Internet Historian Appreciation Thread - The best thing to come out of Austrailia since Mad Max (The original, obviously)

Patrick Not-Star said:
I got 15 minutes in and then quit. This is a long-form recap of a recent mainstream news story, not Internet history. IH is not a real historian, nor is he really trying to be one. He needs to go back to covering Internet events. I don't know if this video is plagiarized, but it still has the same slop quality to it.
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I wish he would go back to Internet history too. That's far more interesting to me then recent IRL events that have gotten plenty of coverage already. And there have been plenty of interesting going-ons around the Internet that don't get any sort of exposure. Sure, the Ever Green incident was discussed on the Internet for a few days but then you would just be talking about the what people were saying about it at the time, which isn't really that interesting. So, you're kind of forced to discuss the event itself which defeats the point of being an "Internet" Historian. At least the Covid stuff was heavily Internet adjacent and had plenty of material in regards to the Internet. But videos like this, which I still found entertaining, has next to nothing related to the Internet itself.
 
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Whiny like that should’ve killed himself has a retarded hit piece on IH. Here’s his statement.


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Anstiv said:
Did he manage not to plagiarize anyone this time?
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Onion Lover said:
The thing with the whole plagiarism situation was that it was a resolved issue. Even before HBomberguy’s video, IH’s video had been removed and reuploaded with credit given to the original author and site. All that video accomplished was digging up a corpse. HBomber’s video seemed like a thinly veiled hit piece under the guise of a “look at this filthy plagiarist”, especially with the grasping at straws for “nazi dog whistles”. Pretty sure HBomberguy admitted he couldn’t find any other instances of plagiarism from IH either.
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Imagine such a faggot that you still believe that Commie
 
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MugolEx said:
I wish he would go back to Internet history too.
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I know this is the equivalent of "it gets good in season 3!" when talking about a TV show, but around the 38 minute mark he starts delving into the internet's reaction to it and what people online proposed as "solutions" to fix the blockage, so it's not entirely without internet coverage at least.

I think the issue with trying to cover internet history is due to ever-increasing control over it, it's harder for people to have fun with it. Though there's probably 3 significant events in recent history he could probably cover, but they might be too politically charged to cover in a way that doesn't put him on one side or the other, such as Musk's acquisition of Twitter, the Adpocolypse, and now Ofcom/sudden simultaneous censorship spree.

I think the fact the internet is a lot less anonymous and a lot of major events could lead to you citing specific online personalities who you don't want to raise any beef with would probably shun him away from doing stuff that isn't driven by largely anonymous users, which would probably be the reaction to the Ofcom stuff if he does cover some actual internet history in the future.
 
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mxte said:
Yeah I would like for IH to go back to internet history as well. Like a video about Concordia, or about Zone 51, or about COVID, or about video game development, or about crazy religious guy thinking it's gonna be the end of the world soon. Such an internet history. His content was so good when it was 8 minutes of explaining one single meme.
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I've enjoyed his longer content covering a noteworthy event or individual too. I'd watch videos both on his main channel and the videos on Storymode. "In the Field" I usually take or leave. The only content of his on main that I kind of shrugged my shoulders at was the "fancy"-series stuff but it was still funny and occasionally interesting, but I guess he stopped it because whilst it required less research overall and could come out faster, the returns were far fewer whereas the "big budget" (longer, more researched, single topic) videos get huge returns.

I think the fondness for his internet-stuff was that it was shorter, required less research, and so came out more frequently, which means more IH, whereas covering stuff like the Concordia or the guy trapped in a cave are much longer, far more research, and thus take much more time to come out as this canal video demonstrates. I also noticed he voiced it entirely himself (though I think I heard some AI?) which may have contributed to the production time.

So yeah, I do like his longer videos that aren't necessarily internet-based, but I understand why people prefer the old days.
 
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I actually really enjoyed this video partly because it made me think of something I never would have otherwise. While it was mostly a bunch of mockery and jokes on our side of the screen, I can't imagine how cool it must have been to be there in person when they finally got the ship loose. It also made me just a tiny bit sad because I remember when it finally got unstuck my reaction was more or less "Fucking finally, you goddamn retards." but I never really gave too much though as to why it got stuck in the first place, or the people who had to bust their asses to get it unstuck.
More than anything, I fucking learned something and that's more than I can say about most youtube videos.

And for the retards in the thread saying "DIS IZNT INTARNET HISTOREE", you dipshits clearly were on fucking roblox being groomed by pedophiles while it was happening. This was a massive internet story and there were shit tons of memes about it. This has far more to do with internet history than an old guy portending the end of the world or covid 19.

Ace888Ace said:
I eagerly await the day accusations of sexual impropriety emerge about him, as they inevitably do about all Breadtubers and associated vermin.
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Hbomberguy is already a sexual predator for donating money in furtherance of the genital and physical mutilation of healthy children in the name of progressivism.
 
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The video was fine. The problem was that the subject was not juicy enough nor matched IH's style. I think if he had done this on a separate channel as a fully serious and dry video it would have worked much better.I think he just didn't have any other subject that was the right mix of safe, popular and enough time passed to allow data sufficient for a video to collect. Covid made the world boring and we're still recovering from that.
 
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Good video, but does he have to make some of the annotations dark as shit? I can barely read them.
 
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electrician's apprentice said:
is this just how it's gonna be every time he uploads?
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Due to the nature of the site itself, bringing up every single slight or sin committed by an individual whenever possible is guaranteed to happen. You see it in Sseth's thread too, where his Dwarf Fortress (and also Space Station 13?) plagiarisms and frequent porn-image inserts are brought up every once in a blue to shit on him. The part where "hate" becomes irrational is when the crime doesn't match the emotional intensity felt by the hater. Hbomberguy's entire video claim and source of ire comes from the fact IH didn't link to the original article when he initially posted the video, and the he sorted it out with the owner of the article as opposed to its writer, and then never revealed this fact to his audience — who didn't and still do not — give a shit. Hbomberguy fans still hop from video to video to seethe about this shit despite being old news, and the people parroting it here are barking up the wrong tree. Even if the claim wasn't loaded with asterisks, it's still asking us to feel pity for a journalist.
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From someone on the farms, I also think it comes from a desire to be on the "ground floor" of hating someone before everyone else starts to jump on board. This pays off sometimes (SyntheticMan, Piratesoftware, Boogie), but other times it's probably not gonna yield fruit because the target of said hate just doesn't raise enough red flags to make a-logging worth the effort — which I need remind you, is just for the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so." Also some people just wanna be faggots — occam's razor, and all that.
Activelo said:
Good video, but does he have to make the annotations dark as shit?
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Since he's portraying the event in the format of a narrative, the annotations elaborating or correcting on stuff might be viewed as "distracting" or something, or would result in stretching the length even further as he tries to include it in dialogue, or so I imagine. It also allows him to stretch some details or have it inconsistent to what was discovered at the time without anyone jumping up his ass about later on (like the CEO apologising happening the day after it's portrayed in the video). He also doesn't need to go on tangents regarding the exact specificity of certain things if he provides the alternative explanation below.

Having said all that, the reason this video might've taken a hell of a lot longer to do is because he's not just explaining the event, but rather, he's acting it out in some comedic dramatization, which means he's doing dialogue and narration alongside basic explanation and even more basic animation, so the runtime is going to be extremely bloated.

The annotations are too dark though. I didn't even realise there were any until the part regarding the treatment of ballast water.
 
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Not sure if this makes sense, but I like how IH has released more videos than Hbomerguy in the timespan that Hbomberguy called out IH and tried to cancel him.

Also as cool as the editing in this video was, it would be nice if he put more effort into making quantity instead of quality because this just took way too fucking long for a video that arguably wasn't worth the wait.

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