I'm subscribed to that guy, he seems decent. He reminds me of Horror Stories, because he cuts the crap and gets straight to the point unlike sp00py channels like Nexpo, and he doesn't do cringy clickbait like MrBallen or those true crime channels with annoying girls in the thumbnails.
As far as I know HM is fine, but again, they dont cite sources. There are some vids where they do if I remember correctly, maybe the older 10 minute ones.
Jabzy is kinda of an interesting channel. I remember first seeing his channel when he did a trip from japan across Eurasia back to his home in Britain. I remember at least in his older videos he tried to strive to be unbias. He had one of the most impartial takes on the Yugoslav wars. His stuff can sometimes fall under Generic content farm but I would say he is at his best when he is talking about obscure less documented historical topics. I have seen people point out factual errors of his in the past so take him with a grain of salt but over all I do recommend Jabzy.
If he had spergy takes on Twitter or Reddit he might deserve his own thread (though maybe he has old reddit accounts saying dumbshit like 'we should disinter all Confederate soldiers and try every Axis war vet for warcrimes')
The jokes issue could be resolved if he pit footnotes in the video like Armchair does. From what I have seen he isn't new to editing so it can't be that bad.
I didn't say I took his jokes seriously. I just said I found them charming since they come from a very obvious British nationalist.
I could've sworn I mentioned Simon Whistler in the OP, maybe I missed him. There is no way however he is able to operate dozens of channels without some errors. Most of them that I have caught have been fuck ups with dates or years where presumably someone in the editing or reviewing doesn't notice it. His channels are very much contentfarms however with the amount of videos they pump out.
I am surprised that not painting the natives are nature loving hippies is allowed in current year.
So Felton is the Potholer54 of history channels? A stereotypical Anglo educated type who benefits from that fact that most people born between 1980 and 2000 have been conditioned from childhood to view anything said by such a person as factual? It's the pre-Clown World BBC style of presentation.
Yes. He's mostly benign since he isn't insufferable, but he is hated in tank circles for being a smoothbrain who misinforms people. He's an old style "historian" who thinks WWII was this fantasy land where an M6 can penetrate the Tiger II (even from behind its almost impossible). On the other hand, Lindybeige is seen as similarly worthless teeaboo; all he knows is that British stuff is the best. If you want a brit who is actually funny, entertaining, and informative, watch Chieftain's videos. Speaking of, here's this horrible collab they had.
It's the anti wehraboo pendulum swing I've mentioned earlier in this thread. The wehraboos spent years praising the tigers and panthers to be the greatest tanks of the war, curb stomping all opposition with ease, so to "own the nazis" their opposition decided to focus entirely on the strategic shortcomings of the germans panzers. Every tank video that mentions german tanks will inevitably have a mouthbreather making a joke about the drive train breaking.
So why do old style historians have such fanciful views of tanks? Were they reliant on a handful of memoirs published immediately after the war, while newer historians focus more on field tests or declassified war archives or something?
Basically, yes. You hit the nail on the head; archives and field test materials have only become more widespread and available recently, while before people based most info off of memoirs, diaries or journals. There was also a poorer understanding of tank doctrines and exactly what was going on behind the scenes. That's not to mention that only nowadays there's a sizeable collection of tanks all over the world, including the minor miracle that is the reconstruction of the 7TP tank. As time progresses, more information is extracted from whatever people can uncover. Aforementioned is the entire polish tank programme which has been studied more recently, and they had some extremely promising designs.
I agree completely, and I know just how troubled Germany's industry was and how they leaned into Sweden for steel. Some of the bombings caused... tragic events for tank history, including the destruction of the Hungarian Tas tank.
im biased towards the panther since its my favorite german tank ever , but anyone with a brain should see that the panthers drivetrain wasnt that big a issue and is overblown by the fact that like , most of the testing of it happened post war by crews that didnt train on it or could even read the manual.
The only tank that it would apply to in a valid way is the Tiger II, and to a bigger extent the Jagdtiger. The rest are decent vehicles. Johnny boy here thinks the Germans would've won through the use of the StuGs and Panzer IVs.
Um achsually he says the wouldnt help them , so uh , nazi btfoThe only tank that it would apply to in a valid way is the Tiger II, and to a bigger extent the Jagdtiger. The rest are decent vehicles. Johnny boy here thinks the Germans would've won through the use of the StuGs and Panzer IVs.
What does Unknown5 do? Never heard of him.
I recently checked if I was still subscribed to a few pop history channels that kept getting recommended to me, Potential History included, just to make sure I quit getting their content fed to me.
Have you heard of Voices of the Past? They do exactly that.
Basically what I said he does. Its just pan and zooms of art/photos combined with generic youtube storyteller narration. He has an odd habit of presenting the information twice for each topic, one more like a summary of a movie where the author leaves out the ending and one a bit longer with more details and a transition to the next topic. Once you watch a couple videos you'll pick up that he's rewording wikipedia style articles and padding out what information he has by repeating himself. He gets called out in the comments for this, but like I said the videos make for good background noise and have sparked my interest in a few events/people I wasn't aware of before.
No I haven't checked them out yet. Thanks for the recommendation.
That's either got to be the blandest content imaginable or the most intelligent YouTube business model.
Oh God, the cynical historian. He might be the biggest lolcow out of all of historytube.
I use to really like him at one point in the beginning but man did he become an insufferable twat.