Whatifalthist

Whatifalthist's profile picture on Youtube.

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 side's 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 these happen, as well as his own predictions of the future. This particular type of Whatifalthist content often includes intellectually dubious sociological ideas, or quasi-racist theses about other "civilizations" outside the "west".

Whatifalthist has also claimed that the Inca Empire was a communist state even though communism is stateless by definition.

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 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, political, 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", 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.

"Decadence"

Very similar to others on the far-right, Whatifalthist is highly critical of what he percives as decadence and degeneration from social-justice movements and the youth, so much so, that in Whatifalthist's view:

"[...] Youth Culture is About Being an Antisocial, Sociopathic, Degenerate."

According to Whatifalthist, these people are tearing down a statue of Winston Churchill not because he was an imperialist and a capitalist who was complacent in the starvation and exploitation of millions in the British Empire, but rather, because they are envious of his character.

According to Whatifalthist, the youth and their culture are "Degenerate" because of "Partying, drugs, chilling". Furthermore, Whatifalthist believes that the youth view such "Degenerate" things as "Partying" and "chilling" as:

"[...] goods in of themselves rather than vices to be enjoyed and then put away."

Envy

Whatifalthist has made the claim in his video titled "How Envy Drives Society, History, and the Left" that, for example, all hatred for historical figures of the past is an "envy for the past". He expands on his claim by saying:

"In real objective terms, what does our generation accomplish in comparison to our forefathers? They won the world wars, ended disease and real grinding poverty, reached the Moon, ended slavery, did actual legal changes to deal with discrimination, tamed thousands of miles of wilderness and beat tyrannies."

Whatifalthist then goes on to say that:

"When we tear down the statues of figures like Churchill, write histories without dead white males, or cut Shakespeare out of the curriculum, we enviously destroy their memories so that we don't have to think about them and how we don't hold up."