I Shouldn't Have Watched These "History" TikToks...
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- On this video I spend way too much time watching and reacting to TikTok that teach you history about ancient Rome, ancient Greece, the Medieval period and armour, For your entertainment...I guess. Oh, and there are cats, for some reason. A lot of cats. And they dance. Why are they dancing? You did this.
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The general topics for this video are the Roman republic and the Roman empire, mostly focusing on armour and on "facts", some of which are unfortunately myths.
Other than that ancient Greece seems to be a recurring popular topic on TikTok together with the Medieval period, specifically knight content. Quite a few things to debunk there too.
Ultimately not all the tiktoks I watched on this video were, bad. Some were a little superficial, others were actually good so maybe there is some hope that at least not everything that has to do with history ends up being videos of cats.
Thanks for watching!
#tiktokvideos #debunking #mythbusting
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Stay safe out there and avoid the tikker's curse (mind and soul rot) also keep your ads for shilltreon at the end or beginning, you fool.
Hello Metatron 👋
About the vomiting, you sound like there were not many sources for it and only (very) rich did it. Weren't there dedicated rooms "vomitoria" to do it, even in villae rusticae?
I'm a little confused 😅
Keep on doing your good work, I really like your channel ❤️
make more
Just curious but the editing for this video seemed very bad, is there a specific reason for this? Such as editing tricks for captivating audiences or such? I haven’t seen any of your videos edited this way and I don’t know if it is bad or something else you are trying, if it’s something you are trying out I will say I do not like it very much and would prefer the older way that you have them edited. No hate, just general concern and review.
23:47 I was an adventurer once, until I took an arrow to the knee.
Peak TikTok - AI generated scripts, AI generated images, AI generated voices. The future is looking bright!
The moment i spot A.I. it's disliked, 90% of the time it's false or very ambigious slop.
@@kimashitawa8113 I like your style.
@@andrew3139 Like if you're going to spread misinformation you should at least have the courtesy to just use some google images and your own voice😭
Like why even go through the trouble of ai generating a medieval armor when you can just look it up? Just seems like more effort for nothing.
The prominance of AI are the key detail to the fact that creativity is dead and gone since a long while
I’m like # 100 and I agree !!!!!
AI reading is often paired with AI writing. there is no accuracy, just whatever the algorithm pukes up.
And paired with "AI" images and music. Absolute garbage.
If you pay the algorithm to puke FOR you, you can watch more!
There are apps where you simply ask the AI to produce a short for you, & you get one like the AI ones he reviewed in the video. It really takes no work from the user other than uploading it to the site
The AI vomits a script so that the tiktoker can write more
These "history" TikToks drove him googledebunkers.
hellow fellow googledebunker
The crossover we needed
I get it, you get it, barely few WILL get it😂
Googledebunkers
E pluribus googum
Metatron liked the magnet armor girl so much, he put the clip in twice.
WITNESSED
Ok, someone else has noticed it.
And he REALLY liked the cat TikToks
Probably an editing mistake, but you can't blame him after suffering for how long after watching TikToks
@@LGreen332 wha- what?
When your bar for historical accuracy is a Black Cleopatra, these TikToks aren’t so bad.
That's how high your bar is? Mine is actually "rome did not exist and AlexandriA the great".
No videos with dancing hamsters or cats can be bad! :)
@@mosuke5123 They weren't even Persian cats :p
You couldn't spend another day without saying or mentioning BLACK do you?
@@johannesg8959Stop trying to gaslight us.
"I don't have keys to jingle, so just bear with me here.." - Metatron
My keys dont jingle jingle
What's with this recent trend of quoting a bit of the video and it getting voted to the top?
Is it fans helping the video get engagement to attract the algorithm? Or is it just bots? Or is it just a new trend?
@@Wintermute909 its just „i like this part“ „haha me too“ thats it. Its not that deep.
@@Wintermute909 quoting a part of a video has always been a thing on UA-cam I do not get what you're saying
Ive got keys that jingle jangle jingle.
This should be titled "Metatron argues with AI"
Dead internet theory feels so true when this is the stuff being put out.
Haha. Today is a great comment fellow human.
The vomit part screams AI generated
I heard this about the Swedish nobles when I was in school, so unfortunately before the AI😢
Worst thing here is that these tiktoks still have more historical credibility than Season 2 of Netflix's Barbarians...
isn't that show a comedy tho?
or Netflix's Black Cleopatra.
@@mishmashmedleythat's Norsemen you're thinking of😂
Blk Achilles has entered chat 😂
History channel ancient wliens
The "They hired someone to vomit" so they could eat more Tik Tok really baffled me. The logic of Tik Tokers.
The logic of AI-generated content
They left out the word induce. No one can write anymore.
I think they confused humans for vultures 😆
maybe he just had mispoken or forgot that one little word. such things can happen everywhere - even universities.
i bet there is really dumb shyte on that platform to laugh about and not just a little mishsp like that
It's AI generated. The void stares back.
The "hired people to vomit" thing made a memory from childhood surface up. As young children do, I would announce when I was going to use the bathroom. My mom would have some fun by teasing/messing with me by often saying "can you go for me too" or something playing on the idea of being able to pee for someone else even our dog, I remember finding it funny.
My dad used to say that too 😂
It’s not just me! Wonderful!
Mine too 😂
Me too.
But also sympathetic vomiting. Can't have the emperor sticking his finger in his mouth to vomit! Best a hire a guy to kick it off, Family Guy style!
Stakuyi is actually pretty good. He runs a big podcast called "The History of Everything". He also runs another yt channel called Stakuyi, where he goes into deep dives. Hes up there i'd say of online historians, his review of Netflixs Cleopatra and Njinga series was awesome and his various other works.
He actaully refers to Metatron sometimes and had many times advertised his viewers to check out Metatron on multiple occasions
04:14 "Tortellius, I am stuffed." "Yes, my liege." "Please, vomit for me so that I may feel empty inside again." "Yes, my lord Raviolus."
I'm dead
*Family guy sympathetic vomiting intensifies*
Those names though
When future people look back on us, there will be some historical myths about “People buying used underwear from online priestesses. This was to bring good luck and fortune to their homes.”
Ik this is a joke and all but unlike most before us, we have the internet to preserve anything and everything we do.
@@ReDeadArmadillobefore internet they had books, actual physical shi, and no 10101010 thingys, and yet still we have a million misconceptions about them, you think the internet is more time proof than a physical library ? Maybe in future, but right one, one server shut down is all we both are away from losing access to each other.
@@ReDeadArmadillo unless a giant solar flare takes out all electronics or a nuclear war destroys all internet infrastructure
@@ReDeadArmadilloyou know there'll be someone that doesn't understand irony or anything
And they would be giving us too much credit 😅.
When I was in 6th grade, back in 1957, I had access through the local library of a book published in India by a British officer on the history of weapons and armor. The part I remember was the photographs of a yogi doing his asanas in Maximillian plate armor. I mean the "fancy" postures. Amazing.
What's a Tiktok video over the medieval period called?
A knightmare.
Especially if you see AI crusaders 💀
"Knightmare" would be a great band name
You, sir, have made my day 👏🏻.
- How many kids do you have?
- Yes
5:50 I don't think that's even fantasy armor, that's just AI generated "Medieval" armor.
Looks pretty cool tho
@@wrongthinker843if your idea of cool is a video game then yeah sure.
This or concept arts.
@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 Oh shut it you boring loser, video game armors look cool
@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 You must be so fun at parties
That heavily segmented armor towards the end is some outstanding craftsmanship.
Great stuff as ever - I'm on there trying to raise the standard of ancient history content. There are some very odd videos but some good ones. We'll keep fighting the good fight for accuracy!
Ah yes you are one of the good ones indeed! Wish you all the best of success and keep up the good work
We have no right to judge the Greeks for their athlete sweat when we've had Gamer Girl Bathwater.
I reserve my right to judge both.
That vomit one must've been ai generated? At least I hope it was lol.
Unfortunately, no. Even before the internet and Ai, it was said.. I know, unfortunately, I'm before the internet and ai.
@@Angry_Dinosaur I mean, so am I lol
Im actually glad you showed the magnet lady twice since the first time I was hearing love instead of larp and it still made sense
“Hired people to vomit”
This conjured an image in my mind of a party entertainer who just pukes as his schtick.
“Hey everybody, Claudius is throwing another banquet! He’s hired jugglers and musicians and even The Dispeptic Demetrius, The Puking Patrician!”
Reminds me of Rowland the Farter.
Dispeptic Demetrius....*snortlaughs*
That was basically Steve-O's role when he was on Jackass.
He opens for Stand Up Philosophers
@@ChimpFromSpace can’t argue with that 😆
"I'm going to watch TikTok."
That's your first mistake.
Oh God, not the AI slop...
Stakuyi is usually solid but for the most part TikTok “historians” are horrendous
Same. I really like watching his UA-cam channel History of everything podcast.
Stakuyi isnt good, his level of knowledge is amateur at best, you just don't know it.
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 I’m aware he isn’t a university professor level of knowledgeable. He does do legit reading and research on sources for his videos though, it’s just surface level. Compared to the slop on TikTok especially the Ai slop, he’s leagues better though.
He's ok, at least he seem like someone to have convo with Metatron and probably share info
yeah he has a history and current issues podcast
Is it me, or does the magnet armor girl look identical to the Joan of Arc's portrait by Albert Lynch. It is surely just a coincidence, but a pretty cool one, anyway!
Man modern day soldiers carry like 60 lb. And that's on their back and web gear. Probably be easier to carry full plate that's distributed
Only 60? More like 90-100
@@thelordofcringe Depends of course whether we're talking march or battle. The Romans were also carrying around quite a bit of stuff.
@kaltaron1284 romans varied quite a bit. From the Marian reform onwards I believe they were trained to carry 65 as standard, but theres literally like a dozen generals who made them carry around 100 because he didn't want to pay for pack animals to carry their food, or in a few cases there wasn't the grazing land to handle a big supply train.
@@thelordofcringe I assume your talking pounds. In which case those numbers sound accurate AFAIK.
Exactly I allay think about this when people are like “knights were way stronger cuz they had to wear armor” or “they were slower cuz they had to wear heavy armor” but our soldiers also train in extremely heavy gear 😂
Maybe the cup with someone wiping their butt with stones was a joke gift to someone. You know, like weird novelty coffee mugs.
Like someone sending you a sea shell for you to wipe your ass
That’s what I was thinking .
*browsing the “Spencer’s” stall at the agora*
No,no,no. We don't understand it so it was for ritual purposes.
@@kleinjahr it was in celebration of the ancient festival of Azzrammin .
Wouldn't the "they clean themselves with a small stone" just be like how in modern times we use pumice stones for calloused skin?
no
@digital_u4ia "they clean themselves" is a polite way to say wiping after using the facilities, so only if you have callouses on your bum
Stakuyi is a great channel. such a great guy, also nice to see a face and actual voice instead of all the AI Tiktok crap.
I have absolutely no interest in Tictok, but based on what I see Milo Rossi debunk on his YT channel, tictok is truly the septic tank of the human race. I thought our species couldn't get any lower than twitter, yet we have found a way.
Humanity, always lowering the bar!
😂😅 TicTok is a tool. Just like UA-cam. You're using it wrong.
@@Snowhawk1835 I'm not using it at all, and I am proud of that. Just like how I never used twitter and I am proud of that.
plenty of septic tankers on tik tok 🙂
not sure what "tictok" is... this video is about *TikTok*
Tik Tok is pretty much just a single giant shit post.
How are you confused by the vomiting thing? I always hire some peasant to go piss for me when I'm having a full on beer table with my buddies.
I wonder if Seneca when refering to Cladius was actually in reference to Claudius being a sickly Emperor in real life as some modern historians wonder if Claudius had Cerebral Palsy and Vomitting is a common symptom.
Nah i actually loved this. Pls make more. Im also looking forward to a Eastern Roman Empire armor video. I absolutely love the informative content. The debunking/response content is entertaining but im not learning a whole lot.
The alchemist is back, turning sh*t into gold! But who says that magic isn't hard work! - BTW, happy Birthday, Raff! Turning 42, if I remember correctly. (I'll be that old in Nov.) - To the next 42 years! Cheers!
I'm sorry you went through all of that for us. Truly commendable. Hopefully, these short videos did not damage your brain too much.
How much would someone have to pay you to wear your full suit of armor w/ frog helmet for a whole day? And also to create a video where you do mundane things like go to the grocery store in full armor? I would love to see you come up in a full suit of armor with a Roman eagle sticker on it and go to the register and speak straight up Latin to the poor cashier lol
Because he is Italian and i presume living in Italy it wouldn't be as surprising as you might think. In general most Italians can understand enough Latin to make out what someone is saying because modern day Italian isn't far off Latin. Someone did this once for a you tube video and most people understood him. The armour would be funny though. 😁
@@tabbi888 he lives in the u.s. now.
@@tabbi888 I really just want to see some mischief and nonsense at the end of the day lol
@@kyleheins well then that's a different story, it would be sure to get a reaction then with the Latin, most would definitely be confused, but I'd watch out for their police though with the armour ,they might see it as a threat. Who knows in America, I know I'd be worried about it, people seem to over react there.
@tabbi888 it really depends of where you go. You'll get looks of confusion and curiosity where I'm from, and some will even come up to you to talk and inquire. Go to Seattle or DC and the whole situation is likely to be akin to entering a different country.
When I saw the Magnet Armor Tik Tok for the second time in the video I thought I had a stroke.
Fr fr
5:41 Brilliant! A knight as a holder of refrigerator magnets. Now, mommy knight needs to use magnets to display her child's kindergarten art It's moments like these when I have hope for humanity 🤣
Do you suffer from some kind of autism disorder?
Huh... This revelation of the Little Smooth Stones seems to be the answer to how the seashells are used in Demolition Man.
TikTok history Is like the history of your family your grandpa tells you, full of exaggerations and inaccuracy because it makes it sound much cooler.
I didn’t know there were so many animated cats in classical Roman artwork very informative video!
Greetings from Switzerland. Happy birthday, Metatron. May you have a wonderful day. God bless you.
Also thanks for the video. You do seem to have a masochistic tendency, watching those horrendous videos and articles.
I love your nod of approval when someone says something that's actually true. You seem so pleasant surprised 😂
Some people today sell jarred farts. Selling sweat is not as weird as that.
Some people are paying money for a jar of water in which Only Fans "celebrity" did bathe. Guess not much has changed...
Please keep this up Metatron, you're one of the original History UA-camrs, and it's amazing to see you still going strong many years later
I will never stop liking your videos, you can’t stop me
I love your channel; love how you and your team come at a subject from all sides
Thank you so much
Only 60 lbs? A kitted out US infantryman carries 80 to 100 routinely.
They also have vehicles and every shot lightens their load.
@@damionkeeling3103 nono, that is the actual rucking and marching setup. And "every shot lightens your load?" You do realize there were spare bullets. In the grand scheme of things, the absolute miniscule of a bullet isn't doing shit. Unless you're the guy carrying belts of MG ammo, every shot isn't doing shit for the weight.
Couldn't handle it. Kudos to you and your fortitude for preserving
If I remember correctly, Tacitus mentions the armor we now refer to as _lorica segmentata_ was derived from armor worn by a type of gladiator known as _Crupellarius_ . During a gladiator revolt in Gaul, soldiers sent to put down the insurrection resorted to using axes and picks against the heavy armor.
I LOVE these videos! Raffaello, PLEASE continue (especially with the cats!) SQUIRREL!
(and now for something completely different)
I like all videos you make that refute these short-form videos that have zero research, yet have the toxic impact of spreading around so-called facts to the point that people just believe them to be true since they heard it many, many times.
Sorry to make you go through this torture, but someone has to do it and I'm too distracted by keys jungling that I am not going to do the research.
When I was in scouting I often carried a pack on the order of 80lbs. I'd rather wear 80lbs of armor but a lot of that was the straps digging into my shoulders.
No, I will not stop liking your videos, I will engage with them, the algorithm demands it!
think he ment, to hire someone to make you vomit (who knew how to use a feather or potion on you, to make you vomit easier)
I love the cats for a good chuckle to your content.
As an Italian, my father threatened to cilled us, have us bumped off by hitman, asked me to be a priest, disown us temporarily.
The only thing he did not do is sell us! 😅
The cat strikes again, and again. Love the content, Meta.
I suspect the "hire someone to vomit" was meant to convey the idea that Romans would employ someone to make them vomit. Nowadays we have TikTok to solve that problem.
No, it was more likely an invention of the AI that generated the script.
@@davidwilson6577 Doing your own homework isn't what it used to be.
Double magnet fun. XD
Thanks for debunking as always!
3:44
I never thought that of all the Roman emperors, the wise Claudius would be the one who would have the habit of vomiting in order to eat more. Even though, considering that his last words were "oh dear, oh dear, I think I sh*t myself", the truth is that it was a bit to be expected, tbh...
It might have been just baseless slander tbh . Pretty common in that area. I say this cause usually vomiting will kill any apettite so if you wanted to eat more this is not really the way to do it
I love these rants!!
I ll try to explain. Hired antoninus vomits and then his patron vomits looking at the process and can eat more 😂
I dont know what I would do without Metatrons debunking videos. You are a Godsend my friend
32:00
@metatronyt the helmet you are thinking of is Henry V’s funerary Great Helm/Early Frog Mouth, Matt Easton has a video about it from years ago I’m pretty sure. Very interesting and I’m sure getting metal that thick, and actually working it into something useable would have been a great feat for medieval technology back then.
Hey Metatron! The guy you liked, Steven Bell, actually has two UA-cam channels: Stakuyi (his gaming-focused channel), and The History of Everything Podcast (The history discussion Podcast he runs with his wife Gabby). While he doesn't always get everything correct, it is clear that he tries very hard to do his research on any subject he broaches. He just doesn't have expertise in any one location or time period, as he covers everything all over the world, up to nearly the present day. He is a major history enthusiast. I think you'd really like seeing more of his content!
Great video though man! Keep up the great work defending the truth!
To be precise, the last Western emperor was Iulius Nepos, Romulus Augustulus was only a temporary usurper who was overthrown by troops loyal to the emperor under the command of Flavius Odoacer after a few months.
Not incorrect, but I thought Nepote remained emperor by a legal technicality. He was deposed too before Romulus Augusto. There is still debate between hystorians about this?
This is kinda like the coastline paradox
Thanks UA-cam for taking only 3 hours to notify me of a new metatron video!
I think the guy talking about mail offering better protection than lorica segmentata means by coverage. There are more gaps (like the armpits) in segmentata than in mail.
He should have been more specific then.
Nice video Metatron and happy birthday man.
Poor Raff having to watch tiktok. Thank You for your sacrifice.
Please continue with the breakdown on Shōgun!!!!! I was really enjoying that series.
4:10 it is purely AI generated slop. The "script" is AI, the narrator is AI and the "art" is AI
Starting at 20:53 you are spot on, and is something that I and some other colleagues of mine who reenact and fight as well lament regularly: if you’re a historian lecture from a position of authority/certainty about a subject directly related to a form of practicum, you absolutely need to have engaged in that action. Arguably the worst I’ve seen on your channel was the ‘blood runnel’ dude. You wanna talk about armour? Wear some armour. You wanna discuss the weight of a schlachtschwert, train with one. Wanna argue about the accuracy of a doppelhakebüchse? Ok… Fire away.
What kind of reenactment do you do bud? Intrigued
@@simonsmith1974 I fight far more then I reenact, but some of my impressions are early and mid 16th century Conquistadores. I am the Captain of the Santa Barbara Soldados, late 16th century Augsburg harness when I fight in Buhurt, late 14th/early 15th century harness when I duel. As well, I am an archaeologist and lecturer with degrees in anth, history and archeology. I’ve studied and fought with Lichtenauer/Kal in HEMA.
I got into fighting and reenactment for the above exact reason: after lecturing for a decade, I wanted to truly understand what all this combat was actually like (or at least a close approximation of the combat). How tiring was it? How mobile were fighters? Did the weight and armour impair polearms more then an écu and mace? How much did getting hit… well, hurt. Stuff like that. Same reason my archaeological focus has been on reconstructing/recreating Mississippian weapons and armour, and then testing them against one another using scientific models I’ve created (like PmDAT/PmMAT: Pre-modern Dendric Armour Test/Pre-modern Metallic Armour Test): how do things actually function, as opposed to just reading about them and then speaking from a position of authority.
@@marksanders573 awesome! I love history, my particular areas of fascination being WW2 and ancient Rome
Not even 1 minute in, and I'm already laughing 😂
The only chivalry I know of during war was WWI where they stopped fighting to celebrate Christmas. But it got ruined when the higher-ups came and demanded they continue to fight. Such a shame.
History? Tiktok? Welp.....that kinda explain THAT cleopatra thing
Such an amazing video. We definitely need more, a lot more.
You know that now we'll gather the money to make you wear your armor for a whole day, right?
I’m glad you did Steven Ball’s video. Because his specialty isn’t like yours is when you primary specialties are Roman, Greek, and Japan, and his is a wide range he knows a little bit about a lot of history primarily war is his. I think you and him would be a great Collaboration
Wh....my brain hurts. What is this visual diarrea I'm watching?
Its really this mans sense of humour that's got me subscribed. Lmao
Oh no, Rafael's going to get brain damage. Don't do it, even if it is for science!
Comment for the algorithm, cant wait for the livestream
history 1000 years from now: people used to buy a girl performer's bath water in a bottle.
let that sink in.
True men of culture.
Liked, commented, and I'm showing some friends at work. Thanks Metatron! 🤘😎
Did I somehow rewind or did the magnet armour girl end up in here twice?
my goodness you need to make historically accurate dancing cat history tiktoks... it needs to happen. Rofl
When it comes to pooping; when you don't overeat, exercise and eat food that suits your digestive system you have mostly ghosties so there's not much to wipe anyway.
I don't think ghosties means what you think it means.
@@atticstattic It does.
@@Arkantos117
You're right - there are a few more definitions than I thought
@@atticstattic My health teacher called it the "ghost poop."
A vomitorium in ancient Latin is the passage ways you take to exit a large arena: a colliseum or hippodrome would 'vommit' out the patrons.
The problem is that many of the scripts for the Tik Tok history video is generated by AI and ChatGPT and it’s published without fact checking.
AI slop became a huge issue on the platform, watch UA-cam do nothing as they're focused on policing speech.
10:25 thank you for not letting that slide by. I thought just before, "Little weird to have that on a cup, but alright."
The video is nice but some parts seem to be weirdly eddited (as if some clips are repeated some are abruptly cut) but enjoyed the video still
8:42 Pomades and soaps were classic gifts in royal gatherings from as far back as the Akadian empire.
Great video Metatron 😂
'these Greeks are so weird. Imagine buying someone elses sweat. ew.'
-man in the 2020's moments before drinking gamergirl bath water.
My guess for why he mentioned “hiring someone to vomit” is to increase engagement ie comments. Asserting an error in logic or doing something nonsensical is a common and effective strategy to grow your channel on TikTok