YouTube Historians/HistoryTube/PopHistory

I've heard the history guy mentioned here, and I have to say I think he's one of the most neutral of these channels and covers obscure topics with a pretty good amoung of detail. Stuff like the plane collision before 9/11 into the empire state, the long winter of the late 1800s, etc.
I didn't mention THG in the OP because he really is just a neutral old boomer telling strange tales of history, guy is probably one of the most genuine channels in that crowd.
 
That is extremely autistic but my views on ET have lowered with some of those tweets. I always assumed he was an autistic lolbert obsessed with Georgism.

Rhodesia LARP is one of the cringiest things out there, but good God do anti-Rhodeyboos take the cake for being more cringey. It's the whole wehraboo shit from the 2000s all over.
At least it makes sense why there are Rhodieboos. A tiny minority who successfully turned the place from an iron age tribal backwater to a (kind of) modern nation holding out against nigh-endless commie hordes with better equipment than them, but still wrecking them militarily until the end without giving a shit about the rest of the world's condemnation just sounds badass. And once they're finally ground down Mugabe does such a shit job that he proves them right (though to be fair if they just gave in to majority rule in '64 they might have gotten saner leadership and merely descended to the African average rather than the meme country that Zimbabwe became) . Too bad most of their fans consist of ageing mall ninjas from Soldier of Fortune and/or niggerkiller88 types, who completely ignore the other half of the Rhodie's skill- the ability to convince so many natives to keep fighting for them despite everything. It is amusing to see them overrun the comments sections of vids that present the superficial mainstream narrative of the conflict though.

Also closer to the topic, Mark Felton seems a bit too good. I really hope he isn't a pro-Chinese shill or something like that.
 
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Most of his problems come from genuine ignorance/stupidity rather than any actual agenda. The video most emblematic of this is his "top 10 events I wouldn't be able to predict" where he can't understand why Scandinavia couldn't sustain a colonial empire, he can't understand why Latin America is third world, why India isn't a superpower, etc,

The guy is just dumb, and most of his historical knowledge likely comes from YouTube and video games.
I'll never understand why the production quality of these channels like Monsieur Z or Whatifalthist is so shit when they have patreon and sponsorships. I'm pretty sure they're using fucking Microsoft Paint and Movie Maker, which they have no excuse not to upgrade to real production software by now.
Some of the thumbnails, like this one, hurt my fucking eyes.
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Mark Felton is a one youtube historian I'd highly recommend, in part because he's an actual qualified historian who has written quite a few books on his subject of expertise - the Second World War, and also because his videos are great for background noise.
 
I'll never understand why the production quality of these channels like Monsieur Z or Whatifalthist is so shit when they have patreon and sponsorships. I'm pretty sure they're using fucking Microsoft Paint and Movie Maker, which they have no excuse not to upgrade to real production software by now.
Some of the thumbnails, like this one, hurt fucking my eyes.
Probably because they started out as tiny one man channels and don't want to change too much. Dovahhatty didn't change that much in art style, he just increased the level of detail & video length as he got the Patreon bux and connnections to get better artists. I kind of like the sketches anyway, it would be pretentious to have some slick graphic done up for what is obviously just the speculation of one guy who likes to read (or more likely play Paradox games while the audiobook plays in the background).

Now that I think of it, SandRhoman has stayed pretty much the same the whole time too (aside from some of the earliest vids). I think he'd be in the "Quality Control" category, but not sure.
 
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At least it makes sense why there are Rhodieboos. A tiny minority who successfully turned the place from an iron age tribal backwater to a (kind of) modern nation holding out against nigh-endless commie hordes with better equipment than them, but still wrecking them militarily until the end without giving a shit about the rest of the world's condemnation just sounds badass. And once they're finally ground down Mugabe does such a shit job that he proves them right (though to be fair if they just gave in to majority rule in '64 they might have gotten saner leadership and merely descended to the African average rather than the meme country that Zimbabwe became) . Too bad most of their fans consist of ageing mall ninjas from Soldier of Fortune and/or niggerkiller88 types, who completely ignore the other half of the Rhodie's skill- the ability to convince so many natives to keep fighting for them despite everything. It is amusing to see them overrun the comments sections of vids that present the superficial mainstream narrative of the conflict though.
I admire Rhodesia holding out despite being mostly isolated from the international community (Based Saffers gave no shits back then). Hell Ian Smith from his latter interviews seems to have had a good vision of a white and black led government.
Also closer to the topic, Mark Felton seems a bit too good. I really hope he isn't a pro-Chinese shill or something like that.
I've heard some shit online about him stealing work but that is in the minority of what I have heard.
 
Mark Felton is a one youtube historian I'd highly recommend, in part because he's an actual qualified historian who has written quite a few books on his subject of expertise - the Second World War, and also because his videos are great for background noise.
He also tend to dig up lots of really obscure/underreported events and tidbits to make videos on. So even if you've read and watched a lot of history on WW2, there's a good chance you'll learn something new.
 
Surprised this wasn't posted here, and I'm not sure what OP thinks about OverSimplified but his latest video on Napoleon dropped a few days ago.
Even though I'm pretty sure he's gotten things wrong at times, which is going to happen when you "over simplify" events, I always enjoy his videos. He puts a lot of effort into them production and writing wise. The humor might not be for everyone though, but it's typically non-offensive and I think makes history fun for beginners, high school/college students and just anyone curious about historical events kinda like the history of the world/Japan videos by Bill Wurtz.
 
Surprised this wasn't posted here, and I'm not sure what OP thinks about OverSimplified but his latest video on Napoleon dropped a few days ago.
Even though I'm pretty sure he's gotten things wrong at times, which is going to happen when you "over simplify" events, I always enjoy his videos. He puts a lot of effort into them production and writing wise. The humor might not be for everyone though, but it's typically non-offensive and I think makes history fun for beginners, high school/college students and just anyone curious about historical events kinda like the history of the world/Japan videos by Bill Wurtz.

 
Surprised this wasn't posted here, and I'm not sure what OP thinks about OverSimplified but his latest video on Napoleon dropped a few days ago.
Even though I'm pretty sure he's gotten things wrong at times, which is going to happen when you "over simplify" events, I always enjoy his videos. He puts a lot of effort into them production and writing wise. The humor might not be for everyone though, but it's typically non-offensive and I think makes history fun for beginners, high school/college students and just anyone curious about historical events kinda like the history of the world/Japan videos by Bill Wurtz.
I don't watch enough OverSimplified to have felt confident in placing him in the OP. I did forget to mention History Buffs, the historical movie reviews channel with has spergy moments.

My favorite is the Agora review where he starts acting like a euphoric atheist claiming how advanced the world would be if Christianity hadn't been so dominant.

There are other examples like his crusader video where he uses the old Dark Ages claim basically saying how Europe never learned anything from about the 500s until the 1100s or his Columbus video which turns into the usual cope and seethe about some dead guy.
 
I don't watch enough OverSimplified to have felt confident in placing him in the OP. I did forget to mention History Buffs, the historical movie reviews channel with has spergy moments.

My favorite is the Agora review where he starts acting like a euphoric atheist claiming how advanced the world would be if Christianity hadn't been so dominant.

There are other examples like his crusader video where he uses the old Dark Ages claim basically saying how Europe never learned anything from about the 500s until the 1100s or his Columbus video which turns into the usual cope and seethe about some dead guy.
He also ended his most recent Midway review with a huge rant about the movie giving tribute at the end to japanese soldiers who died in ww2 and how it's in poor taste because of the brutality of the japanese forces in ww2.

Seems a bit eurocentric honestly.
Western powers developef a cartel system for the treatment of POWs after centuries of conflict between monarchs who often happened to be related. War in Europe became a sort of regulated affair where all parties would follow the rules or risk facing a coalition war.

Japan never experienced this development, and all the way up to ww2 fought against other nations who would show no mercy, and execute captives
 
Potential history was my least favorite history tuber , his gup videos were mildly interesting but read like a wiki or reddit post , and his "germany could not win ww2" series was , as mentioned in op , anti wehraboo cope that ignores any and all possibilities of germany winning just to own le eval natsees!
But his worst sin is his non existent upload schedule , he has at least 3 series on his main channel that have yet to be capped off and he hasn't uploaded in 5 months and hasn't updated his patreon since December.

I didn't see him in OP so if im blind i apologize , but armchair historian deserves to be talked about too , from his average shit tier YouTuber "hurdur youtube is killing my Channel guises" to his shitty website he charges people money to see slightly edited videos and original content , to the now lost 9 to 11 minute video of him ranting about why he needs to censor and charge for his site and why he doesn't have a patreon. (He claimed his videos cost 3 to 5k to make and that he has a large staff , sorry I didn't archive the video)
To note , it used to be free to watch the uncensored versions of the videos on his site , he changed that with the release of his "life in occupied poland" video and retroactively changed that with all of his videos , im guessing that prompted the video i mentioned.
 
He also ended his most recent Midway review with a huge rant about the movie giving tribute at the end to japanese soldiers who died in ww2 and how it's in poor taste because of the brutality of the japanese forces in ww2.
I haven't seen his Midway review yet but that sounds autistic. Every combatant committed some level of atrocities from bombing civilian centers to mass deportations and murders.
I didn't see him in OP so if im blind i apologize , but armchair historian deserves to be talked about too , from his average shit tier YouTuber "hurdur youtube is killing my Channel guises" to his shitty website he charges people money to see slightly edited videos and original content , to the now lost 9 to 11 minute video of him ranting about why he needs to censor and charge for his site and why he doesn't have a patreon. (He claimed his videos cost 3 to 5k to make and that he has a large staff , sorry I didn't archive the video)
Sadly a lot of History channels seem to be hit with demonitization and takedown if the subject is WW2/Warcrimes. It is annoying to bitch but given the production value on some of these channels and the fact they usually don't get sponsorships every video (either some shitty gacha or something like Manscaped or ridge wallets) I can see why they would be upset YouTube decided their videos weren't advertiser friendly. Some channels like TimeGhost alleviate this with Patreon Buxs but I doubt all of them can rake in a lot from Patrick to cover production costs.
 
Potential history was my least favorite history tuber , his gup videos were mildly interesting but read like a wiki or reddit post , and his "germany could not win ww2" series was , as mentioned in op , anti wehraboo cope that ignores any and all possibilities of germany winning just to own le eval natsees!
But his worst sin is his non existent upload schedule , he has at least 3 series on his main channel that have yet to be capped off and he hasn't uploaded in 5 months and hasn't updated his patreon since December.

I didn't see him in OP so if im blind i apologize , but armchair historian deserves to be talked about too , from his average shit tier YouTuber "hurdur youtube is killing my Channel guises" to his shitty website he charges people money to see slightly edited videos and original content , to the now lost 9 to 11 minute video of him ranting about why he needs to censor and charge for his site and why he doesn't have a patreon. (He claimed his videos cost 3 to 5k to make and that he has a large staff , sorry I didn't archive the video)
To note , it used to be free to watch the uncensored versions of the videos on his site , he changed that with the release of his "life in occupied poland" video and retroactively changed that with all of his videos , im guessing that prompted the video i mentioned.
Well the guy is a retard. Nazis actually could have won the war actually if their orginal plan hadn't been fucked. Nazis had many advancements compare to other European countries hence beginning of the war they were winning against the allies. They had plan to attack the the U.S before the U.S even joined the war. but their alley Japan fucked up the plan for personal grudge and attack the U.S one year earlier ruinng that plan completely. Also it said if Spain had officially join the axis the war would have lasted a year longer.

To say the Nazis had no chance of winning the war is ridiculous.
 
Well the guy is a retard. Nazis actually could have won the war actually if their orginal plan hadn't been fucked. Nazis had many advancements compare to other European countries hence beginning of the war they were winning against the allies. They had plan to attack the the U.S before the U.S even joined the war. but their alley Japan fucked up the plan for personal grudge and attack the U.S one year earlier ruinng that plan completely. Also it said if Spain had officially join the axis the war would have lasted a year longer.

To say the Nazis had no chance of winning the war is ridiculous.
I don't think the axis could have invaded the US. They just didn't have the fleet to compete with the US.

But Germany could have taken the UK out with a hail mary invasion in 1940 or if they got their hands on the French navy.

And the USSR was close to surrender, with peace talks ongoing in Stockholm in 1942 and 1943. If Japan and Germany focused on the USSR rather than bringing America into the war it might have ended with a axis dominated Eurasia
 
I don't think the axis could have invaded the US. They just didn't have the fleet to compete with the US.

But Germany could have taken the UK out with a hail mary invasion in 1940 or if they got their hands on the French navy.

And the USSR was close to surrender, with peace talks ongoing in Stockholm in 1942 and 1943. If Japan and Germany focused on the USSR rather than bringing America into the war it might have ended with a axis dominated Eurasia
Like I said the Nazis were indeed planning to invade the U.S. but plan to do it later like 2 or 3 years laters. Again Japan fucked up their plans with that.

It's clear Germany would have been able to take control of Europe.

Again some of their plans got fucked and which sent them back a bit
 
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