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Historian Fact Checks Gilded Age Slop
AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Historian Carl Raymond as we fact check the internet, Gilded Age edition. Check out more from Carl Raymond and The Gilded Gentleman History Podcast: @carlthegildedgentleman WIRED recommends: #GildedAge #VictorianEra #History Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube?…
@mattwinfield9411
October 16, 2026 at 3:48 pm
love this guy. he was really annoyed about that leather chair
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Your Love?
@squirrelinarmor
October 16, 2026 at 4:04 pm
It intrigues me to think that the gilded age is so romanticized, despite being wrought with wealth inequality. Having personally juxtaposed this, I find it infuriating that we live in possibly the most wealth inequal United States currently. No doubt, this was in part brought about by the advancement of AI. With these AI models, among other things, now being used to paint a wrongful picture of the past, is it exactly what one would expect? I think it may be; however one interprets it, I feel that observing human history, it’s funny in a disappointing way. Like so many other human actions, try as you may to do something about it, but in the end I guess you just have to laugh about some things.
@MousesHouses
October 16, 2026 at 4:14 pm
One of the best of this series! I would LOVE to see a Part 2!!!
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your Best?
@EvilPigPowers
October 16, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Can I go back in time and have this dude be my history teacher? Would have loved history class with a teacher that passionate about history.
@craigbenz4835
October 16, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Warning: The number of ads in this video is obscene.
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your Warm?
@toxicitysux
October 16, 2026 at 4:31 pm
don’t even think about AI around this guy😂
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your AI?
@toxicitysux
October 16, 2026 at 5:35 pm
im ai with the braidzzz🥶🔥
@Speed-Daemon-123
October 16, 2026 at 4:39 pm
We must be in a new gilded age, I just saw horse 💩 in the street today.
@corvidsRcool
October 16, 2026 at 4:57 pm
My new favorite fact checker. Carl Raymond is fabulous!
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your Carl?
@CriminalMynd
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
“Have you ever tried to eat a croissant in bed??” 🤭
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:39 pm
Your Hotel?
@AhmedAlhamidi-v2e
October 16, 2026 at 5:47 pm
I was in the Brooklyn Bridge in a class trip
@TheAlexSchmidt
October 16, 2026 at 6:22 pm
3:45 huh so Shrek 2 wasn’t making it up?
@andreasfort1599
October 16, 2026 at 6:26 pm
Side stepping Isabella Steward Gardner who bought up a Vermeer?
@applejuice_foo423
October 16, 2026 at 6:35 pm
My favorite historian once said “The Gilded age is the historical equivalent to your landlord painting over molded walls”
@Grantonioful
October 16, 2026 at 7:13 pm
This made me mad, I can’t imagine how much rage he’s suppressing
@garlicandglitter1286
October 16, 2026 at 7:14 pm
So excited to check out his podcast!
@astriferoussprite
October 16, 2026 at 7:21 pm
15:33 not just ballgowns, but ahistorical ones. They’re not tight enough to be late 1870s when women temporarily abandoned the bustle, but they’re lacking the bustles that made 1870s and 1880s dresses so, well, shelf-butt.
@elizabethbennet4791
October 16, 2026 at 7:34 pm
When do we get to the part when emma goldman bombs stuff and labor protests and they try to take over the government(look up the “business plot 1933)?
@edv2411
October 16, 2026 at 7:43 pm
NEXT!!! 😂
@ShaunShadari
October 16, 2026 at 7:45 pm
Lots of projection going on in these comments.
@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme
October 16, 2026 at 7:48 pm
2:30 as a fashion history enthusiast i am frothing with rage. CORSETS DID NOT BREAK RIBS. AND NO POCKETS???????????????????????????????????? THEY HAD 5 TIMES THE POCKETS OF WOMEN TODAY WTF
@iveyao120
October 16, 2026 at 7:53 pm
This man ain’t holding back the roast, and I love it.
@stilelits
October 16, 2026 at 7:59 pm
26:00 animating historical images is one of the few legit uses that i recognize for ai image generation…as long as it doesn’t try to introduce anything ridiculous, it CAN really bring them to life
@NumNumbat
October 16, 2026 at 8:42 pm
Some fashion vloggers do say that corsets were not that restricting. They just created an illusion of a thin waist. People needed to function in them.
@ununuh
October 16, 2026 at 8:46 pm
Visit the tenement museum in NYC. Fascinating!
@janehates
October 16, 2026 at 9:16 pm
Ironically this video did get me more interested in studying the Gilded Age