Whatifalthist ✓
@whatifalthist · Austin, TX (from PA) · joined 06 Jun 2020
Run by Rudyard William Lynch. Geopolitics, Future, Anthropology, Philosophy and History. https://t.co/yPiYypIbmI…
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A video I made explaining the world of the Belle Epoque era 1895-1914 https://t.co/YQ3pQQMp34
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@whatifalthist It’s just survivorship bias. Most people won’t comment on something they agree with, they’ll just like and move on. The replies are often saturated with the counter-opinion, making it seem like everyone disagrees and is shitting on the OP.
Just the way it is.
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Cool. I need a break from posting. Goodbye. I will see you in a month at least.
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Most conversations these days are people just advertising the mechanism they’re using to live in denial which has become their core identity. They fear staring at the void that lies behind it since they don’t realize that if you stare at the void long enough it will break before
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The implication here is that given most young people live entirely digital lives and the internet is producing very little of worth is that most young people are in sort of limbo without any sense of progress or depth or value. That’s actually really horrifying
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What I mean by talking to the internet is that in my long form videos I take books or ideas and make a documentary. That’s all stuff I’m doing myself while the format happens to be online. When I ask the internet questions or try to interface with it to get an outcome, it can
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Ngl. Every single time I talk to the internet*
I find less reason to do so. I never get useful feedback or answers. It’s almost always denial, cope, relational attacks or undercutting. It’s so predictable. I don’t know what you people get out of this.
*the exception is my long
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@whatifalthist I have to recommend Spengler's "Decline of the West."
It hit me like a freight train after my first reading. After the third, I now see all history through his historiography.
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@whatifalthist RE: Rudyard Lynch's "Top 20 books which inform my worldview"
https://t.co/KqVtgH69IG
I'm still thinking about this book list so I thought I'd make a few comments that might encourage others to read more of the list.
Since I agree that most of them are necessary f
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@whatifalthist Need Evolution of Civilizations from Quigley, too.
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Top 20 books which inform my worldview:
1.War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat: A history of war and its effect on human society from the perspective of Darwinism. Completely foundational to my social, political and historical views.
2. Sex and Power in History by Amaury de
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Against accounts of the same size
1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views14 255this account1 015median for 10K–100K
Reach, %14.97%this account3.95%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.99%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 14 255 | 1 015 | 14.0× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 14.97% | 3.95% | 3.79× |
| Engagement rate | 1.99% | 1.54% | 1.29× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
872.7K19 Mar
10.7K
25.1K20 Mar
3.9K24 Jun
51.6K10 May
12.2K
8.4K
16K
26.3K
1.1K
14.3K17 Sep
Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.38%19 Mar
0.21%
0.48%20 Mar
0.69%24 Jun
1.49%10 May
1.64%
3.55%
2.23%
1.80%
5.73%
1.99%17 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.
What the audience does
Likes45.1%4 899 in total
Reposts3.8%415 in total
Replies4.8%520 in total
Quotes0.6%60 in total
Bookmarks45.8%4 975 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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