Whatifalthist

Whatifalthist's profile picture.

Rudyard Lynch, commonly known by his internet pseudonym, Whatifalthist, is a youtube-based pseudo-intellectual, militant anti-communist, and apologist of imperialism. In spite of his profile name suggesting his content is focused on alternative history, it is increasingly the case that he focuses on creating videos that relate solely to modern events, which often serve to promote his capitalistic and highly individualist view of society and history.

Content

Whatifalthist creates content largely on youtube, with no regular upload schedule. When his channel was nascent, his content was largely concerned with pre-modern or early-modern history, commonly based around an alternative scenario such as a major battle or war resulting in the other sides victory, a particular empire or religion not existing, and things of that nature. The thumbnail and other images shown in his videos typically included ad-hoc and seemingly self-made maps.

By the 2020's, the focus of his content turned from historical events to modern social and political trends, often featuring his own ideas of why he thinks they happen, as well as his own predictions of the future. This particular type of Whatifalthist content often includes intellectually dubious sociological ideas, or a quasi-racist thesis about other "civilizations" outside the "west".

Whatifalthist's crypto-fascism

The "West"

According to Whatifalthist, people such as Jeff Bezos are super-human ultra-risk takers who earned their unthinkable amount of wealth through totally meritocratic means.

In Whatifalthist's content, he commonly uses the term "west". However, in the context of how Whatifalthist makes use of the word, it is merely a euphemism for "white people". According to Whatifalthist, the "west" is a perfectly fair "free market" individualistic realm, where long-standing economic, politcal, and social ideas and systems are totally redundant in the face of person-versus-person competition, where the most genetically superior people are able to become wealthy and powerful.

Whatifalthist is not as amiable to other "civilizations", however. When Whatifalthist speaks about other "civilizations" outside the "west" (non-white people), suddenly, long-existing societal customs and institutions are meaningful in his thesis again. For example, Whatifalthist says that the reason why Latin America is relatively less wealthy than Anglo-America is because of the means in which the Spanish and Portuguese ruled their respective colonies (he completely fails to acknowledge the massive role of US and European imperialism).