Simpsons predicted this video

@KarinaHunter

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@davidsradioroom9678

3 жыл бұрын

😁

@mastershifu9149

3 жыл бұрын

-_-

@AlexP4563

3 жыл бұрын

That's fake

@loafhouse

3 жыл бұрын

*ah come on*

the simpsons did accurately predict that there will still be daytime and nighttime in the future

@ivandrago3621

3 жыл бұрын

But they did predict that rich people love money, and tbh that's so obscure and shadowy I never would have known for myself.

@phillbertthelonely8173

3 жыл бұрын

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the daytime cycle would end

@januarysson5633

3 жыл бұрын

That doesn’t count. The odds were too much in favor.

@Sorcerers_Apprentice

3 жыл бұрын

And that people would still sit in chairs.

@badreality2

3 жыл бұрын

"Al Sleet" did so, first. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dmWpw9lsh6y1nMY.html

It’s literally gotten to the point where Disney Plus is capitalizing on it with a “Simpsons Predict” playlist full of episodes mentioned in these articles.

the corona virus one is so annoying. it's just the concept of a pandemic, a thing that had existed for (checks notes) millennia at that point, and has often been the subject of popular media also many times when people say some media predicted something it's because the writers looked at current trends or events and extrapolated them, they didn't just pull the idea out of thin air. like if you fall out of a plane and you predict that you will hit the ground it's not exactly shocking when you are right

@carolinemcgovern4488

Жыл бұрын

And also Cornavirus as a word has been around since long before Covid. The former is a catch all term for the viruses for the common cold and other diseases like that. So honestly when making a pandemic name for your scenario it would make sense to use a world like Coronavirus for it.

@ParasaurolophusEwan

Жыл бұрын

@@carolinemcgovern4488 wasn't someone in an asterix book named Coronavirus?

@Loccyster

Жыл бұрын

@@ParasaurolophusEwan, yes and his faithful servant was named Bacillus 😂

@polocatfan

Жыл бұрын

​@@carolinemcgovern4488 it wasn't

@Jabberwockybird

10 ай бұрын

Totally agree. But that book about the Titan ship that sank though...

Bruh, we got so deep into trump's 2000 candidacy and the reform party... that I forgot this was a video about the simpson's

@oldmanlogan9616

3 жыл бұрын

Yes lol, way more interesting subject.

@Rabid_Nationalist

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldmanlogan9616 same

@fernsong8558

3 жыл бұрын

Hey JJ any chance you could make a full video about the Reform Party sometime?

@nicholasgarcia5595

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldmanlogan9616 yes lol

@itzslayr1435

3 жыл бұрын

4:13 Let me guess thats an iPad mini5 if not what iPad mini is it? I have a iPad mini5

I mean, to be fair, "374088 times The Simpsons didn't predict the future" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

@breadsticks5149

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@nessymoon1783

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@Jerdle

2 жыл бұрын

Bup

@asheep7797

2 жыл бұрын

Then change it to 333 333 times The Simpsons didn't predict the future. The number has... that ring to it.

@goodie2goodie1

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps

“Simpsons predicted COVID!” No. Back when the episode aired, the world wasn’t even dealing with the SARS virus back when the episode was written which lasted from 2002 to 2004! So, I did research and the episode in question aired in 1993. The following outbreaks occurred around the time of the episode airing. 1984 Western Sahara plague 1986 Oju yellow fever epidemic 1987 Mali yellow fever epidemic 1991 Bangladesh cholera epidemic 1991 Latin America cholera epidemic

@four-en-tee

2 жыл бұрын

The joke lies in the fact that they're inadvertant predictions (situations where reality imitates fiction)

@eccentric1007

2 жыл бұрын

Bro listen every respiratory disease cause by viruses comes in the category of SARS

@eazymb.

2 жыл бұрын

So basically you saying it doesn’t take Einstein to predict a really bad pandemic coming around. They always around

@ponykazy3725

2 жыл бұрын

Fr! The clip I saw (havent seen the episode) says more about low working conditions in workshops and how that can potential spread illness world wide. There is overlap with COVID, but a prediction? Absolutely not!

@illig4912

2 жыл бұрын

They predicted a pandemic? Yeah it wasn't hard to see that coming.

"Simpsons predicted..." has become a rival to "it's that a motherf*cking jojo reference"

*Remembers when the Simpsons sang "Oh Canada"* Me: OmG ThE SiMpSoNs PreDicTeD tHiS VidEo

@jillreads6142

3 жыл бұрын

O Canada! Our home and native land True patriot love in all thy sons command With glowing hearts, we see the rise The true north, strong and free From far and wide, O Canada We stand on guard for thee God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee O Canada, we stand on guard for thee O Canada! Where the pines and maples grow Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow How dear to us thy broad domain From East to Western sea Thou land of hopes for all who toil Thou true north, strong and free! God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee O Canada, we stand on guard for thee O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise To keep thee steadfast through the years From East to Western sea Our own beloved native land Our true north, strong and free! God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee O Canada, we stand on guard for thee Ruler supreme, who hearest humble pray’r Hold our dominion within thy loving care Help us to find, O God, in thee A lasting, rich reward As waiting for the Better Day We ever stand on guard God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee O Canada, we stand on guard for thee

@arandomlanguagenerd1869

3 жыл бұрын

@@jillreads6142 I mean ok

@fawkewe

3 жыл бұрын

Laughs In South Park

@tasnim569

3 жыл бұрын

GrayJacketWasp 😂

@jan_Kilan

3 жыл бұрын

*O Canada not Oh Canada

It always annoyed me when I saw the escalator hoax because you can clearly tell by the animation style it wasn’t made in 2000.

@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, thats what i tell esch to those low mental conspirasionists, « Check the graphics, its not the same » But the simpson producers did took credit of it rather than acting mature and explaining it

@gandalf7262

3 ай бұрын

​@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😢😢😢😢😢😢

These predict the future type things have happened in other circumstances besides the Simpsons. The one that always got me was how some people claim that Lincoln and Martin Luther King must have been psychic because they had dreams about their own assassinations. People who believe this fail to put it in context. These two men were receiving death threats on a daily basis. Their dreams weren't predictions of the future, they were their minds trying to cope with the reality of what they were experiencing in their lives. I'd question their sanity if they weren't having dreams under those circumstances. The fact that these two men continued to do what they did dispite the danger they were in shows what truly great men they were.

@natowaveenjoyer9862

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it annoys me when people strip the context from the words/thoughts/actions of historical figures as well.

@InventorZahran

Жыл бұрын

I dunno if Abraham Lincoln qualifies as a "great man". He was once a slave owner, and he still held some extremely racist beliefs even after the Civil War was over.

@ThePurpleCheesecakeZebra

6 ай бұрын

given the sheer number of presidential assasinations and the fact they have a team of people who will prbably do drills daily for where to run to in the event of gunfire or bomb threat. its liekly they played out him getting shot many times in training and briefings to the point it becomes something constantly on their minds

I liked the time I saw a response to the "Simpsons predicting the future" stuff that said, "The Simpsons aren't predicting the future, we just haven't improved American society since 1989." And how true it is.

Homer: farts Someone irl: farts People: holy sh*t, the Simpsons predicted that!

@winxgirl2072

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@wilsoniothegreat6162

2 жыл бұрын

*Balding Dad drinks beer* : People: OMG THEY PREDICTED THAT

@davidstockman1456

2 жыл бұрын

Makes no sense bud, the actual predictions do.

@zoenayru

2 жыл бұрын

Just farted - soon as I read tgis - you predicted that

@bertmustin

2 жыл бұрын

Has there ever been an audible fart on The Simpsons?

Chocolate themed amusement park?! Thats not a prediction. Here in PA hershey park has been open for like 60 years.

@tegantalks9612

3 жыл бұрын

I was gonna bring up Hershey Park lol

@charliemcgee9803

3 жыл бұрын

@@tegantalks9612 u also come from the land of plenty here in pa?

@tegantalks9612

3 жыл бұрын

@@charliemcgee9803 nope, I’m from Alberta, I know about Hershey park because I love The Goldbergs and Defunctland lol

@charliemcgee9803

3 жыл бұрын

@@tegantalks9612 gotta love the goldbergs lol

@CoungToElf

3 жыл бұрын

I’m from PA (Pittsburgh) and I forgot that Hershey exists tbh, last time I went it was for a school trip and I literally only had time to wait in line for the Sooper Dooper Looper

Character in the Simpsons: breaths Person in real life: breaths Media: THE SIMPSONS PREDICT PEOPLE BREATHING!!!

I call it “The Onion” syndrome, where reality’s such an idiot that we somehow go the most idiotic direction every time.

@BBWahoo

2 жыл бұрын

These people are slow in the head

@seaotter4439

2 жыл бұрын

Like how water droplets always take the path of least resistance, reality always takes the path of least intelligence

@sophiestanton840

Жыл бұрын

It'd going crazy pn tiktok simpson episode ws usa and ching going to wat abd nuke ear can anyone find fhe episode plz

@wta1518

7 ай бұрын

I was just reminded of an old Onion video about Folsom Dam in California being on the brink of collapse, and how so many people were acting like they predicted the spillway failure at the Oroville dam even though they're two separate dams on completely different rivers and Oroville had a completely different kind of failure to the one from the Folsom Dam parody.

The Simpsons predictions arent even accurate. Do you remember when they predicted lisa will get engaged in 2010 and 2010 came and she was still an 8 year old

@JamesLawner

3 жыл бұрын

Or that Bart and Lisa will graduate high school in 2013

@chrisrj9871

3 жыл бұрын

Mickey Mouse was young in 1928, why isn't he a half-ancient barely mobile bag of bones by now?

@sistersuperioraddie5547

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a *cartoon*

@tjay2586

3 жыл бұрын

Chris RJ how is a bag of bones barely mobile

@averageinternetchristian

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisrj9871 nah he drains the blood of children as a vampire

I had no idea Trump ran for president in 2000.

@cowboymooman8776

3 жыл бұрын

me neither

@mridontexist5489

3 жыл бұрын

Me three

@siddharthmishra48

3 жыл бұрын

Me four - although maybe cos I wasn't even alive then

@reverendroar

3 жыл бұрын

He even went on telly several times claiming he wouldn’t and then he said he wanted the presidency. He was more of a democrat back then

@palomanbroadcastingnetwork3606

3 жыл бұрын

Not his first rodeo.

The one prediction that always pissed me off when I saw it was when they "predicted" the Pokemon GO craze, and their proof was an image of a picture of a phone showing a Pikachu. It was the most obviously faked image I've seen but the amount of times people posted it on twitter saying it was real just annoyed me SO much

South park: Predicted Canadians would pronounce "about" as "a boot"

@StabbyMcStomp

2 жыл бұрын

we dont though, not sure where this guy grew up but most canadians pronounce it "a boat" Ive never in my life heard a canadian say a boot until I found this youtube channel lol it just what others think we say, this guys going with it I guess lol its jarring to hear for me, I think he plays it up as a joke, I hope anyway lol

@destroylonelyjr1294

2 жыл бұрын

@@StabbyMcStomp the comment is a joke

The Simpsons didn’t predict 9/11, Al-Qaeda saw the episode and said “hey, we can do that”

@Contra7311

3 жыл бұрын

They stole Bart's line

@williamzhu7845

3 жыл бұрын

Take it to an extreme, the Simpsons did not predict but actually blew up the Twin Towers, lol~

@dentrobate54

3 жыл бұрын

The Lone Gunmen, an X-Files spin-off, predicted 9/11 too.

@Graham-gt4gr

3 жыл бұрын

The lone gunman predicted the government would virtually hijack two airliners and run them into the World Trade Center. Then the government did it!

@johnuferbach9166

3 жыл бұрын

oh lol, i always the US had the emergency number changed because of 911... like.. if something like this happens, type the number

JJ has an animated and yellow profile pic. He discusses serious topics in a lighthearted and easy to follow way. He’s wearing a yellow shirt. The Simpsons predicted this entire KZread channel

@lalitthapa101

3 жыл бұрын

This needs more likes😂

Back here because people are saying the Simpsons predicted the titan submarine incident, even though submarines running out of oxygen is a common trope in media.

Finally, I’m glad I’m not the only one that gets pissed off by this

Ah yes, Jreg, everybody’s favorite centrist. His content is almost TOO mild.

@gamepocalypsegaming278

3 жыл бұрын

Man, it’s people like you who made him leave youtube* *for an hour

@stuun-two-re3571

3 жыл бұрын

DoEsN't BeInG eVeRy ExTrEmE mAkE yOu A cEnTrIst?!?

@ghostpiss1374

3 жыл бұрын

A man of culture

@austinpowersasmaozedong

3 жыл бұрын

​@@gamepocalypsegaming278​ If you said this ironically, thats big brain.

@JakubS

3 жыл бұрын

I almost orgasmed

I remember wanting to rip my eyes out when a girl said the simpsons predicted COVID-19 on social media and put a picture of Kent Brockman, the news anchor, with “coronavirus” in the background. The word “coronavirus” wasn’t made for COVID-19, it’s existed for decades to describe common types of viruses. I agree, people around my age need to be more skeptical of what they see on the internet and actually use common sense.

@walterwhitecar8670

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the word coronavirus wasn’t even in the episode, that was edited in.

@allendepacheco3419

3 жыл бұрын

Also the episode they might be referencing mentioned the virus originated in Osaka Japan, hence the term Osaka Virus. This made me really mad because it's a completely different country and the reason for the virus to exist in that episode could be completely different to Corvid-19. Unless you telling me that Simpsons predicted a virus from the Far East, then do you know how big that place is. That's like saying there will be a virus in sub-sahara Africa or Latin America. A place that big would eventually get a virus no matter what. You really grasping some straws and probably showing your racist side if you take that episode as gospel. If the Simpsons got the country right, got the district right, got the animal right, and even mention 2020 or 2019, then that would be freaky. But they didn't. The Simpsons can predict everything as long you say they will eventually and never mentioned the specific time and reasons until right now.

@polyhistorphilomath

3 жыл бұрын

You wanted to rip out your eyes? With great exasperation comes great incredulity. I do get it-I hear kids say “Rona” (to mean COVID-19) and it makes me want to rip off my arm and hide it under the floorboards.

@Frank119811

3 жыл бұрын

Watch the episode, it actually says "meowcalypse" something like that that is why there is a cat, and this is just videoshopped.

@ElBrandoTV

3 жыл бұрын

Same when Marge read bart a book called, "Curious George gets Ebola," and everyone said they predicted it

When he started talking at the end about learning history, I though for sure he was gonna be like "So thanks to CuriosityStream for sponsoring today's video!"

I remember my coworker showing me the George Floyd one when we were on the clock and I tried so hard not to laugh. She reposted it and thought that it was, without a doubt, real.

@troodon1096

2 жыл бұрын

The style of the animated so-called George Floyd doesn't even look like the Simpsons style; I have no idea why anybody would be fooled if they you know, looked at it for more than a few seconds.

This show has been around for over 3 decades. There's almost 700 episodes. In all that time, they're gonna come up with a lot of ideas. So for some of those things to become a reality, is not that surprising.

@tlam3028

3 жыл бұрын

Politics also haven’t changed much, so that helps

My God I can't believe I've finally found one single person with common sense. Thank you for this video

@lukedfs8344

3 жыл бұрын

Same here man

@oldreliable5950

3 жыл бұрын

Dont blaspheme

@Itsbully06

3 жыл бұрын

same dude

@winxgirl2072

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@chihuahuakween2085

3 жыл бұрын

With Lisa as president, she mentioned Donald Trump -- and Kamala Harris being the first female vice president, in the inauguration she wore the exact same outfit Lisa did in the show. And we are kinda in debt because of Trump's irresponsibleness during Covid.

Through that entire last segment I was just waiting for him to say “you need to learn about history, and not just the civil war history, you need a deepened sense of critical thinking and curiosity- and you can learn all this thanks to our sponsor curiosity stream!”

@sophiestanton840

Жыл бұрын

It'd going crazy pn tiktok simpson episode ws usa and ching going to wat abd nuke ear can anyone find fhe episode plz

Man I’m really glad that there’s people out there that make content like this. I really was under the impression that the Simpsons was on some wizard shit. Having a video that puts together evidence this well and makes such well educated arguments really makes me happy and fascinated. Good job JJ, this isn’t the first vid of yours that has educated me and made great points that stayed in my head. Love your stuff, you got a supporter!

It's also worth noting that there have been nearly 700 episodes of the Simpsons so far, each one with professional satirists making up plausible scenarios. It's not surprising that there'd be a handful of spooky similarities with future real-life events.

@whynot1548

3 жыл бұрын

Most sensible comment I've so far

When you have a show with thousands of episodes, they're gonna be right about something eventually.

@johnhelhoski6579

2 жыл бұрын

There are currently less than 750 episodes.

@invisibleguy8191

Жыл бұрын

@@johnhelhoski6579 now theres over 750 episodes

@Oddfosshaugbagi

Жыл бұрын

Plus its a cartoon like the time with bart helping ghosts or when he made a soda cane explode yeah cartoon

Reasons why the Simpsons predicted so many things: 1. They make their show "Realistic" 2. Hmm... how MANY episodes are there? After 11 months, it is time to update the rules. 1. Many people on the Simpsons' team have PhDs. 2. Hmm... HOW many episodes are there? 3. Why do most survivors of assassination attempts never have a bullet in their head?

Lol nice Jreg reference for “Principled Center”, but we all know he’s an anti-centrist.

@JJMcCullough

3 жыл бұрын

We only know what he tells us

@kevinhart1955

3 жыл бұрын

Jreg just had a fucking aneurysm somewhere. I know it

@felicvik9456

3 жыл бұрын

Jreg had a section in the video where J.J. explained Canadian fringe partys

@dougnapier6441

3 жыл бұрын

horseshoe theory

@archdukefranzferdinand567

3 жыл бұрын

@@gamerbktroll He's done a lot more than comment on them, watch his "How Neoliberalism Commodifies Parasocial Relationships (Video Essay)" video

It's actually pretty easy to make fake news. For example I can say- "oh wow Simpsons predicted that simp would be a trending word in 2020 because their name is (simp)sons "

@ExistentHope

3 жыл бұрын

The simp sons those who serve the elite

@asafcohen8796

3 жыл бұрын

Well actually Mr. Burns calls them simp in "dancing homer" I think so that's maybe not the best example EDIT: found the clip, minute 3:10 kzread.info/dash/bejne/mmV3ssmGlpiroaw.html

@this_is_patrick

3 жыл бұрын

@@asafcohen8796 The word itself has been around since forever; it's a contraction of the word simpleton. Mr. Burns calling Homer a simp makes sense lmao.

@asafcohen8796

3 жыл бұрын

@@this_is_patrick yeah I believe you. What I gave was simply a better example of the word in use in the show itself.

I have to applaud this video after watching one that failed at these key concepts. 1. You refrained from getting political and simply provided information to the audience. 2. You found source material and shared it so everyone knew what you were referencing. 3. The video was well structured and inspired by your ideas. Bravo. I have seen your videos before and this one warrants a like and sub!

@killzonenwb8869

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't refrain from being political, he just sly with it and didn't bring 100% of the attention to it. Believe me, you'd pick them up if it was directed toward your preferred political party. The description of trump winning the presidency sounds exactly like someone talking about their experience with 9/11, its hilarious. "I remember exactly where I was"

@keepermovin5906

2 жыл бұрын

@@killzonenwb8869 the irony of this comment is that he is actually right leaning politically

I can't put to words how much I appreciate this video. I always hated the whole "Simpsons Prediction" trend. Especially when I would try to raise similar points to my friends about it

2050: Marianne Williamson wins the election. Everyone: OH MY GOD THIS GUY J.J PREDICTED THE FUTURE!!! Edit: Ok, it’s 2052 not 2050

@mattrobb1130

3 жыл бұрын

In 50 years she's gonna be dead sooooo

@TaxiDriverBonus

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattrobb1130 Bold of you to assume she's capable of dying. Her spiritual energy will keep her alive.

@RainintheBrain

3 жыл бұрын

Oldest president at age 98

@paulvillerius848

3 жыл бұрын

But there won’t be an election in 2050.

@janemendenhall7583

3 жыл бұрын

2050 is unlikely to be a presidential election year

I never understood how people fell for the one about trump announcing running for president, the clip quality is noticeably higher than the rest of the episode it's supposedly from

@totally_not_an_asian1724

3 жыл бұрын

Too add more, the reason they predicted Trump being president because in the episode aired 2015, Trump stated that he would want to be president in 2015 and wanted to run in the 2016 General Presidential Election.

@ElBrandoTV

3 жыл бұрын

@@totally_not_an_asian1724 No, trump announced he was running in June 2015, at least a month before the clip came out

@totally_not_an_asian1724

3 жыл бұрын

@@ElBrandoTV Oh, I'm going to edit my comment

@ElBrandoTV

3 жыл бұрын

@@totally_not_an_asian1724 Okay, that doesn't make your statement any more true

@daerdevvyl4314

3 жыл бұрын

@@totally_not_an_asian1724 They predicted Trump being president as a joke in 1999-2000 because he ran for president in 2000. Then in 2015 after Trump again announced he was running for president they made a short cartoon which parodied the scene with Trump on the escalator. But that was AFTER he had already announced he was running and rode the escalator.

Ironic that the Simpsons Predict The Future became popular around the same time of the Mandela Effect.

The Simpsons: Go to Walt Disney World A family irl: Go To Walt Disney World Media: ThE SiMpSoNs PrEdIcTeD FaMiLiEs GoInG tO wAlT dIsNeY wOrLd

This reminds me of "The Onion was Right", except The Onion articles are somewhere between coincidence and "How did we allow satire to become real", while The Simpsons are straight up coincidence only.

Glad I'm not the only one who has a brain.

@Inescapeium

2 жыл бұрын

GOANIMATE KZreadR?!?!?!

@fib7615

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr? Inside the comment sections of those simpsons videos are cultists who correlate the Simpsons predictions with The Second Coming, and say that the government is behind these predictions and to get ready for the “apocalypse”, insane.

@mbdg6810

2 жыл бұрын

theres a difference between *can* and *will* can implies may or may not. essentiaslly calling someone dumb for a non-absolute is odd

@breadsticks5149

2 жыл бұрын

Its not that the Simpsons predicted the future It's just that our world is so messed up that it's becoming a satire cartoon Also calm down it's a joke C'mon

@SaraH-jn5db

2 жыл бұрын

Aren't you special

Finally, someone who has brain cells!

I've been discovering more and more great videos from you lately, J.J. This video is perfect. It actually resembles a Simpsons episode in that it starts in one place and gets extremely side tracked for the rest of the episode, then wraps everything up at the end.

I've noticed that older people (especially in my family) are generally the ones who are the worst at noticing fake news. Both in not being able to tell literal fake news apart and taking everything they see on the real news as a 100% indisputable fact even if you show proof that they've blatantly lied in the past... Also thanks for not making this a political video.

@dinoblacklane1640

3 жыл бұрын

its interesting for me, I've noticed the opposite where I live. Everyone here seems willing to believe what the media says without a second thought and I get called a conspiracy theorist for actually finding facts

@ketaminepoptarts

2 жыл бұрын

honestly teenagers still fall for obvious lies and fake news, they just do it on tiktok and not while watching tv

@heterophobia.mp4

2 жыл бұрын

Idk where these ppl are from but I definitely agree- the older generations (in my community, at least) are notoriously bad at spotting fake information 💀

@isaacholzwarth

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know about that. I think that older people are less adept at noticing "new" forms of fake news, like deepfakes, photoshopped images, etc, and did grow up in an era of great trust in the media and news networks in general, but I believe that younger people, myself included, have been duped even worse into feeling a false sense of superiority over "old" people and "boomers, and not being able to discern facts from fiction if they are either A: given to us by someone who is famous and well liked, B: someone who's inherent traits (race, religion, nationality, etc) are treated as credentials to support their anecdotal stories, and worst of all, C. The "everyone believes it so it must be true", which is human nature, and has been amplified to an infinite degree by social media, movies, tv, and the news networks all working together to spread a common message, aka, propaganda, now cleverly disguised as "common knowledge". A few examples. Old people fall for scams, dumb infomercials, and blatantly photoshopped fake images on Facebook all the time (as well as some young people too). Young people see a massive amount of people over a few short minutes on TikTok proclaiming some united truth and immediately get the sense that it can't possibly be false if everybody is saying it. Prime example that shouldn't be, but are controversial. Donald Trump is racist: I concede that Donald Trump has a loose mouth and is not a moral person, but not any more or less than pretty much every other rich, famous, or political figure. He has said insensitive things to be sure, but he never actually has said anything truly racist, and outright condemned verbally by name, white supremacy literally 100s of times. Using simple editing to remove context from things he said, and with everyone and their dog on Facebook, Twitter, tik tok, and the news calling him "racist" over and over and over, his reputation was cemented by nothing more than hive mind and peer pressure. The proof, ask anybody what Donald Trump has actually said that's racist, and they'll respond "I don't know, he just is, he says stuff, look it up". Masks: clear scientific studies show absolutely no value in wearing a cloth mask or anything below an n95 for protection from viruses, and in fact show that improper mask use, which virtually everybody is guilty of, is worse than not wearing one, and standing 6 feet apart is far more protective, and yet with everybody repeating the mantra "mask up to save lives" and also calling people who don't "insensitive" and "selfish", people go along with it for no reason other than peer pressure and the feeling that "everybody says it's true" Kids should be vaccinated: the number of COVID deaths in young people and children is unbelievably low, and the small amount that have happened are virtually all due to preexisting conditions. The undeniable fact that children are at more risk of death from flu or other illness than COVID means that schools should not have been shut down, and they certainly shouldn't be encouraged to be vaccinated with a new drug with no possible way of having tested the long term effects because it is less than 2 years old. It's common sense, but nobody cares, because every ad, every influencer, and every "conscientious" person online are all saying the same thing, therefore it must be true. My point: old and young people are all humans with blind spots. Don't be fooled into thinking we're better than them, because in fact, I think we're worse. Repetition always wins out over sound logic and reasoning, and young people experience more repetition of ideas on social media than has ever happened in all of history. Use your brains, folks.

@aeroslythe6881

2 жыл бұрын

They grew up with less biased media, I just realized. Thinking about that actually makes it more sad, because the problem is that they’re more trusting

Whenever someone says "Simpsons predicted it!" I remember they also predicted President Arnold Schwarzenegger.

@harrybetteridge7532

3 жыл бұрын

So did the movie Demolition Man although did really a sudden increase of use of shells during the great toilet paper shortage early this year.

@peterlenko3355

3 жыл бұрын

The also had Hillary in the ballot for 2008. Oops.

@daerdevvyl4314

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was President Rainier Wolfcastle.

@headstone9384

3 жыл бұрын

@@daerdevvyl4314 I'd have to check, but I think he's identified as Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie, but his VA just used the Wolfcastle voice.

@robinwaal-borrebaek6442

3 жыл бұрын

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan I would run if that rule changed :/

When he said “what happened in November 2016” for some reason I said killer clowns

“It’s a very hot day in Vancouver today” The weather: -10˚C (14˚F)

I've predicted many future events. Its called paying attention to the world around you and learning a little bit about history. Many of the specific predictions in the Simpsons, however, are simply coincidence and some are jokes that happened to occur. Some are actually predictions made as a joke based on trends in finance and politics that the writers decided to put in just in case it did occur. If it didn't, oh well. If it did, something to talk about and give the show a little more life.

@bowsties2.062

3 жыл бұрын

Nope! None of the predictions is real they just make all of the videoes look old, you can't trust the internet nowadays

@cometvaudin2850

3 жыл бұрын

Also, there are so many episodes of the Simpsons. If there were only 50 episodes, yeah sure that’d be freaky. But there are hundreds.

@dinoblacklane1640

3 жыл бұрын

@@cometvaudin2850 thats a very important thing a lot of people seem to forget, at the time of this video there was about 650 Simpsons episodes over the course 30 years. and the best people seem to come up with is 3 very tenuous examples

@ho-oh511

2 жыл бұрын

@@dinoblacklane1640 also nobody talks abt them when they are wrong

@breadsticks5149

2 жыл бұрын

@@ho-oh511 yeah because it's a joke On the internet Who coulda guessed

It's like the people who keep trotting out Nostradamus after every major disaster.

@hobofactory

3 жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it, I actually haven’t heard much about Nostradamus for a while now which is pretty surprising given all the crazy stuff going on. Maybe I’m just not paying attention.

@sbevexlr848

3 жыл бұрын

What's that?

@simplefun471

3 жыл бұрын

hobofactory i definitely overheard people talking about it in the early stages of covid, pissed me off so much cause he probably made some vague prediction about a disease outbreak (definitely not something that happened all the fucking time in medieval Europe) that has no specific relation to the year 2020

@hobofactory

3 жыл бұрын

sbeve XLR8 basically, Nostradamus was a French dude who lived in the 1500’s and wrote a lot stuff that many believe predicted the future. In reality his “predictions” fall mainly into two categories: they’re either so vague that it’s easy to shoe-horn any number of historic events to fit the prediction, after the event has already happened, or quite spot on because it was actually made up after the fact and didn’t really come from Nostradamus to begin with.

@sbevexlr848

3 жыл бұрын

@@hobofactory so someone who wrote stuff about life? Like a diary or something?

Idk man, the simpsons did predict breathing

I love that one of the dangerous celebrities in the list is "Sideshow Ralph Wiggum." That's a joke that really needs more elaboration.

The simpsons predicted that air would be a thing in the future.

@JJLiu-xc3kg

3 жыл бұрын

G A S P

@bowsties2.062

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing everyone get the joke.

Simpsons: Predicts this video

@ratedpending

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kaiser Wilhelm

@sinphus

3 жыл бұрын

Kaiser Wilhelm FÜR KAISER, VOLK UND VATERLAND

@williamtheconqueror7807

3 жыл бұрын

Kaiserreich

@ivarkich1543

3 жыл бұрын

At the moment of writing your comment, this video is past already. So Simpsons predicts the past.

@bathamsteryt

3 жыл бұрын

Ay how is my favorite kaiser

"The principled center" is such an underrated Jrjoke 8:27

9:47 He has such a way with words

Okay, The Simpsons *Will* predict the future.

@yazidefirenze

3 жыл бұрын

Listen here you little

@soulreaverable

3 жыл бұрын

We predicted the Simpson’s predicting the future.

@kotomishione

3 жыл бұрын

Why i see you in almost all of the videos i watch

@goodguyoofyeet647

2 жыл бұрын

Ok checkmark

@AntoScrujo

2 жыл бұрын

that was so funny

Finally, someone says it. My sister constantly brings up how the Simpsons predicted the future. Now I know I’m not the only one who thinks it’s nonsense.

“It’s a very hot day in Vancouver today”… little did he know

@arealnowhereman8255

2 жыл бұрын

oh no ! Simpsons must have predicted that!

"The Simpsons Curse" is also annoying. "OMG! LOOK AT ALL THESE CELEBRITIES THAT GUEST STARRED ON THE SIMPSONS THAT HAVE DIED!" The show's been on for over thirty years, and most of them died of old age decades after they appeared on the show.

9:30 mobile users use earphones, the sound is only in the left speaker so you can't hear it through your phone.

@mauirandall8176

3 жыл бұрын

Just turn on mono audio

I do agree, a huge problem for my generation will be combing through the misinformation in the Digital Age

@MrDannyDetail

3 жыл бұрын

A bigger problem is that in the future great swathes of stuff, whether genuine or fake, may not survive to comb through. Whilst there are things like the Internet Archive trying to preserve stuff it's clear that stuff does often get quietly removed from the net and not backed up for posterity. Data prviacy laws, whilst understandable, also contibute to a lot of stuff not being able to be preserved.

@bowsties2.062

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrDannyDetail true! Almost everyone believe everything on the internet nowadays and they don't believe the media.

@Nargzie

3 жыл бұрын

@@bowsties2.062 The media bends the truth like certain news companies being more Democratic/Republican and pushing their views on others because of politics and covering only stories that would get more people watching. And most sane people doesn't believe what they automatically hear on the internet they often check sources and such.

@voidofspaceandtime4684

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrDannyDetail companies purely shouldn't have data privacy to protect themselves. People should.

@dinoblacklane1640

3 жыл бұрын

The big problem is, is that it takes 10 minutes to make a fake image and spread it around the internet And it can take 10 hours to disprove that fake image, but by the time you have hundreds of thousands of people have seen that image and believe the lie.

Everybody knows The Onion is the only piece of pop culture that can predict the future.

I was happily surprised that you didn't segway into an ad there at the end, good on you JJ

"Simpsons did it first" -anything that happened irl

@bowsties2.062

3 жыл бұрын

Lol! You people still believe everything on the internet.

@barvin1185

2 жыл бұрын

@@bowsties2.062 what

@bowsties2.062

2 жыл бұрын

@@barvin1185 @$$

@barvin1185

2 жыл бұрын

@@bowsties2.062 ?

@MetalMania343

2 жыл бұрын

@@barvin1185 I don't think he got the joke.

"It's a very hot day in Vancouver today." Never thought I would hear those words in that sequence...

@violenceisfun991

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of "it will be a cold day in hell"

@zombiewizard45

3 жыл бұрын

I daresay many have done just that today.

@spitefulcrow5026

2 жыл бұрын

Vancouver summers are quite hot and muggy

2:33 "Remember, if you see any celebrities - consider them dangerous." Sounds like wise advice to me.

I'm SO glad you made a video about this I can share instead of trying to argue endlessly that no, it didn't

Finally someone accurately explaining how these predictions are just conspiracies

@Gabby-oi4dz

3 жыл бұрын

So does that mean the world won't end

@wackyroxy3034

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gabby-oi4dz for the next few hundred to thou of years....no we arnt going to see the end of the world and if something like that were to happen soon we would be prepared I mean we just recently went thought a pandemic and scientists just created a new vaccine for it. Not to mention most of us took the necessary procotions. And some of us did die but look at us. Were still alive. So there's nothing to worry about

@axelpatrickb.pingol3228

3 жыл бұрын

Or we didn't learn a thing after 30 years...

@counterfeit1148

3 жыл бұрын

That's not what conspiracy means

@TheRealUnkn0wn_289

2 жыл бұрын

No it's their plans they are telling us the truth to our faces, predictive programming

The thing is, the Simpsons is such a long running series with so many episodes that it makes sense that some wacky thing that happened in an episode would eventually happen in real life, simply because of random chance.

@InventorZahran

Жыл бұрын

And since The Simpsons' animation style has not changed significantly throughout its long run, people who aren't familiar with the show could easily mistake a recent episode that comments on current events for a "scarily accurate prediction".

My senior year of high school was in the 2015-2016 school year. I took AP Literature and in my junior year I took AP Language and Composition. A huge portion of the classes was about critical thinking, current events, and identifying satire and fake news. In AP Lang, we did weekly essays in curriculum events. I always thought it was interesting how the 2016 Presidential Race coincided with my senior year, seeing how many students where analyzing and even catching on to some false claims and stories.

This man did not just put Jreg on the centrist diagram OML

"principle center" shows Jreg

@ahyan14

3 жыл бұрын

Archduke Franz Ferdinand you got shot

@ShinFahima

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahyan14 So did Tupac, and he's still alive.

I loved this entire video. Thorough, provided evidence, debunked the nonsense, and encouraged critical thinking. I actually learned more than what I came for. As a cartoonist, it's annoying how people are easily mislead about _Simpsons_ memes with photoshop dates and as you said are thirsty for Likes, views, and Follows.

@breadsticks5149

2 жыл бұрын

Or maybe just maybe Hear me out It's a meme/joke ಠ_ಠ

@Youzw

2 жыл бұрын

@@breadsticks5149 smarter

@ketaminepoptarts

2 жыл бұрын

@@breadsticks5149 on the internet its almost impossible to tell if someone is being serious or if theyre joking unless they tell you, even if all of the people saying the simpsons can predict the future are joking theyre still causing people to genuinely believe that the writers on the simpsons can actually predict the future

@Oripave

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I used to love to watch icycol but now he makes these stupid ass videos

@smileyhappyface5864

Жыл бұрын

@@breadsticks5149 We've considered that one. Isn't possible.

The best "prediction" to come out of any media is the time a panel from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure accidentally predicted 9/11, because when the creator was asked about it he literally said that he couldn't remember why he drew it that way

It's very funny that Simpsons can inadvertently predict future things ... in the process of voluntarly exaggerating present things as jokes

That George Floyd one doesn't even look relatively real

@RandomPeasant2467

2 жыл бұрын

You can easily tell, especially the fact it says Justice for George or something like wow they guessed this man's name, totally not suspicious

@AluminumFusion22

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention it's incredibly out-of-character for Chief Wiggum.

@chrism852

2 жыл бұрын

@@AluminumFusion22 and he is too skinney and angry

@sophiestanton840

Жыл бұрын

It'd going crazy pn tiktok simpson episode ws usa and ching going to wat abd nuke ear can anyone find fhe episode plz

Really, the only reason The Simpsons occasionally predicted the future is because the creators decided to joke about absolutely everything

@adanactnomew7085

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. And they probably have far more "predictions" that never happened

@miguelgnzaez8519

3 жыл бұрын

@@adanactnomew7085 exactly they do it but we copy them 😱 but know one knows about the future

@sophiestanton840

Жыл бұрын

It'd going crazy pn tiktok simpson episode ws usa and ching going to wat abd nuke ear can anyone find fhe episode plz

“If you throw enough hunks of shits at the wall then something will eventually stick”

For anyone who has ever been to Pennsylvania, there was already a chocolate theme park at Hershey Park, there are also some relatively interesting tourist spots built around potato chips and pretzels that are worth seeing. There are some really beautiful cemeteries and civil war memorials too, but that is more in the realm of the historical and morbidly depressing.

I have wondered why there's no mandatory media literacy courses in school. I remember back in late 90's we had those in Finland. Not to say they were somehow magically effective, but its at least "one line of defence".

@RandomHobbyist-wi3fg

3 жыл бұрын

That was a thing? How strange, we never had it in the US in the 2000s, but I guess that just makes the population easier to manipulate.

@badgalirri

3 жыл бұрын

Good thought but an excellent way to stuff propaganda into childrens brains.. and no doubt it would be used for that. ”articles who support our agenda = real. Articles who dont = fake, dont trust it”

@GogiRegion

3 жыл бұрын

We spent a couple hours in school every couple years where I lived, but just having the librarian tell you not to believe everything you see on the internet on rare circumstances isn’t really enough to actually make any difference.

I actually have a copy of the National Enquirer from 1999 that has a poll with Trump in the lead.

@TheAlexSchmidt

3 жыл бұрын

Not a surprise considering the Enquirer's publisher was a friend of Trump and tried to bury stories of people who had things to say about him (like Stormy Daniels I believe)

10:50 my local newspaper is getting a shoutout!

This is just “Simpsons already did it” again. When you’ve been around as long as the Simpsons, you’ve done everything, so you’re bound to inadvertently seem prescient when some of the odd situations in the show come to life.

I was today years old when I learned J.J was 38

I've been annoyed about this for the years and the fact J.J. went out of his way to make a video about this makes me feel incredibly vindicated

15:29 one of my favorite predicting the future things is the deus ex one, where they removed the two towers from the new york skyline needing to crop the image and then created a story about how terrorists took them down. Purely a coincidence, but still kind of eerie.

The Simpsons can't predict the future, the future can predict the Simpsons.

This video is a perfect illustration of the old adage, "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it". The Roger Stone clip was particularly chilling, not to mention showing how easy it is to take advantage of the microscopic attention span of today's culture. Now, once travel conditions (hopefully) improve, you need to campaign for an appearance on an episode of "The Simpsons". It would undoubtedly generate a great deal of interest from Canadians and prompt the rest of the world to think, "who is this guy, anyway?".

All I can say is...THANK YOU! I am so sick of this clickbait of Simpson’s or really any other show ‘predicting the future’ my guess is these people have clearly never met writers.

@sophiestanton840

Жыл бұрын

It'd going crazy pn tiktok simpson episode ws usa and ching going to wat abd nuke ear can anyone find fhe episode plz

JJ said "it's a very hot day in Vancouver" one year ago - he predicted the heatwave this summer! Fortune teller confirmed!

I love how you talk about trump getting elected like 9/11 "I remember exactly where I was when it happened" fuckin hilarious

So it sounds like a sort of “Book of Revelations” type-beat. Essentially, it (the Simpsons/Revelations) refers to events of the time, but future-folks interpret it to fit the events of their time.

JREG again 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Simpson's can't predict the future since they can't even keep their timeline straight. I mean, in one of the more recent episodes they said Marge was in high school back in 1998, which is strange because I remember in 1998 she was married with 2 elementary school children and a baby.

I've had this argument with people so many times. For some reason they refuse to believe it's mostly fake posts. Such a weird hill to die on but I guess that's the standard these days.

8:26 I shouldn't be that surprised about you watching Jreg :D

@AJRockets

3 жыл бұрын

They're friends. JJ even had Jreg on the show once.

@Fringe31422au

3 жыл бұрын

He did an appearance in one of his videos before

@matheuss886

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fringe31422au Really? What video? I'm still surprised the two have some sort of connection LMAO

@mcloughlinguy4127

Жыл бұрын

2 years later and uhhh They had a “meetup” of sorts