This is an improved version of my other post.

This post will be a tad bit longer than usual.

What I want to do throughout this post is to describe the many issues I have with a video by the youtuber wendigoon, specifically his video called “the conspiracy theory iceberg”. 

What attracted me to making this was the many previous issues I've had with him, but hitherto all ranged exclusively to plagiarism.

 this one is about certain issues he has factually, especially around conspiracy theories, cryptids, etc etc. 

Though this isn’t his iceberg and thus he didn’t make it, you could sufficiently blame on the creator of the iceberg and absolve wendigoon of guilt which would be fair. But, the fact that wendigoon never bothers to fact check these makes it scummy as hell and frankly lazy.

 This is by no means a complete ‘debunking’ of all of his claims, mainly because the video is 9 fucking hours long, and i don’t have the time for that, so i will only talk about some of things in the video here and there. 

Some of these conspiracy theories are either way too deep for me to get into and waste my time on or aren't in my frame of expertise due my greater fascination with historical and pseudo-historical and archeological subjects.

Throughout I will provide timestamps and certain quotes throughout the video will be given as references. There will also be sources given when he’s incorrect about the things he’s talking about.

4:47 “atlantis” 

In this he states there were records of an island all the way back in ancient greece between athens and sparta. 

The main issue at fault is this statement is misleading at best and horseshit at worst. The principal and really only source we have on this comes from Plato's dialogues on timaeus and critias. 

In these dialogues the aforementioned characters discuss the existence of the island of atlantis, a beautiful island that existed more than 9000 before the birth of solon, which would place it in the 9000s bce. 

“ Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia… and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes”. 

(timaeus 26, jowett)

The date of this is already raises eyebrows, in addition to his claim that the city of Athens somehow was the most preeminent in virtue strength, and somehow for athens, military skills.

From a historical standpoint the existence of atlantis at this point in time would be low to say the least. In addition to the non-existence of anything resembling a source whatsoever before plato reduces atlantis to an allegory for the times.

SOURCES:  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atlantis-legendary-island

Critias (Jowett) - Wikisource, the free online library)

Timaeus (Jowett) - Wikisource, the free online library) 

13:00 “the mad gasser of mattoon” just a short note but notice how later in the video he somehow treats nuns meowing together with greater probability than people suffering from a gas leak.

1:11:36 “The road to roota” This was a comic made by the federal government to explain market economics to children and younger people. However, a man by the name of bix weir claims that It is secretly attempting to “destroy the financial banking powers that have secretly controlled all aspects of our lives for hundreds of years”. In general he Is against the banking system and wants to return to the gold standard.

This is patently bullshit due to him taking a children’s comic too seriously and believing that only he had noticed the “secret”. After doing some digging on who he is, I discovered his “interests”. by that he was hawking crypto currency, and  spreading bullshit about gold and silver.

He’s essentially a grifter for crypto, despite what it says on his bio. I also found some posts on reddit from a few years ago hinting at his not so stellar reputation.

Sources: https://www.roadtoroota.com/public/main.cfm

https://www.reddit.com/r/theta_network/comments/s0kknz/ill_have_what_bix_weir_is_smoking/

1:15:21 “hitler Escaped inside the earth” Jeez fucking louise, do i even have to say anything about this?, should i say that earth physically can’t be hollow because the outer shell would collapse in on itself due to fucking gravity.

The conspiracy tells that the germans managed to dig a hole to agartha via super secret tunnels in berlin that nobody has ever seen or talked about before. I couldn’t find the originator of this conspiracy.

Sources: https://futurism.com/what-if-earth-really-were-hollow-video

I highly recommend you check out this essay: https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-hollow-earth-hypothesis-illuminates-falsifiable-science by joel frohlich

1:17:24 “DMT Beings” This occurs when people are high on a drug called Dimethyltryptamine and claim to see weird alien elf-like creatures in their hallucinations.

It should be noted that DMT is one of the major ingredients in amerindian shamanic decoction, for example ayahuasca (‘vine of the dead’). Not many studies have yet been done on this drug yet and remains uncertain. It is also quite rare among other drugs, with only 0,7% use of it in the united states. 

According to Dr David Luke, associate professor of psychology at greenwich university and an author on books on DMT encounters:

“Encounters are really common… you get them more often than not with a high dose of DMT...  there is a wide degree of diversity but there are also some recurrent themes that tend to pop up more than would seem purely random. Among the most common are 'little people', be they elves, dwarves or pixies”

Another common occurrence are mantis-like creatures.

So, what’s the explanation for this?, One is that it stimulates the brain that gives rise to visual associations, though we are yet unsure of the reasons.

SOURCES: https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-people-see-elves-and-other-entities-when-they-smoke-dmt-62234 By benjamin taub. 

An Encounter With the Other: A Thematic and Content Analysis of DMT Experiences From a Naturalistic Field Study 

1:18:47: “thule” refers to an alleged island common on several maps common throughout the middle ages and ancient greece.  

Wikipedia credits the first ever source of this to an ancient Greek man named Pytheas who wrote about geographic discoveries at length. Like many other ancient authors his work remains lost to the sands of time though his work was quoted and used by other scholars during and after his time.

The funny thing about him after I researched other texts by fellow scholars like Strabo and Polybius was his less than stellar reputation among his fellow authors. For example, certain choice quotes make it clear and evident:

“and also to all those false statements made by Pytheas the Massalian regarding the country along the ocean, wherein he uses as a screen his scientific knowledge of astronomy and mathematics”  Strabo, geography, book 7 chapter 3. 

"Pytheas, who has given us the history of Thule, is known to be a man upon whom no reliance can be placed, and other writers who have seen Britain and Ierne, although they tell us of many small islands round Britain, make no mention whatever of Thule”

The only authors we know of that talk about him speak of him in harshly critical terms.

What remains most probable is that thule is the result of confusion surrounding either the shetland islands or the orkneys.

Sources: Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=1:chapter=4&highlight=pytheas

Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature by L Sprague De camp. page 54.

1:19:28 “die glocke” This is bullshit at face value due to the general date of the evidence provided. 

The first ever claim of this originates with an author named nick cook who used a polish author named igor witkowski’s work called “prawda o wunderwaffe”, or “the truth about wonder weapons”

The author is just a plain conspiracy theorist and professional bullshit artist who uses a science fiction novel.

SOURCES:  The Story behind Die Glocke | And Why I Hate This Conspiracy Theory a good youtuber that i like.

2:36:05 “kap dwa” 

According to the wendigoon and “according to legend” (whatever that means) it was a giant that the spaniards discovered in 1673 in patagonia in argentina, whom they tied to the mast of the ship and eventually broke loose and killed four sailors. Later it would be exhibited in england as a horror freak show. These four sailors would actually help me in researching it, because I found the article when searching “four sailors” in google.

The main peculiarities that I find, is his seemingly on purpose treatment of these things as if they were certain facts. His only “disclaimer” about it is that he says “according to legend”. The actual evidence for this is stretched to say the least or bullshit at worst.

The article I found that mentioned that these four sailors were killed soon thereafter states “Reports varied wildly on the giant’s heights. Some sources describe them as six feet, others up to 12 feet. Could it be that these people were simply taller than your average sailor? Historians note that Europeans during the Age of Discovery rarely exceeded 5′5″.

Sailors weren’t exactly known for their factually accurate descriptions.

an incongruity is the name “kap dwa”, which is malay for “two heads” a tad bit strange for something supposedly coming from patagonia dont you think?.

Brown university also states “ Kap-Dwa is both historical legend and a hoax, similar to other figures of "rouge taxidermy" such as P. T. Barnum's "Fiji Mermaid" and the "Jackalope"

SOURCES: 

https://explorersweb.com/exploration-mysteries-the-giants-of-patagonia/ 

https://brown.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991031944679706966&context=L&vid=01BU_INST:BROWN

2:37:00 “cat nuns”. 

This was an alleged case of mass hysteria where the nuns of a french convent started to collectively meow and were only stopped by the town putting a stop to it.

The first thing we need is some context on thia: after researching (also know as a google search) i found the general source of this, a wikipedia article called “List of mass panic cases”. 

After searching through the history of the wikipedia article and found the original addition of it at  21:32, 19 July 2015.  The source was “Mass Delusions and Hysterias” by the skeptical inquirer.

The story was cited from a medical history book named “the Epidemics of the middle ages” Which was published in 1844. This book cites it source from another one as follows.

“I have read in a good medical work that a nun, in a very large convent in France, began to mew like a cat; shortly afterwards other nuns also mewed. At last all the nuns mewed together every day at a certain time for several hours together. The whole surrounding Christian neighbourhood heard, with equal chagrin and astonishment, this daily cat-concert, which did not cease until all the nuns were informed that a company of soldiers were placed by the police before the entrance of the convent, and that they were provided with rods, and would continue whipping them until they promised not to mew any more”  

Zimmermann on Solitude, Vol. II. Leipsig. 1784. — Transl. note.

This all seems fair and good until you read some of the sentences before this such as:

 “The imaginations of women are always more excitable than those of men, and they are therefore susceptible of every folly when they lead a life of strict seclusion, and their thoughts are constantly turned inwards upon themselves” ibid. 

Ahh, 18th century medical sexism, truly the most trustworthy of medical sources. “i have read in a good medical work” isn’t exactly the greatest citation.

We’ve basically reached a historical dead end and can’t search further, mainly due to the author’s reference to this mysterious medical manuscript that we don’t know about. It could have been that this really existed, or they fabricated it to prove their point about “the imaginations of women” or something like that.

This wasn’t his most egregious of mistakes, just one that I personally knew from Sam o’nella.

SOURCES:  https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/05/mass-delusions-and-hysterias/

 The epidemics of the Middle Ages : Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl), 1795-1850 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 

https://www.curiousarchive.com/the-murky-truth-about-the-meowing-french-nuns/ 

Please delete if not allowed mods!!!

Abt 2 weeks ago I made a post wondering if Harry was ever gonna make a vid on the cass review as I was struggling w making my own. But after some kind comments from here I finished it! I hope it can measure up to even 1% of quality of a hbomb vid ^{_^}

My change is shortening the length. Copyright owned by individual creators would be life plus twenty and for corporations thirty years.

That means creators can get supported off their work and the family has a bit of a time to get supported while corporate owned IPs become PD after enough time to make a profit

While I'm perfectly well aware that Harry won't do another long-form Fallout retrospective video essay like he did with "Fallout 3 is Garbage and Here's Why" and "Fallout: New Vegas is Genius and Here's Why" (as well as the fact that Adam Something has already made his "Fallout 4 Is Garbage, And Here's Why"), I really want to know what he thinks of the Fallout show. Maybe when Season 2 is finally dropped? Who knows.

Of course, I would definitely pay good ol' sums of Nuka Cola bottle caps to see his take.

on his new and hell, even hid old ones exude this sense of collaget to me. What do you think?

https://youtu.be/Ug76wSrbmV0?si=GepTh8JmwhDyy0-7

Its very late here, and I need to sleep. But I really wanted to put a few examples up on youtube showing just how much """"inspiration"""" Adam Soemthing got from an uncredited Shamus Young video. Shamus young died 2 years ago making this particularly shitty in my opinion.

I heard that sargon has like 4 Children or something.

Shall we share our top three artists?

Chris Spargo's "The Small Questions" is a wonderful little weekly series talking about niche and fun topics including street furniture, history and interesting details about everyday objects. As you might have gathered, watching it very much feels like it's a spiritual successor to Tom Scott's "Things You Might Not Know" and as a rabid Tom Scott fan I couldn't be more happy that the gap in my YouTube programming left behind after the conclusion to his ten-year-long series has finally been filled once more! I can't recommend these videos enough, as they are thoroughly interesting and very entertaining. :D

Sooo, we're getting a video about Grummz soon, right? Hbomberguy's single word tweet yesterday just says Groomz and if we get a video about this malodorous funkmonger I will die with happiness in my heart.

I notice how many videos they made between like 2016-2020 compared to the last five years, especially hbomberguy. what do you think?.

I never understood the accusations of “price gouging”

Isn’t it taught in Elementary school, that the economy/(aka capitalism) works as companies would set the prices as high as customers are willing to pay.

That’s the oversimplified capitalism for babies but it’s typically true.

Companies would set the price as high as people are willing to pay.

Why is this called “price gouging” it’s basic capitalism that children learn about.

"Sorry this is just speculation posting. It is against our rules. You don’t provide any incidents of any wrong doing" youtube drama mod team.

This post will be a tad bit longer than usual.

What I intend to do in this post is to describe certain issues I have with a video by the youtuber wendigoon, specifically “the conspiracy theory iceberg”. 

I’ve had previous issues with him but they all ranged exclusively to plagiarism, this one is about certain issues he has factually, especially around conspiracy theories, cryptids, etc etc. 

Though this isn’t his iceberg and thus he didn’t make it, you could hence put the blame on the creator of the iceberg, which would be fair. But, the fact that wendigoon never bothers to fact check these makes it scummy as hell.

This post will model itself on todd in the shadows’ video on james somerton as more a collection of fact checking misinformation rather than hbomberguy' masterful takedown on james somerton.

 This is by no means a complete ‘debunking’ of all of his claims, mainly because the video is 9 fucking hours long, and i don’t have the time for that, so i will only talk about some of things in the video here and there. 

Some of these conspiracy theories are either way too deep for me to get into and waste my time on or aren't in my frame of expertise due my greater fascination with historical and pseudo-historical and archeological subjects.

Throughout I will provide timestamps and certain quotes throughout the video will be given as references. There will also be sources given when he’s incorrect about the things he’s talking about.

4:47 “atlantis” 

In this he states there were records of an island all the way back in ancient greece between athens and sparta. 

The main issue at fault is this statement is misleading at best and horseshit at worst. The principal and really only source we have on this comes from Plato's dialogues on timaeus and critias. 

In these dialogues the aforementioned characters discuss the existence of the island of atlantis, a beautiful island that existed more than 9000 before the birth of solon, which would place it in the 9000s bce. 

“ Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia… and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes”. 

(timaeus 26, jowett)

The date of this is already raises eyebrows, in addition to his claim that the city of Athens somehow was the most preeminent in virtue strength, and somehow for athens, military skills.

From a historical standpoint the existence of atlantis at this point in time would be low to say the least. In addition to the non-existence of anything resembling a source whatsoever before plato reduces atlantis to an allegory for the times.

SOURCES:  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atlantis-legendary-island

Critias (Jowett) - Wikisource, the free online library)

Timaeus (Jowett) - Wikisource, the free online library) 

13:00 “the mad gasser of mattoon” just a short note but notice how later in the video he somehow treats nuns meowing together with greater probability than people suffering from a gas leak.

1:19:28 “die glocke” This is bullshit at face value due to the general date of the evidence provided. 

The first ever claim of this originates with an author named nick cook who used a polish author named igor witkowski’s work called “prawda o wunderwaffe”, or “the truth about wonder weapons”

The author is just a plain conspiracy theorist and professional bullshit artist who uses a science fiction novel as a source.

SOURCES:  The Story behind Die Glocke | And Why I Hate This Conspiracy Theory a good youtuber that i like.

2:36:05 “kap dwa” 

According to the wendigoon and “according to legend” (whatever that means) it was a giant that the spaniards discovered in 1673 in patagonia in argentina, whom they tied to the mast of the ship and eventually broke loose and killed four sailors. Later it would be exhibited in england as a horror freak show. These four sailors would actually help me in researching it, because I found the article when searching “four sailors” in google.

The main peculiarities that I find, is his seemingly on purpose treatment of these things as if they were certain facts. His only “disclaimer” about it is that he says “according to legend”. The actual evidence for this is stretched to say the least or bullshit at worst.

The article I found that mentioned that these four sailors were killed soon thereafter states “Reports varied wildly on the giant’s heights. Some sources describe them as six feet, others up to 12 feet. Could it be that these people were simply taller than your average sailor? Historians note that Europeans during the Age of Discovery rarely exceeded 5′5″.

Sailors weren’t exactly known for their factually accurate descriptions.

an incongruity is the name “kap dwa”, which is malay for “two heads” a tad bit strange for something supposedly coming from patagonia dont you think?.

Brown university also states “ Kap-Dwa is both historical legend and a hoax, similar to other figures of "rouge taxidermy" such as P. T. Barnum's "Fiji Mermaid" and the "Jackalope"

SOURCES: 

https://explorersweb.com/exploration-mysteries-the-giants-of-patagonia/ 

https://brown.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991031944679706966&context=L&vid=01BU_INST:BROWN

2:37:00 “cat nuns”. 

This was an alleged case of mass hysteria where the nuns of a french convent started to collectively meow and were only stopped by the town putting a stop to it.

The first thing we need is some context on thia: after researching (also know as a google search) i found the general source of this, a wikipedia article called “List of mass panic cases”. 

After searching through the history of the wikipedia article and found the original addition of it at  21:32, 19 July 2015.  The source was “Mass Delusions and Hysterias” by the skeptical inquirer.

The story was cited from a medical history book named “the Epidemics of the middle ages” Which was published in 1844. This book cites it source from another one as follows.

“I have read in a good medical work that a nun, in a very large convent in France, began to mew like a cat; shortly afterwards other nuns also mewed. At last all the nuns mewed together every day at a certain time for several hours together. The whole surrounding Christian neighbourhood heard, with equal chagrin and astonishment, this daily cat-concert, which did not cease until all the nuns were informed that a company of soldiers were placed by the police before the entrance of the convent, and that they were provided with rods, and would continue whipping them until they promised not to mew any more”  

Zimmermann on Solitude, Vol. II. Leipsig. 1784. — Transl. note.

This all seems fair and good until you read some of the sentences before this such as:

 “The imaginations of women are always more excitable than those of men, and they are therefore susceptible of every folly when they lead a life of strict seclusion, and their thoughts are constantly turned inwards upon themselves” ibid. 

Ahh, 18th century medical sexism, truly the most trustworthy of medical sources. “i have read in a good medical work” isn’t exactly the greatest citation.

We’ve basically reached a historical dead end and can’t search further, mainly due to the author’s reference to this mysterious medical manuscript that we don’t know about. It could have been that this really existed, or they fabricated it to prove their point about “the imaginations of women” or something like that.

This wasn’t his most egregious of mistakes, just one that I personally knew from Sam o’nella.

SOURCES:  https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/05/mass-delusions-and-hysterias/

 The epidemics of the Middle Ages : Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl), 1795-1850 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 

https://www.curiousarchive.com/the-murky-truth-about-the-meowing-french-nuns/ 

I recently rewatched hbomberguy's video about plagiarism, which caused me to remember some old posts here i read a while back about wendigoon calling him out.

In addition i saw an old post on hbomberguy's subreddit wondering why nobody was suspicious of James somerton's frequent upload schedule and how frequent it was.

This raised suspicious in my mind of wendigoon, i don't know What it is but the frequency of his uploads feels off, they're incredibly long (several hours in length) but he uploads these frequently, too frequently. let me describe it herewith:

"The killer who lived in the walls" (21 march, 2025) 39:22 minutes.

"Petscop - The dark story Hidden in a Haunted Game" ( 1st of march 2025) 3:47:18 hours.

"The bible Lore iceberg" (17th february 2025) 2:01:41 hours.

"The Unsolved Case That Still Haunts Me" (3rd february 2025) 1:03:41 hours.

"The Dark Story & lore of Lethal Company" (19th january 2025) 2:50:31 hours.

"The deadliest Shootout in FBI History" (29th december 2024) 1:22:50 hours.

"The Dumbest Legal Defense & conspiracy Theory i've ever Heard" (6th december 2024) 46:54 minutes.

Notice how frequent and long these uploads are.

I don't know What it is but something here feels amiss in a way that's hard to explain.

What i perhaps think is something akin to James somerton or illuminaughtii, where he stole sources or read Wikipedia and pumps out these video's as content, but feel free to correct me of you want. answers would be appreciated.

Its my biggest fear. How can 15 minutes hold me over an entire year?