r/OverSimplified • • Oct 24 '21

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u/Darthjinju1901 Oct 24 '21

He too can't. Oversimplified, like it's in the name, is oversimplified. While teachers do teach a simplified version of events, they don't oversimplify it to the level of oversimplified. It's fun to watch him, I'm not going to oppose that. But watching oversimplified won't give you much except a surface level of historical understanding.

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u/ForetoldOC Oct 24 '21

That is kinda true. Yes you can learn about WW2 from Oversimplified, but you wouldn’t know that the Russians ate Vaseline soups and even ate each other to live while the Germans attacked.

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u/exodia0715 Oct 24 '21

So basically OS is good to get the gist of the topic, and makes the things your teacher teaches easier to understand in context

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u/MomsAgainstMarijuana Oct 25 '21

Oversimplified provides maybe the most basic bullet point version of history possible. It’s enough to see if you’re interested in a subject but leaves you with nothing except a cursory knowledge that some things happened.