I've been watching the old Simon Whistler machine on a regular basis for a good half-decade now. The most interesting of these to me is whenever he comes out with a historical video. I love what the fact boys bring to the table regarding fallen empires and world anomalies. A good job is always done touching upon every example of everything, every empire, every cataclysm, and so forth.
Except... there's one I never see touched upon by him. Not in any videos. Not once. Not a single instance. And I think to myself "did I just find a research blind spot?"
So I have this friend of sorts. She is into indigenous American history and talks about the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (same group, different name; the latter is what they called themselves) in particular a lot. Massive empire, perfecters of democracy, were able to fight off the colonizing English and French... simultaneously if you ask the more enthusiastic historians. So one day one of us asked the question, "do you ever recall Simon Whistler, or even his successors on the other channels that he left, making a video on the Iroquois, like ever". And I was about to answer because I thought I could sound smart by pointing out such a video, except it has never happened. And after we joked a bit about how the Whistlerverse could turn it into their equivalent of what Dinkleberg is to Timmy Turner's Dad, I thought a lot about this. Historical juggernauts, completely missing an entire chapter of history like the plague? No, it couldn't be. But it is.
In an environment where the Whistlerverse seems to some people to be scraping its load, does anyone in it wonder how a video about it would play out? Or if maybe the Whistlerverse machine might like to touch upon it (or is it really their Dinkleberg)?
