You see Russia, this is what happens when you censor Steven Universe

My favorite comment on Russia being gone: "In a sudden turn of events, the gays have censored Russia!".

Russia banned Steven universe so Steven universe banned Russia 😂😂😂

Looking at the British Isles, you can see the Bristol Channel is completely filled in with land, which makes me thrilled as a medieval historian. If this were true in real life, the development of the Celtic Brittonic language (which is hugely impacted by geography and gives us Welsh and Cornish) as well as the entire history of the invasions by the Anglo-Saxons, and later the Normans, could be completely different. This has massive implications for the development not only of the British peoples, but every country they would interact with - and as a major colonial superpower, that's a hell of a lot. For example, would the colonization of the Americas and later War of Indepedence happened differently if all subsequent monarchs right down to George III not ruled (or been different people) because of changes in the life of Welsh-born Henry Tudor, who would overhaul and unite the English monarchy as the future king Henry VII? Would Elizabeth and her long-touted "golden age" of arts, culture and exploration have still happened. And that's not getting into the wars between England and Catholic Europe started by her father Henry VIII... I could go on and on and still not over-exaggerate how excited I was when I saw It Could Have Been Great.

You say Steven's World but I say it's Steven's Universe;)

Still wondering where all the damage the Cluster should have caused is...You know, since it was causing whole islands to sink.

6:51 Donald trump what have you done

Russia censored Steven Universe. Steven Universe censors Russia.

It's just a different universe.

3:03 earth was pink diamonds colony so that version of earth technically by gem rules belongs to steven

can't the one where Russia should be be the lunar sea spire

Do you think that Earth forming differently could be the reason the gems showed up here and not in our universe? For example, if the very forming was different, it could be possible that Steven's earth is actually closer to homeworld than our earth, so instead of the variance being the gems coming to earth, the variance is how the earth formed, causing the gems to come to earth. This could also explain how lapis was able to fly there. Maybe the crewniverse even interlaced the variance of earth forming differently and the gems existing. Perhaps if there is a life form that created the gems, they saw gems being created on earth (like the gems we have on our earth) and somehow infused life into them? I know it's a reach but a fascinating thought. Also, I'd be curious to find out what other gem controlled planets/ colonies look like. And I certainly wonder if Lapis's mission was to somehow take the water in order for them to finish the colony. Or do you think the water could have been used to make pearls somehow? And were new gems "invented" as planets were discovered? Quartz came from Earth, for example. Would other planets have other gems to be made? Also, if Peridot was made on homeworld, what it would look like for all of those gems to be made there? Is it a complete shell of a planet now, or do they replenish it? Would they be able to somehow reform the landscape over time to make more gems? I'm quite sure Peridots were invented after the war, as the Crystal Gems had no idea who she was. How is it so that they created her on homeworld then? Wow this was a bit of a ramble but this show really makes me think. It's wonderful. I can't wait for the new episodes!

So im re watching the mirror jem episode where steven makes a "school" (remember there is a globe on it) and the globe matches up pretty well. We dont get a clear view of all the sides but you do see about half of it and it matches up pretty well. (AJ i sent you the pictures on face book) so you know that it matches up pretty well to the old map that they used. You can also tell by context clues that (in jem time that they where really colonized and starting to spread more) they had a intrest in earth for awhile because compared to the new globe that they had a interest in it

Maybe it wasn't a bomb I been thinking, maybe that's Pink Diamond's hole. Sounds crazy I know, but can Diamonds be created like other Gems?. We know for sure that something can't come from nothing, like life just doesn't spontaneously exist; so Diamonds must come from somewhere. If they can be made like other Gems, maybe she was also made on Earth, after all it's shown that Earth was Pink Diamond's colony, maybe her first one since all clues point that she was the youngest Diamond. Now if this is true, maybe they require way more energy from the planet than other Gems need to grow, a very huge amount of energy that can actually alter the planet landscape. Plus it's not crazy at all assume that she was born on Earth and did take the planet as her own colony since we''ve seen that when a Gem emerges, it already knows it's function or purpose (Pearls are servants, Quartz are soldies, etc)

THE GAYS CENSORED RUSSIA!!

I really appreciate how much time and effort you dedicate to your theories. I also enjoy the way that you communicate your ideas, it really helps me visualise your thoughts. Thank you for constantly producing quality content!

In episode one of SU, it's stated that if a gem creature has no gem, it's got a mother/queen gem (ex. Centepeedle and her babies) lion also has no gem. I theorize that lion is a corrupted rose quartz "child" soldier.

Lapis Lazuli's terraformed Russia

Awesome theory AJ! I've watched just about everyone of them. I cannot go anywhere else for theories. None of them are as well thought out and organized as yours! Keep up the great work man!

Finally man! I've been waiting!

Will you take a look at the theory that rose died because of how long she held her shapeshifted womb?

hey aj! i have a theory i think you might want to look into. me and my friend were talking about how different gems have different level of intelligence, and corrupted gems and how their gems got to be so weirdly shaped, and the ideas intersected. we came across the subject of the beetles of heaven and earth, the one Steven went to get with pearl and amethyst in particular. we wondered how and why the beetle had stuff built specifically for it, and we came up with the idea that it actually had a form of sentience and intellect unlike any other corrupted gem. we theorize that the beetle is actually smart enough to build its own self-tailored objects in its own house, like a TV and game system, as well as bongos. the crewniverse put a lot of work into the background for the beetle's room, and Steven even specifically points out the fact that the bongos exist. who would possibly climb up a mountain that was hard for even gems to get to, just to build specific items for the pleasure of a small gem insect? we think that since it's a corrupted gem, it still retains a mind and is capable of building a working television and a pair of bongos, and all of this stuff for itself. we also wonder why garnet lets it roam free in a tank instead of bubbling it, and also why she takes such an interest in the beetles themselves. we think that garnet is interested in them both BECAUSE of this possible intelligence, and their ability to be completely autonomous up to the point they can know what these objects are. back in the old days of the episodes like giant woman, it makes total sense we would let this slip by us because we didn't know what gem monsters were, or that the crewniverse meant stuff to mean things in the future later on in the show, ever since episode one. i'm honestly surprised why no one at all has questioned why, or even how, a space-alien gem beetle would be able to find the material for a TV, build the TV, plug in wires to some source of electricity, then build a console, plug the console into the TV, and so on and so forth. how is it able to do this, why? does garnet know what it can do? if so, why hasn't the crewniverse brought up the beetle's so called sentience again? why hasn't garnet? can the beetles mean something greater in the future? is the beetle's favorite show Seinfeld or the sitcom friends? that last one was a joke, but i seriously am interested in why at least this one beetle is this smart, and why garnet wants them together. i think it's worth a theory. we've let these guys slide by for too long without being scrutinized. thanks for reading, if you did. sorry to post this again, but i just wanted you to see it.

Amazing video, AJ! ONe of your best!

You have to be one of the best theroists out there

Come to the video so early it won't even load.

"It isn't _literally_ Steven's." *Oh, how naïve we were.*

Yes a new AJ video. Let me get comfy and grab my snacks :)

OMG... this video had so many comments within 2 hrs. XD Love your vids, by the way, keep up the good theorizin' work! :D XD

Russia censors SU, so SU censors Russia

I think Ian and/or Matt said that there were no Civil War/World Wars

Great video man you are the best

Love the inclusion of a screen shot of that Worf episode. So good.

Steven universe is a very complex real life au fanfic

5:00 Yeah plus that part of Russia is mostly marshland and swamp

Parallels awesome reference man! Worf was a fun character to use, least prepared character possible for that kind of situation.

cool video AJ and about the part about florida after taking a good look that was one of the first differences i noticed i do live in florida after all :)

i heard a theory about the big hole where russia is. some people think its where pink diamond was made and emerged. i found it interesting.

Maybe Russia's weaponry was an alarming threat to the Diamonds so they struck Russia first.

Awesome theory! :D

nice man I really like your videos please do more or a ytp or something

Russia censored Steven Universe, so Steven Universe censored Russia

the geode could be where Russia is

This makes sense I always wondered why Stevens seasons seemed off. Summer spring winter fall.

At 1:51, you used the plane from Steven Floats! Ahh so exciting! Also, I'm not the only waiting for Summer of Steven, right?

I know a good theory. Is Steven the only half Human half gem?

Love your theories

As to the axis thing, it could have happened relatively recently. We know poles can shift. We know planet tilts can suddenly change. It could have happened a lot later than you theorize. It would have been very disruptive, but if it coincided with a mass extinction in our own timeline, it could have happened later. For instance, maybe the chiksulub meteor knocked the earth off its axis on that Earth. The earth being knocked off its axis would probably not be much more disruptive than the effects of the meteor to begin with. I do think you're right. There's too many strange differences to just be animation errors, even though there are different animation styles for different episodes. You're right that someone would have caught something that huge and been like "Okay guys, go back and redo this."

Fin flipping fantastically mind-blowing!

This is what I love about good science fiction stories it's not the great differences but the suttle hard to observe ones. People seem to forget that any small choice whether controled or not has an outcome. It's just how the universe and in conjunction the multiverse works. Earth continents could have split in anyway changing all that we know. It's just amazing how much thought Rebbca Suger and the Crewinverse put into this show it's just.......wow

Russia: i am gonna censor Steven Universe. Steven Universe: u censor me, I censor u. lol

It also be the distortion that 2d maps of the 3D globe make. This map is triangular, so the distortions made by compensating for a flat map of a 3D environment look different than what you see in a standard "corrected" 2d map. They use triangles and we stick to spherical.

At about 7:53 in "Jailbreak" (also the bottom left image in this video at 1:51), when Peridot is in the escape pod descending to Earth -- the Great Lakes can be seen pretty clearly and separate. However, the 'Florida peninsula' is still separate from the continental land mass. From the flight scene of Lapis and Steven and few other hints, the town of Beach City can be reasonably figured to be somewhere on the mid- to even upper-mid East coast of what we relate to being 'The United States of America'. With that bit and few others, some points for anyone interested in the Steven Universe universe to maybe consider. * The map on the moon base is probably 5000-6000+ years old and some planetary changes have occurred since. * The moon base map is a data point graphic more so than an 100% accurate geological representation. It is showing some kind of marks of interest and not so much more than the landmasses' outlines. * In "The Return", Greg Universe openly states what the gems have skirted around: the Homeworld Gems where already upon Earth and altering it's environments before the Crystal Gem revolt. * Unless given explicit directions or examples, artists interpret scenes and storyboards within their artistic limits and the style of show so things can at times be inconsistent, 'filler', or artistic flight of fancy. * There have been at least a handful of confirmed foreshadowing or outright blind clues woven into the show so trying to find more can be a fun exercise. Still must try to at least consider the previous point as well. * With the view from the moon base, it would seem the planet is tilted quite heavily but we have seen the sun on what seems to relate to the East of Beach City. So the view from the moon could be part of previous point of artistic liberty or easy to quickly understand visual element ("yeah, they really are on the moon, looking down on his homeland and it means something to Steven"). * The other thought I haven't seen mentioned much (I don't really look at/for theories either so maybe it has been) -- The Lunar Sea Spire could have part of the reason for the sea covering the land North of 'India'. That area of our Earth is relatively low in altitude and could be susceptible to flooding from outside sources. The spire is shown having major influence over gravity and/or water but we do not seem to have any clues to it's location other than amidst a large body of water.

One detail that wasn't mentioned, and surprisingly I haven't seen anyone talk about, is that if you slow Peridot's "shipping rant" down even more than the required amount to hear what she's saying, you can hear another voice. Said voice talks about launching a nuclear missile and my friends and I have speculated that this has something to do with the way earth is in SU, or maybe even something about the future.

Hey AJ, have you examined Steven's apparent powers over electronics and the like? There are quite a few moments in the series where Steven has a surge of emotion and directly afterwards, nearby electronic devices are affected. Some examples are when the power comes back on in Political Power (that one might be a coincidence), when the TV turns to static when Steven sees Amethyst shapeshifting as Rose in Maximum Capacity, and when the arms of the drill fall off each time Steven has a surge of pain in Gem Drill.

The massive hole in Russia and the shift in axis can be attributed to the same source. Neptune also rotates on a equatorial axis as opposed to a polar one, and it's suspected that it's because a large moon struck it at some point during its lifespan. The same could be true with this earth.

Aj, I have a very good idea about how you could add to this video. So, if the earth Steven lives in rotates north to south that means the equator and tropics are vertical. This would explain why it has never snowed naturally in Delaware. Delaware would be near one of the tropics. This would also mean places near California and Arizona would be cold. You might be thinking that Delaware doesn't look very tropical in Steven universe, but I have been to South Carolina and it has pine trees near the beach. So if this theory interests you please make a video on it. :D

yeah plus as seen some of the pictures found throughout the temple, the crystal gems have played their own parts of history like the picture of the Crystal Gems+Rose crossing the Delware river

This'll be a good one i can tell.

The Long Earth series explored quantum divergence in parallel worlds very well. It's 5 books, so there's a bit of an investment for the whole series, but the first book stands alone fairly well. Also, it was one of the last things Terry Pratchett wrote, so that's going for it, too.I highly recommend it. As for your "north-south sunrise" idea... no. That doesn't work. If the Earth spun like Uranus, as in your illustration, the humans on that theoretical planet would still see an East-West solar path through their sky. If the rotational axis was off of the orbital path by about 23 degrees, they's also experience the same seasonal changes we do. So the real explanation for the moon-spire view of Earth is that the continents drifted differently. Which you covered admirably.

3:12 .... but now we know it is his earth.

I'm willing to chock that bit about the axis tilt up to animation errors. Unless Steven and the gems live directly on the equator, they would experience sweltering summers far hotter than anything shown in the series and, in the same vein, ridiculously cold winters. It's doubtful that a civilization which is seemingly identical to ours technologically could have taken hold on a world where only 10% of the land is habitable.

One thing to take notice is that all the landmasses are distorted in a radial pattern around the russia red dot... Food for thought..

Instead of the Earth's axis being at a different angle, I think it's more likely that the continents drifted in such a way that Europe ended up as the northern hemisphere, as though Pangaea was just rotated 90 degrees and everything carried out the same after that. This cuts out a lot of random, improbable coincidences and probably narrows down the time range of the timeline divergence. You touched on plate tectonics earlier in the video, so I don't think this should be too much of a stretch. Don't know why I've put off subscribing for so long, but you took my first comment since youtube forced google+ on us (I know, it's been a while) so I think you've earned it :p

They could be looking at a different angle, causing them to see the Earth sideways

One more thing: I have to add that the change in the Earth's rotation seems to make the most sense if you think of it not in terms of the Earth's axis being different, but its surface. Allow me to explain. The way that the Earth's axis is oriented determines the seasons to such a degree that, if its axis were perpendicular to its orbit (as might appear at first), half the year would be endless summer daylight and half would be winter night. This understandably makes for a not very habitable Earth. However, there is a way that Earth can rotate North-South without this discrepancy: If the area we think of as the North Pole is not a pole at all, but on the equator, and the real Pole is located somewhere in the Indian Ocean. This may be a little hard to understand, but maybe you can take a crack at explaining it, AJ22?

You should cover what effects Lapis would have had on the earth back when she pulled the whole ocean into a tower, its kinda a huge thing thats never really covered, wouldn't that have a huge effect on ecosystems and coastal places along the Atlantic ocean?

If you look in the new steven universe Art and Origins book it basically shows all of the locations where all the gem building (and other gem things) are... It also shows that Mexica is called aqua mexico, south america is called Pangea, and The part of australia thats off is called new australia... Also the part of russia thats missing is where the Galaxy warp is.... EDIT: I read it again and it said that it was just devolopment and so some parts may be differnt (so the galaxy warp might not be where russia should be, or other thing, etc)

Great video, I've been wondering how different the SU version of earth is ever since they mentioned aqua Mexico

One fact that I noticed about this other earth was the fact that Iceland is completely missing (the reason for me noticing being that I live there XP), and that made me think, Iceland exists because of a hotspot (like the ones under Hawai'i or Yellowstone) that is also under the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, causing a HUGE amount of geothermal activity, enough to make a whole island. But what is more interesting about it is the theory that it is most likely that hotspot that started the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with it having become powerful enough to burst through the crust and started a crack that became that specific ridge. If that is the case, Iceland being missing even with all the geothermal activity under it could be another point in the fact that the difference between the SU earth and our earth is much MUCH older than the gems involvement.

I WAS WONDERING and confused about the sunrise/sunsets before but it totally didn't even occur to me that the EARTH'S ROTATION was actually different and that it wasnt just an animation error omg! also the reason the seasons are still the same is because the earth itself still tilts on A E/W axis, and beach city's location isnt exactly near the in-universe "equator" (which would circle the planet from N to S)

+AJ Universe my brother and I thought of a theory where Steven bubbled a Diamond. We where watching an episode where Steven, Lars, Sadie, and Ronaldo watch evil bear 2 I believe ( not sure of the name) well they find out the light house is haunted but at the end it turns out to me a gem and shows Lars and Ronaldo in the past. Lars carves his name on the wall and gets knocked back and Steven realizes that the gem is hosting the light house and bubbles it. To my brother and I it looked like a diamond so our theory pretty much is that Steven had bubbled blue diamond and is in there home now. But you should try to look more into it for us we are really curious about it

This was gr8 do a part 2 please

The way they animated the Earth from the moon is completely normal to actual astronomy and the way the Earth looks from the moon. We have so many pictures of this, they are beautiful, look them up!

I wonder if this has anything to do with lapis being used to terraform. Maybe a lapis lazuli was sent to earth before it was ever decided to use as a colony. Maybe not all atempts and terraforming planets work out so they send random lapis lazulis to newly forming planets and if they develop life and meet some set of conditions or develop certain resources then they decide to colonize.

I've noticed in the newer intro (during the first few seconds) you can see the earth and the moon, but the crystal gems are standing on something that looks like it's gem made. Always got me wondering.

I could tell immediately where you where going when you brought up the map. I live in Australia and thus it's the first thing I ever notice on a map and by god it does *not* look like that.

I think Russia has that big hole in it because that place might’ve took the biggest damage from the diamonds blast to wipe out all gems on the surface Idk just a thought that I firmly believe in

You also forgot that Japan is no longer a separate island, but now is a peninsula of Russia that closes off the Sea of Japan from the rest of the Pacific except for a Straight between Japan and Korea, similar to how the Straight of Gibraltar in our world connects the Mediterranean Sea from the rest of the Atlantic, which by the looks of the map no longer exists due to the South American-African Landmasses being different so much.

Alternate Pangaea breakup looks pretty good as a hypothesis. However, since we know that a single gem has the ability to control entire oceans, gems have the ability to have a massive effect on the planet. If planetary-scale hydrokinesis is a gem ability, why not planetary-scale terrakinesis? A gem with the ability to, for example, raise sections of the ocean floor to the surface to extract rare resources would have a massive effect on the planet, as doing so would displace a lot of ocean and cause perma-flooding in low-elevation lands (such as Florida and West Africa)

Cool theory, makes a lot of scene. However I'd like to point that the Earth's axis being on a more or less 90 degree tilt is more likely to be due to huge event shortly after the planet formed then a difference in the formation of the planet itself. Scene the Earth still has a moon that much the same as ours, my guess is that event came either before the Theia collision or was the Theia collision, with Theia hitting the Earth at the different angle and causes the axis tilt. It was unlikely to have happened after this point as it would have effected the moon. It's not a big deal though as it only takes 40 million years or so off the minimum age of the divergences point.

A.J. the only problem I have with the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is that there is not a reality for everything because if there was there would be a reality in which something destroys all the other reality. but it is good to know that someone else loves both Steven universe and quantum mechanics

+AJ Universe The map in the moon base is a way to represent a sphere. The continents are actually the same as ours.

so in relation to the various maps seen so far the moonbase map shows gem site locations which logically have warp pads for access, we know from in episode sources, south america - crashed ship + map implies they were building there too, caribbean - mask island, mid atlantic - sea shrine with time turners, the 2 coastal atlantic sites are the sea spire and galaxy warp both noted close to shore, the 2 north american sites are the alpha and beta kindergartens. the desert is in africa, the strawberry field (no gem building seen) is in southern norway. this leaves 5 sites, notably crystal gem sites arent official and so arent mapped. the geode, comms hub, flower meadows, gem hunt snow location, sky/cloud arena and sky spire remain. sky spire and cloud arena are noted on moonbase screens, both are notably above land, the comms hub is also archived at the moonbase and apparently sits in a desert. (assuming the gaping hole in russia affects weather and climate around the area it may be the finland based site is the comm hub and the area is a desert, the design of the hub has very nordic patterns. sky spire design implies it is the southern china location the sky arena is possibly above spain the geode sits in a crater presumably on land it is not seen on the moonbase thou so may not be an official gem colony site. the flower meadow ? maybe hides the palanquin. could be the site on buddys map that wasnt on the moonbase one. the snow location has a giant wailing stone and presumably sits in the northern scandinavia location so that leaves the mysterious russian crater, maybe there is an unseen gem site inside it or maybe its a clever tunguska reference connected to the geode almost exploding as garnet mentioned. perhaps the gravitational power that would harvest the ground into orbit as the moonbase plan shows was turned in on itself somehow to trap the explosion of the site, it does look like something dropped the geode there, maybe it was sucked in on itself and just fell to the ground.

omg thank God someone explained it was bothering the f*** out of me thanks AJ

Check out Stargate they explore alternate universes now and then in their episodes and in detail. It is also a great series as is the spin off series Stargate Atlantis, it's long 15 seasons put together but it is worth it.

this map is possibly more than 5000 years old because the moon base has not been inhabited for a very long time and based on the small portion that we see of the pink diamond mural after they get to the base I infer that the map was drawn well before the idea of rebellion was drafted.

Can you make a theory on what if the Cluster kind of controlled the Earth a little? Remember how there are gems that build / control buildings? And how they fought a _living island_? ... That's all I could think.

Wow. I have never thought about that before. 👍👍👍

A few questions I have for the Earth rotating on it's side: What planets have been shown to rotate in such a way, and more importantly what makes it that these planets move like that? And in that case, how would this effect the state of the other components of the solar system? How would that reflect upon the Moon's rotation and it's perspective in that episode? To continue on that train of thought, isn't it possible that the position of the moon base is different than the supposed one? (by this I am reffering to the pictures token from the Moon of the Earth as the reference point of our society) Also, knowing the angle of the axis of rotation of the Earth, is it possible that the confusing lighting of the planet is due to the inclination of the north pole towards the sun that happens during the summer? And if the Moon base is at a different placement then we usually assume it is based of pictures from expeditions to the moon, then could that make these shadows look even more confusing? maybe idk

Just imagine being a human during the corruption attack! Just this long creepy song like noise followed by the screams of possibly millions of gems. Not to mention the extremely bright light in the sky along with the sun!

to me, I noticed the Caribbean not being a set of tiny islands but another part of central America . Europe looks wrong it's missing the land mass connecting it to Africa. and you have Denmark Greenland and Iceland missing from their spots on the map. I wonder if the portrait of the crystal gem crossing the Delaware will be brought up .

There was a pole shift a long time ago which is why tropical plants can be found on the icy poles. Maybe if that shift never happened the continents would have shifted differently and been different shapes. The earth does spin and even though the affect to the earth seems limited it causes a lot of change over time.

Wait, what do you mean fallout? If you're talking about radiation, what if the bombs Homeworld uses don't release radiation?

@AJ Universe What if the diverging point was when Earth was hit by the Mars sized planetoid? What if it hit Steven's Earth at a steeper angle or something and that ended up tilting the axis 90* instead of the 20* (or whatever) our Earth has? This also would change how the plate tectonics work, at least somewhat, which then could explain why some continents farmed so similar yet different before the gems came.

hey AJ, can you go over how Renaldo predicted a lot of things that were revealed later in the series/things he didn't know existed but predicted

is it you the guy that made a video a while ago with this phrase at the end:"but this is just a theory, A GEM THEORY AHAHAH i'm sorry"?

There are two possible Gem base where Russia is located. One is the one tower that was breaking down and when Steven had the cheese burger backpack. The other structure could be the underwater building where the crystal gyms found hourglasses and when steven can have alternate timelines of himself.

I love this theory.

I don't remember where I heard it but I recall something about our earth having a major magnetic pole shift in the past.

That moment when there's thousands of likes and yours makes it another thousand