When you're a PhD historian writing an article, but you choose the first cheap fan-made alt-history map you find on google images to be your heading image

@gordontaylor2815

3 жыл бұрын

Judging from the type of website it is, the article writer may not have had any idea about the map attached to it. At least, until now.

@timothymclean

3 жыл бұрын

PhDs mark you as being educated, and intelligent when it comes to your field. That does not necessarily extend into the details.

@fyang1429

3 жыл бұрын

Bad rep is good rep. That Ph.D. guy is tricking you all to see his website to bring in ads revenue. Quite a 3D chess move.

@seneca983

3 жыл бұрын

@@gordontaylor2815 Though, it might be a good idea to at least check the website afterward.

@FezEmerald

3 жыл бұрын

Labrador both broke free for Newfoundland, but fought by itself, without any Canadian aid?

3:38 my hometown is under water. Thanks, I hate it.

@mwhd629

3 жыл бұрын

oh heyy

@theparadigm8149

3 жыл бұрын

What is your hometown? Also, I love your videos!

@cavejohnson982

3 жыл бұрын

The Paradigm well obviously in the caspian sea

@AnuDugala

3 жыл бұрын

kings and generals where you live

@bubbedebub

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnuDugala maybe greece judging by the profile picture

"Kuwait is absorbed by Iraq" Saddam approves

@carlosmarte428

3 жыл бұрын

4of92000 *The 19th province of Iraq is absorbed by Iraq.

@Meirstein

3 жыл бұрын

@@carlosmarte428 The branch is returned to the tree

@Bot-gy9gx

3 жыл бұрын

@@Meirstein * Plays "Land of the two rivers" *

@wildfire9280

3 жыл бұрын

There is no Kuwait in Baghdad Sing Se

@joemamaobama6863

3 жыл бұрын

@@wildfire9280 bruh

This man truly is the Menace of Maps

@BuRsTiNxMLB

3 жыл бұрын

The cartography criminal

@cameroff

3 жыл бұрын

Map menace, map menace, map map map menace

@ecurewitz

3 жыл бұрын

the map menaces are clearly those inept cartographers that made the maps in the first place

@maracujoojs

3 жыл бұрын

Map sommelier

@lewakar

3 жыл бұрын

Mappu GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO

That last map kinda looks like a colored version of "If the Central Powers won WW1" as it shows Mexico having the land promised by Germany in the Zimmerman telegram (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas) or where the Brest-Litovsk treaty is withheld. Although I can't defend the author, he has a PhD cmon

@Vrangelrip

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but I am amazed that someone with a phd would not know the borders, you would at least know that Canada participated in WWII

@TapOnX

3 жыл бұрын

He's a traveler from another timeline

@sonwig5186

3 жыл бұрын

He is an Ottoman empire fanboy and added an alternate history map of the Central Powers winning WW1.

@TapOnX

3 жыл бұрын

@@gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 There's always a possibility that he uploaded this map as a joke

@flametitan100

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vrangelrip Or that Newfoundland _and_ Labrador were a single british colony, thus it would be weird for _only_ Labrador to have been an ally without its more populated other half.

"this video is sponsored by! no one"

@089roblox1

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@JustanotherrandomTom

3 жыл бұрын

Thought he was going to say, “this video is sponsored by NordVPN.” How Ironic that would be.

@brettd2308

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustanotherrandomTom That's the joke.

@katitobyt

3 жыл бұрын

VPNs aren't illegal in Turkey.

@089roblox1

3 жыл бұрын

@@katitobyt ok

As a native Hoosier, I really appreciate the first map 😂

@Nick-zl5xf

3 жыл бұрын

“Wait, it’s all Hoosiers?” “Always has been.” *cocks gun*

@jakebhenry2228

3 жыл бұрын

I am a proud Hoosier, nothing like wondrous Corn Fields and road construction... and whatever Gary is trying to do

@jaredanonymous4154

3 жыл бұрын

Let’s Go!

@mrinfo2821

3 жыл бұрын

I know really unexpected cuz I just found this channel

@Ash-zm1vx

3 жыл бұрын

Jakeb Henry “whatever Gary is trying to do” Say they’re from Chicago?

And apparently on the Tour De France map, Andorra and Monaco don’t exist either. Don’t forget about them

@TapOnX

3 жыл бұрын

Stay

@thezipcreator

3 жыл бұрын

@@tahalifedive139 where is that map from

@schaumerrikk9859

3 жыл бұрын

@@tahalifedive139 omg... i think im gonna 🤢🤢

@thezipcreator

3 жыл бұрын

@@schaumerrikk9859 me too

@thescorch1163

3 жыл бұрын

no stop it i found you on 5 different videos today

"I know the Dutch have to worry about floods, but I don't ever remember the floods winning that badly." HAH!

@robertjarman3703

3 жыл бұрын

Global warming for the win?

@flaviusstilicho3167

3 жыл бұрын

They just need a plan!

@bificommander

3 жыл бұрын

The floods redeployed all the water from the Mediterranean for an all-out assault to finally destroy their bitter rivals.

@captaindonut5240

3 жыл бұрын

*Sad mill noises *

@chasedavidson2855

3 жыл бұрын

It's clear they sacrificed their homeland in favor of conquering the whole Mediterranean

About the Allies of world war 2 map. I'm pretty sure that Canada was fighting in WW2 for the allies... long before either the US or Soviets Lol

@robertjarman3703

3 жыл бұрын

Places like India, South Africa, and more are also missing from the blue, and Italy isn't clearly labeled.

@Cyber_kumo

3 жыл бұрын

There are other things wrong about the map, like Ukraine and Belarus being independent. South Africa, British Raj, Egypt, and Brazil are also not being labeled as part of the Allies. Italy did eventually join the Allies, but that was after the Allies started their invasion of Italy. Saudi Arabia was neutral in WW2, but is labeled as part of the Allies in this Map.

@robertjarman3703

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cyber_kumo The Soviet Transcaucuses region is also independent. They wish.

@flametitan100

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently Only Labrador was an Ally. Apparently Canada fought for Axis.

@a_can_of_soda

3 жыл бұрын

Another thing that should be pointed out is that Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan are shown as independent, *even though those three countries did not gain independence until the USSR collapsed in 1991.*

4:32 Our geography teacher gave us this and I made a joke about how Spain is deformed: Spain was hit in the Basque and now his Castiles (close to rib in English) hurt.

@_extrathicc

3 жыл бұрын

Ay, mis castillas

@hueylong7989

3 жыл бұрын

Wait wasn't Castile also an old Spanish nation?

@parjai97

3 жыл бұрын

@@hueylong7989 yes, so were Navarra and Aragón

Textbook editor: "Hmmm I need a map for my history textbook" *googles map *first page filled with lavishly detailed maps "hmmm... no." *goes to page 10 *shows a mom posting the USA drawing her 5yo made on facebook "ah, great! this map will be excellent for my textbook!"

As someone from Chile, yeah no we don't have a pregnant coastline.

@damarine11

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@elickson7340

2 жыл бұрын

T H I C C. C H I L E

4:47 Texas: "Aight, imma head out."

@bconroy328

2 жыл бұрын

I cant belive the republic of tejas reformed!

Let's be realist : American is a so confusing name, so let's recall them Outdianans!

@timothymclean

3 жыл бұрын

As a Hoosier, I am offended. Let's call them Antihoosiers instead. (For those who don't know, people from Indiana are called "Hoosiers". There are at least three guesses why and they all sound ridiculous; nobody knows the term's origin for sure, but given how ridiculous the name is the origin is probably also ridiculous..)

@theofficialsikris

3 жыл бұрын

The syntax in this comment hurt my brain.

@jakebhenry2228

3 жыл бұрын

It’s ironic because Indiana comes from lands ruled by Indians, so even us Hoosiers are outdianans.

@casualhoosier2813

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, this just attracted some of the few other Hoosiers on KZread.

@jakebhenry2228

3 жыл бұрын

Casual Hoosier Cornfeilds and Road construction 4 life

I love how everything else was so screwed up on the last map that Tigerstar didn't even mention that Canada wasn't included as an ally in WWII and apparently only Newfoundland was participating in the famous liberation of Holland.

@JeremyRoman-jbroman

2 жыл бұрын

Not even Newfoundland. Just Labrador.

1:55 The Dutch didn't lose to the floods, the sea lost to the Dutch. The white is obviously the Netherlands.

@bificommander

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the XKCD New Netherlands.

That Allies of WW2 looks like a map made for some kind of alternate history.

2:10 - OMG I've seen this map. I stopped watching the Netflix documentary after I saw this in the first episode.

@mows6356

3 жыл бұрын

What's the documentary called?

@drm9694

3 жыл бұрын

@@mows6356 I think it’s “Greatest Events of WWII in Colour”

@mows6356

3 жыл бұрын

@@drm9694 oh ok, thanks

@rohanr.9714

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Robi2009

3 жыл бұрын

Yup same. After like 10 min I have seen TWO of these (I also sent EmpTigerstar 2nd one with Anschluss) I laughed and turned that off

Damn, how much did you get paid for that sponsorship?

@aqui1ifer

3 жыл бұрын

Patreon/10

@tomasavendanozacarias5205

3 жыл бұрын

at least 3 dollars

@merrittanimation7721

3 жыл бұрын

6 and amount of something.

@nessesaryschoolthing

3 жыл бұрын

He got paid exactly no

@Hohhot

3 жыл бұрын

He got paid X amount.

2:15 - I watched that documentary. It's WWII in Color on Netflix. I lost my sh*t when I saw that map, I couldn't control myself.

5:44 good to see that even though Canada abandoned the allies in WW2, we can always count on Newfoundland.

5:50 ah yes that one time where texas fought with Germany against the USA You know right? Honestly all the maps including Germany tend to be the most messed up and goofy looking.

@subatenome

3 жыл бұрын

I know you're joking but the map depicts Texas being part of Mexico, not being independent. Plus the map is "trying" to show only the Allies, that doesn't mean that the grey countries would be the Axis or even the Central Powers.

@digitalizedmind1216

3 жыл бұрын

@@subatenome bro it's an inside joke, just laugh and keep scrolling

@subatenome

3 жыл бұрын

@@digitalizedmind1216 I acknowledged the fact that it was a joke and I made a comment on it. No need to scold my behavior or actions. I didn't attack anyone nor am I doing anything wrong.

@digitalizedmind1216

3 жыл бұрын

@@subatenome Ok i'm not trying to be offensive because that's how i'd get you to ignore me, I just want you to know there is no point to explaining why a joke is wrong. It's not funny and most if not all of the people that read it already know

@subatenome

3 жыл бұрын

@@digitalizedmind1216 There doesn't need to be a point for me to say anything, I made a comment on the joke and that's it. I don't care if it's not funny or if most people already know the contents of my message, and that btw is a bit of an assumption on your part. Neither you nor I know how many people know or care about my comment. That is still irrelevant to this conversation since I don't care in any case.

"Kuwait is absorp by Iraq" Hmmm where did I see this before 🤔

3:27 Forget Mali, what the hell happened to to Tanzania?

@mrgoo7509

3 жыл бұрын

forget tanzania tf happend to chad they got no more chin

@jackespinos7138

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like Uganda lost a war against Tanzania

@outerspace7391

3 жыл бұрын

East Africa has almost been achieved

@marshalljarnagin9370

3 жыл бұрын

Ethiopia borders Tanzanian Uganda. Gross.

@autumn64fromdeltarunechapter3

3 жыл бұрын

Forget all that, what happenee to poor georgia and Azerbaijan?

Indiana/Outdiana sounds like something Romans would do.

1:07 He had us in the first half, not gonna lie

5:50 ah, yes, our most steadfast ally, the part of what is now Saudi Arabia where literally nobody lives

@alejandropalenciano2319

3 жыл бұрын

The capital (Riad) is actually there lol

@seneca983

3 жыл бұрын

It's just the part that wasn't a part of the Ottoman Empire.

“allies of world war 2” italy >blue yes, but no

@jankubiak324

3 жыл бұрын

And Poland is apparently non existent, not even as an Ally, and somehow the Soviets are counted in..not to mention the rest.

@gokbay3057

3 жыл бұрын

Italy did join the Allies late in WW2.

@leonardopessanha5128

3 жыл бұрын

Brazil was the only SA country to fight at WW2 but hey, let's ignore

@ferbthe2gadgetguy

3 жыл бұрын

Papa New Guinea isn't a part of Australia anymore? Then what was their obligation from stopping the Japanese there? (Other than the obvious launching point to Australia.)

@ferbthe2gadgetguy

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hey, and Finland is also part of the allies. True but also false, depending from what era this map is from.

The infographics show's maps are looking more terrible every day

@MMFan2004

3 жыл бұрын

Just like their content.

@dorkfish1275

3 жыл бұрын

sadly true XD

@professorcube5104

Жыл бұрын

@@MMFan2004 they were always terrible

2:40 Hungary's bird

Bizarrely enough, I've seen another map where Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were absorbed by China. They even took the time and effort to include Liechtenstein, as well as correctly placing South Sudan.

I think that weird US-Mexico border on the last map includes the states that Germany promised Mexico in the Zimmermann telegram. Which is also from WW1, not WW2.

@funnyman4744

3 жыл бұрын

top tier ww2 map

@officialromanhours

3 жыл бұрын

hold on...

4:40 South America do be looking kinda thicc tho

I like how that last map forgets that Canada was an Ally, except for Labrador, a subsection of a province that has fewer people in it than my apartment block.

2:39 I watched that documentary and everytime they showed this map. I had to look away in despise and shame. How could they mess up this badly?!

2:07 Yay the map I send :) I knew you make good use of it ;)

Also, Labrador apparently decided to declare independence from the dominion of Newfound and joined the war on it's own.

in 2012, we briefly lost terrain in our own country when we conquered mare nostrum from Neptune. never spread your windmills too thin.

5:10 love how Newfoundland seceded from Canada to join the allies.

@kaynines5996

2 жыл бұрын

Well it was actually part of the UK at the time.

3:10 every IB student knows that they must uphold the superiority of their program over AP while simultaneously complaining about how much worse they have it than anyone else.

@elmooo9597

2 жыл бұрын

My exact thoughts. As an IB student this is true.

4:53 Bruh that's the lands Germany said they'd recognize that Mexico owned on the Zimmerman Telegram

This no one is surely a worthy sponsor, I'll make sure to try them out.

1:48 it changes every year but stage 21 , the last one , alaways ends with Champ Elysees in Paris . But it remains roughly structured the same each year , 10 flat or hilly stages in northen France( or neighbouring countries ) 10 mountainish stages and the 1 flat in Paris

3:31 . Didnt even cover the mess in the Malaya peninsula lmao.

Tiger-daddy: Speaking of which this video is sponsored by- Me: oh no Tiger-daddy: *No-one*

4:00 I have a globe very similar to that that I got at a garage sale for like a buck. It was so sloppy I figured it was either a beginner metalwork project or a depiction of the world at somepoint between the breakup of Pangea and the last ice age.

I love your bad maps series. Thank you

2:44 I took that course last year and had that textbook. I can verify, the borders throughout the entire book were that bad. In fact, I would contest that that wasn't even the worst one in there. There was a map of colonial America that gave the United states all land up to the St. Lawrence as well as Newfoundland and Greenland.

@applesyrupgaming

Жыл бұрын

based

I never thought I'd hear you even mention that the IB program even exists

Theres quite some maps where China just annex some-stans on internet Finally someone talked about that

damn, that "sponsored by noone" remark got me. you definitely produce sponsor worthy content man, keep up the awesome videos!

"Kuwait is absorbed by Iraq" *Laughs in Baathist*

@Perririri

3 жыл бұрын

Normie

“It’s also like 2020, in that it’s bad and has several mistakes” - EmperorTigerStar

4:30 the Suez Canal tripled in with is so boats don't get stuck.

I was expecting this to be a video on meme maps instead historically/geographically incorrect maps. No worries, I enjoyed it still! Good video.

3:02 Also, there was no such thing as the "General Government of Poland", it was just the General Government, run by Germans..

My favorite sponsor: *No one* And since when are we in Siberia? Bruh

@christopherellis2663

3 жыл бұрын

But you would be, if you could!

@Lucas-po6mn

3 жыл бұрын

These are just the rightful borders of north korea, but the western imposters unlawfully claim it

@Vrangelrip

3 жыл бұрын

You are everywhehe

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

We needed another part!

5:33 also ukraine and belarus arent parts of USSR for some reason

"Speakin of which, this video is sponsored by..." *Everybody sweating nervously with finger on the right arrow button "..no" *gasp, lets go of right arrow button

3:14 I have the exact same globe and I have a keychain globe that has like a thousand errors more than that one, which has like 100 errors.

That first map looks (from the typeface) a lot like something from the UK Mirror or Express papers. Haven't seen a copy of either in so long that I can't pin it down, though.

Is it me or his Badmaps sounds like Batman? Probably only me, sorry.

@buddy5196

3 жыл бұрын

They kinda do

@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES

3 жыл бұрын

There is a city of Batman ..

@Perririri

3 жыл бұрын

There is an actual city in Turkey called Batman.

Mexico in the Allies of ww2 map had the borders promised to them by the Germans lmao.

2:40 in this map Ukraine is also given the part of Carpathia, which belonged to Czechoslovakia until after ww2

5:00 could this be a "German victory in WW1" alternate history map?

I'm a fan of the fact that only Labrador apparently fought in WW2, and not Newfoundland or Canada.

@EiriktheNordAndersen-ju4gl

3 жыл бұрын

that's because the rest of Canada doesn't exist.

You can’t embarrass the Ap test it’s run by the college board

PhD dude submits that map and has his article published, and my stuff got rejected because of a grammar mistake...

4:35 I laughed at that joke more times as I would like to anticipate.

1:01 even the data is wrong. As a turk, VPN isnt banned here.

@HD-np7eb

3 жыл бұрын

Kaçak kullanıyoruz

@euphoric1183

3 жыл бұрын

@@HD-np7eb valla ben bir tane vpn uygulamasi indirdim onu kullaniyorum. Ama kacak mi degil mi bilmiyorum

1:07 I was about to skip lol

2:24 that map also shows that germany envelops the rhine at the south, which is wrong, the Rhine is the border between switzerland and germany

I like that your channel is named after one of the most famous and devious characters/villains in the Warriors series.

It's a little known fact but the first map is actually the election map for Kanye

5:45 looks like a "What if Germany won WW1 map."

My favourite series returns!

3:24 Literally have this exact same ball, two of them actually lol.

3:20 YO I HAVE THAT GLOBE

I absoloutely love this series.

Ayy lmao wasn’t expecting the IB reference.

I have no grasp of maps and what the world looks like, but this video taught me a lot

4:34 those earthquakes really do be hitting hard these days

Ah, gotta love that gold globe thing. Add it to the list of maps that forgot turkey is a thing.

2:55 oh i recognise this page! we used these books in history class

I don't know how I ended up here but this video is great and it hits different stoned

the first map in the vid has me very excited to watch

I love the outro screen!

3:00 Of course. In that run, I rushed Lithuania to annex it along with the rest of the Baltic so I could reform the PLC and gain the production power needed to defend against Germany. AP strats.

4:12 this globe looks more like pangea rather than earth

This video is surprisingly generous to the maps

Some of these genuinely made my jaw drop

I have that weird globe with the cursed Mali and Niger is also an empire to rival Napoleons

4:33 I spat out my drink

5:50 search up "three worlds ep 5" and you can see that us-mexican border later in the video

I clicked on this video thinking it was going to be a roast of homemade TTRPG maps, but this is pretty cool too

The Allies of WW2 map was real in my friend's Hoi4 playthrough.

I remember my old school book that showed Portugal owning the entire coastline of west africa. Too bad I lost the thing