How Many Mass Shootings (So Far) in 2023?
A popular January 2023 post to Reddit’s r/dankmemes purportedly placed the number of mass shootings in the US to date as 39.
A popular January 2023 post to Reddit’s r/dankmemes purportedly placed the number of mass shootings in the US to date as 39.
The Simpsons prediction industrial complex is back at it, this time claiming that COVID-19 was prognosticated by the show — complete with “murder bees” — in May 1993.
A rumor that the popular and long-running cartoon series predicted a coronavirus outbreak nearly two decades before it happened is part of an ongoing series of claims about predictions the show has made.
Whispers and conspiracy theories about a possible “nuclear false flag attack” in Seattle on November 3 2019 spread on social media, but they sound awfully familiar.
After the young environmental activist addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, memes claimed that The Simpsons had yet again “predicted” a similar scenario with an environmentally conscious Lisa.
Among the many conspiracy theories around the Notre Dame Cathedral fire of April 15 2019 was the rumor that an episode ofThe Simpsons had predicted the blaze, continuing a rather peculiar pattern of stories around predictions made by the long-running and beloved cartoon series: A Facebook version of this particular shared on April 21 2019 (archived here) appeared to substantiate …