Tiktok Theorist slop

[seridane]

Hey,

has anyone else seen the current theory floating around Tiktok right now? I feel like I'm going crazy looking at all of it... completely unfounded.

For those of you who haven't seen it, a bunch of new agers are saying that the plants in the VMS (specifically 20r) are grown from period blood and moon water.... based on a video a woman made filming a plant that supposedly grew from her period blood. I won't link specifics for my own sake, but a simple search for the VMS on TikTok reveals a slew of videos that people are making on this. There's also some claims that the VMS was written by a female coven. It's obviously extreme pseudoscience, but I was wondering what y'all thought.

As someone whose on TikTok and on the receiving end of a deluge of the comments about this, it's been overwhelming and a little exhausting. There are several legit historians trying to correct a lit of the misinformation (complete garbage about women not being allowed to read at the time) but it's like trying to stop a flood with a picket fence.  The stories around it all are also sort of compounding upon themselves like some really convoluted fan-fiction. Any responses along the lines of "you're growing algae" is taken as gatekeeping, misogyny, or academic elitism.  It's getting very cult-like, and I'm watching in fascinated horror to see what kind of bacterial farms come of it all.