What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Just finished watching HBomberGuy's video on plagiarism and James Somerton. I'm also in the middle of a video by (of all people) Todd in the Shadows about how, when he's not plagiarising other sources (which he may or may not have completely erased), the "facts" are often wrong. Some of them are just brain-breakingly insane, like:

1) Ernst Rohm was killed on the Night of the Long Knives, not for his homosexuality, or for any power struggle-related reasons, but because he's fat. Because, somehow, he (or whoever he lovingly ripped off) had never seen a picture of Goering.
2) He's literally sourcing The Pink Fucking Swastika, a homophobic propaganda book about how the Nazis were supposedly gay. As an openly gay YouTuber.
3) Somehow, there's a huge contingent of straight women who like watching gay love stories (true enough), but were alarmed to find out that gay male sex was a thing.
4) Rocky Horror Picture Show saved 20th Century Fox after the failure of Cleopatra. Even though it was made 12 years after Cleopatra. Even though by the time it actually started to make a profit, they had released Star Wars, which was, at the bare minimum, already well on its way to being the highest-grossing film of all time at that point.
5) Nick was squeamish about Legend of Korra because it had a PoC female protagonist. Even though it's a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, the famously Asian-oriented show with a female deuteragonist (and primary viewpoint character) who's even darker-skinned than Korra.
6) "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" was somehow controversial because simply talking about holding hands in a song was still taboo in 1963. There might have been some controversy among some people who thought "I Can't Hide" was "I Get High," but if hand-holding was taboo, I can only assume that the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" would have been downright pornographic when it hit #1 in 1957.
7) Also, apparently, the reason the US fought the Nazis was because they were jealous of the Arno Breker-level physiques the Nazis showed in newsreels. And apparently, even when the Soviet Union was winning Olympic Medals left and right (to the extent that the USSR is still the #2 in total Gold and Silver medals won in the Summer Olympics and #3 in Bronze; they did worse in the Winter, oddly enough), they were too bundled up for the Yanks to care about their physiques. Seriously, this sounds like a joke an uninformed gay stereotype would make, but he's saying it for real.
8) Somehow, NAMbLA could somehow use imagery from Disney's Aladdin and not get nuked into oblivion by The Mouse.
9) Gay activists in the 90s didn't care about employment discrimination?

I'm 41 minutes in. I know there's more, but I'm just listing the ones that made me do this with how obviously wrong they were:



How the fuck did this dumbass ever become an authority on anything?