You know what? Compared to the vapid, condescending and outright dangerous shit he's done for videos, this is kind of ok? Exposing all of these children who would be very unlikely to be interested in egyptology otherwise to ancient Egypt, the same way many of us got exposed to it through weird Egypt documentaries in the 90s and 2000s, is not that evil.

I hate that this guy has been given what seems like infinity money, and that he uses that money to gain abusive access to archeological sites, but at its core I think it's not that terrible?

Inb4 some article or expose about how his crew destroyed some 5000 year old artifact trying to get a good angle or some shit like that, and I'll have to eat my words.

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

He brings up the stupid aliens created the Pyramids theory constantly in the video and the experts he has with him keep telling him he is fucking stupid.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So was the history channel in the 2000s. Still, a bunch of people like antiquity because of things like that. It's not the best egyptology content there can be, but my point was that it's likely to be the only ancient Egypt the sticky-handed, terminally online menaces who are his audience will actually be interested in.

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

The video is structured around it. The pretense of the video is basically disproving the alien theory, which they do. In the end Dr. Beast proclaims that the aliens couldn't have possibly created the pyramids because of all the physical evidence he is shown.

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