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

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

it tracks. pic rel is a 2012 A3 but could be something else, a few other models share this same design language.

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A local dealer has one with 110k miles for $8k, maybe I too can become a based gigachad like our boy Rudy.

So Rudy wasn't bullshitting about the Audi, then again it is an older model so it cancels it out.

 

[Frederick Weber]

In the middle of part 2 he says he recently asked his dad for money because his YT income took a huge hit even though his views and subs are up (all creators I know of say their CPM is way down, but he seems to take this VERY personally) and how much it hurt his pride.

That's interesting, is he referring to his views being up now or is he talking about a previous time? Because I compiled some very solid evidence that his channel is preforming much worse now and experiencing significant decline.

Basically, I used some data autism to scrape his channel for statistics, and I managed to obtain a list of all his videos, their view counts, and the dates published. From there I sorted out all the abnormal content (YouTube shorts, podcasts, livestreams) to be as charitable as possible since these had abnormally low view counts due to not being the normal video format, then grouped the data by year and by month. From there I was able to obtain the below graphs which measure his channel's total views by year, by month, and the average views per video during each month.

The graphs are a bit hard to read, but I'll outline a few significant trends I observed.

1) His yearly total views dropped ~55% from 2022 to 2024 (though increased 40% from 2018 )
2) Although his total views in 2024 increased compared to 2018, his average views per video in 2024 were only ~20% higher than they were in 2018 (and ~45% lower than in 2022)
3) His channel peaked around 2020-2022 and has been slowly and significantly declining in both absolute views and average views per video over the last 2 years

I'm not sure how finances are calculated for YouTube, but someone more knowledgeable than me about that might be able to correlate Rudyard's statements about the money he made to a specific time on the graph and back-calculate a general amount of money he made for the views in that period, then extrapolate that to his current views for a rough estimate. If it's true that his CPM has declined, then he's experienced a two-fold decline of losing both total views and money-per-view.

It's also interesting to note Rudyard's story of his channel's success since he claims that it occurred due to him realizing college wasn't for him and 'grinding' on his channel, but the data clearly shows that it was significantly influenced by luck. During 2020 is when views across every channel increased due to covid lockdowns and remote work, and this time corresponds exactly to when his channel blew up in popularity. On a year-to-year trend, his channel actually was in decline from 2018-2019 before covid happened, and if you look more specifically on the month-to-month trend, his channel's huge positive trend started in exactly March of 2020, the exact time lockdowns started occurring.

 

[888Flux]

This is a lolcow / prospering grounds worthy how exactly? Nothing in your OP stands out. If I take any niche internet celeberity and analyze every single one of their posts I am bound to find something I disagree with or think is bizzare. Why not just post this over in multimedia or something?

Wow this aged great. Lmao

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

This is no longer a thread for making fun of Roger this is where we spread the gospel truth of taking large amounts of parody and killing gods have you ever killed a God no you have not

the first part where it just starts talking about his grandfather who is apparently some sort of pseudo mythic Catholic crusader Celtic knight who thinks all actresses are ******

https://x.com/CorpusCol

supposedly this is his dad's Twitter account

 

[Computer God Autism]

In the middle of part 2 he says he recently asked his dad for money because his YT income took a huge hit even though his views and subs are up

Drugs are a hell of a drug.

 

[vettii]

This post isn't super relevant to recent events, but for anybody wondering why Rudyard's knowledge of history, and pretty much all topics, is so baffling, here's one thing that nobody's mentioned.

Rudyard doesn't read

We're all familiar with Rudyard's claim. "After getting out of high school, I read 800 books about everything."

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By now it's an old line, and the current count is proudly displayed on Rudyard's goodreads profile. The number of books isn't important. The interesting part is the user reviews he's served.

Spoiler: More reviews. Big Pictures.

He straight up says that he hasn't read 4 out of the 20 books on the first page of reviews. Across the next three pages he'll admit to having not finished 11 of the 60 listings. 18% could be taken as a representative sample. He probably hasn't read 144 books in 800 book claim. And then notice that Rudyard listened to at least one title on audiobook.

It reminded me of a weird tweet from Rudyard earlier this summer, where he's reading Fall of the Third Reich and then he's listening to it in the same breath. Idk about you but if my job was making YouTube videos about history, I'd want to "notice" the content of my sources.

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Lots of people listen to audiobooks at work, but it's interesting that Rudyard isn't actually reading if his channel is his income. If he's trying to be a scholar, his job should be reading scholarly text. But he doesn't. He listens to audiobooks while playing RTS games, and loses details in the writing when his villagers revolt. He's "listening" to academic works on audiobook, on kratom, on CBD, and sometimes Ayahuasca. But that's okay because it's actually in his genes.

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When I picture him researching for videos, it's similar to a stoner watching Ancient Aliens.

 

[VoieDeFait86]

Not entirely impossible that his family is incestuous.

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Are you seriously alleging this Adonis sex god needs to do anything other than exist to get women?
Don’t you know he had 10/10 instathots come onto him when he ran his billionaires LA social club, and that a crazy eugenics nazi girl declared she was his side piece?!?

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How could I forget that our boy of course turns all these hoes down because his standards are high, for a woman to be worth his time she needs to be a relative and rape him be more interesting than a night sitting alone reading and listening to heavy metal.

 

[Cheesy Beavy]

I’ve drank kratom plenty of times. What the fuck is that dude mixing it with? That is NOT the face of someone drinking kratom. The shit is GROSS. Obviously I believe he’s actually drinking it considering recent events, but he’s drinking it so casually. No wince on his face, no distgusted face, nothing. No reaction. Either dude found a miracle to mix with it or dude has drank A LOT, to the point the taste doesn’t affect him and that’s fucking scary.

This is coming from a dude who has done it for a couple stents of drinking it every day for a month or more. Maybe he’s making tea with it, which I was usually too lazy to do, but I remember even that being pretty gross. The only semi bearable thing I found was black coffee.

TLDR : Rudyard is definitely a shaman God among mortals.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Rudy on a copyright strike spree.

 

[Elite Kipchak]

one of his parents and/or a sane adult seriously needs to get in contact with him and tell him to just turn off the internet for a month

 

[Rimanah]

Rudy on a copyright strike spree.
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This quite interesting. I’m still of the opinion Rudy is going crazier, but he’s clearly still sane enough to realize how bad this looks.

Not that there’s any really good way for him to get out of this. Even if it he isn’t crazy he either:
A) lied and accused multiple innocent people of abuse and rape; or
B) told the truth about those things but decided to reveal that in a marketing stunt of all things.

 

[Doinker Marmalade]

This quite interesting. I’m still of the opinion Rudy is going crazier, but he’s clearly still sane enough to realize how bad this looks.

Not that there’s any really good way for him to get out of this. Even if it he isn’t crazy he either:
A) lied and accused multiple innocent people of abuse and rape; or
B) told the truth about those things but decided to reveal that in a marketing stunt of all things.

It's not that he's sane enough to realize it's a bad idea, I suspect someone is doing PR for him by forcing him to delete everything and not talk about it and pretend nothing happened, he is too narcissistic and delusional to make that decision on his own.

 

[Samhain]

I’ve drank kratom plenty of times. What the fuck is that dude mixing it with? That is NOT the face of someone drinking kratom. The shit is GROSS. Obviously I believe he’s actually drinking it considering recent events, but he’s drinking it so casually. No wince on his face, no distgusted face, nothing. No reaction. Either dude found a miracle to mix with it or dude has drank A LOT, to the point the taste doesn’t affect him and that’s fucking scary.

This is coming from a dude who has done it for a couple stents of drinking it every day for a month or more. Maybe he’s making tea with it, which I was usually too lazy to do, but I remember even that being pretty gross. The only semi bearable thing I found was black coffee.

TLDR : Rudyard is definitely a shaman God among mortals.

I was going to say something about this. Kratom tastes like tea that someone took a shit in and then added a sprinkle of dried, crushed up rat spice on top of. There's no way to make it palatable in my opinion. People just consume it so much that they stop minding the foul flavor. Rudyard must be consuming it daily, and has been for quite a while.

 

[Rimanah]

It's not that he's sane enough to realize it's a bad idea, I suspect someone is doing PR for him by forcing him to delete everything and not talk about it and pretend nothing happened, he is too narcissistic and delusional to make that decision on his own.

The only issue I see with that is that if someone had such power over Rudy, they’d likely be able to force him to get the mental help he needs, and that would almost certainly include institutionalization or some other form of isolation from the internet.
Maybe that has happened or is in the process or happening, but I don’t think we’d be seeing the DMCA strikes then.

My money for now is that Rudyard isn’t so far gone as to realize how bad this video looked to everyone else but he still 100% believes it though. Give it a few years and a few more megadoses of Ayahuasca and he’ll be a regular Terry in no time.

 

[Radola Gajda]

Rudy on a copyright strike spree.
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I wonder will he declare incel jihad against Maori fruit farms?

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

I honestly believed he would spiral into becoming an alt-right activist instead of this. I remember seeing his videos a few years ago and his takes were incredibly awful. He was so full of himself and conceited, while his actual historical and political takes are surface level. I'm not too surprised to see him on here now.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

It reminded me of a weird tweet from Rudyard earlier this summer, where he's reading Fall of the Third Reich and then he's listening to it in the same breath. Idk about you but if my job was making YouTube videos about history, I'd want to "notice" the content of my sources.

That's not even considered a good book on Nazi Germany because it's really out of date and it was written by a crazed communist who said demonstrably false things like Hitler was supported by big business which is not true whatsoever I mean I don't like ticks politics of him being a libertarian but he at least understands how the real world works

 

[Romulus augustulus]

I honestly believed he would spiral into becoming an alt-right activist instead of this. I remember seeing his videos a few years ago and his takes were incredibly awful. He was so full of himself and conceited, while his actual historical and political takes are surface level. I'm not too surprised to see him on here now.

I thought he had some good content when he was focused on history, but once he moved on to this jordan peterson-esque inceldom stuff i tuned out.

 

[Cheesy Beavy]

I was going to say something about this. Kratom tastes like tea that someone took a shit in and then added a sprinkle of dried, crushed up rat spice on top of. There's no way to make it palatable in my opinion. People just consume it so much that they stop minding the foul flavor. Rudyard must be consuming it daily, and has been for quite a while.

Spoiler: TMI about kratom and my experience

Ok, I didn't wanna shit up the thread with kratom talk but I will. To anyone that is uninitiated with kratom, to drink it like this is fucking INSANE. Seriously fucking NUTS. I said I had taken it for AT LEAST A MONTH (probably more like 2/3 months the first time I was on it and at least a month the second) and still after that time STILL THOUGHT IT TASTED EXACTLY LIKE YOU'VE DESCRIBED. I've tried it with many different drinks and the only SEMI palpable one is black coffee, probably because they're both bitter af. The fact dude drinks it without much of a reaction should tell people he's been on this shit for a LONG ass time. As in daily, multiple times a day, daily. There isn't a reaction to the taste and OP's analysis of the taste is basically spot on. I've never tasted literal shit but you can imagine that's basically what kratom tastes like.

He may be making tea out of it (which may be more palpable, it's been a decade since I've made the tea like once or twice) but that's not really the best way to take it. You WANT to ingest the raw ingredient for the full affect (which I'm assuming he wants).

I think this should only go to prove how FUCKING NUTS he is a God among mortals.

I literally can not imagine how much kratom he takes DAILY. I've heard of withdrawal effects from kratom. I personally have never experienced them. But if someone is gonna have them, it's definitely going to be him. Dude has to be taking like an oz a day or something fucking crazy at this point. When I was on the shit heavy I took maybe two tablespoons MAX (I really didn't measure) and that's me drinking it two times a day. I literally can not imagine the amount and consistency he's drinking kratom to get to this point.

 

[Doinker Marmalade]

The only issue I see with that is that if someone had such power over Rudy, they’d likely be able to force him to get the mental help he needs, and that would almost certainly include institutionalization or some other form of isolation from the internet.

Well, that is assuming this hypothetical person actually cares about Rudy's well-being and mental health.... which in this hypothetical scenario I would assume they are only trying to safeguard the grift the OCD will be.