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Recently, with airing of "Masters of the Air", the WW2 US Bombers guy is getting a lot of views. I always liked his videos, as he always shows his full primary source documentation onscreen, with the relevant passages, charts, or tables highlighted so you can pause and read it in context, instead of just having to take his word or having to read isolated excerpts.

He has the patience and knowledge to pore over and pick through pages and pages of equipment manuals, wartime statistical surveys, reports, and analysis to answer all the questions I ever had about the American strategic bombing campaigns in Europe and the Pacific, but was not interested enough to find on my own all those primary source documents. And it's pretty refreshing that he draws all his conclusions from primary sources and wartime/immediately post-war USAAF documents only.

Another WW2 youtube guy I like is HandGrenadeDivision. I think it's originally the channel of a Canadian reenacting group, so there are lots of videos about the minute but practical details of things like Wehrmacht infantry patrol tactics and planning/execution of combat operations and TOE and rank system, but they also do a lot of video essay series on interesting topics like analysis of the Wehrmacht's internal legal justification for some of its war crimes.
 
Looking back at this thread. I'm surprised that Zoomer Historian hasn't been mentioned yet.
But I'm also not surprised. As it's the most uninspired, bog-standard, Wehraboo/Nazi Sympathiser content imaginable.
Germany dindu nuffin, it was just a few bad apples, and the Allies were a lot worse.
 
Prester John powiedział(a):
Looks like Atun-Shei dusted off his Civil War costumes again. I refuse to reward it with a click.
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His checkmate Lincolnite videos, where he would cherry pick the worst pro confederate comments from the replies and put them into the mouth of a confederate soldier were always his most popular videos.

He's gone back to it, to try and promote his movie which has gotten zero cut through even though its been promoted by other YouTubers such as BrandonF (whomhe used to enjoy shitting on) . Atun Shei is at heart a wannabe film maker but he's stuck with an audience that wants short form content that gives them complete validation of the political views, not a two hour film set in 17th century colonial America. That looks like a student movie because it fucking is.

His last Checkmate Lincolnite video got 1.4 Million views, this one got 64K, and there are even some fans expressing very polite disappointment in the comments.

I think one of his problems was his promoting the removal of confederate statues, smarter influencers seemed to have realized that while the removal may be justified, that a lot of people (ie people that watch their content) would have problems with how it was done. Such as for example melting down a statue of Robert E Lee, inviting the press to witness it and then using it for some shitty Art installation funded by public money. People may not have gone on social media to rail against it, but at the same time will have quitely noped out of consuming content by creators that glorified it.

I mean Atun Shei used to be a guide at Gettysburg how the fuck does he go from that to gloating about monuments being torn down?

Anyway his channel isn't dead but he's never going to be as big as he was.
 
Another WW2 history youtuber I like is Crocodile Tear . He mainly does 2 types of videos:
  1. documentation of his extensive investigative process to identify and connect specific WW2 battlefield relics and captured artifacts to their original owners, sometimes contacting the owners or their descendants to reunite them with the relic. Many of these videos are about items related to WW2 battles in southern France, where he is originally from, but he really seems to do all kinds of Western Front items traced to French, German, British, and American soldiers. Random people often contact him with info about an item they have with some name or serial number written on it, and if it interests him, he may research it.

  2. documentation of his participation in private/non-government battlefield archeology and recovery of WW2 human remains, mostly in Russia, though one time I think he went to Croatia for a dig at a German field hospital cemetery and he has done an excavation here or there in France and even North Africa. Similar to the first type of videos, sometimes he documents his process of identifying individual human remains through tracing ID tags and other personal items recovered with the remains.
I know there are tons of people these days doing videos to document their participation in WW2 human remains recovery in Russia (or pulling rusted out Mosins and PPSh's out of bogs), but I think he was among the first to do that kind of video in a non-Russian language. He has a professional background as a physician, so he also can provide some pretty good medical context and forensic insight for the types of injuries, surgical trauma, and ultimate cause of death for many of the WW2 human remains that he documents.

Every now and then he also does interesting one-off videos not related to WW2 battlefield archeology, like WW1 artifacts or analysis of specific WW2 incidents or battles that happened in his home region.
 
Mister Z made a short video on the regions of Russia:
I've always wondered what was in the obscure regions of Russia (aside from gulags and Mongols) and this video is a good primer on the topic. Mister Z could be branching out from his usual American history fare, that could be interesting.
 
King Of The Kiwis powiedział(a):
Am I the only one who hates Cody from AHH. He larps as a "trad cath" on twitter when he basically is a 90s democrat.
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His saving grace, if you can call it that, is that he’s self-aware he isn’t that smart, so has gone more into entertainment videos recently (pointless hub channel for example). He’s a libtard but has enough middle-America rust-belt self-awareness to prevent him going full breadtuber (not to mention the odd Catholic conservatism). For years he identified as a “Christian Socialist”, which makes him an enemy of everybody online.

Personally, his little brother Tyler is better, but he has issues figuring out how to YouTube effectively (he started putting livestreams as unlisted and is now making people donate/pay him to see extra videos). Very annoying.

I like both of the Franklin brothers tbh, but they’re both mid-level YouTubers who are sadly in the worst place for the algorithm to screw with them.
 
Bubba Hernandez powiedział(a):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yaGc4jMGcVU
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This vid is mostly just Rudy's usual copypastas under a slightly tweaked title, but there's some new bits of milk and wisdom in it.

First the milk: At around 12:25 Rudyard declares himself "an empath" then likens himself to Bismarck (a fellow empath) while saying he can't bear to enter cities anymore due to their despicable aura (which "feels like tar" to him). Kipling 2.0 then says he also feels this aura online, especially on Twitter, where any call for empathy he makes is shat upon. He then says he can't understand why everyone's gone mad over the Israel-Palestine war.

Kikes V. Towelheads has maddened the West because it breaks our understanding of the world. We've been taught that Jews are holy holy holy and that non-whites are holy, "holy" meaning "small, oppressed, and harmless." But now the oppressed are oppressing, the small are big, and both sides make Cesium 186 look cuddly. This is like an AI-killing paradox to modern Western thought. Also think of this paragraph as one of Rudy's textwalls.

Now the wisdom: Nu-Kipling is a wolfcrier and fearmonger, but it's true today's political drama must end in climax (don't lol this is serious). He's right when he says the right-wing can't launch an early uprising as then they'd all be arrested and lose. He's right in saying the military's support is key in setting the length and intensity of this climax (DON'T). If the military picks one side then it'll be more of a coup or political revolution; the more split the military is the more warlike things will be, with campaigns and sieges. Logical. His other predictions? Ehhh...
 
JJLiautaud powiedział(a):
Thoughts on DJ Peach Cobbler?
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The video series about Cortez and whatnot was pretty fucking good in my opinion, very unique (on Youtube anyway) approach to go with, source criticism essentially. And of course the topic itself is very underutilized. His other videos about the Romans are good too, and I suppose his gaming videos are fine too, but I'm glad he pivoted towards history.
 
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