Man I was not expecting a philosophical look at the harmful effects of the media's perception of the southern states and culture on its residents in a sims lore video, but here we fucking are. Good work Cindy!
I live in the middle of nowhere Alabama and incest is not even a thing. It's just a stereotype that's been around for decades. No different than what goes on in California or NY if there is. It's everywhere. Lmao
@@blairence I am from Germany! The whole world things of us either as Dirndl and Lederhosenwearing Bavarians (Bavaria beeing one of the German states) or as Nazis. I went to Disneyland where they have "German Village" ....yeah everyone is wearing Dirndl and Lederhosen (a traditional outfit from SOUTHERN Germany and southern Germany only and only worn for certain feasts and not your causual everyday outfit there either) and eating Bratwurst all day plus they got that "ufftata"-stereotypical music. Of course that doesn´t represent my country one bit, but should I be mad ? I think this perseption of us (Germans) is sooo wrong that it is hilarious. Take it light people
Honestly I can forgive the Sims for having stereotypical families and Sims because thats basically the whole game lol. It’s supposed to reflect the curent pop culture and trends and many of their Sims follow other stereotypes. That being said, I’m glad you cleared things up about the south in the US. Unfortunately, to many countries the only impression they get about other places is through the media, which exaggerates everything. I mean, the whole Alabama joke still exists, even though I doubt inbreeding is that common in Alabama lol.
Countries that practices or previously had a history of inbreeding/anything that is uncommon is always gonna leave an impression to the world. No matter how much they had progressed from the past, it's a stigma that will linger forever. Similarly, if a country was previously known for cannibalism, ofc that is the first thing that comes to mind that people are gonna think about.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 I mean you can legally marry your cousin in more states than you can’t (cousin marriage is not a huge deal as far as genetic defects, the issue is the social stigma and also the possibility of family’s doing it over and over) The real issue is that you can marry your SIBLING or PARENT in Alabama...
you legally cant do that in alabama. it’s a class C felony. but there’s a couple states that don’t have criminal penalties for incest with consenting adults like rhode island.
I live in Alabama and I will say that people sadly do.. do things with their cousins. My own cousin asked me out, knowing fully well im his cousin. It's only in shitty rural areas though, and not common. Sadly, I live in one of those rural areas.
It 100% is. Look at the European royal families, whose lineages are often horrifically murky, and even have people who were so deformed by inbreeding that they could hardly function.
This made me realize how little I know about the Sims 3 families. I'm familiar with the names, but I always preferred to play with my own sims and completely ignored the world around.
Fly could also be an "uncle." It is not uncommon for a ranchhand, Ne'er-do-well, or a close friend to become part of the family, especially before the 90's.
Exactly what I was thinking, I had 7 uncles but my mom only had 1 brother and 2 brother-in-laws. My dad has none. My mom just had many close-family friends who just happened to prefer being called uncles when I was growing up.
Twinbrook is a wild town. It's full of little intricate details like that poor lady's remains in the Racket's mansion hinting to a homicide, or Juan Darer's burnt house remains and dead wife meaning he accidentally killed her with his inventions gone wrong.
These lore videos go interestingly deep with each video. I first thought this would just be a small history of this family but nope I got a whole idea on families in the US South and their stereotypes. As a European you'll get little to nothing of the info in school that was provided in this video.
I love that the sims in earlier games would autonomously do things associated with their interests and personalities. I also love the level of detail that used to be put into the lore and world. It is a painful reminder of what we've lost in Sims 4.
I really enjoyed hearing you talk about living in the south ☺️ As a european person, most of the things I know about these regions are just stereotypes - so it's nice to learn about what life actually is like out there
I’ve always thought the emphasis on inbreeding and inherent stupidity in pop culture is a way of avoiding more uncomfortable realities of poverty in the south.
I will say, something we are sorely missing in sims 4 is more unique worlds or "ugly" or "poverty"...ugh, however you want to say it. Im just sooooo sick of blah blah modern house's and mansions.
Sims 4 is a little too... Stepford Wives? Too perfect, too emotionless. One of my favorite parts of earlier Sims games is being able to make sims from all walks of life. My favorite homes to make will always be the "kitsch poor" messes. They just feel like they have more character.
I never knew how to put this but i always thought the same thing. In real life, i've never seen cities as perfect as ts4 cities. My favorite to play in was always Bridgeport, especially those small apartments
@@KLT-id9nmame. I started out making a utopia world for Sims 2 to battle my ecoanxiety. Ended up making more and more shacks of houses because it's more interesting. My 'good neighbourhood' at the edge of old town is empty still.
As someone who was born and raised in the Appalachian mountains, I really appreciate your words on southern history and culture! I've been really lucky to move away from home and see the world, but I'm always having to deal with the usual stereotypes from people who have never even been to the south. It's really nice to see someone else talking about the actual rich culture and not just what's portrayed on tv and movies. Thank you for being so well spoken!
As a city-raised Pennsylvanian, I definitely just got an education lol. Also wasn't there more inbreeding in aristocratic and royal families? Cuz I feel like there was. At any rate, I love the lore videos! It's like a little weekly short story 😃
It's not in the past lol, I'm from the UK and lets just say it is probably a good thing for all involved that William and Harry married out of the aristocracy. The post Victoria family tree of basically every European royal house is a circle.
Ancient Egyptian royals were actually expected to marry their siblings, not even just cousins like European royals did. Of course, with enough cousin-marrying over the course of many generations, the result is the same. All to preserve their own power and not share it with the lower classes.
I love this series!!! There’s a lot of focus on sims 2 lore, but as someone who’s never played it and is a diehard lover of sims 3, this is the lore series I’ve been waiting for!!! You’re truly passionate about the sims and can see past bad graphics and hairstyles, and that makes your take on these sims so interesting!!! Thank you
I know this was a year ago but this video made me realize that the sims 3 graphics are actually really great, if played on a computer that could handle those kinds of settings like in this video, it’s honestly a whole different game
Your videos are getting better and better and you also bring so much nostalgia and this new type of video is really great! Wondering if I can do some weird mixes between some families you have mentioned UwU💙
OMG YES TWINBROOK LORE!!! this is my favorite neighborhood to play (even though it makes my computer sound like it’s ready for liftoff LMAO it’s worth it 😌)
Since I'm not American, I'm not really familiar with US stereotypes but I'm very intrigued to know more, especially if you're able to tie your tellings to sims playing! This episode was very much fun! 🥳
This lore & stories series is the best on Sims YT! I love your reflections and the way you provide facts about all of these families. But your lesson on southern culture & stereotypes was the most interesting! Not gonna lie, you'd make a really good teacher!
I love how you’re covering the more obscure families in the Sims, I find it much more enjoyable to learn about a family I’ve never heard of instead of the Pleasents, Landgraabs and Goths for the 9 millionth time.
I love Cindy's intake on things like even this subject, that's direct at her from being from the south, can be both discussed seriously and not lose the fun aspect in game. For me that takes a admirable maturity level. Cindy's the best :)
I heard Sims 3 Lore and I came running! I'd love to see you look at Sims families that span across other games :) that's where it gets more interesting. If I remember I'll take a look at this family when I've got a spare moment with Twinbrook I'm intrigued 👀
Update to my own comment lol, I started playing them yesterday and it's pretty good, I need to play premades more often because it saves so much hassle! So far its going smoothly and due to Skeets surrounded by family LTW he wanted another baby (I'm honing in on wants based gameplay) and he got the little boy he wanted, named Davie. Still got two more to go and I'm thinking about naming them Griffin and Reid. Chase wants to get on the honour role and she has a part time job and works on fixing up the car that comes with Roaring Heights. Also her romantic interest (omg I forgot his name) is dating someone else I believe so I need to sort that out. Tay is living his best life baking and doing his homework like a good kid, and they're all doing good with their fishing :)
Its strange how the two most well known southern stereotypes are completely opposite, you have the country bumkin stereotype and also the stuck up rich plantation type family, if you did make a video talking about it id totally be down to watch😅🙈
I only had a few expansions for this when I was younger and this wasn’t one of them. Makes me want to buy all of them and play to see what I missed out on 😂
This video was so interesting! Please keep this series, as someone who is not American it is so fun seeing your insight coming from personal experience instead of the generalized knowledge / stereotype we might have
I’ve been creating my own sims 3 saves with updated townies. Idk I just really enjoy giving them all makeovers and making their traits and careers match up better. So watching this is a funny reminder of what they looked like before. I think I gave Chase the socially awkward trait or the perceptive trait instead of loner socially awkward because I think it suits her situation better or perceptive since she’s meant to be more like her mom and could be an aspiring journalist
Wow, that's great. Where I could find your make over? I want to do similar things but it would need zero CC and still very time consuming after a while. Sudden freeze would kill the works.
I wonder if them repeating the phrase “River lands” to refer to that area was an attempt at giving it a regional name? I’m a city kid, I grew up and was raised in the city right next to the rural areas some of my family lives in, but I know my family that lives out in “no man’s land”, as my moms always called it because they’re home is literally miles from everything and so is almost everyone else’s, call their area the glades or the pinelands (although now my cousins who grew up there call it ‘pine coast’). Just a thought but who knows.
Oh I too love this family! I dunno, something about a sims family with stereotypical or super common features works with me. I guess it's because if it's a sims family it makes it more than just a stereotype. In the older sims games you could make very good and fun to play sims whose personalities would show really well in the gameplay (*would show more than as just a pic with a text if you know what I mean👀), so the sims you're playing would feel like true individuals. It's fun and has its charms
I loved the insight on the real south of the us, not just the stereotype, really nice. Also, about the change in names: real common here in Brazil. Not only surnames but first names. Each document of my late greatgrandmother has a different spelling of her name!
You can be an educator... man I’m serious. Your voice is so freaking soothing and you’re super intelligent. Thank you for your great content. 👏🏾♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
wtf ive had this expansion for so many years and never saw the bayou!! its so beautiful and the swamp kinda gives a spooky atmosphere i love that so much
i'm from the midsouth (my ancestors were appalachian tho) and i just wanna cosign what you're saying! names can do A LOT of changing in a few centuries. it can definitely be a bit of a puzzle to research (add in some tall family tales toi). also we call it "the bottoms" too where i'm from. additionally, i wouldn't think of an inbred family tree being "circular"...more like a line. a tree without branches. thats said, i don't think its super important what they are. just a fun family with a few mysteries. just my thoughts.
Heck, even up north where I'm from! People changing their names to be more pronounceable, or because it sounds like an insult in English (Wackoff to Waykoff, for example). Or even get saddled with something worse, because the day their great grandparents came through Ellis Island, the guy taking names was a jerk. People trying to apply English spelling to an Italian or Polish pronunciation can come up with some WILD stuff.
As someone who lives in the Canadian equivalent of the south, I really liked learning about your guys’ perceptions. A family that looked like this came into my subway today 😂
This was a great video! I never really explored the families in Twinbrook, so it was really interesting learning about them. I'd love to hear more about Jeffrey Castor and his family situation, it sounds really interesting! :D
Having played the sims 1 and 2 and skipped the Sims 3, these videos are making me want to buy it to see what else I missed! Unrelated, but your hair is looking so cute in this video 😍
i’ve never played pre-made families in the sims 3 (i just prefer making my own and interacting with other people in town) but after seeing this video, i’d love to try! they seem like a sweet family and twinbrook is gorgeous
i love your lore and stories videos, you manage to alk about different families in an interesting way, even though i know all the families and i am a huge sims nerd, it's not boring good job! i hope you'll do more sims 3 videos about different neighborhoods maybe
I really liked this video, I love Twinbrook with all its swampy charm and its lovely unique families, so it was nice to have a look at one of them. I also appreciated the Southern history bit, it was really interesting. But calling Chase unfortunate looking is pretty harsh imo, she's charming in her own way (or maybe I'm biased because I look a little bit like her but way less pretty). That's what I actually like in a lot of Twinbrook's families, a lot of them have pretty unique features and even after few generations you can still look at sims and just see who they descend from based on their features. But anyway, I would love to hear more about other families of Twinbrook
my family is also from the Ozarks and my mom does genealogy. She has tracked us down a dozen or so generations I think down her line and a little less down my dad's side. My mom was resigned that inbreeding would probably happen but it wasn't too bad for us. There was one time that she found I think it was records of a woman's cousin and husband with the same name and thought it was the same guy, but all the records contradicted each other (and I think their dads had the same name too??) until she finally found a second burial site and death certificate that confirmed that it was two separate men. EXTREMELY funny story to hear after seeing less fortunate instances in the family tree.
That's awesome! I love genealogy! We traced our family back to the 1700s on both sides and found no instances of inbreeding (at least that were recorded). It's much rarer than people think!
Hi Cindy, I really wanted to thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of your let's play sims 2, now i spend most of my time playing this game and watching your videos, i also started using mods with the help of your video, so thank you so much for making my days happier P.S: Sorry if there's something wrong, I'm Brazilian and I can't write English very well but I can speak and understand it very well :)
I love playing the Bayless family! I have played them a few times. I also like giving them have another child or two (because they often have the want to have a baby or because I feel like it to make the game interesting) In one of my saves I even got so far as to have Chase get married as a young adult (I forgot whether I got her married to Jeffrey, which I highly doubt or some random townie or sim I created...)
This comment might be out of context but i just wanted to tell you that i really like your decision about sharing your story about your hair problem and i think that’s really cool that you feel comfortable with new hairstyle :) sorry if I sounded weird or something i just think you’re brave :)
4:57 Talking about stereotypes, they don't really bother me but I'm from the North of England and a few years ago it was reported in the papers that British film/TV people (mostly the BBC if I remember) would for the most part only hire northerners as like the help or lower class, stuff like that in films and shows I guess because our accents would be considered common and working class, I just remembered thinking it sucks because I'd love to hear more Yorkshire accents on TV, might be a bit biased but I think we've got the best range of accents in the uk
HAving a garage door in the kitchen would actually be kinda nice for parties... and help cool the place down on hot days. get one of those hanging screens to keep the mosquitos out
Hey Cindy! I’m from rural Texas, also near the bottoms. You’re right on 100% of what you said regarding the south, and the terms used. I didn’t know the facts about inbreeding so that’s really cool. TIL! I really appreciate these videos, and your enjoyment of them is shining through! Keep producing wonderful content you love too 🖤
The stereotyping done here is like if you made an Irish family and all of them were chronic alcoholics, it’s a little on the nose but I like that you can see some positives in it. I love your content so much! You got me back into playing sims 2 and it’s the best
@@PleasantSims consort capp with contessa and a young Goneril and Reagan are also in Roaring Heights. John and Jennifer Burb are in Dragon Valley and there are several monty families in monte vista
I’ve always wanted to dig deeper into Twinbrook but have been afraid to get attached because of the glitches and game-breaking bugs it has :( So! Thank you for this Cindy!
I’m an archivist in North Florida, and another big factor that a lot of people sometimes overlook is that a lot of families lose their records due to southern climate and natural disasters. Water damaged records are very common due to hurricanes and high humidity. This humidity also increases the amount of bugs and pests that can get into records, especially silverfish and roaches. It’s also a different culture around records for families that go back a ways, there is a lack of government issued records, and one of the only places you could find recorded births was in a family bible or in church records. Churches maintained all records of a lot of communities, and so if the church was lost, so was an areas written records. That’s one of the reasons the WPA did church surveys, which can be a fantastic resource for genealogists!
Omg I literally forgot about this family 🤣 I just remembered thinking they were messy 🤣 I’d love for you to do more sims in twinbrook it’s a interesting town!
Wow this was such an incredible video ❤ I haven't played much with this hood and this family never caught my eye before. Your interpretation of them is amazingly heart-warming and now I kind of want to play with them 😊 Thank you for showcasing this sweet and characteristic family ❤
You are spot on about sloppy record keeping. When I looked into my mom's family, her grandfather - who came from Denmark - had 8 different spellings of his last name for him and his 10 siblings. And these were church records, done by the local village priest. Then he came over here, and changed his name completely. And of course, he spelled it differently every time he wrote it. As for inbreeding, one county here in Missouri consisted of prime farmland owned by a handful of families. Since they wanted to keep the farms in the same families, and not let "outsiders" horn in on their properties, they pretty much married each other - generation after generation. My one uncle came from one of the families, and you could definitely see the adverse affects - he was batcrap crazy. As for that "river land" stuff, we always called the area along I-40/64 the Gumbo Flats - because of the quicksand-like mud. (It's been renamed Chesterfield Valley by the Yuppies who live there now). And the bottoms along Hwy 70 in St. Louis County were always known as the Missouri Bottoms. Both areas border the Missouri River, and used to be prime farmland, but are now mostly covered in concrete and outlet malls. Great for when the levies break and the river floods. Like almost every Spring.
So nice to see these videos. Especially about Twinbrook. I feel like this neighborhood always gets pushed aside and dismissed but it's easily my favourite. The spot on commentary about southern families is an extra added bonus.
i’d love to see a video about the curious family in twinbrook - how they’re connected to the curious brothers in ts2 etc 🤩 twinbrook is such a fun town to play!
Was falling asleep when my subscriptions updated and I saw a new video by Cindy I was like yeeeeeah 😂😍!! Loving the lore and that it's being explained in lots of depth. ☺ Love ❤
Love that there is an incorrect use of an apostrophe in Tay's biography. It says "his parent's sheer force of will" when it should say "his parents' sheer force of will." I wonder if that was an intentional detail or a genuine slip up lol
I loved playing Twinbrook! I always started my runaway teen to 100 baby challenge in the bayou. Had so much fun playing there. I agree with you about their family history. And stereotypes. In Australia it's not uncommon to have trouble tracing family histories once you get to the early 1900's. Lost records or simply a lack of them. Illiteracy through lack of educational opportunities. Names spelt incorrectly by clerks/administrators especially foreign names & often numerous times throughout their life. People changing their names intentionally, even changing their country of birth, nationality & entire identity to evade someone or something. And marrying of cousins or other distant relatives wasn't unheard of due to lack of other options due to geographic isolation. These are some of the examples I found in my own family tree. Quite fascinating research. Thanks for the insight into your Southern roots and the misconceptions. Great video as always!
I really adore your videos, they are just so unique. I think these types of videos are def my favorite. I love when you go into the backgrounds of all the townies.Also, you are glowing!! I don't know what it is, but you look so happy and it shows. Your videos have been helping me so much lately with stress. I have severe Endometriosis and when Im having a flare I usually come to your videos and escape for a bit, your voice is super soothing lol. Anyway, please do more of these (if you enjoy doing them of course) as these really are interesting and fun to watch.
I appreciate you educating us a little on some of these Southern stereotypes while also keeping the video light-hearted and fun. I'm from the UK and had heard of most of those stereotypes before due to TV and movies but I'd never given much thought to where they come from. But I'm from a historically economically deprived part of England and we're often stereotyped as lazy, antisocial thieves so I understand to a degree.
Obsessed with this new series! I am currently making my own sims 4 save file and I have been populating the world with my own sims as well as my favorite pre-made sims across all sims games and I am absolutely adding this family to my save file! ❤
OMG THIS ACTUALLY MAKES SO MUCH SENSE i just got ambitions and i was playing this world and i noticed how some of the townies looked so weird like inbred, and my mind thought of how this might be based on a deep south state or louisiana with all the swamps. omg
"he'll insult you and your go-go boots!" LOL I died at this haha. Adoring this new lore series since I never play pre-mades and I also never really dug Twinbrook. I know weird since everyone seems to love it. I also enjoy spending forever scrolling around the world looking for collectables. Sims 3 the GOAT!
It's so sad to think I killed my accent as a teenager in an effort to not sound stupid. I've been working to get my accent back, cuz I realized classism and ignorance from non-southerners wasn't a good reason to stop speaking that way. Thank you for saying this! More people need to hear this, especially Northerners and the west coast.
I felt this! Ive lived in Louisiana my entire life but dropped my accent as I got older because I moved to the more urban areas in/around New Orleans where southern accents are less common so I was insecure about it, but the accent still comes out sometimes if Im angry or around someone with it (or if I have too much to drink lol) and my fiancee loves it which has made me debate on picking it up again haha
@@RedxRiot It's the same way you would imitate another accent but more long term. You have to make a conscious effort to either stop speaking that way and adopt a new accent or make a conscious effort to speak the way you used to until it becomes natural again
I don’t think I’ve ever been this early 😳 I love the Bayless family, I always recreate them in Sims 4 and plop them down in the starter area of Willow Creek 😂
