This historian lady, who also claimed to be a former Buzzfeed writer, had millions of views and over 100,000 subscribers on TikTok. Unfortunately she deleted her original channel due to going a little too mainstream, so we're reliant on reaction videos for much of the glorious content.
It's generally a bad idea to signal boost nutjobs on TikTok, since there are an unending supply of them and they love attention, but in this case there's something fascinating about the mental gymnastics involved. She believes that the Spanish Inquisition made up Ancient Rome. The Youtube reaction video goes through a lot of her content and is entertaining for the parallels you might see for internet discourse in general in 2023.
It's a special kind of brain poison, but you also have to figure that more young people are watching videos like hers than are actually reading primary sources from antiquity.
