History's Best(?) Couples - Valentine's Day Special

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2 oy oldin

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a look at some of the best couples in history. Well, "Best" is a stretch - definitely most entertaining - but the pairings on display today are FAR from healthy. Enjoy the slow descent into insanity that is "Me Discussing These Stories".
SOURCES & Further Reading: Suetonius' "Twelve Caesars", Plutarch's "Parallel Lives: Julius Caesar", "China: A History" by John Keay, "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi, Smithsonian Magazine & Biography.com entries on Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI.
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Overly Sarcastic Productions 2 oy oldin

Oops! Looks like Blue scheduled this video about ten hours early. Nobody panic! -R

OCT2108BOI 15 kun oldin

9 days early LMAO

Años luz Oy oldin

The big blurb of text at 9:48 could easily be its own video

Cultist of unn Oy oldin

@Lord Flemeings • 97 years ago [edited]___ dude the actual fuck is your name this is what makes me truly panic

Heather Lee 2 oy oldin

It happens to the best of us

Jen’sDollhouse 2 oy oldin

You forgot to mention Alexander the great and his relationship with his teacher Aristotle, his wives and with Hephetion and Bagoas 😀

Omni Cupid 21 soat oldin

You thought it was a love story, but it was me! The decline of good governance.

Mon trainer ash D Kun oldin

“Julius Ceaser, Every Woman’s man and every man’s woman” I love this man

Maria Fyodorovna Kun oldin

Tsarevitch Alexander the 3rd of Russia and Princess Dagmar of Denmark!

Nico Krasnow 4 kun oldin

The chinese couple kinda reminds me a little of how things worked in Genji Monogatari

Kurorito 1123 4 kun oldin

Bai Juyi's poetry was scathing at first but becomes calmer and more melancholic. At first, he discredited the emperor who put the entire situation to himself, but near the end, Bai Juyi appreciated their love. He mixed realism at first but more and more confident to use mythological scenario later.

Brindha Anand 5 kun oldin

The true greatest couple is eren and freedom

gungunsana.M 10 kun oldin

IOlOlOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOI

Kostas 15 kun oldin

What did we learn? Ceasar was a verse top

Suriya D 15 kun oldin

So what you are telling me is .... Julius Caesar was a bottom I ned a second to process that one

Zercules 17 kun oldin

Aww I’m so used to reading about sad or tragic historical marriages I was hoping to hear about some that went right!

N A 20 kun oldin

China has one bad couple to rule them all: Daji and Zhou/Di Xin. Daji was a sadistic manipulator that would disgust even Dé Sade himself. Xin was a simp who catered to her every, horrifying whim. Oh and don’t worry, that inflicting of pain was DEFINITELY a bedroom thing for her. Xin was no better in response to her, unsurprising, infidelity; killing her suitor then feeding the ground up remains to the father, Ji Chang. After imprisoning Ji, the youngest Chang son would lead a rebellion with the people, and with the help of the military of the Shang dynasty itself (they turned at the first chance they could, go figure, almost makes you think Machiavelli was wrong). The whole affair ends with Zhou pulling a cowards way out, by fire (self-immolation), and Daji getting the chopping block. ... and scene.

DeathGodRiku 20 kun oldin

Liu Bei and Sun Shang Xiang!

Abhi Vis 25 kun oldin

Where did you get that map

Douglas Edwards 27 kun oldin

This brings back memories of Mike Duncan’s podcast series on the French Revolution. Poor Louis the 16th and Marie. They happened to be monarchs at the worst possible time.

Priya Bajaj Oy oldin

how do you not mention Shah Jahan building the Taj Mahal for his dead wife then cut the hands of every worker to ever worked on it so another couldn't be made again just to marry her sister .. only to be overthrowned and imprisoned by his son. AND we still call it a love story for god knows what reason XD

Parker McCalip Oy oldin

Blue's To-Do list: Ponder Duomo Feed Cleo (his cat) Discuss Sappho Dunk on Caesar The first one is just very on brand for him.

Beaver Person Oy oldin

When Louise tries too get to Marie but parlament sees: OOOOOOooooOoo

Megan McDonald Oy oldin

Now if you added Henry VIII many marriages that video would be a freaking doozy. What with all the scandal, beheading, and Henry's brain damage that he the Tudor Era through.

Vasile Mihai Oy oldin

These mfs thousand of years old and get more then me smh

big clover Oy oldin

7:00

秃头少女 Oy oldin

The reason that the poem is set in the Han dynasty:1. It's still in Tang dynasty,so talking about the emperor's grandfather is not quite emmm?(I have no accurate words to describe this but I think you know)2. It's a different version of the history,a more romantic story without the part of his sons wife and other things 3. The author Baijuyi was an excellent poet,so we just focus on his touching and beautiful words(in Chinese),now think about the story itself,it's really weird (≖_≖ )

Muffin Button Oy oldin

9:49 The way my Euro teacher put it was the a queens ONLY duty in life is to make babies. When Marie Antoinette wasn’t doing her sole purpose in life, people talked. What’ll happen if there no king to France after all?

Tess Aurea Oy oldin

C is for Caesar... but it's also for cinaedus!

Infiltrator lvl.37 Oy oldin

Just to be clear, the son that became emperor was a different son than Yang’s husband.

Paola Elizabeth Morales Oy oldin

wait, are both Blue and Red ace?

Gaialudovica Angeloni Oy oldin

The "et matrem tuam, brutus" kills me, considering the love italians have for "yo moma" insults😂

Abdullah Ouda Oy oldin

Here's a topic for the next history hijinks the seige of tripoli in 642

D1g1beast Pr1me Oy oldin

11:51 I came to that conclusion when I was a toddler. It doesn't get better with time. I'm just glad the justice purge hasn't happened to *me* yet.

Tarek M Oy oldin

If I was Xuanzong's son, I would've killed him at the very beginning of the story... Not to mention asking the son to fight the rebellions he himself created 😂

Coffee and Sarcasm Oy oldin

The Julius Caesar pun made me snort and wake my dog.

siobhannicolson Oy oldin

caesar was a fuckin bottom

burlymite54656 marvel gal Oy oldin

There is so much saltiness I'm like eating a salty nacho chip lol

EverythingMads Oy oldin

I'd love to see a video on Suleiman the Magnificent and the Sultanate of Women

Derek Broestler Oy oldin

Errrrr..... Still better love stories than...

Robin Oy oldin

As soon as I saw a couple of Chinese heads floating around I *knew* Yang Guifei was gonna show up. Truly the most epic of romance trainwrecks in Chinese history. edit: and then the words "Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette" were spoken, and I went, "Oh. Oh *no*. Not those poor bastards. :("

Guy Auman Oy oldin

*runing*...... bwahahaha....

not here Oy oldin

yey french revolution and ouch dumb ancestors focusing of that king's pp size....

M. The Bug Oy oldin

I've been thinking about this raw Marie Antoinette quote, and this seems like a good place to put it. "I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

Maria Zach Oy oldin

Greek here 😁😁😁😁

my_universe Oy oldin

*“Bro we’re not mad that you’re gay, we’re mad that you’re a bottom”*

ScribeSorcerer Oy oldin

Is it just me or does Marie Antoinette seem shockingly chill with Louis not having kids with her?

Spatha25 Oy oldin

Will you make a video about Diarmud

SoundOfPsylence Oy oldin

This channel needs to be suggested as a teaching aid for every kid with ADHD. This would have saved my life as a kid. 🔥

Bożydar Grabowski Oy oldin

Waht about The Chinese Simperor and his concubine Daji? It even got an anime...

Alex Thomer Oy oldin

Wait are both red and blue ace? Awesome! If not still love them both, I’m just a sucker for ace solidarity.

ItsIsabel Oy oldin

The 69 jokes get me every time.

Sophie Nicol Oy oldin

Oh my gods- a Sappho video?! 😍

Andii Neushul Oy oldin

10:41 it looks like even Marie is rolling her eyes at them at this point "People still hated Marie Antoinette more" Marie: "figures" 🙄

Hopeless Fangirl Oy oldin

LMAO! She looks so done with life! It’s as if she’s saying, “Alright, y’all just kill me already. I’m done with y’all hating on me.”

NFNIght29 Oy oldin

I noticed that blue used B.C

Anna Poletto Oy oldin

Can you make a video on lgbtq+ representation in history?

HikariTheGardevoir Oy oldin

Blue about Sappho: so, ya girl is getting scheduled to a future History Makers video Me: *excited lesbian noises*

Anujin Ganzorig Oy oldin

IM SO EXCITED FOR THE SAPPHO VIDEOOOOOOOOOO YESSSSSSSSS, also a suggestion, Is it cool to do Julie D'aubigny? I find her INCREDIBLY intriguing for a story and video! anyways LOVE UR VIDEOS!!!

Mau 606 Oy oldin

I thought of “ A hole is a hole , except mine “

Kay Oy oldin

Do I watch too many of these that I found that Caesar joke funny, or that I even understood it? Possibly.

mbos14 Oy oldin

I need to remember that ceasar line at 9:36 had me laughing for a good minute there.

Eric Hayes Oy oldin

"In rome being a man of great manliness could be demonstrated by doing the sex." is now in my list of top 10 greatest blue lines ever

AUroraMoon _Draws16 Oy oldin

My favorite phrase to say is: “oh dear suffering Sappho”

Persephone D'Andrea Oy oldin

8:54 - Same, except i spend every night on the couch having anxiety

SleepyDoodle Oy oldin

"Do the sex" needs to be on a Shirt, Hoodie and that written in cursive across the back of a pair of track pants

Chris P Bacon Oy oldin

WAIT SO CLEO PEGGED JULIUS?!?!?!? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA THIS IS AMAZING!!!

First Last Oy oldin

Julius Caesar: Spent a life banging himself into and out of problems. Are we sure he wasn't a D&D bard?

Brooke Fieschi-Rose Oy oldin

"It was fine to be gay, but only if you were the top" Me, Building a time machine to go back to Rome: "FUCK"

yeet :0 Oy oldin

blue has four fingers yall

Wing Dings_17 Oy oldin

My birthday was on Valentine’s Day! I love sharing a birthday with the date of a Saint’s Execution!

some name Oy oldin

i thought valentine's day was a lie and the origin wasnt real

Cerridian Empire Oy oldin

"No Homo, but Caesar kinda cute''-Mark probably

Emily Oy oldin

"By their powers combined, they are: miserable" Blue you missed out on a perfect opportunity to call them "Les Misérables"

Atiqah Diyana Oy oldin

I very much appreciate the rant on the vapid sex crazed obsession people have with historical figures

Eileen Yu Oy oldin

Caesar is a power bottom confirmed

Amy Spearritt Oy oldin

It is a miracle we are still alive and the top race of this planet is beyond me

DisneyFanatic2364 Oy oldin

"Why can't you just let this library ace live his life?" Me (an ace person): ...Oh shit.

Nellene Ulmer Oy oldin

Blue, I did a little research and I think Valentine’s Day was actually named after Saint Valentine, patron saint of Terni, epilepsy and beekeepers who has been associated with the tradition of courtly love.

KingDracoX Oy oldin

Ok so I'm a week late to this but I GREATLY appreciate that Parthia joke at the end of Caesar's segment. Also eat your heart out Trajan PAX PARTHICA

bon jour Oy oldin

What about Alexander the Great?

bon jour Oy oldin

@Sir Jaojao everyone

Sir Jaojao Oy oldin

Roxana, or Hephaestion, or Bagoas, or Stateira, or Parysatis, or his harem?

The Albinocorn Oy oldin

"Oh that's so dumb... but not untrue." I request that be in the next channel trailer.

Jinhunter Slay Oy oldin

Man, I thought this video was going to literally be about “best” (GOOD) couples throughout history....but no, it’s just listing the worst of the worst!

LadyNikitaShark Oy oldin

The love story of Don Pedro de Portugal and Dona Inês is one better told at Halloween but look for it, I think you will enjoy it

Georgie Linscott Oy oldin

I ship Zenobia + Aurelian Yea that would be a GREEEAT relationship

Sir Jaojao Oy oldin

IIRC she did marry a senator in the end though

Sir Jaojao Oy oldin

Lol

Elsa Anayati Oy oldin

idk if it's just cus i've missed osp but this video has me d e a d. also dmfnfndn,,, ILY FOR TALKING ABOUT SAPPHO

thinker619 Oy oldin

Another thing to celebrate on Valentine’s Day , the christening and launch of the Bismarck

Justin Watson Oy oldin

Man blue I really think you missed the chance on this one. Katherine the great had possibly the worst marriage in history

James Endicott Oy oldin

2:32 Who knew that accidentally catching your mom sexting was so old? 9:10 So, Marie Antoinette was basically his manic pixie dream girl?

SageJohan Oy oldin

In fairness... Consort Yang or Yang Guifei/ Yang Yuhan is listed as one of the four great beauties of ancient china so... make of that what you will.

KayneWalshNZ Oy oldin

Man this video was epic thanks heaps 😁

Danae Kelly Oy oldin

how... how have I never given Blue's videos a chance? This is AWESOME fuck. And as a sapphic individual, I am hyped for the sappho episode

Daniel Gold Oy oldin

i think subsidies suffering is the best term ive heard all day

lémœn bær Oy oldin

You forgot churchill and truman

Lizabeth Malky Oy oldin

Poor Blue has suffered so much for us on this day! ❤️

Tyro Oy oldin

Today I played this video three times just to hear Blur say....."pp 2 big" I am an adult I swear

Amy Ness Oy oldin

Caesar believed that Brutus was his son, and it's also widely believed that his last words were "Et tu, meo filio?" which translates to "And you, my son?"

Sir Jaojao Oy oldin

Actually Suetonius, who is the only one to mention that Caesar called Brutus his son at the Ides of March, wrote that he said it in Greek, "kai es teknon"

GLW gameplayer Oy oldin

I'm sorry about your cursed knowledge Blue.

ammar nasser Oy oldin

11:53 Louis xiv and Mary Antoinette history coverage of only their bed life is the reason we can turn everything into a waifu

Ivana Radic Oy oldin

Ed matrem tuam brutus *dies

Cultist of unn Oy oldin

More history couples it’s practically a series now yyyyaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy

Freedom Fighter Oy oldin

4:32 Is this . . . the same Xuanzong . . . from Journey to the West?

Elias Lin Oy oldin

Could you make a video on the Battle of Caransabęs sometime?

Brian Phat Oy oldin

Hey blue, I know you’re busy as hell, but do you have any idea when you might get time to make the Sappho video? 😅

Aaryn Brown Oy oldin

LIBRARY ACE

Aaryn Brown Oy oldin

I now identify as a library ace

Céline BIED 2 oy oldin

About that perfume story... I’m french and in school this isn’t what we’re taught about how the King and his family got caught. The blame is put on a coin with the kings face on it. Also in the Carnavalet museum in Paris you can find objects with the hairs of Marie-Antoinette and her children, less than a meter away from a toy guillotine, and yes this is a thing outside of the Adam’s family. Yikes!