What Nostradamus was to the people of the 16th century, The Simpsons is to the Millennials.
From predicting Donald Trump’s office as the US president, the Ebola and coronavirus outbreak to even giving out Game of Thrones spoiler predictions, The Simpsons is no doubt one of the most popular animated TV shows in history.
So, with the US presidential elections knocking at the door, social media has been flooding with one particular photo that looks straight out of a The Simpsons' episode. The photo illustrates an animated Trump lying in a casket with speculations and posts about Donald Trump passing away on August 27 doing rounds on the social media platforms.
Quite evidently, Twitter has gone bananas over it.
r we really ignoring that the simpsons predicted today for donald trumps death pic.twitter.com/A0ZS2zmzQL
— papayabubbles (@papayabubbles) August 27, 2020
#August27 trending...Hmmmm 🤷🏻♀️
— NastyKim (@Kimderella76) August 27, 2020
Simpson’s prediction of @realDonaldTrump dying?! Sign me up MFin NOW!!!! pic.twitter.com/CsS9T5dynl
The catch? The picture is morphed.
So, to put all speculation to bed, an New York Times journalist, Taylor Lorenz, took to Twitter to explain what happened.
If you’ve seen everyone on TikTok referencing August 27th and are wondering what’s happening on August 27th? What is this? Let me quickly explain. It all started 5 days ago when this girl stfusamantha posted this vid pic.twitter.com/GuoVskAM3g
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 11, 2020
In June this year, a TikTok content creator put out a satirical video on conspiracy theories and indicated that something significant was supposed to happen on August 27. Even though the video had no mention of Donald Trump or his death, netizens took it to themselves to connect two completely unrelated pieces of content.
Several fans of the animated series had, however, pointed out that the picture was morphed and The Simpsons made no such prediction or aired any such episode.
Besides, this is definitely not the first time in that a viral theory has been linked with the show. Recently, The Simpsons was though to have predicted Hanks testing Covid-19 positive and the images of an animated Tom Hanks did rounds in social media like hotcakes. Unfortunately, to the netizens' dismay, it was a hoax too.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, Twitter is still flooding with emotions regarding the prediction. Here's what people are saying:
simpson's predicted a whole pandameic, kobe's helicopter crash, fires, but they get donald trump's death date wrong? i swear everything we didn't want to happen happened and the one thing we did want didn't happen
— bryan (@dakotasdamelio) August 28, 2020
So why is Donald Trump still alive? The simpsons lied to us. >:((
— Sleepy._.Devil (@SleepyDevil13) August 28, 2020
Bro I was really out here WAITING for Donald trump to die yesterday cus of the Simpsons episode and now Chadwick is dead, universe this is not what I meant please take it back man I didn’t mean what I said 🥺🥺
— ✨Ace✨ACAB (@acefromspace10) August 29, 2020
#August27 Donald Trump typing “Has Simpson ever been wrong” in google pic.twitter.com/0MTyte4yUW
— BANGTANN (@carylamagmailco) August 27, 2020
Am I the only one who is mad when the Simpsons show predicted Donald Trumps death. ITS BEEN 1 DAY SINCE THE 27 OF AUGUST AND HE DIDNT DIE YET- WHY U GOTTA DO US LIKE THAT? 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/QlyhkyC0YP
— Beyoncé (@Beyonc04602697) August 28, 2020