Using The Sims to talk about Victorians! // Sims 4 Victorian facts

oh hi thanks for watching my video So today we're going to be doing something very different something I've never done before but I have wanted to do it for a while so today I'm doing it for one day and one day only we're going to be an educational Channel well not really education in terms of just having a bit of fun so I've always been pretty interested in Victorian life and there are loads of Sims challenges out there you know like the decades challenge that involve Victorian living and stuff like that so I thought today we would just play with a Victorian family and talk about some of the really weird dark things that happened during Victorian times there is a reason why I'm interested in doing this video and why I haven't done it up until now but I'll get into that a little bit later but yeah this kind of video format is going to be a lot different to any of the videos I've done before I don't know if I'll do a video like this again so make sure you let me know in the comments if you actually like this kind of content because it is quite different but you know sometimes I make videos for me and this is one of those times so I've rustled up a little Victorian family they live in this Victorian house I took their house from the gallery and kind of redid some of the downstairs area but a lot of it is still the same with it being the Victorian era obviously it's kind of set in the UK mainly London so in real life in London in this era the house wouldn't be this big even though we're playing with a relatively wealthy family instead of being this wide it would probably be thin and like multiple stories this family's timeline right now is kind of meant to be sometime after the 1860s where indoor plumbing was available for wealthy families like this one most families still had to take a outside in the Outhouse because they were poor as sucks for them but this family are pretty wealthy so they have indoor plumbing they've got some toilets they also have electricity they have a fridge they have a stove they're very lucky and also with it being set sometime after the 1860s obviously at this point Prince Albert is dead so Queen Victoria is in her phase well not really a face she did it until she died of just wearing black every single day constantly in mourning and Vicky was a bit of a trendsetter so most victorians around that time just wore black all of the time to support her so yeah Victoria and London after the 1860s just looked like everyone was going to a funeral all the time this is a fairly small family for Victorian standards mainly because they do have some wealth so this is the mother her name's Elizabeth she's a bit gloomy I gave both parents the gloomy trait actually because living in the Victorian times was really and they knew it they knew it so they're both pretty gloomy the parents but thankfully because they have a few pennies in their pocket they can afford to take more of a gamble on how many of their children will survive so they only have three children the dad's called Edward by the way they have a daughter called Mary she is a child of theirs but she is a girl so she don't really count they have a son his name's George so he'll be the one inheriting all the wealth when the parents die and they also have a toddler son called Philip one thing I've done with Philip that is kind of inaccurate is I've put him in a dress and really for wealthy families it wasn't really so much the case of this I don't think anyway but I know that with poorer families they always dress their children the same no thank you Welcome Wagon do not break my immersion you can right off with that yeah so little boys were often dressed as girls they had like the long white dresses they had a little Bonnet and it was because the child mortality rate was so high that they just tried not to get attached to their kids you know they get 60 of the kids died from loads of different things which is why victorians had so many children because they knew loads of them would probably die so they tried their best not to get attached until the kid was like of an age where they could tell they were likely going to survive like seven or eight years old then maybe they'd buy the boy some trousers but you know what guys although that's some beautiful piano playing there Elizabeth it is kind of brunch time so probably time to rustle up some food let's see what's the most Victorian looking thing I could find on here grilled cheese no don't be silly apparently quite a common meal for Victorian vegetarians was cabbage pie which was basically like potato cabbage and a load of vegetables turned into baby food and stuck in a pie yeah there weren't many vegetarians back then could do blueberry pie that's kind of I mean pie was pretty big so let's just go with any kind of pie we can find victorians ate some gross stuff well things that we might consider gross but probably one of the grossest things mainly affected women women were obsessed with their weight well actually no everyone was obsessed with women's weight they often wore corsets like squeezing their organs causing them real problems and one popular fad was actually a type of diet it's called the tapeworm diet some people still practice it today it's pretty gross but there would be like advert advertisements and stuff for Victorian women to swallow a fertilized tapeworm egg so they didn't eat a tapeworm they'd swallow a fertilized egg and wait for it to hatch in their stomach so that the tapeworm would eat all those calories before their body could digest it properly and then once they reached their desired goal they'd either get it removed or they'd try and lure it out with by sticking some milk near their that bit I might have made up they did try to lure out with milk but I don't know what orifice they put it by I assume it must have been their but maybe they wanted it to crawl up throat I don't know this is history not biology guys also I saw you take your phone out can you off with that you're ruining my video you prick there's always some there that wants to try and ruin it for everyone try and get some storytelling done and then there's some knob jockey that just has to get their phone out or some bell end over there that has to rustle up hot dogs sake I mentioned earlier about how so many children died in the Victorian era and sometimes it was their own homes and toys that killed them quite a few children's toys in the Victorian times contained lead causing lead poisoning children who suffer from lead poisoning would likely have abdominal pain headaches and in cases back then anemia seizures and death and even babies were killed by their own bottles yeah baby bottles were death traps victorians used glass baby bottles fitted with rubber tubing and a teat the problem was they were impossible to clean so bacteria kept building up over time causing the babies to get sick lots of infants died from this oh it's not fair is it Philip it's just not fair and if you could keep all your kids alive that would be great but you do still have to provide for them though our Victorian man Edward here makes his living as a woodworker he's making a dining table right now in this household the wife and the mother doesn't have a job most of the time it was men who were expected to bring in the money although women did have jobs in working class families they would do stuff like dressmaking or they'd work as a wet nurse but most of the time it would be the man's job to provide for his wife and kids and if the man of the house could no longer afford to support his wife he could just sell her at the market to the highest bidder so there's that there are some pretty nasty jobs in the Victorian era it's hard to narrow down some favorites uh but I've got three for you that were real jobs in Victorian times the first one is the job of a leech collector so doctors used to sometimes use leeches as treatment for hysteria so the leech collector would have to Wade through dirty ponds so that blood sucking leeches would stick to their legs and when they came out of the water they'd have to get them off and send them to the pharmacy leech collector was a job done by both men and women and as a result of all that leech sucking they often suffered excessive blood loss and because of those filthy Waters they also got infectious diseases oh another job back in the day was a resurrectionist so this was before organ doning was a thing and medical schools could only use the dead bodies of criminals to dissect so they paid people to go and dig up Graves and bring them some more bodies but one job that I think is possibly one of the more harrowing jobs on the list and that job is being a singer or performer outside a barber shop so in Victorian times people wouldn't go to the barbershop just to get a cheeky haircut and a trim of their mustache Barbers were actually a lot more involved back then they did way more than dealing with Just Hair they did small surgeries like setting bones and they'd even do some dental work as well they would remove people's teeth and this was at a time before anesthetic so people who went to the barbershop would be going through quite a lot of excruciating pain to have their minor surgeries and their teeth taken out and you can imagine if you're walking down the street outside of a barber shop you're not really going to be too enticed to go in if all you can hear is the sound of screaming and Howling from the patients inside so there were people whose job it was to stand in the waiting area or outside the barbershop play musical instruments and sing to try and drown out the screams of the people having work done don't want to put people off your business do ya oh the thought of a time without an aesthetic doesn't bear thinking about does it Victorian homes were a bit depressing not just because of how many ways you could die in a Victorian home but because the victorians themselves were pretty obsessed with death a lot of the decorations they used to furnish their homes with were quite Bleak and eerie and as I mentioned seen as lots of children didn't make it through the Victorian era and because cameras were fairly new and quite expensive to most families at this point if there was ever a time to take a picture of your your loved one like your child maybe it would be after they died it's your last chance to snap up any memories after all so quite a few Victorian homes had lots of pictures of dead children and other dead people to remember them by and if the spooky atmosphere wasn't enough Victorian homes themselves were death traps so people died in their home quite a lot electricity was fairly new so hiccups happened electrical fires and electrocution was a very real risk but despite not having much color in their wardrobe surprisingly victorians were actually really into having bright colors in their home they loved having bright Reds purples especially the wealthy victorians the more colorful the better and a very popular color in wallpaper around that time was green the most sought after was one called Shields green which was very bright and it was known for being able to hold its color over time without fading so Shields green made its way into lots of Victorian homes the only trouble is one of the ingredients used to make Shields green is arsenic so with arsenic in their walls flaking off and getting inhaled by people as you can imagine it led to a lot of deaths via arsenic poisoning it was kind of a mystery illness for a while it took a while for the victorians to figure out it was actually the material used in the wallpaper that was causing it but when affected from arsenic poisoning people would complain about throat pain trouble breathing abdominal pain vomiting and then they died and if you're this far into the video then Victorian facts are obviously doing it for you so how about some more specifically regarding Beauty in the Victorian era the desired Beauty look back then was dark around the eyes rosy cheeks and red lips red lipstick was popular back then but they didn't have Estee Lauder but ground up beetles did the job and they didn't just use Beetle's blood to make the red lipstick they also used beetles in general for jewelry Beetle jewelry was all the rage back then and if a Victorian wife had a deceased husband she would take a look of his hair and that was also put in jewelry and to get the doughy-eyed look with the black around it they would often use chimney soot to put around the eyes to make it look like dark eyeshadow and they squeezed lemon juice and even Belladonna in their eyes to get a glassy-eyed look Belladonna as in deadly nightshade which would make you go blind and that did happen happened to a lot of women who use this in their eyes to keep their locks nice and shiny instead of using shampoo and conditioner women used ammonia and onion juice in their hair which did make their hair shiny but it also led to a lot of hair loss so there we go I've always been quite interested in Victorian history I think because I just enjoy learning about morbid things and even though terrible disgusting things happened in many centuries prior to the Victorian times it just feels a bit more scary to me learning about things that happen during a time that really wasn't that long ago when it comes to Spooky times the victorians did it very well but even though I've always been interested in this time period there was something that reignited that interest recently and it was a photo I was given of my great great great great grandparents who were proper victorians they lived right in the middle of that era I'll put the photo up now actually if I can scan it in they look pretty old which I think is probably because they would have been really old when cameras were a thing that's my guess anyway I actually find the picture kind of creepy like it's nice to have a picture of my relatives but I think it's probably a bit too Eerie for me to have it framed and put on the mantelpiece bit unsettling I also think it's quite fitting that Grandad is smiling and Grandma looks like she's had enough of his but there we go victorians in a nutshell I know this video isn't anything like my other videos so I appreciate you if you've watched until this point sometimes I just like to try new things and talk about things that interest me so I hope you did enjoy this video and to summarize even though some of the things victorians did may seem crazy to us they learned hard lessons so we didn't have to they walked so we could run and in a hundred years time when fizzy drinks don't exist and everyone's vegan they'll probably be looking at us with the same confusion and on that note I'm gonna end this video here thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed it if you did please like And subscribe you know I love it when you do that and I'll see you in the next video bye-bye foreign [Music]

Channel: Whiny Brit

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Keywords: sims 4, victorians, victorian life, sims 4 Victorians, sims 4 Victorian gameplay, sims 4 living like a Victorian, victorian facts

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Length: 16min 16sec (976 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 04 2022