Anyone here do YouTube? Historical Architect

Entertainment and Pop Culture
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I’ll admit given my situation I’ve found YouTube quite helpful, the lectures, and other educational, instructional, history, etc., sort of videos, that run the spectrum of waste of time to excellent resources. With a bit of critical thinking and a skeptical eye, it used to be fairly easy cull out the untrust worthy. As AI progresses it’s getting a little trickier. An example …

This evening came across a channel Historical Architect
11.8K subscribers,

It’s obviously AI assisted, a tad irritating for it, but the story - the substance, seems on point, not overly repetitive, and frankly fascinating, and logical. African architecture that was mind blowing, I knew of some of those examples, but there was a lot I’d never heard of.

Sadly only the first one included a bibliography.

How Did Vikings Heat Their Ships on Icy Seas Without Fire?

How did Roman Peasants Sleep in Winter Without Freezing Dead?

How did Ancient Africans Sleep Safely Without Being Eaten?

I’m curious, any history fans out there?
Anyone out there that may have watched some of Historical Architect videos.

If so please share your thoughts.

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My experience with AI productions on history has been discouraging.

I am interested.

Not much time.

Nota Bene, a very serious French channel, hundreds of videos, on serious and less serious topics, by serious historians, sometime subtitled in English.

About the invention of writing

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I agree, but I’m saying I would like some other opinions regarding these particular videos which have me in a bit of a quandary.

Grrrr, don’t do the French, English and German are as far a my linguistic abilities reach.
Also, I do try to avoid those vertical video-shorts like the flu, though I do get suckered in occasionally, but they really seem focused on being click bait.