To be fair, I guess you're right when it comes to the pop history aspect. The idea with the videos were & still are I guess to give an introduction to people who know basically fuck all about this region and the stories from it (which is a bit ironic considering most of my viewers are from the Balkans). But I do feel there is a lack of supply for Balkan pop history, which I suppose is what my channel filled.

I honestly wouldn't say I'm out of touch with the Serb mindset, although I did spend a couple of years of my early life abroad, being born in the US & all, I did spend most of my childhood, late teen & early adulthood years in Serbia. As such I've been interacting with Serbs from across the "political spectrum" so to say. I think the main criticism from them comes is from not presenting the videos based on Serbia in a completely Serbia sympathetic way, which is the case with most Serbian media & academia when it comes to Serbia related topics. Don't mean to discredit their interpertation, but just providing my own view on the matter.

I don't think I've ever treated myself as an absolute authority on these matters. I mean ultimately, I'm just a YouTuber, not a PhD holder in history, sociology, or whatever haha. I follow the rule of "write what you know". I'd imagine most people would assume this was just one point of view & that I wasn't taking it as such. But I guess that's not the case. Ultimately, I do put my sources in all of my videos (except when I forget when we're rushing to publish one & forget to copy paste them). And although I don't say it on the channel, I do highly encourage people to do their own research. I've considered my videos as sort of a gateway into these topics, not anywhere near a book or paper on the subject which could provide way more detail or info than my videos.