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** At first, "What if the Hindenburg Disaster Never Happened?" appears to be building up to a short, dry conclusion: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Airships would have lasted a couple more years at best, before they were discarded due to the airplane.]] But then, [[HalfwayPlotSwitch Cody decides to switch viewpoints.]] Namely, [[PointOfDeparture the concept of the airship coming into being during the 18th century rather than the 19th]].

* AlternateTechline: Posits that if the internet never happened, the main driving force in computer tech would be portable storage, since there'd be no way to download data. Also, modern cellphones would more closely resemble mini-laptops, as the lack of web pages to browse would make touchscreens unnecessary.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AI-jl3ewTQ What if the Hindenburg Disaster Never Happened]]'' concedes that the ''[[UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg Hindenburg]]'' blowing up wasn't the death blow pop history presents it as -- interest in airships had already deflated by the 1930s. Instead, a point of divergence in the 1700s starting with Louis XVI funding projects with royal money sees balloons rising from passing curiosity to practical and substantial use in warfare by the 1800s.

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* SpeculativeBiology: ''[[https://youtu.be/ywzPWhsrM_8?si=SbLk7lIAwrWudoeq The Extinction That Caused the Dinosaurs (And If It Never Happened)]]'' explores how Therapsids would evolve if the End-Permian Extinction never happened. They continue to diverse into larger forms (never Sauropod big without airsacs) with fur the 100 million years the Dinosaurs would have ruled. Cody suggests that Suminia, a synapsid with opposible thumbs from the Permian, could evolve into ape-like creatures.
** [[spoiler:Since [[InSpiteOfANail the asteroid will still hit the Earth 66 million years ago]], the large therapsids will go extinct and allow the dynapsids in their shadow to takeover. But with the cooler climate of the Cenozoic, these "dinosaurs" will evolve strange bodyshapes for eating grass and more feather covering to better protect against the cold]].

* AnAesop:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOB3qVoS6Gs "What if the Drug War Never Occured?"]] is a thorough condemnation of the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnDrugs War On Drugs]] and makes a case that the United States and Mexico would both be better off if it never happened.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390 "How the American Media Fuels A Cycle of Violence"]] It's contains a message similar to Music/BlueStahli's song "Shoot Em Up." It's about how the media almost glorifies shooters by talking about the shooter's life and motives and inspires copy-cat shooters. It also talks about how the cycle is getting faster and there's more shooters and more covering of shooters of the news and sensationalism of these is making things worse.
** The message of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuoj5Dz6VI "Why War With Iran Is Just....A Horrendous Idea"]] is that going to war with Iran would be terrible, which is demonstrated through blunt comparisons to the Iraq War, quotes from contemporary politicians, and the odd joke.
** The message of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLiI6kXZkZI "The Election That Ruined Everything (And If It Never Happened)"]] [[KnowNothingKnowItAll is considering only your own worldview while ignoring the considerations of others will have terrible consequences]]. Woodrow Wilson's arrogant attitude to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI set the stage for many of the problems of the 20th and 21st centuries.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJOm8EwuJ94 "What if Germany Had Been Split Differently After WWII?"]] condemns unfiltered revenge as a policy-making tool, stating flatly that the Morgenthau plan[[note]]Balkanizing Germany, completely deindustrializing the Rhineland, and reverting the country to an agrarian state, which without industrial fertilizer would result in a famine killing 25 million Germans[[/note]] would have been an excessively cruel punishment on par with UsefulNotes/TheHolodomor and UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, effectively [[NiceJobBreakingItHero validating the Nazis]]. Any governments left behind would not be supported by the people and will swiftly collapse due to lack of food, economy, and institutions when foreign support pulls out.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/AlternateHistoryHub/featured Alternate History Hub]] is, as the quote suggests, a Website/YouTube channel created by Creator/CodyFranklin that is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dedicated to Alternate History scenarios]]. In addition, Cody makes videos discussing the lore of popular franchises like ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' or ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'' and what would happen if various pop culture scenarios [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome would happen in real life]]. Another feature is his "Contro-History" videos, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which takes the]] AlternateHistory [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin approach to various controversial subjects]].

** ''What if Japan won the Battle of Midway?'' Even if the Japanese had a Naval Victory off of Midway, their amphibious-landing forces would have been destroyed by the American presence on the island, resulting in an overall American Victory. On top of that, the US had a far greater industrial capacity than Japan, who couldn't replace their naval losses whereas the Americans can. In the end, Japan's defeat in their War against the US was inevitable.

** ''What if Japan won the Battle of Midway?'' Even if the Japanese had a Naval Victory, their landing forces would have been destroyed by the American presence on the island, resulting in an overall American Victory. On top of that, the US had a far greater industrial capacity than Japan, who couldn't replace their naval losses whereas the Americans can. In the end, Japan's defeat in the War was inevitable.

** ''What if the Communists Lost the Chinese Civil War?'' China would still be an authoritarian one-party state, and global economic power under the Kuomintang. As Cody points out, the Kuomintang grew from a "pro-democracy" entity into a domineering unitary state [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different from the Communists]]. The major difference is that a Nationalist China would ensure the Korean War and Vietnam War would end in communist defeat, the Cultural Revolution never happens and the old Chinese culture and ideals are preserved.

** ''What if [[Film/ThePurge The Purge]] was real?'': It would do nothing but just kicking an already downed U.S. economy. Without emergency services, fires would rage out of control, even just from an uncontrolled kitchen fire. Banks can be robbed, companies can use corporate sabotage, small businesses are now terrible investments, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking insurance is a nightmare.]] Realistically, there would be a revolution at the immediate news that this policy was going to be implemented.

* CreativeSterility: {{Discussed|Trope}} during his video on ''Series/AncientAliens'' and what history is like according to [[ConspiracyTheorist its theories]]. Much to Cody's frustration, it's not merely that the series isn't even creative with its theories ([[StrictlyFormula literally every one it presents amounts to "take documented human history" and add "actually it was aliens"]]) but that it also implies that in the entire course of human history, humans have had ''zero'' agency over how they've ever developed, and [[HumansAreMorons that we as a species are incapable of anything that isn't devised by a higher power]] (which Cody finds ironic for a series that ''claims'' to be atheistic in approach ).