The Alternate Timeline Iceberg Explained (Part 3)

As long as history has existed, people have been wondering the 'what if', and how it could have been different. Alternate history. You know what it is.

If you are on Part 3 you already know what this is. Congratulations for making it so far.

This is Part 3 to the alternate timelines iceberg that was put together by Emperor Fanta. The final part to what all began as an April Fool's joke.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Level 12
03:12 Level 13
10:44 Level 14
17:08 Level 15
22:43 Level 16
29:28 Conclusion

[AlternateHistoryHub]

Finally done. Now onto do the other projects I was hoping to do. Thanks for sticking around to Part 3. I'm impressed.

Also yes of course I added my own book for fun.

[merrittanimation]

The fact Winston Churchill wrote an alternate history story amuses me since he's a pretty common character in alternate history stories these days. We just need a story where Winston Churchill travels back in time to fight in the American Civil War to make it even more appropriate.

[BiigiieCheeese]

The more I hear about alternate timelines the more I realize most writers do not do historical research and create unrealistic/impossible situations to make wattpad levels of logical conclusions.

[michaelpothoven]

As someone who has to introduce myself in public on a regular basis, big props to Cody for reading his own name on one of these without flinching or any change in tone.

[kumien]

I just love how Cody describes the Atlantropa Articles without ever mentioning that this is his book

[ErisRising]

Hey! Statichaos here, writer of "A World Of Laughter, A World Of Tears, " and knowing that a story I wrote on a discussion forum nearly a decade and a half ago is still remembered today just made my week. Hope you enjoyed it, if enjoyed is the right word....

[Rengor]

I definitely wouldn't mind the occasional iceberg on the channel if it's not the sole type of content. This 3-parter has been really fun to watch

[JBaum]

In an alternate history, Cody never watched Trey's video, leading him to not spend a whole month doing these. He instead has a glass of orange juice.

[vantaplat]

27:58 That sounds like a fascinating book, I bet that author is universally beloved in the alternate history community.

[darkowl]

I could HEAR Cody trying not to laugh through that entire Ukraine sequence. I know the author had no way of predicting the future but holy cow none of that aged well at all

[ErisRising]

Knowing that Churchill was an alternate history writer is mildly interesting, but realizing that he was a TERRIBLE alternate history writer adds a level of amusement for me.

[adambell]

I love how many of these start off like "Okay interesting" and then go completely batshit the longer they go on lol

[TheRedCap]

Aight that Antarctica one was cool at first but it got off the rails by the end. How did it go from cool new continent with unpredictable weather to cannibalistic orc/elf people? Its like the original writer died halfway through and their friend who is a DnD fanatic took over.

[TheGrooseIsLoose]

I like how so many of these start with a vaguely plausible scenario or at least one that you could reasonably suspend disbelief for, and then they make a couple hard to follow leaps, and then suddenly they go completely wild.

It’s like, “This book is set in an alternate universe where JFK had a big breakfast on the day of his assassination. Because he feels full, he leans back more in his seat, and the bullet misses him. The next day, inspired by his near-death-experience, he passes an executive order to ban all firearms in the United States. Because of this, gun manufacturers enter the spaceship business and a moon base is built in the 70s. By the 90s, humans have colonized Mars, and technology has progressed far beyond where it is today. People can talk to dolphins.”

[melasauce]

Whenever Cody mentions a timeline involving civil war I always kinda half expect him to say "written by Harry Turtledove" right after

[herpydepth]

Alternate history is always so weird. Like “yeah my grandpa dies so the USSR nukes New Zealand”. It’s always either the world being insurmountabley screwed or clear historical fanboyism about their side winning some war and being super cool and awesome and usually the Confederates which… okay…

[theonebman]

Still love how the iceberg literally drills through the ground and into the core

[thattimestampguy]

0:28 Soviet Occupation of Japan
1:01 🇺🇦 Declares War
3:33 11/22/63
4:08 Twilight of the Red Tsars
5:14 Green Antarctica
7:30 California Back In Time
8:44 North American Confederacy
9:58 Hannibal Rules

10:49 July’s People
11:16 Crisis in The Kremlin
11:48 No Spanish Civil War
12:45 No W
13:48 Voyage
14:16 The Forest of Time
15:35 Walt Disney America
16:28 Jour J

17:13 Faultline 49
17:53 From The Fatherland with Love
18:06 Sweden 🇸🇪 WWII revision
18:42 It Happened Here
19:07 Bush Soldiers
19:45 A Scotsman in Eypt
20:17 Lee loses Gettysburg
21:52 World War: War of Equals

22:50 Tirant La Blanch
23:36 Aprils In Abadon
24:16 Alternate Presidents
25:02 USA 2002 in 1942
25:45 A Nixed Result
26:44 After The End Mod
27:53 Alantropa Articles
28:53 Ab Urbe Condita Libri

29:30 Thanks for watching
30:16 Regular content coming

[comixproviderftw_]

“Walt Disney is elected President in the 1950’s…”

That is a sentence I never thought I’d hear.

[homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl]

Man I remember being a little kid playing Point of Existence 2 not even knowing there was a whole backstory to it.
It's absolutely laughable hearing it now but still kinda neat having that little bit of context.