All this has already happened in “The Simpsons”: how “predictions” from the animated series became an Internet phenomenon and what the authors think about it
Of course, The Simpsons doesn’t predict the future, despite the old episodes of the pandemic and the Trump presidency. But the Internet continues to find “prophecies”, sometimes building conspiracy theories on it.
Since the mid-2000s, social media users have found “predictions” of the future in one of the longest television shows – screenwriters guessing either Trump’s presidency or the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, cultural prerequisites and scientific explanations are behind all the “come true” guesses of the authors of the show.
TJ figured out how the public belief in the correctness of the “predictions” of “The Simpsons” was formed, how can explain the most popular and what the creators of the animated series think about their “prophetic abilities”.