History YMMV / InternetHistorian

* BrokenBase: IH generally portrays trolls and brigades (4chan, etc.) as a bunch of playful rascals just having fun, or as the power of the people getting wins on big politics and corporations. This view tends to divide his viewership; some think that downplays the occasional racism or even crimes involved, while others say those don't matter, or that it isn't an endorsement because it's a comedy show, and his disclaimers at the start of videos universally warn against doing these sorts of things (to say nothing of actively discouraging some of the things they've done, like placing bogus orders for pizza to be delivered to someone else's house as attempted in the final season of "He Will Not Divide Us"). The fact that, whenever politics are involved, the trolls are invariably right-wing and the trolled left-wing doesn't help.

*** In "The Fall of 76", the year that IH claims that the early release was make way for a complete product via patching, depicting it in the year ''2023''. 2023 is generally considered as the year ''Fallout 76'' [[DamnedByFaintPraise is no longer a machine-bricking mess]].

* OvershadowedByControversy: The video "Man in Cave" received this when a December 2023 video by WebVideo/HBomberguy revealed that the video was heavily plagiarised from a Mental Floss article. This led to further allegations of plagiarism, as "The Cost of Concordia" seems to have a section lifted wholesale from a Vanity Fair article. And then it was discovered that "The Bikelock Fugitive of Berkley" contained a Nazi dogwhistle. Combined, these controversies resulted in a loss of over 50,000 subscribers in less than a week of H. Bomberguy's video premiering.

** Shadow Man. His wife Shadow Woman dies in a plane crash while playing ''Raid: Shadow Legends'', and he's so affected by her death that he dances with [[ILoveTheDead her corpse]] at her funeral. This makes him a single father to his kids who he genuinely loves, and if The Right Opinion's videos are considered canon, [[spoiler:he dies in a dungeon along with the rest of the Youtubers The Right Opinion kidnapped, leaving Shadow Man's children as orphans. Hell, we aren't even sure if The Right Opinion will give Shadow Man a proper burial, considering how he neglected the rest of his prisoners.]] Poor Shadow Man.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The video Man in Cave received this when a December 2023 video by H-Bomberguy revealed that the video was heavily plagiarised from a Mental Floss article.

* OvershadowedByControversy: Internet Historian and his videos became irrevocably Overshadowed By Controversy in December 2023 when Creator/HBomberguy released a scathing expose of him and his body of work, revealing Internet Historian himself to be a heartless plagiarist and his fanbase to be composed entirely of neo-Nazis and bloodthirsty alt-righters, causing Internet Historian's subscriber count to plummet and his reputation to be completely destroyed to all but the most racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and ableist of the internet.

* ArtStyleDissonance: IH's ''Sundance Rejects'' style was developed to tell ridiculous stories like [[DramaticReading dramatic readings]] of [[Literature/JeffTheKiller bad]] [[Fanfic/MyImmortal internet]] [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8085414/1/SONIC-HIGH-SCHOOL classics]]. However, when IH began making more serious documentary-style films, he retained the StylisticSuck of the ''Sundance Rejects'' which came before.

* ArtStyleDissonance: IH's ''Sundance Rejects'' style was developed to tell ridiculous stories like [[DramaticReading dramatic readings]] of [[WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller bad]] [[Fanfic/MyImmortal internet]] [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8085414/1/SONIC-HIGH-SCHOOL classics]]. However, when IH began making more serious documentary-style films, he retained the StylisticSuck of the ''Sundance Rejects'' which came before.

** The WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller DramaticReading has the titular character played by Chills (AKA the Top 15 guy), who doesn't even bother to change his usual monotone nasally voice, turning what would be mediocre gory schlock into comedy gold.

** In the sponsorship segment for "The Fall of 76," he jokes that he wasted his money stockpiling toilet paper, only to leave it out in the rain and for crows to get it. Then comes the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, in which toilet paper shortages were notoriously caused by panic-buying in its early stages. This was one of the first topics he covered regarding the pandemic in "Tales from [=TheVarus=]™," which debuted close to a year after the ''Fallout 76'' video.

** Several of the stories posted to the [=#McDStories=], such as people reporting rats in the bun bags (which the Historian confirmed was not only real but had ''video evidence'') and a (hopefully) fake story involving a colostomy bag that IH [[EveryoneHasStandards flat out refuses to read]].

** The mere fact that 4chan decided to send Justin Bieber to ''North Korea'' is ridiculously cruel, yet utterly hilarious. Pitbull being sent to the Walmart in Kodiak, Alaska doesn't quite live up to the hype because A) It's a much more mundane place in comparison (other than being the most remote Walmart in the country) and B) Pitbull ''actually went'' and made the event a lot of fun for everyone involved, which many see as the one time a company actually defeated the Internet in an exchange like this; but they make up for it by trying to get Taylor Swift [[ItMakesSenseInContext to sing to the deaf.]]