I'll start with one that doesn't seem directly related but correlates so closely that I can't help seeing the "tell" as a warning: putting "kappa" in a sentence like a punctuation mark. I've never seen an online conversation that started with that tell and didn't wander into final solutions and 14 words if it went on long enough. I know it's a :freeze-gamer: thing but it's not like there isn't already a wide overlap between :freeze-gamer: and :frothingfash: .
I like watching history youtube. Sometimes I'll find a new channel, start watching videos, and everything seems fine at first. Hey, they're talking about ancient human migration and how different groups influenced other groups, this is interesting. But then sometimes they start talking about haplogroups just a bit too much and I start to get a queasy feeling that the channel is going in a direction that I'm not going to enjoy.
"Ancient aliens" must have built anything that they did but not the wonderful things that we did. :morshupls: :us-foreign-policy:
Oh for sure, any indication that they don't think any people group with darker skin than a paper bag couldn't have built impressive ancient sites is a giant red flag, a flashing light, and a klaxon siren.
I should add that the thing that gets me about the haplogroups is that it seems innocent at first. It's interesting to see how groups of people migrated across the millennia and what effect they had one one another culturally, and DNA is a way of seeing who met and mingled with who. So the first couple of times, in the right context, it seems perfectly reasonable and quite interesting. But then I start noticing it comes up kind of a lot, and I start having questions about this guy's preoccupations and what point he might be driving at. So it's more sneaky than the ancient aliens thing, at least in my experience.
Yeah, I call it the Pottery/Calipers Ratio, and it must be kept above 1. Real archeologists are all about the sherds. Because cultural diffusion is ultimately more important that the eye color of a particular hunter gatherer goup.
That's a perfect name!
Mainland Africa doesn't have any giant impressive fortifications because colonizers blew them all up and looted them for treasure.
Do you have any history youtube recs? I gave up on it a long time ago lol.
Sometimes I consider putting my history degree to use and start a youtube channel but ehhhh I don't have the time/don't want to deal with certain aspects of the youtube community
If you ever start a channel, I'd love to watch it! But I certainly understand deciding not to wade into the weird world of being a youtuber. As for recommendations:
*fashion history and actually constructing garments (as you can probably tell, this is a particular interest of mine): Abby Cox, Bernadette Banner, Elin Abrahamsson, Nicole Rudolph, Morgan Downer, Karolina Zebrowska
*bad history debunking, also random topics in history: miniminuteman
*often a focus on LGBTQ history, but not always: Kaz Rowe
*experimental archaeology, kind of I guess? Specifically in Scotland: Fandabi Dozi *Chinese history, also sometimes pop culture criticism: Xiran Jay Zhao
I also use youtube to watch old episodes of Time Team, which I adore. Timeline World History Documentaries are a mixed bag. There are some that are interesting, and a lot I pass on.