There is a surprising amount of moments for a channel this snarky. A lot of this comes down to IH being very particular with his targets and meticulous with his research, as well as showing sympathy to many figures who have otherwise been mocked ruthlessly by the internet.
- During the discussing of Fyre Festival's Epic Fail, he does not mock the attendees, a surprisingly refreshing take compared to the general mocking from ill-informed internet and news media people who took early misreports at face value and assumed the festival was for "privileged rich people" who all spent several thousands of dollars on their tickets.
- Whether doing it for the meme or being sincere, the internet banded together to get Asif and Mudasir to become friends again...and they did.Detective Historian: And it was goddamn beautiful.
- Similarly, everyone got on Cracker Barrel's ass about firing Brad's wife, which led to other restaurant chains in the area the couple lived in opening up positions and offering interviews. She eventually got hired by one of them and Brad made it clear it wouldn't have happened if the meme didn't get so much traction.
- The "KONY 2012" video, where he doesn't mock Jason Russell and instead portrays him as a decent guy who became way too overwhelmed by the success of his video and the stress of living up to it piling up, even if Russell himself was misguided in his execution.
- He actually doesn't mock the people who went to Dashcon in the aforementioned video, focusing his criticisms more on the con founders who obviously just wanted a quick buck.
- And even though he targets the organizers, he gives the benefit of doubt and portrays them as at the very least genuine about making a fun convention. Unfortunately, they didn't know what they were doing and in the process saw and took the opportunity to steal money whenever they thought it wouldn't be noticed.
- In his discussion of the "Balloon Boy" incident, he doesn't accuse or even mock and blame Richard Heene, seeing him more of a victim of widespread slander. What's more, he admits that it was through doing the research that he came to believe that Heene was telling the truth that this wasn't a hoax.
- While he mocks Shia Labeouf's infamous "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" movement, he more or less scolds 4chan for their decision to send pizzas to the fifth location of the flag, feeling that not only was it not creative, but it wasn't funny at all. note
- The whole "Any Poll's a Goal" debacle was basically the internet fucking with celebrities. However, one instance was sending Pitbull to the most remote Walmart in the United States: Kodiak, Alaska. Much to the surprise of everyone, Pitbull held up his end of the bargain and everybody in attendance had a great time regardless of the intentions behind him being there. It was such a Heartwarming win that the internet conceded that Pitbull won this battle.
- When discussing the Fallout 76 debacle, he leaves the development team of the game alone, sympathizing with them and acknowledging that, for an inexperienced team, they tried with what little Bethesda gave them.
- He also makes sure to acknowledge that as much of a disaster the game turned out to be, he won't deny that some people managed to have genuine fun with the game despite how broken it was.
- Another thing to note, he also feels that maybe someday, the game could be better and improve, citing No Man's Sky as an example.
- Historian's Q&A on Rainfurrest makes it clear that he has nothing against the Furry Fandom — he's interacted with a few members, there's some furries in his official Discord server, and both sides were wise enough to leave each others' interests alone. One of the answers is Historian discussing how, truthfully, it's only a minority of people that have given the furry community a bad rep, and expresses sympathy for the Rainfurrest congoers who simply wanted to have a good time with friends/people who shared a common interest. Most of the blame that IH places on the Rainfurrest debacle goes towards the vocal minority of bad apples, as well as the management who enabled them by refusing to do anything about the bad behavior from previous years until it reached its logical conclusion. He even shows a video of a congoer, in a full fursuit, calling out said bad apples at the con and telling them to get their act together.
- After the Sudden Downer Ending of his video on the 2011 doomsday predictions
, IH tries to lighten the mood by showing off weird and funny-looking Renaissance artwork.- Earlier in the video, he also makes it clear that he doesn't have anything against Christians, stating that they're not all crazy fundamentalists like the internet would have you believe. He also makes a point of the fact that this was mostly just a fringe group following the words of a dogged figure. He additionally shows sympathy to both Harold Camping, viewing him as a man who genuinely believed in what he was doing, and the people who lost their money because of the prophecy.
- "The Engoodening of No Man's Sky" begins as a typical glimpse into the internet's reaction to the buildup and disastrous launch of the game, much in the same vein as the Fallout 76 video... then the second half of the video hits, instead delving into the often-neglected actual development of the game itself and all the many, many hardships and wild expectations it and its dev team (especially Sean Murray) experienced, culminating in them enduring through all the terrible press and eventually completing the game to massive fanfare. Given the sheer amount of odds stacked against the game — the coverage consequently resulting in the longest video on the channel by a wide margin which will not be surpassed until "Man in Cave" — it's also likely the most triumphant story covered to date. And keep in mind, IH stresses that Hello Games (and by an extent, Sean himself) could have taken the direction of many other big name games that simply would have slapped microtranscations (similar to what Fallout 76 did) or insult their audience for not enjoying their game, but yet they didn't and opted to instead constantly update the game (and as of this writing, still update it) just to keep their growing audience happy and show they were going to do everything they could to make the game great.IH: It must've been a harrowing moment for Sean and the team. They took a huge risk to start a small studio, and clawed their way up to make one of the most notable games of the console generation, disappointed pretty much everyone with the release, and took one of the biggest online beatings in history for it, but then over the course of the next three years completely turned it around and came out the other side with a win. It's the underdog story, and after doing all this research, I couldn't help but come to the conclusion that they were the good guys.
- What's more, when Hello Games began the long journey of fixing the game,note Sean made a point of telling his team to stop reading the "overwhelmingly negative feedback" the game is generating... and subsequently rerouted their servers so that he alone was sent all of this... just so that he could use that to figure out what they needed to do next.
- Without drawing attention to it, Historian displays the critical ratings of two games Sean had previously worked on, both of which were acclaimed. Regardless of whatever he had just said in the first half of the video, he wants it known that Sean was/is a talented technical director with a good resume to prove it.
- Historian shows a clip from the No Man's Sky Discord's reaction to the Next expansion pack's trailer, where everybody is freaking out with joy over the new content. You can't help but grin ear to ear at hearing the one guy happily losing his shit over the inclusion of ringed planets.
- In "The Cost of Concordia," IH stops all snarking and jokes to give special respects to Russel Rebello, a crew member of the Costa Concordia who was believed to have died heroically helping passengers off the ship.
- In "Man in Cave", after the failed rescue, Homer Collins used the fame from the incident to raise funds for another attempt at digging out his brother Floyd - who was left behind as retrieving his corpse back then was considered a waste of time - for a proper burial. This time, he along with several other miners succeeded and he finally brought his brother out of the cave. When his corpse got turned into a tourist trap later on, he valiantly fought against it despite losing the case.
- Even though they failed, hearing about the people who did what they could in order to try and get Floyd out, including the few brave men who squeezed into a 9 inch tall opening to reach him, is inspiring.
