Your Personal Pop Culture Utopia timeline

[CalBear]

I my personal timeline
( politics )
1 ) trump never becomes a politician instead staring in a streaming show about him becoming a politician
2( the war on drugs is scaled back a ton than it is in our timeline and its more humane
3 the middle east is a but more tame but 9/11 in this timeline it is done by columbian narco terrorists instead of jihadists
4 school is a but more reformed and better for men so a majority of (school incidents) don't happen

5 woke ideology doesn't exist
6 historical figure's are more nuanced

video games

Tlou in this timeline doesn't exist


Sony never makes a majority of their exclusives be cinematic third person slop like in

God of war splits into two different series of games One of series follows kratos and his son in ancient northern europe and deals woth nordic mythology and another follows a nobody from the 21st century who goes back to ancient Britain and ireland and deals with celtic mythology

The us goverment has it own triple a gaming studio and makes quality games for the public education system

Rdr2 Has a majority of it cut content and mechanics released some plot points are actually being addressed like Abigail marstan being the snitch and dutch having a brain injury

Gta v is never made it is instead a animated show on netlfix


Gta 6 releases november 2023. And is a masterpiece and is controversial such as things it parodies such as the flu and eastern Europe war It doesn't feature jason or lucia it features ricardo who a cartel boss rose who is a police officer and kacey who is a gangster


Interplay never declares bankruptcy and theres a more prosperous pc gaming culture so fallout van buren actually releases and it is a masterpiece and it starts fallout mania including merchandise movies tv shows and dozens of spinoffs Also fallout 2 is a bigger game

Fallout tactics is not about the brotherhood of steel instead its a city builder/turn based strategy hybrid
Baldurs gate 3 black hound is released Instead of the woke baldurs gate 3 we have in our timeline


Critical role never exists so dnd isnt co-opted by all the theatre kids

Xbxo starts buying studios way earlier in my timeline so they have most of their games already released by april 2024

Notch doesn't get fired instead he gets in touch with the people running microsoft and they address some of his problems he has with the company

Cyberpunk is wayy better they never hire keanu revves as johhny silverhand instead they have a 8 part questline with keanue revves As a cameo the game has a less ugly aesthetic


The romances are better in my version and the voices in the game are less annoying


Instead of it being

Gay male v kerry
Straight male v panam

Gay female v judy
Straight female v river
You can romances anyone you want


Also theres multiple different ways to get legendary weapons so how it works in normal cyberpunk is certain missions or side quests you ca a get a legendary weapon in my timeline there 3 different ways to get each weapon the 3 ways are main quest / sidequests or in the overworld

NO Current Politics outside of Chat.

 

[JCC the Alt Historian]

Why tho

I wonder that as well.

 

[Rafi_T]

Ideal Elvis career

Filmography (* means proposed but not done)

1955

1. Talent Scouts (tv)* - Himself

1956

1. Bus Stop* - Beauregard "Bo" Decker
2. Love Me Tender - Clint Reno
3. The Girl Can’t Help It* - Himself
4. The Rainmaker* - Jim Curry

1957

1. Jailhouse Rock - Vince Everett
2. Loving You - Jimmy Tompkins (Deke Rivers)
3. The James Dean Story* - James Dean
4. The Way to the Gold* - Joe Mundy

1958

1. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* - "Brick" Pollitt
2. King Creole - Danny Fisher
3. The Defiant Ones* - John "Joker" Jackson
4. Thunder Road* - Robin Doolin

1959

1. Rio Bravo* - Colorado Ryan

1960

1. Flaming Star - Pacer Burton
2. G.I. Blues - Tulsa McLean
3. The Fugitive Kind* - Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier

1961

1. Blue Hawaii - Chad Gates
2. Too Late Blues* - John "Ghost" Wakefield
3. West Side Story* - Tony
4. Wild in the Country - Glenn Tyler

1962

1. Follow That Dream - Toby Kwimper
2. Girls! Girls! Girls! - Ross Carpenter
3. Kid Galahad - Walter Gulick/Kid Galahad
4. Sweet Bird of Youth* - Chance Wayne
5. Walk on the Wild Side* - Doce Linkhorn

1963

1. Bye-bye Birdie* - Conrad Birdie
2. Fun in Acapulco - Mike Windgren
3. It Happened at the World’s Fair - Mike Edwards

1964

1. Kissin’ Cousins - Josh Morgan/Jodie Tatum
2. Roustabout - Charlie Rogers
3. Viva Las Vegas - Lucky Jackson
4. Your Cheatin’ Heart* - Hank Williams

1965

1. Girl Happy - Rusty Wells
2. Harum Scarum - Johnny Tyrone
3. Tickle Me - Lonnie Beale/Panhandle Kid

1966

1. Frankie and Johnny - Johnny
2. Paradise, Hawaiian Style - Rick Richards
3. Spinout - Mike McCoy

1967

1. Clambake - Scott Heyward
2. Double Trouble - Guy Lambert
3. Easy Come, Easy Go - Lt. (j.g.) Ted Jackson
4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Johnny Banner
5. Valley of the Dolls* - Tony Polar

1968

1. Live a Little, Love a Little - Greg Nolan
2. Speedway - Steve Grayson
3. Stay Away, Joe - Joe Lightcloud

1969

1. Change of Habit - Dr. John Carpenter
2. Charro! - Jess Wade
3. Midnight Cowboy* - Joe Buck
4. The Trouble with Girls - Walter Hale
5. True Grit* - La Boeuf

1970

1. Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (concert doc) - Himself

1971

1. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory* - Willie Wonka

1972

1. Elvis on Tour (concert documentary) - Himself
2. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather* - Tom Hagen

1974

1. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: Part II* - Tom Hagen

1976

1. A Star is Born* - John Norman Howard

1978

1. Grease* - Teen Angel

1979

1. Being There* - Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner)

1990

1. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone* - Tom Hagen (Nicolas Cage plays Vincent Corleone and Madonna plays Mary Corleone)

(This list obviously doesn’t count the countless number of tv specials, movies, and whatnot done about his life, (and doesn’t take into account the fact that many of them will be quite different, or even not exist at all ITTL!) nor the inevitable remixes and album re-releases and updates. Though for the sake of this, he does appear in one way or another in those projects as health permits.)

(1- The James Dean Story ITTL refers to both a documentary about Dean, as well as a biopic starring Elvis. (James Dean lives ITTL, but the movie’s made about him since the accident still occurs, but he’s miraculously unscathed, so it’s treated as a blessing.)
2- Thanks to the James Dean Story and Your Cheatin’ Hart, Elvis is known to be, and is taken seriously as, an actor, and so it’s clear that he does the other movies for the money. As put much more tactfully by him and the Col. “Fulfilling contractual obligations.”
3- They wanted the Tom Hagen role from OTL to appear in the 3rd Godfather, but seems Duvall asked for too much money, so they didn’t bring him on.
4- Midnight Cowboy is Elvis’ first real flirtation with controversy after his comeback - not that he went anywhere - and pays off, reestablishing his chops as an actor, and firmly establishing his capacity for deep, dark roles. His role in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory calms down more conservative parents into letting their kids go to Elvis concerts again.
5- His slowdown is both a personal and professional decision. Basically, I’m the 70’s, Elvis commits only to passion/personal projects after the grueling year of filming in ‘69. CatCF is his way in making clear that he hasn’t gone all edgy; he was a huge fan of Mario Puzo’s novel; and Streisand personally asked for him; while the role in Grease was a bit part, and his role in Being There was to finish out the decade. After that, the only role Elvis would accept was that in the third Godfather since he had started the series, and he would end it.)

Video games (due to the success of The Godfather, it got a series of games, with some of the original cast returning to voice lines) (* means not made IOTL)

2006

1. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather

2009

1. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: Part II

2012

1. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone*

With such an illustrious career, it’s only natural it comes with awards. (* means awarded IOTL) (Grammy)

1959

• A Fool Such As I (Record of the Year)
• A Big Hunk O'Love (Best Performance by a "Top 40" artist)
• A Big Hunk O'Love (Best Rhythm and Blues Performance)

1960

• Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Record of the Year)
• Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Best Male Vocal Performance, Single Record or Track)
• Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist)
• G.I. Blues (Best Soundtrack Album)
• G.I. Blues (Best Male Vocal Performance, Album)

1967

• Blue Hawaii (Best Soundtrack Anthem)
• How Great Thou Art (Best Sacred Performance)*

1968

• You'll Never Walk Alone (Best Sacred Performance)

1972

• He Touched Me (Best Inspirational Performance)*

1974

• How Great Thou Art (Best Inspirational Performance)*

1978

• Softly As I Leave You (Best Country Vocal Performance)

Of course, having such a… prolific film career also comes with its rewards, with Elvis getting much deserved recognition.

1957
Best Supporting Actor - Bus Stop as Beauregard "Bo" Decker

1959
1. Best Actor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as "Brick" Pollitt
2. Best Actor - The Defiant Ones as John “Joker” Jackson (Shared with Sammy Davis Jr. for his role as Noah Cullen)

1963 (Golden Globe)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama - Sweet Bird of Youth as Chance Wayne

1970
Best Actor - Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck

1973
Best Supporting Actor - Mario Puzo’s The Godfather as Tom Hagen

1977 (Golden Globe)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy - A Star is Born as John Norman Howard

1980
Best Actor - Being There as Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner)
(Golden Globe) Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy - Being There as Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner)

Finally, in terms of new music, would get a huge catalog of new songs from a multitude of artists, including Dolly Parton and Bruce Springsteen.

1. I Will Always Love You
2. Fire
3. Only the Lonely
4. Golden Years
5. That’s What You Do to Me
6. Energy
7. Yes I Do
8. Rainy Night in Georgia
9. By Day by Day
10. Let Me On
11. Fire Down Below
12. Feelings
13. Don’t Forbid Me
14. Loving You’s A Natural Thing
15. A Poor Man’s Gold
16. Runaway Fool of Love
17. Love Will Keep Us Together
18. Third Rate Romance
19. Pearl’s A Singer
20. Mustang Wine
21. Miss Misunderstood
22. Feels Like I’m In Love
23. He’s So In Love
24. Let Me On
25. Tender Moments
26. Quiet Desperation

Also, Mephis, TN has city-county consolidation, making it the biggest city in the state (population and geography), and the state capital is moved there, meaning that Graceland is now at the center of power in Tennessee.

(Also, random add-ons):
1. David Lynch directs Manhunter (1986), and Sean Connery stars as Hannibal Lecter rather than Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs and following movies.)
2. The Exorcist (Director - Stanley Kubrick, Chris MacNeil - Jane Fonda, Father Lankester Merrin - Marlon Brando, Father Damien Karras - Jack Nicholson, and Regan MacNeil - Jamie Lee Curtis)
3. James Bond:
Sean Connery: Dr. No (Dr. No - Christopher Lee), From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Casino Royale, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and Never Say Never Again

Michael Caine: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Steven Spielberg (Director): The Spy Who Loved Me/Moonraker

James Brolin - Octopussy

Pierce Brosnan - The Living Daylights, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, and Casino Royale (directed by Quentin Tarantino)

4. Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Pink - Quentin Tarantino, Holdaway/Mr. Orange - Samuel L. Jackson, Nice Guy Eddie - Nicolas Cage, and Mr. Blonde- George Clooney

5. Jurassic Park: John Hammond - Sean Connery

6. Forrest Gump; Bubba - Tupac

7. X-Men (2000)
Wolverine - Keanu Reeves
Professor X- Michael Jackson
Storm - Janet Jackson
Magneto - Cristopher Lee
Mystique - Jeri Ryan
Rogue - Natalie Portman
Cyclops - Ben Affleck
Bishop - Shaquille O’Neal

8. Spider-Man (2002) - Michael Jackson
directed by David Fincher,
J. Jonah Jameson - Stan Lee
Norman Osborne - Nicolas Cage
(Wolverine makes an appearance)

 

[Lexyflop]

bored and inspired by the post above so here’s an idealised azealia banks career timeline ^_^


pre 212: pretty much same except she makes a friend who tells her not to use the f slur.

2012:

1991 EP (same tracklisting)
Fantasea mixtape:
same tracklist except take out L8r and Runnin’, swap in Esta Noche and a longer version of Paradiso.
instead of calling perez hilton a messy f slur, azealia instead eviscerates him and causes him to deactivate his twitter. she is hailed as a hero by the media.

2013-15

no real changes other than azealia deletes her twitter and finds a very good therapist. zayn incident doesn’t happen.

2016-17

releases the big big beat independently and eventually Slay-Z mixtape. lana features her on lust for life. azealia recieves some label offers but elects to remain independent.


2018

fantasea 2 is released! (possibly under a different title) anna wintour is a small hit and a lana collab gets a lot of attention.
azealia vs lana does not occur (instead they team up to tell off JK Rowling perhaps)

2019 - present

azealia takes a break for her mental health for a while, before returning sometime in the early 2020s with a new album and perhaps some eps or standalone singles along the way. generally she’s at peace and avoids drama, though still gives her takes and opinions even if they’re unpopular.

less detailed at the end but i dream of this world very often lol. might do lana del rey next.

 

[Duke Andrew of Dank]

- Tom S. Parker and Jim Jennewein get in touch with Terry Gilliam to direct their 1991 Mario fantasy draft.
- As Thunderbirds was an inspiration for the series, David Mitton directs a CGI animated series of Star Fox from 2005 until his death in 2011.
- Imagi Studios' Zelda film is picked up and produced by Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies.
- Nintendo tries talking to Chris Meledandri via Blue Sky Studios about an animated Mario film. A draft is written by Yoshiaki Koizumi takes a dislike to their retool of Peach's personality, and the deal is instead landed with Sony where Genndy Tartakovsky directs.

 

[Otakuninja2006]

- Tom S. Parker and Jim Jennewein get in touch with Terry Gilliam to direct their 1991 Mario fantasy draft.
- As Thunderbirds was an inspiration for the series, David Mitton directs a CGI animated series of Star Fox from 2005 until his death in 2011.
- Imagi Studios' Zelda film is picked up and produced by Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies.
- Nintendo tries talking to Chris Meledandri via Blue Sky Studios about an animated Mario film. A draft is written by Yoshiaki Koizumi takes a dislike to their retool of Peach's personality, and the deal is instead landed with Sony where Genndy Tartakovsky directs.

Nice!

 

[TheDetailer]

Here is my fourth revision, with updates being added to both new and already existing changes.

After well over a year since the last edition, here is the updated version of my 101 pop culture utopia timeline!

1. Amphibia, premiering on the Disney Channel on June 17th, 2019 just like IOTL, is mostly the same show as it is IOTL, although the popularity of The Loud House ITTL doesn’t lead to Disney making the show’s creator Matt Braly to change as many things to make Amphibia be more like that show ITTL, causing some positive changes to both Seasons 1 and 2 that help the show receive a stronger positive reception and the same level of praise and love that it did IOTL from fans, if not even more, with its characters, animation, voice acting, humour and emotional weight all being praised. The show eventually earns a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.5 on IMDb, with the show’s popularity being more on par with The Owl House IOTL, which ITTL is an even more popular show in comparison. Season 3, which runs for 20 episodes instead of 18 ITTL, is also much more beloved by the fandom, with the series still coming to a climatic end with the emotional and bittersweet series finale “The Hardest Thing” in May 2022, with Amphibia still going down - if not even more so - as one of the best modern animated shows ever made, with its characters being beloved and cherished among cartoon fans.
2. The Owl House is not cancelled by Disney and has its third season cut down to three 44-minute specials, due to Bob Iger and the pro-LGBT Abigail Edna Disney being apart of the leadership of the Walt Disney Company at the time, which as a result leads to the show being successfully granted a full third season, with many of the OTL changes to season two being saved and moved to season three, allowing the cast and crew to continue the plots and arcs of the main characters, while further fleshing out and developing the other characters and the universe as a whole. As of 2024 Season 4 is still ongoing and going strong, with Disney having confirmed a final fifth season which will air sometime in 2025, which the fans very much look forward to.
3. Many well-liked Netflix shows, such as Altered Carbon (2018-2020), Inside Job (2021-2022) and Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022) are not cancelled and are allowed to have a few more seasons that deliver proper conclusions.
4. Danny Phantom Season 3 is not rushed, and would go on for a few more seasons, ending with the series finale in 2010, showing Danny's graduation from high school. Larger events include Danielle being adopted by the Fentons along with exploring Danny's life after the reveal of his identity to the world and dealing with the subsequent consequences and maturity.
5. American Dragon: Jake Long goes on for a few more seasons, without the plots about the Huntsclan, the Dark Dragon, or the show in general being rushed in season 2 as a result, with the show finally concluding with it’s series finale in 2012. Among the plots that take place over the course of the show includes the Huntsclan eventually being defeated, the return of the Dark Dragon, Rose looking for her twin sister after getting her memory back, who may have been kidnapped by a different group, later revealed to be an organisation devoted to trying to break the secrets of the magical world, the Dark Dragon’s return threatening both the magical and human worlds, Jake being in the middle of high school and him graduating, Johnathan and his family discovering his family’s secret of being dragons and the existence of the magical world, and Jake, his friends, and their allies finally defeating the Dark Dragon in the climatic finale. Alongside all of this the artstyle change in Season 2, especially concerning the dragon forms, isn’t as radical or controversial compared to OTL.
6. The Spectacular Spider-Man also goes on for a few more seasons until concluding in 2012, continuing the stories of Peter, Harry, Gwen, MJ, Flash, and the other characters. Events include Peter and Harry patching things up when Harry chooses his best friend over his manipulative father, Peter ends up with Mary Jane Watson with Gwen initially looking after Harry before a near-death experience has her and her father move. James Joneson ends up recovering from the near-insanity caused by the spores and ends up helping Silver Sable reform. After Sandman's retirement, Hydro-Man is introduced to take his place. Harry, Mary-Jane, Gwen and Liz discover Peter is Spider-Man in different episodes. After Peter patches things up with Harry and Liz, he supports the two entering their own relationship together. Black Cat also discovers Peter's identity and after a talk, lets go of her grudge to him before leaving (secretly lamenting her loss at her chance of a romantic relationship with him, especially after she spends time with him in their civilian identities). Other big events include the reveal of Peter's parents and their importance and plenty of other events that have made Spectacular Spider-Man the definitive Spider-Man series in the eyes and hearts of many.
7. Moral Orel, the American adult stop-motion animated black comedy drama series created by Dino Stamatopoulos, is not cancelled by Adult Swim in 2008, going on to continue on for two more seasons for a total of five whole seasons, exploring the characters and their stories, growths, and arcs, all of the planned out episodes being made and released ITTL, with the series concluding with it’s series finale airing on December 18th, 2010.
8. Hazbin Hotel’s first season has 16 episodes instead of 8, twice as many as IOTL, which allows for the plot and pacing to be taken a little more slowly, characters (especially the new ones) to be more developed and fleshed out, the world-building of the show’s universe to be more expanded and explored, and for the writing to be more refined and restrained. The first season premieres six whole days earlier on January 12th, 2024 and concludes on February 9th, with the show being more positively received and critically acclaimed for its animation quality, music, and characters. A second season with around 24 episodes has been confirmed to be in production.
9. Negatively-received cartoons such as Breadwinners (2014-2016), Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island (2005-2006), Da Boom Crew (2004), Kamp Koral (2021-), Planet Sheen (2010-2013), PPG 2016 (2016-2019), Supernoobs (2015-2019), and ThunderCats Roar (2020) are all never made or produced, with more deserving and well-liked pilots such as Constant Payne (2001), The Modifyers (2007), Welcome to My Life (2015), Trick Moon (2020), and Galactic Kids Next Door (2021) being greenlit for full series instead.
10. Animation as a whole has become even more applauded and celebrated as greater works would be made and accomplished over time, which results in the New Deal for Animation movement gaining an even bigger, greater, and wider following and wave of support in the 2020s, bringing more mainstream attention to animation, animators, animation working conditions, the stereotypes and misconceptions of animation being a genre or for being only for kids, and workers rights and animator unions in the industry as a whole, which significantly affects the plans of infamous businessmen like David Zaslav ITTL. Furthermore, as a result of the earlier MeToo movement in film and live action television, many problematic animators are either cut out or end up going to counselling to get rid of their bad behaviours while others would just no longer do them or never even do them in the first place at all, whenever out of pragmatic reasons, moral reasons, or a mix of both.
11. Anime began to become popular in the West over twenty years earlier in 1968 with the release of The Sun Over Chikisani and the subsequent founding of Studio Ghibli, being the equivalent of what Akira did in 1988 IOTL, which by the time of 1988 ITTL Anime has become as normalised as it became in 2008 IOTL, and with the release of the just-as-successful-as-OTL Akira and its TTL sequel Tetsuo in 1988 and 1990 respectively ITTL Anime only further explodes into popularity and recognition, with the medium officially entering and becoming recognised and accepted into the mainstream of many countries outside of Japan like America, Britain, Canada, France, Mexico, Russia, and others alongside Western Animation in the western world, where by the year 2008 and beyond anime films and shows have been normalised and accepted on par with non-anime animated films and shows to the point it would be weird to mock or judge somebody for liking anime, just like video games IOTL, with that only increasing by 2018 a decade later. Sure there are still plenty of weird or eccentric anime fans ITTL just like OTL, if not more due to its increased popularity and acceptance around the world, but Anime as a whole is not stigmatised as those “weird horny crazy Japanese cartoons” by many people, with those belonging to the anti-Anime crowd being in the minority by 2018 ITTL.
12. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) is mostly the same film as IOTL in all of its hyped-up multiversal crossover glory, with the exceptions of Thomas Haden Church and Rhys Ifans being able to appear in person instead of solely in voice as their characters of Flint Marko/the Sandman and Dr. Curtis "Curt" Connors/the Lizard respectively, alongside Stan Lee making one last cameo before his passing ITTL.
13. Edd Gould manages to overcome his blood leukaemia on March 25th, 2012, going on to recover and then continue on his popular webseries Eddsworld, and helping to co-create Super Average alongside his friend TomSka. Meanwhile, the Eddsworld Youtube channel would become a major leader and glue in the online animation community, hosting plenty of fan content, such as the gender swapped AU.
14. Alvaro Calmet/murifan2008, creator of the Lyosacks webseries IOTL, manages to finish the Movie of the Century series on YouTube after 30 episodes in 2012 before moving on to his most well-known work.
15. The Yogscast’s the Shadow of Israphel series manages to continue on past episode 42, concluding in 2013 with an epic, emotional, and overall satisfying finale that not only becomes a significant memory of many peoples childhoods, but also a core moment in Minecraft Youtube history.
16. Toonsmyth Productions manages to survive his diabetes in 2014, continuing his Cartoon Hunger Games and other animated works into the late 2010s and early 2020s.
17. Colin Wyckoff survives his leukaemia in 2015, and continues to make his signature style of Gmod and gaming videos, with Garry’s Mod enjoying a resurgence in popularity for the game alongside other classics such as Minecraft in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
18. JibJab makes Year in Review videos for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 like they did from 2005 to 2014 and again in 2020.
19. William Luther Pierce III, the infamous American neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and far-right political activist, just so happens to be accompanying his associate and founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell in Arlington, Virginia on the day of his assassination on August 25th, 1967, with both of them being shot and killed by former party member John Patler, with Patler being arrested soon afterwards like IOTL by the police, while the neo-Nazi movement is crippled by the loss of not only it’s main figure but also a young potential future leader in the movement. As a result of his much earlier death, the white supremacist and neo-Nazi political organisation National Alliance never comes into being in 1974, alongside Pierce’s blatant tax-exempt status cult known as the Cosmotheist Community Church in 1985, the two hateful fiction novels The Turner Diaries (1978) and Hunter (1989) are never written and published, and American Dissident Voices, National Alliance Bulletin, National Vanguard magazine, Free Speech and Resistance, National Vanguard Books, Inc., and Resistance Records are all also never established. There will be similar organisations and works that will be made by the hateful members of American society between the late 1960s and early 2000s ITTL, but none of them will have the same exact reach, notoriety, or influence that Pierce had IOTL, with this ultimately helping America more in the long run without his hateful influence and power to corrupt so many young white men to his cause.
20. Audie Murphy avoids dying in the plane crash that took his and five others’ lives in 1971, with everybody involved luckily surviving the crash, where he goes on to live for another 45 years, helping spread awareness about PTSD and veterans rights throughout the country and the World as a whole, and even going into US politics as a active member of the Democratic Party, witnessing several presidencies before passing away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 90 in 2016, similarly how to President Theodore Roosevelt passed away in his sleep, with many saying that if he was awake he would’ve fought death himself.
21. Naomi Christina Biden survives the car crash that killed her and her mother on December 18th, 1972, with her going on to grow up alongside her brothers Beau and Hunter, going on to see her father become the Vice President to Barack Obama in 2009. Neilia unfortunately still ends up dying in the accident, albeit surviving and staying conscious long enough to arrive in the hospital with her children before passing away, with Biden going on to marry Jill and have Ashley like IOTL. Alongside this Beau Biden survives his brain cancer that ended up causing his death on May 30th, 2015, where he runs and wins the 2016 Delawarean gubernatorial election, becoming a popular and successful Governor who wins re-election in 2020, with one of his most notable decisions as governor being that he as a personal fan of the band Coldplay allows them to perform a concert in Delaware.
22. Alex Jones never reads Gary Allen's None Dare Call it Conspiracy as a teenager in the 1980s, which had a profound influence on him and sent him down the path of becoming the crackpot he is known as IOTL. Instead ITTL he becomes a radio host, similar to his show InfoWars, but one with a genuinely ironic enjoyment and not one to really be taken seriously, with him never promoting conspiracy theories or reactionary sentiments, atleast any of the kind that could get you sued and condemned as being heartless.
23. Ryan White, a well-known HIV patient, is accepted back into his school - Western ‎Middle School - in 1985 by his principal, despite a massive effort by nearly 50 teachers and over a hundred parents to prevent this. Despite the predictions of his doctors, White would manage to survive long enough to graduate, passing away two weeks later on June 23rd, 1990.
24. Phil Hartman’s wife Byrnn, instead of her killing her husband, she ends up going to, confronting, and shooting and killing Andy Dick- the man who reintroduced her to cocaine - on May 28th, 1998, with her seeking help rather than committing suicide (Alongside this, Andy's autopsy would reveal a lot of cocaine in his system, which alongside the allegations against him, turns public opinion against Dick.). As a result of all of this, Phil Hartman survives ITTL, meaning that he continues appearing on NewsRadio and the Simpsons, and is still remains a popular actor and comedian until he was given his own show “The Phil Show”, as part of the Variety show format, which clashes frequently with Jay Leno in the ratings. He voices Zapp Brannigan on Futurama for the show's run, the character created specifically for him. This also leads to a live-action Troy McClure movie being made and released in the early 2000s (with live Action Simpson characters making cameos), something Hartman wanted to do before his death. Hartman also ends up producing two of his own movies; Mr.Fixit and Chick Hazard - Private Eye.
25. On the night of December 30th, 1999, a man is caught by police trying to scale the fence of Friar Park, the garden home of Beatle George Harrison and his family. The man, Michael Abram, is a paranoid schizophrenic who is obsessed with The Beatles and says he has a message from God that Harrison is the Devil and is possessing his mind and body through the songs. As a result of Harrison not being stabbed at the end of 1999, his cancer doesn't reoccur and he is still alive as of today and making music, having not passed away on November 29th, 2001.
26. Fred Rogers lives long enough to begin using the Internet, where he establishes the Mr. Rogers Online Neighborhood Youtube channel in 2006, seeing the Internet as a new place for potential education much like how he saw television years prior. His stomach cancer was detected earlier and treated before 2003, and it goes into remission by the end of 2004, but he suffers a relapse in 2013 and ultimately passes away in 2015 shortly after turning 87.
27. Hunter S. Thompson ends up missing at the last minute during his suicide attempt on Februay 20th, 2005 at his fortified compound of Owl Farm, with the shock recaliberating him, realising that his work was not done yet, especially with Bush Jr. still in office. During a visit by his family after the close call, he sees something that one of the nurses had on their laptop: a brand new website known as YouTube, with Thompson seeing the website as a new opportunity to try and report on the news and would thus begin hosting an irregular form of news show and begin spreading a new form of his infamous gonzo journalism while also relying on old fans and new to assist with paying, though he makes it clear there's a difference in his way of journalism and just being a flat-out lying fraud. Thompson would regain prominence and popularity on YouTube, advocating for the legalisation of drugs as well as advocating for gun rights. He even was noted for being a large supporter of Karl Marx and even began a bit of an environmentalist bent after the Exxon-Mobil scandal, though Thompson went green the way someone like him could go green. As for him being an ardent supporter of gun rights, he did note how the increasing school shootings showed a failure in handling people who had them or get them. Thompson would become a form of support to the Occupy Movement and would help promote his style of journalism among them and provides a different voice of fiery passion and commitment to it. But beyond that fire, he provides them his experience and knowledge to give the movement some form of structure and continue on with their drive. Thompson, despite his own rebellious reputation, would endorse both Obama and Clinton in the 2008 and 2016 elections respectively, while giving a scathing condemnation of Trump, comparing him to his old nemesis Richard Nixon. Thompson would later pass away in late 2020 at the age of 83 years old, leaving behind an unconventional but interesting legacy in America.
28. Steve Irwin lives when the Sting Ray narrowly misses his heart by mere inches on that fateful trip on September 4th, 2006 at the age of 44. After he recovers he and his family continue to dedicate their lives to loving and protecting animals and nature into the 2010s and beyond, helping to improve the environment and the safety and livelihood of all animals in Australia and everywhere else possible along the way. He would also continue to support the Liberal party, although he doesn’t express hostility towards Labour PMs such as Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard.
29. Notch, known as the creator of the massively popular Minecraft (2009), doesn’t become a depressed shitposter on Twitter who soon gets into trouble due to his unexpected affiliation with the Alt-Right or any other similar problematic stuff. He also lives a more lax life, where instead of spending millions on luxuries and big houses, he mostly sends that money to charity and fan content around his game Minecraft, as a way to give back and say thanks to the community and culture that he himself helped to build up in the first place. He attends Minecraft’s 10th anniversary in 2019 and 15th anniversary in 2024.
30. Christopher Lee lives longer, passing on June 7th, 2015, acting in a few more movies and making a couple more public appearances with fans before passing away in June 2019 at the age of 97.
31. Alan Rickman lives on January 14th, 2016, continuing to star in movies until losing his battle to cancer in February 2020 not celebrating reaching the age of 74 with his friends and family.
32. Bill Nunn lives on September 24th, 2016, making a cameo appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and is still alive as of today.
33. John Hurt lives on January 25th, 2017, continuing to star in movies and television until he passes away from his cancer a few days after his 81st birthday in January 2021.
34. Stan Lee and his wife Joan Lee both managed to stay alive longer for around three more years, doing their usual antics and activities related to Marvel and the MCU, appearing in Infinity War, Endgame, Season one of What If…?, and No Way Home, before Joan passes away in July 2020, being followed just over a year later by Stan in November 2021. Stan also thankfully doesn’t suffer as much of any elder abuse ITTL compared to what he unfortunately went through IOTL.
35. Rick May lives, narrowly surviving COVID in April 2020, and is still alive as of the present day, still doing voice work from time to time, most notably the Soldier from Team Fortress 2.
36. Naya Rivera does not drown in Lake Piru while swimming with her four-year-old son on July 8th, 2020 at the age of 33, where she continues to play the female lead Collette Jones on Step Up (2018-2022) and be a champion of various charitable causes such as LGBT rights, immigrants' rights, and women's rights, speaking out against racism in the entertainment industry, and being a vanguard of Afro-Latino and LGBT representation on television, with her notably voicing her support for the Disney show The Owl House (2020-) and it’s Afro-Latina and bisexual main character Luz Noceda.
37. Akira Toriyama successfully undergoes the surgery for his brain tumour in February 2024, preventing his untimely passing away at the age of 68 on March 1st, 2024 as a result, with him staying around for longer to finish all of his works before he eventually has to go.
38. Chance Perdomo is not killed in a motorcycle crash in Upstate New York on March 30th, 2024 at the age of 27.
39. The innovate early French filmmakers Georges Méliès and Alice Guy-Blanché sell their films to a society that preserves them, and as such many more of their films than IOTL survived, including Cleopatra's Tomb (1899), La Fée aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) (1896), and The Pit and the Pendulum (1913).
40. The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) was preserved following its success as it had a tour of showings where props were used to simulate the sounds such as horse hoofs, the sounds of gun and sometimes a narrator. Usually when it is screened, it is accompanied by some of these elements.
41. Seitarō Kitayama’s Urashima Tarō (1918) is actually found and rediscovered at a flea market at the Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka in 2007, alongside Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka (1933) also being rediscovered in 2006, just in time for before the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009, delighting many lost media enthusiasts and helping to shed more light on early Anime.
42. Studio Ghibli is founded 17 years earlier than it was IOTL by Miyazaki, Takahata, and Yoichi Katabe in 1968, after the release of The Sun Above Chikisani. The film’s story, based upon a story told by the Ainu people of Hokkaido, is kept in Hokkaido ITTL, with its original setting and the names not being changed as a result. The film is successful due to the overseas market, mainly America, due to Anime becoming popular in the West much earlier than IOTL, but Toho still removes the film from cinemas after 10 days. After it’s founding, Studio Ghibli releases an adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking books called Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest Girl in the World in 1972, both Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky in 1974 and 1976 respectively, Lupin The 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro in 1978, an adaptation of Richard Corben’s Rowolf comic in 1980, both My Neighbour Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies in 1984, Princess Mononoke in 1986, Kiki’s Delivery Service in 1988, and Border 1939 in 1989, all of which are critical hits with varying financial returns. Spirited Away (2001) is mostly just the same like OTL but is even more successful here in this world, grossing an absolutely insane $791 million worldwide, and is even nominated for Best Picture in general at the Oscars despite a category for animated films already existing, and in one of the most shocking and surprising moments in Oscar history, Spirited Away would actually win! With Hiyao Miyazaki’s magnum opus becoming the first ever animated movie to ever win the Best Picture award, causing widespread celebration and rejoicing all around. As of today the film has an 8.9/10 on IMDb and a 100% with both Critics and Audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Hiyao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (2023) is released three years earlier in 2020, replacing Earwig and the Witch (2020) which is not produced due to its negative reception IOTL. The film is just as critically acclaimed and has as much of a very positive reception as IOTL, having an 8.5 on IMDb and a 96% critics score and 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
43. Mamoru Hosoda gets a job at Studio Ghibli in 1991, which IOTL he applied for but was rejected, though Hayao Miyazaki informed him and praised him with a letter with one sentence that said something along the lines of "I didn't want to hold back your creativity", here he is accepted into Ghibli and hence as a result he adds his talent and passion into the company, and his films are even more popular, well known, and iconic in the anime and wider global animation scenes ITTL, being a part of the same studio classic masterpieces such as My Neighbour Tortoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away, adding more attention and focus onto them by the public and moviegoers. Howl's Moving Castle (which is released in the summer of 2003 instead of the autumn of 2004) is his film as IOTL he was attached to it but was overruled by Ghibli directors until he left. It does very well due to Spirited Away’s huge success two years earlier, grossing $475 million worldwide. The Girl Who Leaped Through Time (2006) is a Ghibli Film ITTL, grossing over $30 million worldwide. Hosoda would be more willing to work on commercial franchises and likely ITTL makes an adaptation of Ready Player One which is a blend of the novel and OTL's Summer Wars (2009). Wolf Children (2012) and The Boy and the Beast (2015) are also made under the Ghibli banner, and Mirai (2018) stays mostly intact. Belle (2021) is actually a musical ITTL like Hosoda wanted it to be (it isn't because musicals aren’t popular in Japan but they don't have a real culture surrounding them. However IOTL several Disney animators helped on this film and ITTL some of the original animators on Disney's Beauty and the Beast helped out in writing the music).
44. Neon Genesis Evangelion premieres between 1995 and 1996 just like IOTL, albeit the ending is changed so that humanity narrowly avoids destruction, and unlike OTL, it was made very clear that Asuka had survived rather than being left vague. Director Hideaki Anno admitted that he was satisfied with how the series turned out and had no intent to revisit it, unlike OTL in which he has continued to remake the series to get the ending just right. The English translation was able to nab Robin Wlliams as Gendo Ikari, a role he wanted to play as a fan of the series and a role he has since often parodied himself on his stand up routine and at conventions.
45. The Harry Potter books contain less of the “problematic” elements that would later be criticised by modern readers, due to the world between 1997 and 2007 being more progressive on social issues than it was IOTL, alongside J. K Rowing being more moderate on Transgender issues, hence not damaging the franchise’s reputation as badly ITTL by the 2020s.
46. Satoshi Kon survives in 2010 and lives long enough to finish and release his fifth film Dreaming Machine in August 2011, with him going on to live for another year later until his passing in August 2012 of TTL, still being remembered as a great animator within the realm of anime.
47. The manga industry undergoes some serious reforms in order to avoid mangaka burn-out along with better creative control. Schedules are now of biweekly release though each chapter being 20-30 pages long though others have chosen a monthly release schedule of chapters being 40-50 pages long. The anime industry also undergoes similar reforms and is unionised to promote quality over quantity with the animation and the well-being of the animators. Anime techniques undergo a renaissance in Japan and while this does mean it takes longer for episodes to come out, they are now of a greater calibur overall. This also reduces the need for filler for the most part, though is still occasionally used.
48. Un bon bock (aka A Good Beer) and Le Clown et ses chiens (aka The Clown and His Dogs) (both 1892), quite possibly the earliest or even the first animated cartoon films ever made, are not lost due to their creator Charles-Émile Reynaud being stopped from throwing their copies, alongside all but two of his picture bands, into the Seine river and later getting help for his depression. Alongside this Reynaud is able to give his ‘théâtre optique’ to Léon Gaumont and have it donated to a museum, having not destroyed it during a fit of despair. Reynaud would live a year longer to boot, passing away in January 1919, having seen the end of World War 1.
49. Argentine animation director and cartoonist Quirino Cristiani’s films El Apóstol (1917, the world's first animated feature film), Sin dejar rastros (1918), Firpo-Dempsey (1923), Peludópolis (1931, the first animated feature film with sound), Entre pitos y flautas (1941), and Carbonada (1943) are all never lost in fires or by general mismanagement or carelessness, with all four of them being fully preserved and archived in their entirety, with Cristiani’s contributions to the world of Animation never being lost and helping to contribute to Argentina’s popular culture and artistic history, with this - among other things - helping to make animation from Latin America more popular on the world stage.
50. Winsor McCay’s animation career is not held back by William Randolph Hearst, with McCay being able to make more animated films, among which include his abandoned sequel Gertie on Tour, a collaboration with Jungle Imps author George Randolph Chester, a musical film called The Barnyard Band, and a film about the Americans' role in World War I, all of which are released during the Roaring Twenties and are successful, all of them being archived and preserved to boot, with the hard-working and famous cartoonist behind the Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo rightfully earning himself an even bigger reputation and recognition for his work ITTL than our own and cementing his place in animation history as one of the earliest pioneers of the medium. McCay, having lived long enough to see Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in cinemas in 1937, passes away from cerebral embolism in 1939.
51. Disney releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 like IOTL, albeit with there being several changes to the film ITTL. The Prince and Snow White meet earlier with the Prince being captured and imprisoned in the Evil Queen's dungeon before escaping. The cut song "Music in your Soup" and the Dwarves building a bed for Snow White are both featured. All the Queen's assassination attempts from the story are also featured. Dopey speaks in the film. There's also a later sequel series: Disney's Dwarves made years before OTL's 7D.
52. In Pinocchio (1940) Geppetto is implied to have lost a son and is seen creating Pinocchio from an oak tree. Geppetto is at first afraid of Pinocchio but grows to accept him when he realises that maybe his son is back somehow or that this is a second chance. He also warns Pinocchio to stay away from fire because he's made of wood. The cat Figaro nearly eats Cleo as does Geppetto while they starve in Monstro. The inclusion of this scene also butterflies a later cartoon where a black "Mammy" stereotype keeps thwarting Figaro from eating the cat. Jiminy also gets the song "I'm a Happy Go Lucky Fellow." Stromboli also has a pet parrot (hence the bird cage). Lampwick has a death scene where he tells Pinocchio to run and to leave him behind as the Coachman chases after them.
53. Fantasia is fairly similar to OTL but it includes the cut Clair de Lune sequence, which was later changed and released as Blue Bayou in Make Mine Music IOTL. There are some other changes such as the removal of the black centaur from the Centaur sequence (though at the time due to not fitting the time period depicted). Disney did want to release a Fantasia every year before World War II kicked off and somewhat nixed that idea. The Reluctant Dragon is made but ITTL Disney opened up tours of its studio and so that film plays as a special treat for visitors, a practice which carried over somewhat into the present day tours but with animatronics and screens allowing Disney characters to appear in certain areas.
54. Dumbo is somewhat the same as OTL, though with the stereotypes not existing. The circus hands are only silhouettes and the crows are removed from the story altogether due to ironically the writer's strike, which OTL several of the animators of that scene did go on strike and Disney eventually got them back but that scene was cut as a result and rewritten, with “When I See An Elephant Fly” still managing to exist. The song “Are You A Man Or A Mouse”, which features Timothy encouraging Dumbo to try not to break down while showing some of his own characterization, is included in the final film.
55. Peter Pan (1953) has more ambiguous natives rather than borrowing from an exact culture, and goes more into Peter Pan's backstory, but otherwise it is the same beloved film as IOTL.
56. Lady and the Tramp (1955) has different cats that aren’t Asian stereotypes. Similarly years later Shun Gon from The Aristocats (1970) is also not made into an Asian stereotype.
57. The ending of Robin Hood (1973) is a combination of both OTL’s and the unused version that was cut, including the best and strongest elements of both endings in order to create one strong ending, which shows Robin Hood as a more vulnerable hero, gives Maid Marian more to do than just having her be a Neutral Female, and shows Prince John as a more threatening villain.
58. Disney greenlights and releases Wolfgang Reitherman and Mel Shaw’s Musicana - an official sequel to Fantasia (1941) in 1981 to great reviews and praise. The following segments are By the Bayou, South America/Yma Sumac Sequence, The Rain God, The Emperor and the Nightingale, Finlandia, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The Fox and the Hound is pushed back to 1983, mostly being the same except that Chief dies from being hit by the train while chasing Tod, which gives Copper better motivation for him to turn against Tod in the third act and made their final confrontation more emotionally impactful.
59. Don Bluth’s The Land Before Time (1988) does not get censored during production and as a result, includes the 11 to 13 minutes cut from the film IOTL and is far more violent, with the deleted scenes being fully animated and kept in the final film, alongside having a slightly different ending. Bluth’s All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) also does not have the scene where Charlie has a nightmare about being in Hell cut out. The film also has slight cursing and as a result, it also has a PG rating instead of a G rating. As a side note, Ducky and Anne-Marie’s voice actress, Judith Barsi, and her mother are never murdered by her father on July 25th, 1988, with her still being alive as of 2024.
60. Besides having a slightly larger budget and including Acme’s funeral and Popeye, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is the same classic film it is IOTL without any big changes or divergences. It not only helps to start the Animation renaissance of the 1990s, but gets close to getting a best picture nomination, which alongside the critically-acclaimed Beauty and the Beast being released in 1991 results in the Best Animated Feature award being introduced a decade earlier in 1991, with it being clear to most people by this time that animation isn’t “just simply cartoons” anymore.
61. Tarzan (1999) is closer to the book, including Tarzan going to England and Clayton being related to him. There is a different voice cast, with there being no Phil Collins or Rosie O'Donnell, and Brendan Frasier voices Tarzan, as he auditioned and this was prior to George of the Jungle.
62. Warner Bros. promotes The Iron Giant (1999) better and it becomes a box office success, grossing $125 million at the domestic box office and winning Best Animated Feature of 1999 at the Oscars, beating out Disney’s Tarzan and Pixar’s Toy Story 2 in a strong competition. Brad Bird still makes The Incredibles films for Pixar, but he also remains active at WB.
63. The deleted scene involving Lilo getting revenge on the obnoxious and ignorant tourists, using a scheduled tsunami siren test as a way to drive them off the beach, from Lilo & Stitch (2002) is left in the final film, being seen as an effective “Take That!” towards ignorant tourists who treat locals as exotic curiosities, which is unfortunately very much Truth in Television, especially in places like Hawaii.
64. Treasure Planet is delayed until June 2003 and the first Pirates of the Carribean to August that year, to be part of a gimmick called “The Swashbuckling Summer of Pirates”, making Treasure Planet a massive hit. This also means that Brother Bear is WDAS’ film for 2004, and it is tweaked a bit. Due to the first film being much more successful ITTL, Treasure Planet 2 is released in 2008, and due to the original film being released in 2004, Brother Bear 2 is released in 2007 ITTL. Disney's Home on the Range is never made as a result, being cancelled when it was still known as “Sweating Bullets.”
65. Disney’s Chicken Little follows the original concept of Chicken being a girl (voiced by Holly Hunter) with an overactive imagination who still has both of her parents - named Chloe and Chuck -, who sends herself to a Summer Camp where she ends up teaming up with her newfound friends - among them including a male version of Abby Mallard “the Ugly Duckling” (voiced by Sean Hayes) - to save the camp from a gang of wolves impersonating the sheep staff who plan on fattening up the campers so that they can eat them all in a big feast afterwards. Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Dan Molina, and Steve Zahn still have voice roles in the movie, albiet as different characters, while Garry Marshall, Amy Sedaris, Mark Walton, and Don Knotts all keep their OTL voice roles. The deleted scene where Mayor Turkey Lurkey gives Buck a pep-talk also makes it into the final movie, albiet slightly different due to the film being very different from its OTL counterpart. The film is released in July instead of November 2005.
66. My Peoples is not abruptly cancelled and is instead released by Disney after Chicken Little on June 9th, 2006, being directed by Barry Cook and starring Dolly Parton, Charles Durning, Mike Snider, Travis Tritt, Ashley Judd, Lou Rawls, Lily Tomlin, Hal Holbrook, Jean Smart, Diedrich Bader, James Carville, and Billy Connolly.
67. Big Bug Man is actually released in 2008 instead of never being released for some odd reason, starring Brendan Fraser and Marlon Brando as the main voice roles.
68. The Secret of Kells (2009) was able to get its proper funding to get a longer film while maintaining the original idea of Brendan and Aisling getting together.
69. Pixar’s Brave (2012) is much better made than IOTL without any of Lasseter’s meddling occurring here, with Chapman being able to make the film she wanted to make.
70. Stop motion animation does better ITTL than OTL, with Laika’s movies are more successful at the box office. Paranorman (2012) grosses a little bit more at the box office in 2012, going from a modest box office success to a commercial success. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) makes twice as much at the box office than IOTL. Henry Selick is also able to make both The Shadow King and The Graveyard Book, with The Shadow King being released on October 4th, 2013, while The Graveyard Book is released in 2017, followed by Wendell and Wild in 2020.
71. Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians is a box office success in 2012, preventing 350 studio employees from losing their jobs as a result, with talks remaining of a sequel to include further characters (such as Mother Goose, the lost Guardian of Storytelling among others.) The success of Rise of the Guardians in 2012 leads to Me and My Shadow being successfully finished and released by Dreamworks in 2014, which is also a financially and critically successful film for the company. Other cancelled Dreamworks films are also completed and released as a result ITTL, including B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations in 2015 and Larrikins in 2018.
72. Jack Black replaces Chris Pratt as the voice actor for Barley Lightfoot in Pixar’s Onward (2020), alongside the deleted characters Jenny and the villainous Sirens remaining in the film.
73. Sliders runs for seven seasons with the original cast and production team, with there being no Kromaggs or “Quinn is really from another universe” storylines, with the show concluding in 2002. Ken Steadman, a film and television actor and stuntman who played a character in the show, also doesn’t die in 1996 as a result of the aforementioned changes, with him still being alive as of today.
74. The Walking Dead’s trajectory changes after the conclusion of Season 1 in 2010, when Frank Darabont, due to changes in his own behaviour and ANC’s, is able to stay on as the showrunner instead of being fired in 2011, with him overseeing the rest of the show, alongside Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Jeffrey DeMunn all staying on to play their respective characters for longer as a result of their friend not being kicked off. With both seasons 2 and 3 going strong, the show continues to be a ratings juggernaut that helps to keep both the modern Golden Age of Television going - airing alongside the also extremely popular shows Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones - and the zombie genre alive up until it eventually comes to an end after it’s seventh season in 2017, with the highly anticipated series finale being much more positively received here, and being considered much more satisfying and powerful for fans and viewers overall. The Walking Dead franchise would still continue on afterwards, although without people believing that The Walking Dead TV show, funnily enough, became zombified over time.
75. The British thriller drama television series Utopia manages to get both a third season in 2015 and a two-hour long special in 2016, both of which go on to become just as praised and beloved as the original two seasons that came before it.
76. YouTube is not bought out by Google in October 2006, where basically, instead of going for ownership, YouTube does partnerships with all the major content creators in Hollywood, including having full movies there earlier to buy/rent/or watch for free with ads. In short, it's a give and take, of everyone helping each other out. Despite not owning it, Google still helps YouTube out in this manner as well. It's a "rising tide lifts all boats" situation, and while it runs advertisements still, it tends to be more selective for choices while not plagued by the various problems of OTL Youtube. In addition, by having companies be partners in this way, it also means that the shorter videos and posting of things that IOTL are being targeted and taken down for copyright infringement will be able to stay, with Fair use being respected by copyright holders. There is no hypocrisy regarding the Terms of Service and how things work, annotations, comment dislikes, and the dislikes themselves all never being removed at all, videos with kids content (such as SpongeBob) don't have their comment sections turned off, the website keeps on using its original logo after 2017, and the website doesn't have to deal with the Adpocalypse in 2017 or Susan Wojicki becoming CEO in 2014, who still finds success as a businesswoman at both Youtube and Google ITTL.
77. Sexual predators in the entertainment industry are exposed much earlier than IOTL. Gary Glitter is caught in 1997 as per OTL, but with Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, and - the most shocking of all to the entertainment world - Jimmy Savile all also being exposed soon afterwards the next year in 1998, killing off all of their careers by the end of 2000 and beginning the MeToo movement in Britain earlier, with Ian Watkins of LostProphets being arrested four years earlier in 2008. Similarly, Harvey Weinstein is finally exposed in 1999, which begins the MeToo movement in America earlier too, which sees Bryan Singer, Kevin Spacey, David Geffen, and Bill Cosby all exposed during the 2000s. Many online creeps, such as Dahvie Vanity, Onision, and EDP445, are all also finally arrested for their activities in 2016, 2020, and 2021 respectively.
78. The first Academy Awards ceremony is held in 1929 ITTL, and from the start is a little more international instead of being American-centric. The Kid (1921), Nosferatu (1922), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), Greed (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925), A Page of Madness (1926), and Metropolis (1927) all win retroactive Oscars, while The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) wins the first Oscar for Best Picture ever. Also, King Kong (1933), The Great Dictator (1940), Citizen Kane (1941), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Seven Samurai (1954), Do the Right Thing (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and Inception (2010) all receive the Academy Award for Best Picture ITTL, and the Best Animated Picture Award is introduced a whole decade earlier in 1991 instead of 2001, with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast being the first animated feature to win, followed by Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King, Toy Story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The Prince of Egypt, The Iron Giant, and The Emperor’s New Groove.
79. D.W Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, instead of being an adaptation of Thomas Dixion Jr.’s The Clansman, is instead a three-hour silent epic drama film about the American Revolution, chronicling the events leading up to before, during, and after the Revolution, with it mainly focusing on two families in the revolutionary and post-Revolution eras over several years — the pro-Patriot northern Stonemans and the pro-Royalist southern Camerons. Like in our timeline it is originally shown in two parts separated by an intermission, and it was the first American-made film to have a musical score for an orchestra. It pioneered closeups and fadeouts, and it includes a carefully staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras (another first) made to look like thousands. It also came with a 13-page Souvenir Program. Also like in our timeline it becomes the first motion picture to be screened inside the White House, viewed there by President Wilson, his family, and members of his cabinet. Unlike our timeline, however, the film does not become known as "the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history", to say the very least. For one, the earlier setting in the American Revolution instead of the Civil War and Reconstruction means that there is no promotion of Lost Cause ideology or the Ku Klux Klan here since it wouldn’t make sense history-wise. Second of all, there are no racist depictions of African Americans in this version of the film whatsoever, with the few African American characters that do appear being depicted as normal people with the best possible treatment that a film from the 1910s could offer to non-whites, with there being no scenes portraying them as being unintelligent, as rapists, or being lynched, alongside there being no white actors doing Blackface either. Alongside this, Native American characters (due to native Americans fighting in the Revolution) also make a few appearances in the film, also being treated like human beings with the most progressive depiction possible back in that day. Still being popular among audiences nationwide upon its release, grossing $100 million at the box office, the film's success would not become a contributor to racial segregation throughout the U.S, and it would not become an inspiration for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, which took place only a few months after its release. The film overall is still a huge commercial success across the nation—grossing more than any previous motion picture—and it profoundly influences both the film industry and American culture.
80. Gone with the Wind (1939) is a less racist film ITTL, due to it heavily being altered to remove offensive content that could have depicted slavery positively, but it overall remains the iconic, immensely popular, and high-grossing film that it is IOTL, still grossing $349 million at the box office and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1939 in 1940, beating out The Wizard of Oz, The Rules of the Game, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Stagecoach.
81. Alfonso Cuarón is more financially successful at the box office ITTL than he was IOTL, with his critically-acclaimed films Sólo con tu pareja (1991), A Little Princess (1995), and Children of Men (2006) all doing much better, while the more mixed-to-average Great Expectations (1998) was more of a flop here. He also never directs I Am Autism (2009) for the infamous Autism Speaks.
82. Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Henrik Ibsen, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov all win the Nobel Prize in Literature, being rewarded between the years 1901 and 1974 ITTL. Tolstoy in particular, despite being the first person to win it as one of the greatest writers of all time, doesn’t seem to care all that much and donates all the money he received to charity, still passing away in 1910.
83. Webcomics, especially story-driven and/or urban/modern fantasy webcomics, become more popular on the internet and online culture as a whole during the 2010s. Some of the more flawed and polarising webcomics are also better written ITTL which helps their case. Webcomics that are more popular ITTL include Skin Deep by Kory Bing, Irregular by Cait May and Trevor Bream, Paranatural by Zack Morrison, Wilde Life by Pascalle Lepas, White Noise by Adrien Lee (aka thephooka), Tamberlane by Caytlin Vilbrandt, Ava’s Demon by Michelle Fus, How to be a Werewolf by Shawn Lenore, and Urgent Transformation Crisis (UTC) by Jim Whaley.
84. IDubbbz makes a few more Content Cop videos on infamous YouTubers in 2018 and 2019, providing the Internet with some more memes and crime-fighting shenanigans, before officially retiring the series with one final episode in late 2019. Ian also doesn’t say as many racial or homophobic slurs in said videos which he would later express regret over. Creator Clash is also a success.
85. Filthy Frank goes on for atleast another year before Joji fully retires the character and project as a whole in September 2018, wrapping up all the characters and their arcs and their stories, with him moving on to his music career as in OTL.
86. PewDiePie and Jontron both avoid the controversies that involved them being accused of being Nazis, and hence they are not let go from projects like Scare PewDiePie Season 2 and Yooka-Laylee respectivley. Pewds also manages to reach 100 million subscribers before being dethroned as the biggest Youtuber on the 29th of May, 2019, being replaced by another individual Youtuber and not a corporation like T-Series. Particularly an Indian YouTuber, with there still being an aurora of “west vs east” that at the end of the day is still harmless and fun, and doesn’t end in a mass shooting occurring in New Zealand in 2018, with the perpetrator being arrested just in time before they could kill 51 innocent people.
87. JelloApocalypse’s Epithet Erased (2019-) is a major success, which helps it successfully secure a second season, which begins sometime in late 2021, costing $550k and running for 9 episodes, concluding with it’s season finale in early 2022.
88. No big YouTube animation channels try to milk the SCP Foundation for profit with quantity-over-quality videos, which as a result leaves the smaller, but much more passionate, real, and down to earth SCP channels like TheHauntedReader, SCP ILLUSTRATED, and TheVolgun who are genuine, bonafide members of the community and fandom that care for quality over quantity to prosper and grow popular in their place instead.
89. Quantum TV gets his channel banned off of YouTube for good in April 2022 due to his abuse of YouTube’s copyright system and his hate speech, instead of The Act Man, who brought him to the larger spotlight due to his infamous review of Elden Ring (a game he didn’t even play in the first place) having his channel demonetised by YouTube. Due to the huge blow that has for his already small career, and alongside his infamously huge ego and deeply narcissistic personality disorder, Quantum goes off the rails and still ends up being arrested for being horrible to his wife, which here happens a lot earlier.
90. Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills is not cancelled, being released on October 4th, 2016 to universal acclaim by critics, who praised its dark atmosphere, story, gameplay, and realistic graphics, and financial success, with the highly-anticipated game living up to the hype built up around it IOTL, especially after it was unfortunately cancelled, essentially earning all of the love and respect that gamers IOTL believed it would’ve gotten if it had not been tragically cancelled, being considered one of the greatest video games of all time and one of the scariest video games of all time, with Kojima, Del Toro, and Ito, alongside the staff, crew, and cast, all receiving universal praise for their hard work.
91. Roy E. Disney survives his stomach cancer on December 16th, 2009, continuing to be active in the Walt Disney Company and lives to celebrate the triumphant centennial anniversary of Disney on October 16th, 2023, where he would pass away two months later December 16th, 2023 at the ripe old age of 93 years old, with many paying their respects to the great man while celebrating his life and achievements.
92. Jackie Chan does not gain pro-Communist China sympathies during the 2010s and remains Pro-Democracy and Pro-Hong Kong as of today, much to the risk to his life in China. This as a result also inspires many more celebrities to speak out against the crimes of the CCP, which insult sparks more controversy and outrage in mainland China.
93. James Gandolfini, famous for his leading role in the Sopranos (1999-2007), survives his heart attack on June 19th, 2013, continuing to find work later on in the 2010s like fellow acclaimed television actor Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame. Gandolfini and Cranston meet up and chat atleast once.
94. Harold Ramis doesn’t pass away on February 24th, 2014 and manages to live long enough for a Ghostbusters 3 to be made in 2016 just like in Player Two Start, replacing OTL’s controversial Ghostbusters reboot, with it being much better received in this timeline.
95. Heath Ledger lives longer, avoiding his original death in January 2008 and living to see The Dark Knight release to the same acclaim as IOTL, finish up filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, win the same Oscar he posthumously won IOTL, star in a few more movies and other projects, and then go on to reprise his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises, where he unfortunately dies a similar death in January 2012, causing the same reaction and mourning that his OTL death caused, with the Dark Knight Rises being his final film role, and the movie being dedicated to him in his memory as a result.
96. A lot of the studio and film vault fires of the 20th and 21st centuries are prevented and avoided ITTL, due to the earlier realisation of the importance and meaningfulness of film and the subsequent awareness and activism that follows. The other less well known studio and vault fires of the 20th century are instead the ones to inspire studios and companies to start improving their film preservation efforts. The 1914 Lubin vault fire, the 1937 Fox vault fire, the 1965 MGM vault fire, the 1978 Suitland National Archives Film Vault Fire, the 2005 Aardman Fire, and the 2008 Universal Studios Fire are all prevented for one reason or another throughout the years, with everything lost in those fires being saved and preserved ITTL. Similarly, many highly-sought after lost films such as Cleropatra (1917), The Miracle Man (1919), Treasure Island (1920), Hollywood (1923), The Mountain Eagle (1926), London After Midnight (1927), 4 Devils (1928), The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928-1931), Alam Ara (1931), and The Oregon Trail (1936), alongside many missing directors cuts such as those for Greed (1924), King Kong (1933), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Idiot (1951), and The Red Badge of Courage (1951) are all either never lost in the first place thanks to film preservation being realised earlier, or are eventually found sometime by the year 2024.
97. Thanks to some anti-racist butterflies that began flapping years ago, both Blackface and Minstrel Shows begin to decline in popularity about a decade earlier in the 1930s, although with performances dotting the cultural landscape into the 1940s and 1950s, with it generally being considered highly offensive, disrespectful, and racist by the middle of the 20th century. Similar practices in Hollywood such as brown and yellowface also begin to decline just before the Civil Rights movement begins to kick off during the 1950s, being buried for good by the end of the 1960s.
98. A lot of the critically acclaimed works of fiction and popular culture such as films, music, and television shows made outside of America, Britain, and Japan in countries such as Germany, Russia, India, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, etc. are more well-known and popular among global audiences, with those works being rightfully recognised for their high and rich quality on a wider international scale ITTL. Japan becomes a dominant cultural giant alongside the USA and UK by the beginning of the 21st century ITTL, with South Korea and India both being close behind. Overall entering the new millennium most of the first world is more accepting of pop culture from other parts of the world, with multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism shinning brighter than ever.
99. While I of course won’t go into politics ITTL in depth and detail due to the general rule of no current politics and my own political biases, all I will say is that political partisanship and divisions are not as bad as they were in the early 21st century IOTL, with radical political movements on both the left and the right being less popular because of political divergences going as far back as the 1960s, resulting in the modern socio-political atmosphere being more chill and less pessimistic, alongside more pro-democracy protests and revolutions across the world being more influential and successful. Social progress is also overall better ITTL than OTL, with race relations, gender equality, and LGBT rights being improved between the mid-20th century and early 21st century. Overall, outside of popular culture, the world is a slightly better place ITTL as of 2024 than it is IOTL.
100. Peter Sallis, Betty White, Angela Lansbury, and June Foray all live long enough to celebrate their 100th birthdays, before passing away in 2021, 2022, 2027, and 2018 respectively. Speaking of which, celebrities still alive as of May 2024 such as, J.K Simmons, Danny DeVito, Keanu Reeves, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Brendan Frasier, Rosemary Harris, Dolly Parton, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Rosen, David Attenborough, Mel Brooks, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Christopher Walken, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Willie Nelson, James Earl Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Morgan Freeman, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Owen Wilson, Robert De Niro, John Ratzenberger, James Hong, Sam Elliot, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Black, Willem Dafoe, Brenda Song, Anna Akana, Haley Tju, Sarah-Nicole Robles, Mae Whitman, Michaela Dietz, and Tobin Bell are all guaranteed to live to see their 100th birthdays.
101. Alternate history is a more popular genre beginning in the early 21st century, with alternatehistory.com in particular becoming decently popular in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

And there we go! There are of course plenty of butterflies that aren’t described here, but these are probably top 101 divergences detailed out here.