Reacting To The Best and Worst History Tiktoks (Aliens built the pyramids?) 

Yeah, I shudder when I imagine how much human history has been lost to humid environments decaying paper books or simply oral histories passing out of memory.

I bet the fires are all started civilization-building aliens to cover their omni-present tracks. I mean what are the chances that there'd be several instances of things being burned, information things, all across the globe through out many centuries? Almost every human invention, ancient to modern day, is secretly the doing of time-travel alien angels. Our only genuine achievement is making so many varieties of flavored Oreos.

I have to keep people on their toes. Emerge to their surprise. All RU-vid is based on deception.

Two of my favorite channels man haha

Oh my god! Kings and Generals lol

uiiii! my other favorite commenting on my favorite

​@@mr.fishmanman They are loking for inspiration for Pacific WW2 498th battle and "Invasion of ukraine"

Glad you enjoyed it! It's great to hear positive feedback because I was very nervous doing a content change 😅

@@CogitoEdu I enjoyed this format, as well.

Awesome, thank you!

Amazing, this is nice to hear! The animated videos will always be the bread and butter of the channel. But it's nice to know that people enjoy other stuff.

It's a deepfake

@@joshuataylor3550 😆

.....too true, it hurts.

shame that Poles are pretty racist now.

Australia’s highest mountain was named after Kosciuszko, named Mount Kosciuszko (previously spelled Kosciusko, and pronounced as Kozzy-oss-ko). It was named by a Polish explorer Pavel Strzelecki because of it’s resemblance to Kościuszko Mound in Krakow, Poland. I like hearing about what a top bloke Kościuszko was. It’s sort of fitting to name the highest mountain after such a giant of history.

Yeah I tend to see the obsession and proliferation of conspiracies as a systemic educational failure than some sort of personal failure. If people do not have the information or tools to combat disinformation than you can hardly blame them for falling for that kind of stuff. There's a reason it's usually pre-history or pre-Columbian history that has so many conspiracies attached to it, they're some of the least taught history.

No Emu War? ☺️

American History is very much the same. The world started and then there was the Revolution (there was only one, ever), and only bad, unpatriotic people didn't rebel, because everyone agreed that the King was awful. And from then on, everyone knew the US was the Best.

Is Australia actually Neverland? (You mean Captain Cook and you should feel embarrassed that you exist).

Same with the US and Canada. None of these countries want to confront their mistreatment of the nations they harmed, in part because they are still greatly benefiting from it. US education may mention indigenous people being mistreated; it will not characterize it as genocide though, which it was. It will discuss slavery and the mistreatment of the descendants of those slaves, but treats this as an unfortunate thing that happened long ago, not something that's still harming millions of people through its consequences. It certainly doesn't discuss the US' unparalleled affinity for installing murderous dictators in other countries, or its penchant for killing civilians en masse in its wars or through its foreign policy. American imperialism is not part of the curriculum, but for a lot of the world it has been a fact of life.

I think you make a good point and yes there is still a lot of Eurocentric or British focus of Australian history. But Australian History does teach a lot of ancient, medieval and modern history from across the world and you HAVE to cover at least one Asian country in ancient/medieval as well as European... whilst still doing Civil rights in US and Australia and World Wars. Sooo there is not too much wiggle room to do more Aussie history unless you risk being ignorant of the rest of the world and global ancient and modern cultures! Would hate to be like US or England and only learn about patriotic, national stuff

Word. (old school)

yea 焚書坑儒. Qin was such a bad 15 years in Chinese history.

"oops" x 10x1000 = global ouch

Yeah my favourite part of history is learning about all those little stories too! Every country usually only teaches the stuff from their country when there are thousands of fascinating stories to learn about.

Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah book burning is a special crime against history 😥

So glad to hear that, I was nervous at how this would be received so your feedback is really nice to hear :D

That whole video sucks man how the heck did they have knowledge from before ancient Egypt

@@hiddenhist Wisdom of the ancients maaaaaaaan *hits bong*

Thank you so much 👍

@@CogitoEdu : D

Yeah the guy was combining every pre-Columbian civilisation and calling it Mesoamerica. He also showed Inca architecture, it was a mess.

Thank you. I'm settling in fast and so the next video should be out pretty quickly. I've got some really exciting projects lined up for 2023 :D

@@CogitoEdu Awesome, I can't wait! I hope Uruguay treats you well.

Honestly history is so vast it's impossible to know everything. Even the most trained and well read historians barely know 0.1%.

@@CogitoEdu I guess that's true, what I found from this video is that my knowledge of pre 1800 Americans is like non existent, I only know the basic stuff Mayas were good at astronomy, olmec built weird statues etc. But this video inspired me to learn more about these cultures , I hope you do more like this vid, your knowledge is inspiring 👍

Yeah I was the same up until a few years ago. I knew next to nothing about the pre-Columbian Americas other than a few references in movies, bad documentaries, and Age of Empires 😅. But learning about these cultures has probably taught me more about history than anything else I dived into. There's so much undiscussed yet fascinating stuff there.

I'm happy you're subscribed too!

Glad you enjoyed it! I've got some really exciting projects lined up for 2023!

Thank you, glad I'm not the only one that finds those theories so boring and unimaginative. The Olmecs are fascinating enough without having to add aliens into the mix.

@@CogitoEdu I have always always always been irritated at the inherent racism of those kinds of things. “Certainly Africans and American Indians couldn’t have developed stacking-rocks-on-top-of-each-other technology without outside help.” And I kind of left it there, but you hit the magic combination of words to make me realize that, yeah, their conspiracy theories are really bland and uninteresting. So now I’m thinking, “you know guys, even if aliens DID come and blah blah blah, you would still find a way to make it seem boring.” Here’s an ancient saying that I just invented: “If your paranoid delusions are less interesting than the truth, then you’re doing it wrong.” :)

There is a fascinating paper written about this that I mentioned while recording but I did a bad job explaining it and cut it. It could be a whole video.

Happy to hear you liked it. This was really fun to do!

@@CogitoEdu omg you replied! Yup to be honest all your videos are constitently high quality with a lot of thought and care. Even without your equipment and drawings, I think you still have that core knowledge, charisma and research that sets you apart from others. When doing new types of videos I think you know what your fans like and expect so we have total faith in the quality of content. Hope the move and new country goes well! How exciting.

Ha, I've visited Uruguay at least once a year for the last 8ish years, I really love it here.

Thank you!

Good to know that you enjoyed the change in style. It was nice to go easy-ish on a video for once 😂

So glad to hear you enjoyed it. I really enjoyed making it even though I also don't like reaction videos. But when used as jumping off points for explaining further context I think it might actually be a useful style of video.

Awesome, that's nice to know. I'll always keep doing and improving the main videos, but knowing I can take a break every now and then is very reassuring.

My wife is Uruguayan and I've always liked it here.

Mad at the qin now