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>IMPLYING said:
I remember Historian's Craft
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I stopped watching him after he posted a video about Roman bread. I was curious and wanted to read further. The video had basically just been collection of ripped quotes from Wikipedia.
He deleted the video after people complained.

I guess those 700 dollar books he always talks about buying and constantly needs money for did not cover this topic.
 
Slap47 said:
I stopped watching him after he posted a video about Roman bread. I was curious and wanted to read further. The video had basically just been collection of ripped quotes from Wikipedia.
He deleted the video after people complained.

I guess those 700 dollar books he always talks about buying and constantly needs money for did not cover this topic.
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You can't outbake the chef of food history on Youtube.
In advance you can intuit why there's little history on Roman bread of all things because all that exists is a single recipe. Otherwise you can only gather what you can from whenever a random author decided to write something about bread for whatever reason.

For example, the Roman recipe specifies 100 grams (around about) of wheat but it's not specified exactly, and you have to kind of reverse engineer a proportion based off of what an author said was used in other uses as well as what the loafs preserved under the ash of Pompei to arrive at a decent copy. If the bread tastes bad, then it's probably not the exact one they ate, because contrary to media depictions of the past, people wouldn't put up with shitty tasting food just because of the time period - but I digress.

If you can get through his occasional bouts of cringe (you can tell he's gay by his mannerisms alone but his later videos are less cringe in delivery and use of jokes) you do genuinely learn something and he actually cites primary sources and quotations. If there isn't a lot to say on the subject itself, then he'll go into detail on the writer of the source/recipe he's using.

This reddit-coded, cringe homosexual, is a better source for history content on Youtube and less prone (not that I can point to any examples but I can't be certain - he's possibly the least politically poisoned channels on Youtube) to political sperging than most other dedicated history youtubers.
 
>IMPLYING said:
This reddit-coded, cringe homosexual, is a better source for history content on Youtube and less prone (not that I can point to any examples but I can't be certain - he's possibly the least politically poisoned channels on Youtube) to political sperging than most other dedicated history youtubers.
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Max is wholesome. I like his channel a lot, even though he's obviously a flaming homosexual and I think was/is a theater kid, he keeps that shit under wraps and knows not to shit where he eats because the vast majority of his audience is moms and women that like to cook, with a small percentage being history spergs. I don't know if he's a retard on Twitter or if he even has one because I'm not on social media, but he makes good, informative videos and I can personally attest of the couple things I've made using recipes from his videos, that they work.
 
>IMPLYING said:
This reddit-coded, cringe homosexual, is a better source for history content on Youtube and less prone (not that I can point to any examples but I can't be certain - he's possibly the least politically poisoned channels on Youtube) to political sperging than most other dedicated history youtubers.
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I suspect it is because he was a Disney attraction actor (iirc was a cruise Prince Charming for example). Believe you me when I say that they are held to some high standards set out by Walt himself. Anything less than absolute professionalism is not tolerated, and inserting his own opinions would likely feel verboten since he has doubtlessly internalized those standards of professional entertainment. I remember once he mentioned that he had an election day stream and some people complained about the extremely light, liberal political talk, and rather than complain that his audience didn't necessarily agree with him or wanted to listen to politics in cooking/history-related content, he said "message received, won't happen again" and has maintained that ever since.
 
Dan of Steel said:
I don't know if he's a retard on Twitter or if he even has one because I'm not on social media
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He has a twitter, I took a quick look and it is totally fine. It's just him posting links to his videos, his cats, retweeting his husband's posts, and the occasional retweet. Got curious and looked at his husband's posts too and it's all really normal stuff, lots of Disney and Marvel Retweets.
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This was the "worst" thing I could find, and it's just DnD fanart.
 
Serbian Peacekeepers said:
To play mild defense for him, I think the only reason he retweeted it is the "clack clack" of the hard tack, which is a running joke on his channel.
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You and I both know that isn't true. Kobolds are a lightning rod for faggots and scalies. And scalie faggots. They're up there with Tieflings insofar as me shooting you suspicious looks across the table for playing one.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
You and I both know that isn't true. Kobolds are a lightning rod for faggots and scalies. And scalie faggots.
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I know nothing about DnD, but that retweet is the sole DnD related thing on his twitter. I scrolled all the way back into 2024 and there was nothing else DnD related. The only other retweet I could find of similar caliber was this.
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Same joke again, the Clack Clack running joke from his channel. Goobone, the person who made the Kobold art, is probably everything you mentioned, but I see no reason to believe Max cares outside the Clack Clack reference.
 
Dan of Steel said:
Max is wholesome. I like his channel a lot, even though he's obviously a flaming homosexual and I think was/is a theater kid, he keeps that shit under wraps and knows not to shit where he eats because the vast majority of his audience is moms and women that like to cook, with a small percentage being history spergs. I don't know if he's a retard on Twitter or if he even has one because I'm not on social media, but he makes good, informative videos and I can personally attest of the couple things I've made using recipes from his videos, that they work.
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Agree. Tasting History is great, he keeps his videos light, informative, and wholesome.
 
Thescourer33 said:
[Absolute Incoherent Drivel]
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> The self-hating Euromutt can't handle the Los Alamos-branded Trvth Nukes that are bombarding the thread and has regressed to 7th-grade tier historical posturing in a disgruntled effort to cope with the overpowering realities of the world.

Who knows, maybe in a couple more years you'll learn how to stop worrying and love the bomb. Either way, it won't change the fact that your status as a 51st stater is indisputable, irrefutable, and completely undeniable.

LovisXVI said:
I suspect it is because he was a Disney attraction actor (iirc was a cruise Prince Charming for example). Believe you me when I say that they are held to some high standards set out by Walt himself. Anything less than absolute professionalism is not tolerated, and inserting his own opinions would likely feel verboten since he has doubtlessly internalized those standards of professional entertainment. I remember once he mentioned that he had an election day stream and some people complained about the extremely light, liberal political talk, and rather than complain that his audience didn't necessarily agree with him or wanted to listen to politics in cooking/history-related content, he said "message received, won't happen again" and has maintained that ever since.
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Those like Max, who have basic common sense and can actually refrain from interjecting in contemporary politics into their content when they aren't relevant at all to the topic at hand, are unfortunately a dying breed on YouTube and beyond. He knows that when people click on a video about late-1800s oyster cultivation and culture, they aren't there to hear the same five culture war talking points that have been repeated ad nauseam by every single other person online.

It's for this reason alone that he's automatically better than half of the Pop-History sphere of influencers and personalities, even if he is a fanook or what have you. He acts more like a proper "Historian" than the majority of other fools who run their mouth with no tact, nuance, or purpose past just standing on their pereverbal soapbox to whinge about how they personally think things should be. Wasting my time when all I want to do is learn something potentially interesting without having to hear a whole spiel that just taints or detracts from whatever subject is being talked about.

Hopefully, he continues to stay away from all that mess and just keeps to his role as the "Food History Guy" because it would be a real shame to hear down the line that he started sperging out like all the others on his social media of choice. A counter-balance to the slew of charlatans we all love to bemoan whenever they post something completely idiotic and retarded online for everyone to see and wonder how they even got a platform of note in the first place.
 
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