandizing know-it-alls claiming things about the universe without any expertise or experience or useful evidence, then running from that bailey into the motte of "it's just a prediction" or "I'm just a guy on the internet!".

If you're going to make Alex Jones-level predictions - you'd better be entertaining like he is, because otherwise you're just a broken coin-operated crystal ball. I remember getting similarly annoyed at Extra Credits and for the same reasons.

Then recently, I start seeing one Rudyard Lynch appearing as a guests in other shows I watch. I hear him getting mentioned by the oddball psychology sex-dating guy who draws pictures hoe_math, and then he did a recorded interview in meatspace with John Papola of Dad Saves America on his YouTube channel.

I know Dad Saves America is kind of a mid-level, pasteurized American middle-upper class conservative show - and actually has less visibility than Rudyard, but the man is insightful, and I watched as he haplessly took this kid on his show and asked him serious questions about his predictions in "Incel Revolution" while Rudyard just hand-wringed his predictions, sweating bullets "I mean, I don't know how civil war will unfold in America!"

Watching him get brutally exploded by the host asking pointed questions and hearing his answers (frankly, the kind of answers a 24 year old kid would give when he realizes he's in too deep) straight up embarrass him actually did make me chuckle.

Lynch's show reeks of a lot of inexperience, but backed by a lot of business savvy - something I presume is supplied to him by his rather upper-class upbringing. It's a shame he has absolutely nothing of value to say - because I think, judging by his twitter, his lolcow destiny is certainly inevitable. He really hasn't gotten out of high school headspace. I'm sure other casters and shows I listen to are going to take Rudyard on and pretend to take him seriously which is kind of entertainment in itself.
 
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