Sorry to sound hysterical, but as an actual history buff I hate these fucking memes. The only reason you’d prefer “history as a hobby” is if you’re trying to prove some vague point through cherrypicking historical fact.
Maybe I’m jaded because I know way too many people (I was one of them) who claimed to be “into history” but all they ever wanted to talk about was a few random factoids about World War 2 battles.
by hobby I’m pretty sure it means no scientific rigor whatsoever to find wacky ways to idealize things like roman empire, feudalism, cruzades, colonization, nazi germany and etc. also this all things connected meme has a faint smell of international jew to me, coming from a crypto bro.