More AI slop polluting the internet with history nonsense.This is a relatively small tiktok account but the videos they share have already been seen by hundreds of thousands of people.I’ll share a few random screenshots from a few of their videos here and tell you what’s wrong.The comments section online shows that people are blindly accepting what they see here as truth.My response is under each screenshot. Of course, muddy streets full of filth.Medieval London had strict rules about keeping streets clean, rubbish was collected, throwing stuff in the streets could get you in trouble with both the law and locals (we have reports of people almost being lynched for simply littering) and streets had gutters/drains which would get rid of most of the water/mud unless the weather was unusual.Street lantern at the top appears to be Victorian, chimneys are dodgy too.Remember, these folks believed in the miasma theory, this means that they were literally scared to death of bad smells. Of…
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