The most recent theory to go viral is that the world will end on September 24 of this year and people are anxiously waiting.
Forecasts, prophesies and conspiracy theories have become big news and business on social media these days and apart from ancient prophet Nostradamus‘ predictions, some reports proclaim as many as one in five Americans believe in a ton of conspiracy theories and predictions, and the last big one was the world was going to end in 2012. Do you remember? In fact, a lot of us were waiting with bated breaths and fluttering fears.
There are also the online QAnon conspiracy theories, a Frankenstein monster of discredited ideas that include everything from that Trump is still secretly the president, that Bill Gates killed millions of Indian babies with his polio vaccine, Queen Elizabeth used to eat human babies, JFK Jr. is still alive, Obama was going to rise as a world dictator and had already arranged places for the bodies of the dead to be disposed of, there is a group of rich celebrities drinking an imaginary elixir made from the blood of slaughtered children, as well as COVID-19 was not real.
The most recent conspiracy theory to go viral is that the world will end on September 24 of this year. And the origin of this one is none other than the beloved animated television show The Simpsons.
The Simpsons is known for having eerily accurate predictions about the future, everything from future skyscrapers in London to the Trump presidency. In this outlandish theory, the Simpsons episode 9.24 posits “10 days of darkness” and the end of the world.
Bottom line: Don’t fetch your news from cartoon characters. Or QAnon, but hey, well, what if it did?