The Armchair Historian

Griffin Johnsen (born: ), better known online as The Armchair Historian, is an American history YouTuber and founder of Armchair Historian LLC, who is known for their animated history videos. His videos normally average at around 100,000-500,000 views.
==History==
Griffin's first video was about the Crusader tank. After that, it mostly concentrated around famous historical events like the Charge Of the Light Brigade, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Franco-Prussian War. His videos generally revolved around events that happened before 2010, and according to him, the most recent topic he covered was the Second Congo Warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XuRsZGmC9o (1998-2003) and the Iraq War (2003) (That has since changed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022-present).
A noticeable change in video quality occured on August 2020, when he uploaded his "Evolution of German Army Uniforms|Animated Historyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nX9uVBi95s&t=202s" video. This was one of his very first uniform-related videos, which have since become extremely popular, which currently are 5 titles long, them being, in order of how old each video is, the German, Russian, American, Japanese, and French army uniform videos. On December 12, 2023, he remade the Evolution of German Uniforms video.
Now, Griffin Johnsen makes videos about modern, early modern and sometimes, ancient, history. Most of the drawings and animation are done by a team, of whom its most notable members are Turkbud and Candywise.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC938jxRL1CMXXkp8kJpZPaA He sometimes does collaborations with other YouTubers, like EmperorTigerstar, AlternateHistoryHub, and Overly Sarcastic Productions.https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArmchairHistorian/about
==Reactions==
Griffin's videos have been reacted to many times, and one of those reactions became a bit controversial.
His first video to get reacted to was "Life In Nazi Germany|Animated History" (he always adds the "|Animated History" suffix at each and every one of his videos) and it was by famous German HOI4 YouTuber and Twitch streamer TommyKay. 
Griffin's second video to get reacted by someone else was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG1aFNUNSdYand it was was by a Vietnamese YouTuber named "Luna oihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7BLBlNFX0", who tried to debunk his video with her so-called "straight facts". Griff then responded to her video, with resulted in "Luna oi!" responding to Griffin Johnsen's video yet again.
The third reaction was the controversial one. It was a reaction stream by Twitch streamer duo Ashtyn&Jon on April 10, 2019, which, according to History With Hilberthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsG8lRh6oo&t=23s, "offer minimal criticism and just stop for 20-second intervals to talk about their cat". Unsurprisingly, Griffin was outraged, and so was the entire YouTube history community. This resulted in lots of History YouTubers posting videos criticizing the streamers. Eventually, everyone just forgot about it.
Another reaction was made on June 13, 2021, when a Twitter user named "Comrade Natalie" started a GoFundMe to make a documentary debunking his Korean Warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj7jXlr_M9w video. It claimed that the video was American anti-communist propaganda and "awful trash". Even Luna oi!, the same person who criticized his Vietnam War video also jumped on board, stating that:
He then made a rather sarcastic post about it on YouTube, saying that:
==Armchair History TV==
On 30th August 2019, Griffin announced his new streaming service for historical content: Armchair History TV. This was in response to the repeated demonetization by YouTube for showing images of the swastika and the Taliban, even in an educational context. There, along with 47 other YouTubers, he uploads undemonetized, ad-free and exclusive content on the site. He is the first YouTuber, and for now, the only one, to ever create such a service.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOk_zenazKI&t=121s
==Trivia==
*Griffin is constantly bugged by his audience to make a video on the history of armchairs. 
*Griffin also frequently uploads videos of why he thinks YouTube's demonetization policies are ineffective. 
*Griffin is also notorious for his repeated sponsorships of Raid: Shadow Legends in his videos.
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016
Category:One million subscribers