If violence makes you squeamish, this video might be hard to watch. For this list, we’ll be looking at the wickedest men throughout recorded history. Our cou...
Even Caligula is a bit sus. He was the “mad emperor” sure, but the main target of his violence was the roman elite, as far as Roman emperors go, he was probably one of the least brutal towards Rome’s neighbours and common people. It’s just that all the accounts of him come from the same nobles who hated him, so they wanted to make him look as bad as possible. Make no mistake, he was incompetent and unfit for leadership, but considering how brutal some of the emperors could be, it’s kind of hard to say he was one of the most “evil” ones.
(And I’m surprised they put Hitler in there at all. Mainly because of youtube’s monetisation policy and tending to demonetise anything that mentions him.)
It’s been a while, but I think some of the general idea around the emperors after Augustus (the first several anyway, including Tiberius and Caligula) got their histories sort of… revised? by those who came later and wanted to demonize the former emperors to make themselves look better or whatever.
Like Claudius was written about as basically being a complete moron yet he was pretty competent as an emperor. It makes one wonder why historians at the time took all this time to say how unfit a person was or how they fucked their mom and all this shit, which may well be true, who knows, but it does seem like intentionally shitting on all of them except Augustus of course since dude lived so long be basically established himself as a demigod before he died.
You can pretty much be assured that anyone in history who ever wore a crown was a dogshit person in some capacity, but it’s worth considering the sources for bloody excess like what Caligula gets pinned with. And since the creator uncritically put Mao and Stalin and Kim Il-Sung on a list alongside Hitler, they’re probably absolutely incapable of considering sourcing.
Yeah, it’s important to understand ancient Roman culture and traditions in order to understand their primary sources. The nobility were incredibly conservative, and loved looking back on this mythologized past of Rome where Romans were real Romans and not like the wokescold cuck sjw emperors like Claudius and Nero.
There is a weird amount of overlap between the modern US and ancient Rome. I guess it makes sense, they did try to build their society to be like their idealized version of the Roman republic.
Caligula wasn’t even the worst Roman emperor, there was plenty more of them which caused much more suffering and no one of them even come close to Constantine if we consider the repercussions later in history.
They make the most bullshit top 10 lists on stuff they have 0 knowlage on with barely any research, they should just stick to the movies they know about.
Yeah, I guess they must. I would’ve thought they would’ve done the opposite and had things be as sanatised as possible to avoid it, but they do probably have some deal with youtube where they can bend the rules (or maybe their team of lawyers has something to do with it.)
Even Caligula is a bit sus. He was the “mad emperor” sure, but the main target of his violence was the roman elite, as far as Roman emperors go, he was probably one of the least brutal towards Rome’s neighbours and common people. It’s just that all the accounts of him come from the same nobles who hated him, so they wanted to make him look as bad as possible. Make no mistake, he was incompetent and unfit for leadership, but considering how brutal some of the emperors could be, it’s kind of hard to say he was one of the most “evil” ones.
(And I’m surprised they put Hitler in there at all. Mainly because of youtube’s monetisation policy and tending to demonetise anything that mentions him.)
It’s been a while, but I think some of the general idea around the emperors after Augustus (the first several anyway, including Tiberius and Caligula) got their histories sort of… revised? by those who came later and wanted to demonize the former emperors to make themselves look better or whatever.
Like Claudius was written about as basically being a complete moron yet he was pretty competent as an emperor. It makes one wonder why historians at the time took all this time to say how unfit a person was or how they fucked their mom and all this shit, which may well be true, who knows, but it does seem like intentionally shitting on all of them except Augustus of course since dude lived so long be basically established himself as a demigod before he died.
You can pretty much be assured that anyone in history who ever wore a crown was a dogshit person in some capacity, but it’s worth considering the sources for bloody excess like what Caligula gets pinned with. And since the creator uncritically put Mao and Stalin and Kim Il-Sung on a list alongside Hitler, they’re probably absolutely incapable of considering sourcing.
Yeah, it’s important to understand ancient Roman culture and traditions in order to understand their primary sources. The nobility were incredibly conservative, and loved looking back on this mythologized past of Rome where Romans were real Romans and not like the wokescold cuck sjw emperors like Claudius and Nero.
So they’re just modern conservatives but probably less homophobic?
There is a weird amount of overlap between the modern US and ancient Rome. I guess it makes sense, they did try to build their society to be like their idealized version of the Roman republic.
Considering the army really liked him. Id say he gets a bad rep precisley because he was not that incompetent.
Caligula wasn’t even the worst Roman emperor, there was plenty more of them which caused much more suffering and no one of them even come close to Constantine if we consider the repercussions later in history.
Watch mojo is actually a fairly big channel so they can get away with some things
They make the most bullshit top 10 lists on stuff they have 0 knowlage on with barely any research, they should just stick to the movies they know about.
Yeah, I guess they must. I would’ve thought they would’ve done the opposite and had things be as sanatised as possible to avoid it, but they do probably have some deal with youtube where they can bend the rules (or maybe their team of lawyers has something to do with it.)