Definitely an example of the Coconut Effect [1]. If they had consulted a historian versed in swine culture and produced period-accurate pigs it would have been a meme about how weird and alien the pigs look. People don’t care about period accuracy, they care about art that matched their expectations.
Suspension of disbelief is the operative word here. Trying to fight against it is tilting at windmills.
Suspension of disbelief is the operative word here. Trying to fight against it is tilting at windmills.
[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect