Every day I find a new channel narrated by this guy

@swampy1234

Ай бұрын

I have been thinking the same thing! 😂😂😂

@RocketGurney

Ай бұрын

At some point, Simon will be making a new channel for every video.

@drjustin84

Ай бұрын

This mother fucker is that guy from the Onion that had tens of thousands of jobs💀

@UnknownOps

Ай бұрын

How many youtube channels does this guy own? Just how many breads have you eaten in your life?

@SavageMonkeyJizz

Ай бұрын

Can't go wrong

I though N.K. and Turkmenistan episodes were depressing, but this might be the most demoralizing one yet. Forever thankful for where I was born

@Snariasdqwada

2 ай бұрын

so true, it puts our daily struggles into perspective

@yannick245

2 ай бұрын

North Korea is a case for itself, without any comparison in the world. Equatorial Guinea is just an African country and dictatorship like many others. Nothing really special. People just don't know what's going on in Africa. And it's just bs when it comes to numbers! They rank at place at #148 when it comes to the GDP (PPP) in total und #90 per capita And the GDP (nominal) #156 in total and #95 per capita. I don't know where he gets his numbers from, but this being #2 after Luxembourg are just wrong numbers and I don't know where they should be from.

@djquinn11

2 ай бұрын

So you were born in Haiti…

@bjornodin

2 ай бұрын

​@@djquinn11I know I shouldn't laugh but I can't help it 😂😂😂

@dzjacels336

5 күн бұрын

as far as i know Turkmenistan is weird as hell, but not even close to the levels of bloodthirst African nations show. I know for a fact i could go there without private security or being fallowed by a "guide" all the time and go anywhere i want, in fact i know a few bloggers who have done that, but the ones who later said anything bad were banned from entering country again. That said non of them were forbidden from filming etc

I'd like an Eritrea episode now, while we're on the topic of depraved dictatorships

@Sinais389

2 ай бұрын

That would be interesting to see, the only concern I have with these compelling, unsourced video essays is that, it has been the case that every time they speak of issues or countries you are acutely familiar with they get so many of the basic facts wrong let alone deeper contextual inferences that it makes me question their information regarding matters I don’t know

@lavenderjinx

2 ай бұрын

yes, please

@AL-lh2ht

2 ай бұрын

@@Sinais389 He does not evenn write tge scripts but some underpaid third party writer.

@rage9715

Ай бұрын

@@AL-lh2ht Underpaid, so you know how much he pays the writers?

Simon, we dont need the AI images, your voice and cinematography spliced with ACTUAL photos and news shots is enough. Most of us LISTEN to your content, we don't need the never-ending flow of what a computer thinks you're describing. Your voice and script is enough (thanks Evan)

@neldenscarlet9570

2 ай бұрын

I may be wrong about it but I feel that Simon may not own this channel since it has no recommendations towards his other channels and instead he just hosts the show. (like he did on biographics or on visual politics wayyy back in the day.) so sadly the AI stuff maybe not his choice.

@yannick245

2 ай бұрын

Do you mean stock footage? The images/videos normally have nothing to do with "AI". Or did I miss something (I haven't seen the whole piece yet)? Are people now starting to use AI the wrong way, like the use of "bot". People should check a dictionary before using certain words. _Edit: Okay! The comic pictures look somewhat artificial. But they don't bother me. Rather the opposite. They fit the story._

@kappega

2 ай бұрын

​@@yannick245it fucking says "ai depiction" every so often

@enragedares5992

2 ай бұрын

What's wrong with ai image ? You all moaning using the point that most people just listen and Simons voice is enough, so why are you so bothered about ai images

@stefanavic6630

2 ай бұрын

AI is lazy.

Just an interesting side note. Equatorial Guinea is pretty obviously the basis for the fictional country of Zangaro in Frederick Forsythe's 1974 novel The Dogs of War. The plot of that novel involves a british mining magnate, who has become aware of a massive platinum deposit in the otherwise destitute country run by the insane dictator Jean Kimba but believes noone else knows, hiring a mercenary to lead a coup to kill and depose Kimba with a small number of foreign mercenaries, then hand the country over to a former member of Kimba's circle in exile, who would then hand the wealth over to the company run by the mining magnate in exchange for being made the new dictator. Forsythe apparently researched EG in detail as if planning a real coup on these lines, as if really trying to take EG which at that time was still under Nguema. He said that the arms dealers he spoke to during his research were the scariest people he ever met in his life. Life imitating art as it often does, a real coup as detailed in the video was successful in 1979, and it wasnt platinum but oil that was the sudden source of immense wealth. Documents since unearthed detail that a coup was being planned in 1973 headquartered in Gibraltar, and interestingly very similar to the outline in Forsythe's novel. It was thwarted by Spain arresting several principles in the Canaries. The question of how much Forsythe and his detailed research had to do with the actual coup plot of 1973 remains one of life's intriguing mysteries.

Five star documentary about a country I barely knew existed. Thank you for the presentation.

@ClassicRiki

2 ай бұрын

FYI - The entire volume of videos on this channel is ripped from Simon Whistlers’ Channels. Every single video

@yannick245

2 ай бұрын

It's just bs when it comes to numbers! They rank at place at #148 when it comes to the GDP (PPP) in total und #90 per capita And the GDP (nominal) #156 in total and #95 per capita. I don't know where he gets his numbers from, but this being #2 after Luxembourg are just wrong numbers and I don't know where they should be from.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

​@@yannick245 He said it was in 2005 (39:00), but he's still wrong. Between 2004-2014 EG indeed saw an increase in its GDP/capita - from around $5,400 in 2003 to a peak of $22,800 in 2008. After a $19,200 score in 2014, it sharply declined to about $11,000 in 2015 and has continued to decline ever since... This, acc to the IMF.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

​@@yannick245 In terms of GDP (PPP) per capita, it followed the same trend. It had $28,000 in 2005 and a peak of $38,000 in 2008, but has continued to decline ever since.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

​​​@@yannick245 While this was a huge increase, it's still incomparable to Luxembourg (and others), which had about $81,000 GDP/capita (both nominal and PPP) in 2005, ranking indeed first - and has largely grown ever since. Esp in PPP, the nominal amount did have periods of slight decline.

Dude… how many channels does this man have? Lmfao. I love it.

@waywaywaywaywaytoolongtore7496

Ай бұрын

they're usually all in the description

This was one of the most fascinating yet unsettling stories in a while!

Damn, Equatorial Guinea could've been as rich and developed as any first-world country with those resources. Could've been Africa's success story. What a tragic waste

@AA-cm3pd

Ай бұрын

So deeply tragic.

This is my first time hearing about that third type of elephant

@Abby_Liu

2 ай бұрын

when I read your comment I thought you were pulling legs. I didn't even know there were 3 types of elephants.

@DEADG6D

2 ай бұрын

Theres like 6

@user-cn3ug3pk1x

2 ай бұрын

@@Abby_LiuI didn’t know, either!

@slayingroosters4355

2 ай бұрын

​@@DEADG6Dthere aren't at all. There are two species of elephant alive today, the African and the Asian. The African is split in to two subspecies of bush/savanna and forest.

@joeltangjerd2828

2 ай бұрын

You might even say, it's the elephant in the room.

Can you do an episode on Crimea? I always wanted to know more about that place. That region historically belonged to so many nations and has been fought over by major powers again and again and many nations have occupied it in the past. It would be an interesting one.

Why would someone hate their own people to this extent? Very saddening.

@elizabethsohler6516

17 күн бұрын

For a dictator people are a means to an end. The end is POWER. It's not so much that they hate their people, they are utterly indifferent to them.

As an Equatorial Guinean, I thank you for this coverage. Our country's situation isn't talked too internationally often. And you are totally right, our country is f**ked.

I don't mind the ai depictions but some of them look awful, and historical images should be used if available which I have no idea especially in a place like this

@thalesisback

14 күн бұрын

theres only 1 image of the football massacre and its dogshit

The surprising thing isn't that there are crazy people. The surprising thing is that they get ahead in life and there are people willing to support them.

"the most brutal prison in Africa" - That's a pretty high bar. Impressive!

Absolutely love this channel! I wish you uploaded to it more. I follow all your channels but this one is one of my favorites. Definitely deserves more views.

@koorby

2 ай бұрын

hopefully he’ll focus on it more as it grows, since this channel is still pretty new :)

Holy shit, this is seriously one of the most tragic videos on the channel and that's saying a lot considering that both North Korea and Turkmenistan have been covered. Macias was such a fucking lunatic that he could almost make the Kim Dynasty in North Korea seem almost sane by comparison.

@davidanalyst671

2 ай бұрын

people were happy in turkmenistan. He let people do their jobs and didn't bother them too much. Simon describes this with all his propaganda techniques to make it sound like hell, but every country in africa has bad leaders who harass people and destroy crap. zimbabwe is MUCH much much more poor than this country

7:42 some three-legged fellas on the right. AI is awesome.

This video is really painful. 😢😢😢 It is really sad what one man will do to his own people. A government that goes out of it way to oppress its citizens

@falsouth762

2 ай бұрын

Isn’t that true of most governments?

Simon's early comment about the Kim dynasty being "jolly old uncles" wasn't a random comment. The first dictator sent his young daughter to North Korea to be schooled. Her mother abandoned her there an no one ever came back for her.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

It's more complicated than that. Her mother did come back, but she was already 10 & had forgotten Equatorial Guinea and the language. Her mother had to go and protect her other child back home, that's why she left (Fidel Castro had sent him back to EG & he was in danger).

Thank you for the long episode Simon. Dark and sad episode today but I learned a lot. Good work to the writer/editor as well.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

Yeah...

Thank you for another wonderful documentary and educational piece

love your vids,, your style of presenting them is refreshing

This channel is Simons best yet..... but I really dont like the AI images

What a hell hole.........time to hold these oil companies to account and freeze the ill gotten gains.

The book "My Friend The Mercenary" by James Brabazon talks about the coup attempt with the Boeing 727.

@curtisthomas2670

2 ай бұрын

1974 novel The Dogs Of War by Frederick Forsyth was about a 1972 EG coup financed and planned and attempted by Forsyth. In 1994 Margaret Thatcher's son Mark attempted a repeat closely following the plot of the novel

Have you produced a South Sudan episode?

@proy3

Ай бұрын

South Sudan is usually on Warographics.

Just when you think you've heard the worst story of an African country screwed by colonialism and then "liberated" only to face brutal modern dictatorships. How does one stop this without the regular citizens inevitably getting punished in one way or another? I feel like it's one of the most important questions that needs to be resolved in modern history - soooo many people in so many countries are suffering from this kind of thing. Idk whether boycotts or economic sanctions would work or not.

Thank you for clearly labeling what images are AI depictions. I don't mind AI depictions of such things but I do prefer them clearly labeled.

The only part missing is the children of the executed president were sent to North Korea. They're educated in North Korea under the guidance of Kim Il Sung. They lived there until adulthood. One of the daughters wrote a book on their family experience.

@zarasbazaar

2 ай бұрын

He did mention the children sent to North Korea.

@enragedares5992

2 ай бұрын

Another one commenting before watching lol 😆

that story is wild!

Great episode

Wow great work guys

I was unaware of this situation and the involvement of the United States, but I must say I'm not surprised. Our concerns regarding human rights abuses tend to be limited to countries which have cut ties with us, or don't have anything to offer any corporation.

@boudicaastorm4540

2 ай бұрын

Ikr. My first thought is "let's boycott those oil companies" but good grief that's a long list, and who knows how well it would actually catch on. I think a lot of us don't know about this and automatically associate places in the Middle East with oil, but plenty of Americans have never even heard of Equatorial Guinea, let alone would guess that they have (at least for the moment) a massive oil supply that everyone has been digging into.

@curtisthomas2670

2 ай бұрын

US currently supports 70 percent of the world's dictators or undemocratic regimes

@darkgalaxy5548

2 ай бұрын

What would you suggest? Invade & overthrow the govt? That doesn't have a very good track record.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

​@@darkgalaxy5548 No, but you don't have to cozy up to the dictator or do business with them either. That's a start. Also be vocally critical, bring it up in the UN, etc.

@shauncameron8390

Ай бұрын

@@curtisthomas2670 For geo-political reasons.

Please do Namibia in a future episode. They have the skeleton coast, one of the world’s oldest deserts and one of the few deserts which borders the coast line (As seen in recent movies) There is History of diamond and other precious metal mining. There is also some interesting military histories (albeit from before the independence).

I worked there for two years and the poverty outside of Malabo or Bata is truly shocking to the senses.

Petition for times new roman as font, also would have liked a few pictures of the places we spent an hr talking about...

@cheekyb71

2 ай бұрын

I'm guessing images from EG are hard to come by on account of their warm welcoming to outside observers and journalists.... oh, wait!! 😂 Yes, there's an overuse of AI in this video, and yes purchasing usage and distribution rights would benefit local photogs - but how far do you want a new, independent, ENTERTAINMENT channel to go?

Love your videos Simon, but the AI pictures are getting old, and freaky... time to go back to archival pictures and footage.

@leeham1405

Ай бұрын

I agree

"The Dachau of Africa" is a brutal but apt nickname Edit: Jesus a life expectancy of 30 and child mortality of over 50%. Jesus that is unimaginable.

@haruhisuzumiya6650

2 ай бұрын

That's a Year zero tier efilism

Some of the Ai depictions are not necessary especially the one that looks like its from a spider man comic. Its not horrible especially since i'm not starring at the screen so i miss most of them.

I recommend reading "Tropical Gangsters" by Robert Klitgaard. He spent over 2 years there in the 80s as an economic consultant. Even though it came out a long time ago, it's a fascinating read if you're interested in the topic.

It is so sad that Equatorial Guinea's rare valuable resource - oil - will soon be completely used up and *none of it* ever reached the population or was invested in proper development... Disaster; this country's future could have been so different. From Spain which actually made efforts to prepare it for independence, to the lucky discovery of oil that could've been used to properly set up the country into becoming a complex, industrialized and service-based economy, by the time it ran out. Now/then what will it do, even if the regime will change? So much *wasted* potential that might never return...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is not far behind when it comes to exploitation, extreme wealth when it comes to natural minerals and yet miserable/horrible living standards for most of it's citizens... Very sad indeed.

wow. this one was... brutal. halfway through and this feels like learning about the Kmer Rouge for the first time did.

So basically North Korea with a shit ton more money….

I choose to believe that the majority of people are good, or at least try to be. Stories of countries like this really shake that belief. Its the fact where it seems that certain countries achieve total control over their people by a lack of information. I'm specifically thinking of places like North Korea and Equatorial New Guinea. But in both those cases, the "heirs" have been sent to western countries to live and study before returning to their isolated homes. Meaning they have plenty of knowledge and experience of the way other places do things and then chose to perpetuate the cycle. I genuinely just dont understand it. I just want one real life Prince Zuko story 😂 when the mad dictator send his heir out into the world to learn cunning and ruthlessness, but instead they learn the power of friendship and kindness and tea. And then they go home to overthrow their evil parent, with the help of a few friends and they reform their country for the better. Is that so much to ask?

@TheCatherineCC

2 ай бұрын

Ultimately most humans don't want to kill their way out of problems, even if that is the only solution.

@fuzzyhair321

2 ай бұрын

There's been plenty of examples of them. But unchecked power well comes unchecked

Malabo not molobo

That has to be one of the most corrupt countries in our world today

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

Yes, it's in the top 10. Or bottom 10, depending how you look at it... Followed by Haiti, Nicaragua, North Korea, Yemen, S. Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and number 1: Somalia. In this year's CPI report.

It seems that super strong rulers are usually more than a little crazy. So, where is the money? It has to be hoarded somewhere.

@desmondburnett9286

Ай бұрын

The money is in Europe. They keep the money for the same people they call dictators

God this episode was bleak. Thanks for the video, I didn't know much at all about Equatorial Guinea before watching this.

Yeah, hallucinogens and madness don't mix well.

Eritrea, Zimbabwe would be interesting

somehow whenever I've heard the name Equatorial Guinea I always pictured a quiet, idyllic tropical nation. obviously, I know nothing. it's insane how many people around the world live under the yoke of just a few thoroughly depraved individuals

@elizabethsohler6516

17 күн бұрын

Even more insane how many will VOLUNTARILY EMBRACE such a form of government.

This would also have been a good one for Into the shadows. Holi canaloni.

Where do you get the info for your topics on your channel?.

very chilling

jsyk, I'm stealing "innovative relationship with reality". perfectly describes my bio mother

No amount of curse words would be enough to sum up the situations at equatorial Guinea

The smaller the country, the more the adage "People get the government they deserve" applies.

Slight correction Bioko actually has a Bubi majority. Bubis are a different ethnic group

28:08 Wow, that's Kim Il-Sung and the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Iconic photo

Man... This is depressing.. No moral in any world power's foreign policy, just "national interests". The darkest episode yet , but it gives a unique insight into international "politics". It killed a bit of the idealist in me.

@Robert-hy3vv

2 ай бұрын

ur blaming the west for corrupt african politicians? wut?

@Upsidedownmangt

2 ай бұрын

You just realized? The US ally with Saudi Arabia even though they commit many human rights abuse

@Upsidedownmangt

2 ай бұрын

And basically every other Arab country that they ally with

@alexalexalex92

2 ай бұрын

yeah, any nation that references a moral code is using it for political expediency. the world of upstanding nations never existed in the first place.

@anhduy106e5

2 ай бұрын

The U.S isnt the only ones, we are just ahead of the game. Ultimately, its up to the people to seize their destiny. No sane nations on Earth would send their troops.

How many channels does Whistler have?!?! Im here for it.

Please do Sandline Mercenaries on one of your other channels.

Damn the cycle of exploitation in equatorial guinea has got to stop

Fernando Poo at one time on school maps 😅😅

I love that you cover a lot of things one doesn't find in "mainstream" media. Especially because you (or your writers) actually seem to try to do so as unbiased as possible. But please do not use AI Depictions, even if there aren't (or especially then) any actual photos aren't available. At least not photorealistic ones. Even with the "AI Depiction" tags, it conveys false information at least subconsciously.

0:49 is this about Clean Sweep Ignatius?

I seem to be finding a new channel that Simom hosts like twice a week. Does he just wake up and record scripts for his 20 channels for 10 hours a day? :P

How many channels does this dude have??

Find if funny that at the start Simon's name pops up the same time he announces the country has been ran by the same man for 50 years 😂

What a great vacation spot..........

every time i log into youtube simon has a new channel, i'm losing count lol.

Is Simon the reader for a whole bunch of different channels, or is there just a strange surplus of guys who look and sound exactly like him?

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

He's AI

Am glad to be a Kenyan.

@MawzunNyamu

2 ай бұрын

Ruto paid Obiang's son a visit btw 😅

@mwangiphalis2636

2 ай бұрын

@@MawzunNyamu 😠😠😠we can't catch a break

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, u'r lucky. This is just sad...

@mwangiphalis2636

2 ай бұрын

@@dyawr Granted we have our issues. However, our situation is no where as grime as Equatorial Guinea's

Lol. Need to add a caption for Simon in the thumbnail saying uWu. 👉👈

Bro how many channels do you have? I find new channels everyday narrated by you😂

Kinda unrelated but why doesn't everyone drive on the right? There's an actual demonstrable economic reason to do so (right side cars need to be re-manufactured for left hand roads, tourists and expats from other countries become a public saftey hazard, and border crossings require complicated change overs) unlike the handful of countries still using Imperial it isn't as simple as just printing 2 sets of units on measuring devices.

So people who were spanish during WW2, dont have as big a dislike or knowledge of Hitler because Spain was friendly with him and neutral during WW2. And it is a surprise that horrible things said about Hitler don't have an impact?

I'm a writer in NYC and due to my past activism re: EG I can't visit there in person. Pronunciation aside, you do a good job on its history. Kudos team. D,A, J.D. NYC

Wait how is this a different channel from Geographics??? Simon, you madman 😂

Trinidad and Tobago please guys, oil giant next to Guyana

Is it too rarly to do one on Guyana?

no AI please 🫠

@starlink3525

2 ай бұрын

Get over yourself

@thederpypikachu9873

2 ай бұрын

​@@starlink3525ai is theft in its current form.

@Skynet-betatest

2 ай бұрын

👀 🛰 🤖 💀

@holyheretic3185

2 ай бұрын

​@@starlink3525actual pictures exist, it wouldn't kill the editor to find some.

@enragedares5992

2 ай бұрын

There's no stopping AI so no point being against it or moaning about it . May aswell be a horse and cart owner during the rise of the car as a mode of transport.

23:58 Africa's longest-serving head of state.

1.3 million? For a country? That is smaller than a suburb in Houston

@user-cn3ug3pk1x

2 ай бұрын

Smaller than my backyard.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

Some countries around the world are tiny like that. There would've been more if half the ppl (or more) wouldn't have died, fled, starved, etc...

The trolls are out tonight

Why do you credit people on some channels and not on others

Bro opens a new channel everyday & I kept commenting in every visual politik video : #BringBackSimon.

All this once again, pretty much proves that experience and conditioning is all that stands between western country ideologies of peace, freedom and what we call 'human rights' ... and nightmare dictatorial regimes like this. On one side, you have billions living in relative peace and freedom, being governed by (although by minorly corrupt politicians) democratic systems ... who can not imagine living in a dictatorship like this ... and these other countries actually living in murderous enslaved kleptocracies. The real difference is conditioning of the populous. In both cases, its what the people know and can expect. The thing in common? Both are led by and populated by the same chimps with pre frontal cortexes.

Look wich countries signed agreements with this regime despite allegedly human rights abuses 😂😂😂

11:20 It is impossible that "by the mid nineteen thirties" the new "fascist" (It would be great if someone would make an analysis between fascism and catholicnationalism) regime of Franco. Franco didn't win the civil war until 1939. So, Simon, you will have to check that part. Indicating your sources can help too. For the record, if it was really in the mid thirties, it would have been done by the democratic* Spanish Second Republic. If I remember it correctly, I think that it was during those years that Franco defeated a rebellion in Asturias.

@yannick245

2 ай бұрын

It's also just bs when it comes to financial numbers! They rank at place at #148 when it comes to the GDP (PPP) in total und #90 per capita And the GDP (nominal) #156 in total and #95 per capita. I don't know where he gets his numbers from, but this being #2 after Luxembourg are just wrong numbers and I don't know where they should be from.

Kinda mixed on the heavy AI imagery. I use them myself in my school projects but thats mainly to save time on providing sources. Then again maybe there aren't alot of images from these events? If so a disclaimer explaining that would clear things up alot

@15:44 its called Nazbol

The graphic designer/ digital artist demographic of your viewers really has your comments brimming with engagement lately lolol

I'd rather not see AI depiction

Maybe I only noticed because I was listening with headphones, but was the music cutting out randomly throughout the episode? I don't mind having music or not, it was just weird. Great writing, though.

@emixmim

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. Background music is horrbile and ruins the immersion.

@PalmelaHanderson

2 ай бұрын

@@emixmim I don't mind having background music, it was just distracting having it cut out at random moments for like half the episode.

@2kayBaby

2 ай бұрын

My dumbass didn't even notice. I'm so pissed off at the exploitation my people are going through by the hand of one of our own.

@dyawr

2 ай бұрын

​@@2kayBaby If you or your family are from Equatorial Guinea, I'm *so sorry* things went like that for your country. It is just sad... and tragic.

“Then the mass educations stared” that’s one of the darkest lines ever uttered

I think the photo-real AI images are problematic, but the more artsy ones that are clearly not photos are fine. 👍🏻