Quote from: switchere on April 14, 2021, 10:07:24 AM

Events of the animated series are often brought to life. For example, in one episode in 2000, the authors referred to former U.S. President Donald Trump.

In the new episode of "The Simpsons" from April 11 the authors predicted an endless rise in the price of Bitcoin. It was noticed by Reddit users. The episode tells about speculation in financial markets. A ticker with quotes appears on one of the frames, in which there is an infinity sign opposite to bitcoin.

It is noteworthy that in February 2020, the authors of the animated series already produced an entire episode devoted to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology called Frinkcoin. This was mentioned by the head of Binance, Changpeng Zhao.

The writers of "The Simpsons" have previously made several successful predictions. For example, in one episode from 2000, Donald Trump was named the former president of the United States.

Also in the ticker of the new episode of the cartoon appear stock quotes of video game stores GameStop (GME). The value of the company's stock increases by $1 trillion, and then immediately falls by $2 trillion. Thus, the authors of the cartoon series were reminded of the "pamp" of GameStop stock, which was caused by the WallStreetBets movement on Reddit.

In January of this year, users of the site were outraged by the fact that hedge funds were opening a large number of short positions on GME, which reduced the value of the stock. As a protest, investors from Reddit began buying up the company's stock, which led to its rise in price by 1,941% in just a few weeks (from $17 to $347). On April 13, Gamestop stock is trading at $141.

The cost of bitcoin on April 13 updated its all-time high at $63.1 thousand. As of 12:30 MSK, the value of the main cryptocurrency, according to CoinGecko, is $62.4 thousand.

I would say those are just coincidence. I mean, look at most of the events they "predicted". Those were bound to happen based on the current situation. Look at how many episodes they have. Maybe more than 500. Out of them, only few episodes predicted something that was actually bound to happen. Once again, those are just coincidence and nothing else. And for the recently predictions, they probably look at what's trending/happening now and makes a new episode and hopes that it is going to happen and people go all crazy lol. The price of bitcoin is supposed to grow and they know that.