YMMV / AlternateHistory.com

• Complete Monster: See here.
• Fandom Rivalry: A mostly one-sided example that has sprung up around the 2020s with Sufficient Velocity.com in part due to the extremely hard left perspectives dominating the latter site. While most AH.com users do not particularly care about that website, it is not uncommon on the other hand to see extreme dismissal of AH.com on SV due to the mostly center-leaning politics of the site and the existence of certain timelines seen by SV users to be promoting far-right sentiments.
• Follow the Leader: The premise of board member Big Tex's scenario The United States of Ameriwank is that a stranger from the future came to Colonial America before the The American Revolution intending to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by giving George Washington Applied Phlebotinum to help America unite the world in the end. A lot of posters ended up creating stories on a similar premise where a stranger from the future does a similar thing except with different nations instead of America. This phenomenon is known as the "Strangerverse" and has received several spinoffs (with the Brits, French, etc.), all connected by the same basic premise.
• Harsher in Hindsight: This post making a semi-positive reference to Jimmy Savile meeting a serial killer AND comparing him with Bill Cosby.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • When long time Timeline writer and site member SergeantHeretic passed away in March 2015, the entire community out poured with condolences to her (enough that an entire thread was made for other site users to pay their respects) and other users offering to continue her timelines that were in progress at the time so her work could live on.
    • The Turtledove Awards for best ASB timeline of the year has been split in two: the Turtledove awards, for TLs derived from existing fiction, and the SergeantHeretic Awards for other ASB timelines.
  • Likewise, when Kaiser K was reported dead by her sister on February 2016, two threads (here and here) were created, containing the condoleances of fellow members.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The ultimate goal of the Sealion World Tour is to present the stuffed animal to the son of one of the notable forumers, who is affectionately known as "The Overlord". As noted on their wiki, the deep irony of this action was not realized until the wheels were firmly in motion.
• Memetic Badass: Super55, Teddy Roosevelt, Vladimir Putin.
• Memetic Mutation: Blaming Thande, 2011 being called Year of the Alien Space Bat, Operation Unmentionable Sea Mammal (for Operation Sea Lion, Nazi Germany's amphibious invasion of Britain that never was) and so on.
  • For a full list, see here and here.
  • When the forum software was upgraded to XenForo, which allows putting in tags to threads, in every thread, an unknown spammer began to put in "We must build a canal" (a reference to a Running Gag in A Song of Ice and Fire SI Fanfics where becoming a House Stark leader will inevitably lead to attempt to build a canal across the Neck).
  • References to cheesegraters are often made after particularly brutal or violent scenes, after the joke was first made in Robb Returns.
• Memetic Psychopath: Woodrow Wilson. He's been blamed for literally every ill of the 20th and 21st centuries and occasionally some from the 19th.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The redesign the website got in January 2020 was not well-received to say the least. The update removed several features, most notably the number of "likes" no longer being visible on any posts that weren't your own; this change not only didn't show community consensus but also prevented someone from seeing how much support a criticism/critique of their writing had from users. The second-largest complaint was that the update made the website look like a generic eyesore. However, the redesign was soon modified to restore "likes" to every forum except Political Chat, and several layout styles were introduced for users to choose from, allowing you to closely replicate the old appearance of the website.

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