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One important lesson in storytelling is that it's a story and being compelling and interesting is typically more important than actual accuracy. Accuracy can help ground the setting, but it's not the only detail and sometimes it can even backfire if audiences have a misconception about the past (which they often do) like for instance basically everything you know about the Vikings outfits is made up. Likewise much of the cultural understanding about pirates came from Treasure Island, not real world pirates. Audiences can actually get upset about a story not being realistic because the author was too accurate and didn't fit their misunderstanding. This happened with the TV show Rome where their colorful outfits were seen as unrealistic by many viewers despite apparently being the most historically accurate part of it.
Same thing can happen with language as our vocabulary changes over time. You aren't going to hear "He was a silly, awful, and gay man who regularly engages in intercourse" to mean "He was a harmless, inspiring and happy man who regularly partakes in social conversations" in a period piece because that sounds stupid nowadays and would take the audience out of immersion even if they could figure out what was actually being said and didn't take it as an insulting remark being made.
The problem with Mixtape isn't that they made a historical mistake (although it does hurt more that the mistake is actually obvious to the nostalgia audience they're pandering to) because if the story or gameplay was meaningfully compelling then it would just be a funny little thing that people joked about and it'd get patched out. The problem with Mixtape is that it's dogshit. The characters are unlikeable douches with no character growth and the storytelling is just nostalgiabait garbage. The whole thing with rewinding wrong is just indicative of how little care and passion actually seems to have been put into this "passion piece" where they didn't even bother to get the main thing in any detail.
My favorite example of this is older movies where they put hoofbeat foley over scenes where people are riding horses through a sandy desert. Hooves don't make that sound on sand, but people got uncomfortable watching scenes where the audio cue wasn't there.
TV Tropes has a list of examples.. The creators of Gladiator originally intended to depict the gladiators doing celebrity endorsements for products, but worried that audiences would find this silly and anachronistic, even it's historically accurate and well-documented.
No they didn't. Most gladiators were slaves. Gladiators did appear on products, but, specific named gladiators are unlikely, and they didn't get money from them.
Of course this reference is just something someone says on the Internet, but so is the original one.
I think there's wires crossed a bit since AFAIK Charioteers were the Roman Athletes that essentially managed to best ape the modern celebrity landscape.
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