YouTube Time Travelers

About

YouTube Time Travelers refers to a series of YouTube videos in which the subject claims to have traveled through time. The videos have become popular within conspiracy theory communities on the video sharing site, specifically ones that deal with the paranormal.

Origin

The earliest available YouTube Time Travel video was published on November 16th, 2012 by YouTuber TheSuperG33ks. The video features Alfred Bielek, who claims to have been involved in various secret government experiments, including time travel. The post has been viewed more than 229,000 views in six years (shown below).

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The following year, on August 26th, 2013, YouTuber jsnip4 posted the four part testimonial The John Titor Time Traveler Story. The first post received more than 146,000 views in five years (shown below, left).

Months later, on January 8th, 2014, YouTuber thetimeauthority published the video "Full Interview with a time traveler." The post received more than 270,000 views in nearly five years (shown below, right).

In 2016, the YouTube channel ApexTV began posting a series of testimonial videos from supposed Time Travelers, Among the earliest, Time Traveler Meets Himself in The Future, published on June 18th, 2016, received more than 2.8 million views in two years (shown below).

On November 8th, 2018, The Daily Dot ^[1] published an article about the popularity of the videos.

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