YOUTUBE: you like history
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO

December 13, 2025 - 07:19 UTC

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This happened to my husband! He was shocked by what YouTube thinks of him, lol
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Seriously, this is what everyone needs to do:
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This is a great way to train the algorithm, for real.
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Youtube’s advertisers keep trying to sell me a spear “for self defense.” 🤔
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The Visigoths are coming!
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Oh nooooo
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Gotta stay on your toes!
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A personal policy of mine is to exit any conversation as soon as possible if my interlocutor says any variation of the phrase “I’m something of a history buff.” I’ll usually go straight home to be on the safe side
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fascism inducing machine
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Safest way to learn about the Roman Empire these days
youtu.be/3r1weUhf5EI
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See also Townsend's for 17th/18th century US.
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@mikeduncan.bsky.social is pretty wholesome, too...
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And the safest way to learn about Vikings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vT-9yx3ZDs
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Also it will somehow Nazi-proof your algorithm!!!! Not a joke, my husband discovered this is a known hack
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Fr fr
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Love Tasting History, but if we’re talking Roman Empire on YouTube, I gotta plug Tribunate: m.youtube.com/ href="/profile/tribunateSPQR">@tribunateSPQR
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Those jerks killed and ate flamingoes I’m glad the Roman Empire fell.
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Max is the best! <clacks hardtack>
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I love Tasting History!!
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This is immediately what I
thought of
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And yet I can't help wondering how many of these details an actual upper-class Roman would have left to the household slaves...
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Me: Doug DeMuro is kind of fun in a goofy car guy way.
Youtube: You like cars!
Me: Sure, cars are neat.
Youtube: You watched Sunk Cost Galaxy. You like video games!
Me: Sure, although that's more about a train wre...
Youtube: Here's some videos about how awful women are!
Me: ...
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I am halfway through JC’s Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, I want to watch a video about how far the Romans explored, I don’t want to have to parse for white supremacist dickheads. I miss the history AU/ADHD nerds with genuine interest. I want to read an anotated Gallic Wars parsing & analyzing JC.
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I start seeing posts about alimony and I’m like, shut it down!
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Youtube has decided I need two genres of video: sewing and why Japan doesn't want tourists.

Astounding depths of content in both.
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Same. Plus eurobeat and people debunking conspiracy theorists, which I do enjoy.
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I get the opposite videos about Japan

Although…. For a while it was “this is how you get a Japanese wife” so… gross
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