Friday, 9 January 2026

Cosplayer Caverns Can't Pronounce "Şit"


YouTuber Luke Caverns is having problems thinking up new topics for his clickbait "content", decides to return to Göbekli Tepe. I could not refrain from comment:

"WTF is the matter with you YouTuber "content creators"? How long are the Jimmy Corsetti and wannabes like Mr Caverns going to be flogging the tired old horse? It's you lot that are perpetuating the stereotype "gosh these were huntrer gathers, but they learn how to stand a stone up on its end - its a revolution of the way (those stupid) archaeologists think [present tense] about the past". I'm disappointed to see Ms Kayleigh here too. IN REALITY the first years of Göbekli Tepe were at once (and why would they NOT be?) instrumental in making PAST TENSE what you are still representing as current thinking. The first "Preliminary Report on the 1995-1999 Excavations" which is QUARTER OF A CENTURY OLD (it was written and in teaching curricula while you were still in short trousers) is available as a pdf that any real researcher could find a mouse-click away. Right there at the top of the first page, it calls it a pre-pottery Neolithic site. Quarter of a century ago. Do you see that? So why are you and people like you hammering away at "hunter-effing-gatherers"? Just because Saint Graham of the Holy Hancock said it, you all slavishly and unthinkingly repeat the mantra like Orwellian sheep? Why?

What is it you are aiming to produce here as your "content"? Cutting edge knowledge - when you are quarter of a century behind, stuck circling round and round like the pseudo-archaeology dog chasing its own tail? Why not scrap your 1985 Time-life books and your National Geographical back-numbers and get hold of a lot of proper up to date literature (lots online, officially and unofficially), read it, think deeply about it and then produce something actually informed by it? It is harder than the kneejerk and all-too-repetative sensationalist "gottchas" criticising the academics that you so clearly love doing. That is the only model the Corsettis, Dedunkers, Buttonses, and all the myriad of anonymous grifter YouTubers seem capable of. It makes them income, yes, easy money - but is it getting us (and public knowledge) anywhere? Is that a concern of yours... or not?

Oh and by the way, aren't you inclined to wonder whether the diacritical mark on the letter 'ş' in Turkish might affect its pronunciation? Be curious and learn something."

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