STOP saying The Simpsons can predict the future!

[@romainsavioz5466]

Simpsons predicted this video

[@KarinaHunter]

LOL

[@davidsradioroom9678]

😁

[@mastershifu9149]

-_-

[@AlexP4563]

That's fake

[@loafhouse]

*ah come on*

[@sinoroman]

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

[@ivandrago3621]

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]

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

[@januarysson5633]

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

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

And that people would still sit in chairs.

[@badreality2]

"Al Sleet" did so, first. kzbin.info/www/bejne/emLYkqppjK6CosU

[@iLikeMyOwnPosts]

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]

Yes lol, way more interesting subject.

[@Rabid_Nationalist]

@@oldmanlogan9616 same

[@fernsong8558]

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

[@nicholasgarcia5595]

@@oldmanlogan9616 yes lol

[@itzslayr1435]

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

[@ActionYakPolice]

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]

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]

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

[@Loccyster]

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

[@polocatfan]

​@@carolinemcgovern4488 it wasn't

[@Jabberwockybird]

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

[@thekilla1234]

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

[@breadsticks5149]

Agreed

[@nessymoon1783]

Indeed

[@Jerdle]

Bup

[@asheep7797]

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

[@goodie2goodie1]

Perhaps

[@StevioGaming1]

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

[@LocalTradesman225]

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]

@@LocalTradesman225 I mean ok

[@fawkewe]

Laughs In South Park

[@tasnim569]

GrayJacketWasp 😂

[@jan_Kilan]

*O Canada not Oh Canada

[@LOVE-iv2pw]

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.

[@JamesTilsley1]

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]

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]

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

[@MultiLiam24]

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]

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

[@allendepacheco3419]

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]

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]

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

[@ElBrandoTV]

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

[@eloy89]

“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]

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

[@eccentric1007]

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

[@eazymb.]

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

[@ponykazy3725]

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]

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

[@andrewsutherland133]

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]

Or that Bart and Lisa will graduate high school in 2013

[@chrisrj9871]

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

[@sistersuperioraddie5547]

It’s a *cartoon*

[@tjay2586]

Chris RJ how is a bag of bones barely mobile

[@averageinternettroll]

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

[@GustavoGplay]

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

[@winxgirl2072]

Lmao

[@wilsoniothegreat6162]

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

[@davidstockman1456]

Makes no sense bud, the actual predictions do.

[@zoenayru]

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

[@bertmustin]

Has there ever been an audible fart on The Simpsons?

[@mm4894]

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]

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

[@InventorZahran]

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]

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

[@matthewlee8667]

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 KZbin channel

[@lalitthapa101]

This needs more likes😂

[@ErisDeepSeaCocoon]

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

[@charliemcgee9803]

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

[@tegantalks9612]

I was gonna bring up Hershey Park lol

[@charliemcgee9803]

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

[@tegantalks9612]

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

[@charliemcgee9803]

@@tegantalks9612 gotta love the goldbergs lol

[@CoungToElf]

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

[@Gumfondle]

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

[@Contra7311]

They stole Bart's line

[@williamzhu7845]

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

[@dentrobate54]

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

[@Graham-gt4gr]

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]

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

[@Osric24]

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.

[@TomJohnson67]

I had no idea Trump ran for president in 2000.

[@cowboymooman8776]

me neither

[@mridontexist5489]

Me three

[@siddharthmishra48]

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

[@reverendroar]

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]

Not his first rodeo.

[@tsaract640]

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

[@gamepocalypsegaming278]

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

[@stuun-two-re3571]

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

[@ghostpiss1374]

A man of culture

[@SpicyGregPowers]

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

[@JakubS]

I almost orgasmed

[@Raymobatch887]

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

[@johnchessant3012]

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]

Most sensible comment I've so far

[@facund8]

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

[@lukedfs8344]

Same here man

[@oldreliable5950]

Dont blaspheme

[@Itsbully06]

same dude

[@winxgirl2072]

Same

[@chihuahuakween2085]

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.

[@TrulyAndasen]

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

[@ErmisSouldatos]

Once Homer went out and threw something into a trash can. This proves that the Simpsons predicted TikTok

[@rE8Al]

Lmao

[@waddle9384]

redditor spotted

[@nevaehonrefni]

The only one I believe 💀💀💀

[@jamstudios3095]

@WaddleChoc nah tiktok is just cringe

[@doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802]

@@jamstudios3095 so Is reddit

[@FatheredPuma81]

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]

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]

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

[@heterophobia.mp4]

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]

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]

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

[@thebaldpizzaman6319]

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

[@BBWahoo]

These people are slow in the head

[@seaotter4439]

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

[@sophiestanton840]

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]

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.

[@adamgingibbins2751]

​@@sophiestanton840 did you have a stroke?

[@Fengrad]

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

[@JJMcCullough]

We only know what he tells us

[@kevinhart1955]

Jreg just had a fucking aneurysm somewhere. I know it

[@felicvik9456]

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

[@dougnapier6441]

horseshoe theory

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

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

[@achyuthansanal]

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]

In 50 years she's gonna be dead sooooo

[@TaxiDriverBonus]

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

[@RainintheBrain]

Oldest president at age 98

[@paulvillerius848]

But there won’t be an election in 2050.

[@janemendenhall7583]

2050 is unlikely to be a presidential election year

[@enzothegift]

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!

[@RayVision3D]

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]

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

[@cometvaudin2850]

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]

@@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]

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

[@breadsticks5149]

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

[@infogames2724]

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]

The simp sons those who serve the elite

[@asafcohen8796]

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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmKmgZqDm5p4p6s

[@this_is_patrick]

@@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]

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

[@archedmash2]

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.

[@ElBrandoTV]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@ElBrandoTV]

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

[@daerdevvyl4314]

@@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.

[@ravenknightvincent2722]

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.

[@grayglimpse]

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]

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]

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

[@BrendanBarney]

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

[@Inescapeium]

GOANIMATE KZbinR?!?!?!

[@fib7615]

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]

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

[@breadsticks5149]

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]

Aren't you special

[@Pixelcraftian]

Okay, The Simpsons *Will* predict the future.

[@yazidefirenze]

Listen here you little

[@soulreaverable]

We predicted the Simpson’s predicting the future.

[@kotomishione]

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

[@goodguyoofyeet647]

Ok checkmark

[@AntoScrujo]

that was so funny

[@northierthanthou]

Thanks!

[@flaviusbelisarius7517]

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

[@FrancisR420]

Just turn on mono audio

[@headstone9384]

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

[@harrybetteridge7532]

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]

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

[@daerdevvyl4314]

I thought it was President Rainier Wolfcastle.

[@headstone9384]

@@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]

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

[@CptGraceStar]

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]

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.

[@ChrisDixon__]

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]

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

[@Youzw]

@@breadsticks5149 smarter

[@ketaminepoptarts]

@@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]

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

[@smileyhappyface5864]

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

[@superduck6456]

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.

[@21bywater]

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.

[@Samuel62655]

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

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

G A S P

[@bowsties2.062]

Good thing everyone get the joke.

[@TrenchReynolds]

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

[@hobofactory]

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]

What's that?

[@simplefun471]

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]

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]

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

[@Frostydog1793]

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]

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

[@onebackzach]

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]

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".

[@swolejeezy2603]

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

[@MrDannyDetail]

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]

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

[@Nargzie]

@@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]

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

[@dinoblacklane1640]

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.

[@fatalbert2055]

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

[@j.anderson00]

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

[@natehutchinson5586]

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

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

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)

[@akasickform]

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

[@StabbyMcStomp]

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

[@user00flaco]

@@StabbyMcStomp the comment is a joke

[@adamgingibbins2751]

They definitely didn't predict the 2016 election rigth tho

[@kaiserwilhelm1843]

Simpsons: Predicts this video

[@ratedpending]

Thank you Kaiser Wilhelm

[@sinphus]

Kaiser Wilhelm FÜR KAISER, VOLK UND VATERLAND

[@williamtheconqueror7807]

Kaiserreich

[@ivarkich1543]

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

[@bathamsteryt]

Ay how is my favorite kaiser

[@costaa5344]

Finally someone accurately explaining how these predictions are just conspiracies

[@Gabby-oi4dz]

So does that mean the world won't end

[@RoxoMoxo]

@@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]

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

[@counterfeit1148]

That's not what conspiracy means

[@TheRealUnkn0wn_289]

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

[@asheep7797]

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?

[@disieh]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[@yvette4948]

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]

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

[@CharliMorganMusic]

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

[@johnhelhoski6579]

There are currently less than 750 episodes.

[@invisibleguy8191]

@@johnhelhoski6579 now theres over 750 episodes

[@Oddfosshaugbagi]

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

[@dougmhd2006]

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?".

[@theparalyzedarmy3836]

"Simpsons did it first" -anything that happened irl

[@bowsties2.062]

Lol! You people still believe everything on the internet.

[@barvin1185]

@@bowsties2.062 what

[@bowsties2.062]

@@barvin1185 @$$

[@barvin1185]

@@bowsties2.062 ?

[@MetalMania343]

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

[@elusivenarwhal1996]

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

[@NIDELLANEUM]

13:40 this is something that goes hand to hand with the whole "people stop watching The Simpsons". I guess people who haven't watched an episode in years take these for granted. I saw a video on TikTok where the Simpsons "apparently" predicted what would have happened if Joe Biden ever became POTUS. However, it was literlally the newest episode at that moment (October 2020), but people acted like it was a really old one

[@sophiestanton840]

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

[@NIDELLANEUM]

@@sophiestanton840 sorry, I don't understand

[@sophiestanton840]

@@NIDELLANEUM basically on tiktok their saying usa and China r getting into war and be nuclear war and every one reckon its all part of the leaders plan they have to put it in simpson to let us lnow it will happen surly that's a myth

[@NIDELLANEUM]

@@sophiestanton840 oh yeah but how is saying "the two most powerful countries in the World, both with Nuclear Weapons, could threaten each other to use them if things go south" a prediction?. That seems like basic knowledge of how the geopolitical chessboard works

[@fdaunja]

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

[@violenceisfun991]

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

[@zombiewizard45]

I daresay many have done just that today.

[@spitefulcrow5026]

Vancouver summers are quite hot and muggy

[@Jabersson]

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!"

[@navyntune8158]

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

[@adanactnomew7085]

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

[@miguelgnzaez8519]

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

[@sophiestanton840]

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

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

"principle center" shows Jreg

[@ahyan14]

Archduke Franz Ferdinand you got shot

[@ShinFahima]

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

[@tylerhrunek]

I agree. Nothing can predict the future, not even a TV animated series.

[@alexandereaton7983]

Wow I’ve never seen anyone talk about the race 2016 election without a ton of bias from either side. Props to you man

[@aymarafan7669]

I’m not even left-leaning but that Depiction of Lisa holding up that sign by George Floyd and the officer is just nasty, and shameful.

[@anony1596]

What does being left-leaning have to do with the picture being gross?

[@aymarafan7669]

@anon y Well am just saying that my ideals are different and while I may not agree with the BLM movement and such I still think it’s terrible that someone is using that to try get likes for trying to say “The Simpsons” predicted that.

[@aymarafan7669]

@Battlefront Gaming It is for sure, very despicable of the person who made it fully knowing that didn’t happen in the “Simpsons,” basically the epitome of exploitation.

[@aymarafan7669]

@Battlefront Gaming Pretty much a case where someone doesn’t really deserve Freedom of Speech.

[@4thtime910]

What does that have to do with being left-leaning? 🤔

[@jeepmega629]

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

[@limaromeo8745]

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.

[@2XTheTapp]

A probability study showed that if you make a ton of guesses, 10% of said guesses will be correct. So since the simpsons make so many references to what the real world could become, that means that 10% or more of those predictions were correct.

[@monhi64]

So you’re saying if I guess that a 34 story lobster will destroy the moon and then make another guess for every other animal 10% of them will destroy the moon lol

[@sophiestanton840]

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

[@marcanthonybattenberg7636]

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

[@travisbougie4280]

That George Floyd one doesn't even look relatively real

[@RandomPeasant2467]

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]

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

[@chrism852]

@@AluminumFusion22 and he is too skinney and angry

[@sophiestanton840]

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

[@zalebplayz5478]

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

[@barryboucher4587]

And this is where I realize that I've missunderstood that "simpson predicted it" moovement all that time. I geniuently though it was just people being amazed by how absurd jokes could meet and match with reallity years later. A way of showing some of the absurdity of our world. But some people actually seems to belive really hard in the simpson's power of predicting futur.

[@sebw1515]

My grandma is one of those people. She thinks the Simpsons is evil and owned by the democratic party or the "elite" or whatever. Shes fucking crazy.

[@Paul-vq6jk]

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

[@AJRockets]

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

[@Fringe31422au]

He did an appearance in one of his videos before

[@matheuss886]

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

[@mcloughlinguy4127]

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

[@verygoodmusicyes2101]

The Simpsons predicted that 60 seconds passes every minute in Africa.

[@Danishmastery]

Together we can put a stop to this!

[@justsomenumpty]

Finally, someone who has brain cells!

[@lukestraube4204]

I came for the Simpsons, I stayed for the history of the Reform Party.

[@fire_ordinary8448]

Yes

[@aymarafan7669]

I like this version of “Adam ruins Everything,” for sure less corporate more freethinking. “J.J. Presentes facts and logic.”

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

Don’t compare our Lord JJ to that filth

[@aymarafan7669]

@Justin Liu I’m actually saying that McCullough is way better then his show.

[@Myreactionwhen_80085]

I hate to nitpick but -presents*

[@douglasmacarthur702]

“Adam Ruins Everything” is a garbage show. Incredible how a Canadian guy in his room blows apart a large corporate show.

[@Myreactionwhen_80085]

@@douglasmacarthur702 Adam brings up good points sometimes but yeah the majority is unresearched

[@robertromanul2212]

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

[@waywardlaser]

YES YES THANK YOU JJ. They're just coincidences. That Trump one really gets on my nerves to no end, people just seem to forget he ran before that episode even aired.

[@lewiskazinsky7334]

His fans in particular don’t seem to realise that he existed before 2016. That whole “Hollywood loved him before he got real” rhetoric is nonsense. Trump has always been a contentious troll, using his influence to drum up arguments that sold National Enquirer copies. There’s literally hundreds of accounts from celebrities who had beef with Trump that portray him as a whiny narcissist long before he entered politics.

[@selahanany5645]

its the "simpsons did it" effect i.e. when you run for so long you got to get a ton of predictions right.

[@vincenzovalvano]

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

[@maxis2k]

"This is the stupidest internet craze since the..." *[KZbin ad interrupts the video]*

[@randommodnar7141]

8:26 gotta love when jreg randomly appears in a jj video

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

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

[@Chris-be5tr]

Even though this video is a fun debunk of Simpson's future crap, the ending could not ring more true on how people will believe anything to push their ideas. Thanks JJ♥️

[@johnchessant3012]

I love this channel because it's the perfect mix of serious topics (like last week) and light-hearted stories (like this one).

[@JeremyPorcelain]

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

[@Alx_sis]

There even is in Disney plus a packet called the Simpson's predict

[@Marylandbrony]

I honestly think they should remove that category, as its promoting an unhelpful myth. It would probably make more sense as a Hulu playlist instead.

[@shahranhussain6037]

it's weird how folks consider a show has gone bad only when they stop caring for it

[@Ryan-Petre]

Well if nothing else it usually signifies a deeper change in the show's content.

[@timkh9914]

Watch Super Eyepatch Wolf’s video “The Fall of The Simpsons”

[@oliverstrahle]

The idea that The Simpsons hasn't declined in quality is..... interesting. I actively watch old episodes, and every now and then I'll catch a new(er) one and they can be a chore to sit through.

[@FrancisR420]

@@oliverstrahle speaking of a chore to sit through ever try to watch a season 2 episode?

[@oliverstrahle]

@@FrancisR420 of The Simpsons? I've watched every episode of about the first ten-ish seasons multiple times

[@purpleenglishman1395]

Uncle Duke looks suspiciously like ex-adviser to Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings.

[@ericveneto1593]

The image of "principled center" is going batty.

[@themiddleones11]

JREG again 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@leoisanerd]

"Or how they opened a chocolate themed amusement park in China." Hershey Park: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@JETZcorp]

This was the first JJ video I watched, and I was very impressed by the quality. Audio quality, research quality, writing quality, etc. I never imagined The Simpsons would be my gateway to learning so much about Canada. Lol Also, using an image of Jreg to symbolize the "principled center"? 👌