It started off with cool shows like Mail Call but then degenerated into the Hitler Channel.
Dude yes! Whenever I’m on holiday I throw on the history channel for some light entertainment and it’s either WW2 Hitler or trash like pawn shops and black smithing
Those have a place but it consisted of 80% of the content
History channel 24/7 in 2023: “All accomplishments of ancient societies, but especially non-European societies, were impossible. The only explanation is aliens. Now here’s a racist who failed grade 9 world history to explain why.”
What’s more likely, humans independently discovered chiseling and grinding stones to a smooth square finish and stacking them into the most structurally sound shape in more than one place, or aliens used space lasers to build pyramids?
There’s a great video out there called Ancient Aliens Debunked and it tears into all the dumb shit that was claimed on that show.
I never understood why, WHY would you have such crazy people on a nationwide TV show like that?
Which one? There are several
Having watched Ancient Aliens quite a bit, it still has real historical stuff in there, just interspersed with the question “what if it was aliens? Wouldn’t that be fun?”
All these newer shows on History do this. They’re trying to make history a bit more appealing to the masses by putting it into different perspectives. Forged in Fire and that Butchery competition show are also on History and they frequently cover real historical facts about weaponry, tactics, people of consequence, butchery techniques, food preparation, etc. All the historical facts relevant to the program.
And lemme tell you: it sure beats the hell out of the 24/7 WW2 shit that earned the channel the nickname of “The Hitler Channel” when I was growing up.
