The Endless Horror of Tiktok's Historical Misinformation

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The "Versailles court members pooped in the corner" walked so "Hogwarts students use to pee on the floor and magic it away" could stumble and fall

are you telling me the AI videos of biden and donald trump playing minecraft aren’t historically accurate???

“Harriet Tubman punched babies” is so funny but “Harriet Tubman gave babies opium” might be funnier

One of my biggest pet peeves is people misunderstanding the way historical people used the term ‘bathed’ vs ‘washed’. People read that historical people didn’t ‘bathe’ as frequently as we do now, and think they were dirty and disgusting. But historically to ‘bathe’ was a distinct term vs ‘washing’. Before plumped bathrooms, someone may not have submerged themselves in an entire tub full of water very often, called ‘bathing’. But people did ‘wash’, aka give themselves a scrub down with a bowl water and a cloth, what we’d now call a sponge bath.

The British silence on poopy Versailles is the most valid point ever. There’s no way the British wouldn’t have been absolutely RAGGING on them for being nasty there’d still be jokes about it to this day

The free bleeding one made me so mad. There is evidence that many very ancient societies used some form of padding so they didn't free bleed. The idea that the French aristocrats would just... bleed all over their rococo decor is complete and utter madness.

I heard Helen Keller urinated on Harriet Tubman's underground railroad, so Harriet ran over her with a train.

Lol imagining flat-earthers as being less well-informed about science than medieval peasants makes me smile

Harriet Tubman: saves countless lives ensuring countless legacies, demonstrates incredible resiliance, courage and conviction and represents some of the best qualities of humanity. Tiktok 2023: she punched babies.

Honestly, I think part of the problem with Keller is that most school only give her life past the "wah wah" moment about a paragraph, so the story becomes "this girl was broken until a very nice teacher fixed her!" while the real story is closer to being "these two disabled women worked their asses off to succeed in a society that barely saw them as human" (which is less "feel good")

You could do a whole series on "inspiration porn." As a disabled veteran who has been dealing with worsening medical issues over time, I'm often met with some form of "try harder, eat healthier, meditate, etc . . ." as a cure. Which then leads to my personal struggles with having to use a wheelchair most of the time because of my broken body. And there comes another issue -- A majority of wheelchair users are ambulatory, meaning we don't necessarily have to use a wheelchair 100% of the time in 100% of the situations. And so many of us are treated like liars, or exaggerators, or whiners, or overly dramatic. Sadly, I've been accused of "milking" my disability, of lying, of being a hypochondriac, etc. It's horrible and disgusting.

7:34 The reason why Colombus decided to go in the opposite direction to get to Asia was precisely because they already knew the Earth was round. he expected to eventually find Asia. what was new to Europeans back then was the realization of an entire continent being in the middle

"History is weird enough without relying on myths" THANK YOU

The amount of times I have face palmed when someone said a medieval or renisuance garment 'gave off Bridgerton vibes' is astonishing.

I think the Harriet Tubman tweet is def a misunderstanding of slang. It made instant sense to me bc I was always told she gave babies and toddlers meds that would keep them sleeping to keep them quiet. I know countless ppl that say knocked out in reference to sleep all the time.

The Hellen Keller myth makes me miserable, especially since it shows how little people believe in disabled people, and how little they want to challenge their beliefs about disabled people

As a physically disabled woman, it makes me so annoyed when I have had people tell me that Helen Keller was a fraud, it always felt like they were diminishing me and what I and so many others are even capable of, just because I am a little person and sometimes I use a wheelchair to get around and have hearing aids, does not mean that I am less capable than anyone else.

I once had an argument with a TikTok "historian" who didn't know the difference between primary and secondary sources.

The idea of Edgar Allen Poe shitposting with fake news is just hysterical to me.