Internet Historian

Internet Historian (born: 1990-1992) (Age 31-34), is a New Zealand YouTuber, known for his unique style of humor, his style of animation, and over-the-top NordVPN, Raycon, or Raid Shadow Legends advertisements, who primarily focuses on making documentaries on events on the internet.https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/internet-historian/ 
==History==
On January 9, 2017, he uploaded a documentary about a 4chan event where users raided GameStop to get Battletoads. He was working on very short videos for various hours and he didn't want to tell anyone about his YouTube channel. He was worried about actual historians saying that he should be more active. After around 2 or 3 weeks, he really gained traction, and he got 100,000 subscribers in about 3 months and then YouTube was a full-time job for him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi8k2KKcMEg&t=1693s
His documentaries are laid with various stock photos and videos narrated by his accent, deep baritone voice, text-to-speech, and deadpan snark. The "animations" in the videos are png images moving in front of a stock background. One of the most, if not the most, defining aspects of his videos are the advertisements for his sponsors. Many people claim that his adverts are the best throughout all of YouTube, having ascended from being a running gag to a full series of characters with arcs.
He runs a secondary channel named "Internet Historian: Incognito Mode" (later changed to "Incognito Mode)" where he uploads Q&As on videos he made before, such as Sundance Rejects, which parodies blockbuster movies and teenager fanfiction, and In the Field (or In the Quarantine), which is a parody talk show hosted by Internet Historian himself and co-starring his friends including: SumitoMedia, Ordinary Things, Many Kudos, and Pyrocynical. The topic of discussion usually revolves around a single object, thing, or genre, such as "art," "architecture," "travel," or "ads."
He has a third channel called "Internet Historian: Live" (later changed to "Live Laugh Love") where he uploads cut down livestreams of games from his Twitch as well as unpublished content.
He also has a fourth channel called "Storymode," in which he recaps the stories of video games, most frequently horror games such as Ao Oni.
Lastly, he has a fifth channel called "Internet Historian: Greenscreens" (later changed to "Video-making Assets"), where he posts many of the effects he uses in his videos, making them available for other people to use.
== Controversies ==
=== Plagiarism ===
On December 3rd, 2023, YouTuber Hbomberguy released a documentary called "Plagiarism and You(Tube)." In this documentary, several large content creators (namely, James Somerton) were called out for prior incidents of plagiarism. During a 22 minute long segment of the 4-hour video, Internet Historian was accused of plagiarizing the script of one of his videos. The video in question is titled "Man in Cave", which was an animated summary of the events that led up to the death of (now) renowned cave diver, Floyd Collins. The video was claimed by the website Mental Floss, as it appeared Internet Historian and copied near word-for-word an entire article written for the site by a journalist named Lucas Reilly. Originally, the video did not cite the Mental Floss article, nor was Reilly credited for his work.https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544782/1925-cave-rescue-that-captivated-the-united-states-floyd-collins The video was reuploaded May 5th, 2023, and featured a new intro where Internet Historian explained to his fans that the original version had received a copyright strike and did not elaborate any further. Hbomberguy noted that in this intro, Internet Historian appears to have photoshopped the YouTube copyright strike message to contain no reference to Mental Floss' parent company (which had its name on the initial strike). The new version features heavily rewritten lines of narration and now cites Reilly's work in the description. 
In several email exchanges posted online by various users who contacted him via the form on his website, Lucas Reilly confirmed that Internet Historian had never reached out for permission to use the article, nor did he apologize once the plagiarism was revealed. In those emails, Reilly reported that Mental Floss's lawyers did reach out to Internet Historian, but this was most likely a cease-and-desist letter: he noted neither he nor Mental Floss were aware of the video's reupload prior to the release of Hbomberguy's documentary.Email exchange with Reilly.
While it was initially thought that Man in Cave was the only video featuring plagiarized content, a video on one of Internet Historian's alternate accounts, Storymode, was heavily plagiarized as well. "I Have No Mouth And I Must Expleen", released in June of 2021, allegedly plagiarizes from AesirAesthetics' "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream - Retro Analysis", released in May of 2017.https://x.com/saturnzava/status/1791254497064329384 There is further evidence that he also plagiarized an excerpt from Vanity Fair in his video "The Cost of Concordia," referring to a South Korean couple that fortunately survived the tragedy. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/189o0n7/comment/kbtdog5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/costa-concordia-sinking-scandal-italy
=== Alt-Right Beliefs ===
Internet Historian, in the recent past, had made several references to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, shown he was a fan of Tucker Carlson, and followed Neo-Nazi Gavin McInnes and right-wing conservative personality Libs of TikTok on Twitter.https://www.reddit.com/r/hbomberguy/comments/18dua67/internet_historian_is_a_nazi_repost_removed_by/
== Collaborations ==
Internet Historian's video Sonic High School | Sundance Rejects featured the voices of Fredrik Knudsen, ChavezzSlovakia, EmpLemon, Cynical Reviews, Thafnine, SsethTzeentach and music by Twomadhttps://youtu.be/Q11jwThxBBI?t=13.
Jeff The Killer - Creepypasta | Sundance Rejects featured the voices of Fredrick Knudsen, Simian Jimmy, Chills, The Volgun, SkittenSays and Donut Operator.
In The Gentleman Pirate | Sundance Rejects, Ordinary Things voiced Stede Bonnett and SumitoMedia voiced Ignatius Pell and Mary Bonnet's Face (though her face was portrayed by Twitch streamer selmacashmoney).
He was inspired to make videos by YourMovieSucksDOTorghttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/InternetHistorian, and he finally collaborated with him when they reviewed Black Panther together. For Valentine's Day 2021, he chatted with Brittany Venti.
==Other channels ==
==Personal Life==
It is a common misconception that Internet Historian was born April 20, 1989, though this has been confirmed to have been a fake birthday he gave Famous Birthdays to get them to stop asking him questions. He also says that the "picture" by EmpLemon is a photoshopped picture of wavywebsurf.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIABf62c6Pw
Despite being born in New Zealand, evidence found on his second channel suggests that he currently lives in Australia. He is married to Internet Herstorian as he mentioned in a tweet, and he also has a sisterhttps://youtu.be/6Nz0sf-XrEA?t=723.
==Trivia==
*Internet Historian originally used Hide The Pain Harold's face as his avatar and profile picture. He later switched to a drawn avatar based on Harold.
*During his chat with Brittany Ventihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC84JA6EGo4&t=1s&ab_channel=BrittanyVenti, he revealed that he is 5'10.
==Subscriber milestones==
==References==
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