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As we all know, making money is the main theme of the times.
For many honest people, financial management is a little complicated, virtual currency is too risky, trendy items you still can't grasp, think about it, or choose to lie in the gentle township of dead wages.
However, a new money doorway has emerged, which is much easier than the above-mentioned tricks.
Recently, a British bookmaker called Platin Casino released a very interesting temporary job recruitment: looking for a Simpsons analyst (Level 10 scholar).
The job is as simple as recording images from the Simpsons TV series in 2 months (35.5 hours a week) that may come true in the future, and feeding them back to their forecasting team, and they can be paid $6800 and encouraged by daily donuts.
Job requirements: 18 years old or older, English flow, excellent writing skills, can use computers, can watch TV, love Simpsons from the best recruitment
Image credit: Platin Casino
At first, I thought the job post was a boring prank, but after reading it carefully, I found that they seemed to be serious:
"In the past, the Simpson series has predicted a bunch of big things in the world, such as the election of Trump, the coronavirus epidemic, and the recent energy crisis in the UK... Therefore, we would like to ask a scholar of The Tenth Grade of Xin Xue to help us find the prophecies hidden in the cartoon. ”
Well, after such a glance, I had an epiphany: Well, where is the recruitment of analysts, this is clearly looking for a prophet.
The Simpsons are grouped from left to right: Hou Mo, Santa Claus's little assistant (dog), Maggie, Lisa, Snowball II (cat), Maggie and Bart
On the Internet, the most famous "Simpson Prophecy" is probably a story related to Trump.
In 2000, 16 years before Trump became president of the United States, an interesting prediction was made in the plot of the 17th episode of the 11th episode of the 11th season of The Simpsons:
In Barthes' vision of the future, Lisa, who had just become president of the United States, said to the officials: "As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump... The country is broke?—— As you might expect, former President Trump left us with a mess on the budget... Are we going bankrupt? ”
Considering the possibility of Trump becoming president of the United States 16 years ago, and the reality that Trump left Biden with the highest government debt since World War II, $27.75 trillion, this prediction naturally became a Simpson miracle in the hearts of many people.
图片来源：《The Simpsons》Season 11, Episode 17: Bart to the Future
In addition, the believers of the "Simpson Prophecy" are more convinced that this cartoon is evidence of the Western pushback map, and it also lies in its successful prediction of the "Prism Gate".
In The Simpson Movie, released in 2007, the Hou family boarded a train to evade government pursuit, and just as they were about to discuss what to do next, the NSA people overheard their conversations through the AI conductors on the train and found them.
Six years later, Snowden revealed Project Prism, a top-secret cyber surveillance surveillance program implemented by the NSA since 2007.
Image credit: The Simpsons Movie
In the field of international politics, the prophecy power of The Simpsons also has two brushes.
In 2012, in episode 17 of the 23rd season of The Simpsons, "Stupid Politics," Hou Mo became a guest commentator on the TV show Head Butt, and as everyone discussed international events, an interesting word appeared in the rolling news below:
"Europe puts Greece on eBay - The EU put Greece on eBay."
Three years later, Greece became the first ever developed country to default on the debts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), becoming a huge drag on the European Union, and was asked by international creditors to tighten their belts and sell assets.
图片来源：《The Simpsons》Season 23, Episode 10: Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson
The achievements of the "Simpson Prophecy" in the field of science and technology have convinced many people of the divine power of this work.
In 1998, in the Episode 2 of The Simpsons Season 10, Episode 2, The Ivy Wizard, Hou Mo listed a long list of God particle calculation formulas on the blackboard that made liberal arts students see scratch their heads.
"The difference in the mass of god particles calculated using this formula is very small from what physicists calculated in 2012, and it is amazing that he made this prediction 14 years ago." Simon Singh, author of The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, says so.
图片来源：《The Simpsons》Season 10, Episode 2: The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
Even more fanatical to believers, one of the characters in the animation, Bart's classmate Milhouse, predicted in 2010 that Bengt Holmström would become a Nobel Laureate in Economics (2016).
Image credit: Season 22, Episode 1: Elementary School Musical
In addition to the above, there are a bunch of Simpson prophecies that are widely circulated:
For example, the 1994 episode of The Simpsons character Doris making lunch with horse meat is considered a prophecy for the 2013 European horse meat scandal (in January 2013, horse meat and other undeclared meat ingredients were found in some beef products in Sweden, Britain, France and Germany).
图片来源：《The Simpsons》Season 5, Episode 19: “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song”
For example, in the 1998 episode of The Simpsons, 20th Century Fox is described as a division of Disney.
As a result, in 2017, Disney did spend $66 billion to buy Fox.
图片来源：《The Simpsons》Season 10, Episode 5: When You Dish Upon A Star
The most recently fulfilled prediction was that Virgin Atlantic Chairman Branson would go into space in July.
Believers believe that the old man with a white beard in episode 15 of the 25th season, which aired in 2014, is a portrait of Branson's second dimension, although it does not completely coincide, but in their eyes this is the Mayan ancestor stone carving, meaning, just fine.
Now, as soon as you open the browser and type in keywords, you can see countless messages that Simpson's predictions have come true.
And when tens of millions of pieces of relevant information pass in front of the retina, you can easily feel people's enthusiasm for it, just like the ancestors believed in the "Nostradamus Prophecy", and now foreigners also regard the "Simpson Prophecy" as the insight of the great prophets.
Image source: Google
When I saw more and more "Simpson prophecies" on the Internet, I wondered more and more, how come I don't remember this scene in these dramas?
For example, as soon as the American thugs stormed the White House in January this year, an image of Simpson like the brother of the cos barbarian went viral on the Internet, and from home to abroad, netizens felt that Simpson had once again slashed again.
But in fact, this is a good person who took the character in "Simpson" to do the second creation.
For example, when the "Black Lives Matter" movement was particularly popular in the United States, the "Simpson Prophecy" became a heat map again, and the old Americans began to mess around on the Internet.
I was quite surprised when I saw it, I felt that this was quite fierce, not only was the kneeling action drawn accurately, even the Lisa sign was word for word, and my materialist thinking was shaken when I saw it, is it difficult for this screenwriter to really be a serious future crossover person?
Later, when I investigated, I found out that this was the creation of an old American artist, and I wanted to use this well-known image to call everyone to pay attention to the racial problems in the United States.
Image credit: ins@Yuri Pomo
Even the prediction that the Minnesota police station would be set on fire by protesters was taken out of context by netizens.
The police station fire in "The Simpsons" was not ordered by protesters, nor has anything to do with the protest, it was just an accident.
Season 11, Episode 6: Hello gutter, hello fadder
The same is true of the prophecy of fuel shortages in the U.S. in 2021 mentioned on Platin Casino's recruitment resume.
Although Hou Mo's appearance of refueling the trunk looks like it is to cope with fuel shortages, in fact, he is trying to help his daughter get a gas station co-branded blind box toy - the gas station requires every 10 gallons of gasoline to buy a blind box.
图片来源：《The Simpsons》Season 22, Episode 5: Lisa Simpson, This Isn’t Your Life
Even a Simpson prophecy, the famous Footage of the Trump campaign, that was widely reported by big media like the BBC, the New York Times, and BI, was very problematic.
This picture, which reproduces Trump's perfect gestures and the actions of the surrounding spectators, has always been called by netizens as evidence of predicting the future 15 years in advance.
However, the famous scene did not originate in 2000, but from "Trump's Magical Journey" released on July 7, 2015, when Trump had already announced that he was going to participate in the presidential election, which was not a prediction at all, and the animated scene was also based on the news image one-to-one reproduction.
The "Simpson Prophecy" that makes foreigners fanatical is not only the problem of hindsight and out-of-context taking, but also deliberately exaggerated.
Some fanatics believe that the series predicted the emergence of online dating sites in 1996, but in fact, this concept was not proposed by the writers of "The Simpsons", as early as 1995, the United States had its own "century of good luck" - Match.com.
图片来源：《The Simpsons》Season 7 Episode 5: Much Apu About Nothing
What's more ridiculous is that some people also attribute the ingenuity of smart watches to "Simpson prophecy".
The truth is: the concept of smartwatches has been in the pop culture work "Dick Tracy" as early as the 1950s.
Image credit: Dick Tracy
You may be disappointed to learn the truth of the above prophecies, but in fact, from the beginning of the Simpson prophecy wave, it has been full of far-fetched and embarrassing.
According to well-documented information, the concept of "Simpson Prophecy" was published on July 26, 2006 by Howie, a veteran conspiracy theory message board Louose Change user, who claimed:
The New York magazine ad lisa ran in the 1997 season 9, episode 1, was mysterious, and the $9 price and the two straight buildings behind it formed 911, which was a prediction of the future 911 event.
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From the emergence of Simpson's prophetic culture in 2006 to the current popularity, those rumors that were once regarded as boring are becoming the talk of many people, and even the mainstream foreign media reports.
Today, the multi-award-winning animated sitcom has become a basket of conspiracy theories, a content farm for marketing numbers, and no matter how far-fetched the plot and reality are hooked, it will always attract the curiosity and retweets of Internet surfers.
But you must be curious, why Simpson?
One reason is that it is so popular that you have to change the niche drama to insist on prophecy power, and not many people will care.
Since its debut on the screen in 1989, "The Simpsons" has aired 32 seasons and 706 episodes, and as an animated sitcom loved by people around the world, it has long become popular culture at the age of 32.
Just like the treatment of hot words such as Oba and Ernie being selected into the Oxford Dictionary after the Korean drama fire, the D'oh issued by the protagonist of "The Simpsons" When Hemo was depressed and Woohoo when he was happy, have long been popular to the point of being included in the dictionary.
D'oh, read "tease", express remorse after doing stupid things.
Image source: Oxford Dictionary
The more important reason is that you can hardly find a work that can show a more comprehensive social ecology than "The Simpsons".
As a series like "I Love My Home", "The Simpsons" takes the atomic family as the core, and shows the structure of an American family through the character shaping of the blue-collar father Hou Mo, the housewife mother Maggie, the rebellious son Bart, and the school bully Lisa, and through their daily lives, shows the real problems in the current society.
Therefore, the content of this work is infectious, and the details of American chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea are thoroughly eaten, which makes its content very full, which can be called the four libraries of American life.
This content fullness is due to Simpson's creative team, which is a member of Sheldon, from finance to religious studies, and everything. Each of their creations is a process of discovering new ideas: pondering what hot spots are going to take off, thinking about future world events.
Thus, the fragments of The Simpsons that overlap with reality are more credible than psychic predictions.
In 1992, a group of experts was discussing Simpson's script
The social life it shows is not the hypocritical meekness, but the real cruelty under the black humor.
For example, by depicting the details of the constant conflict between Lisa, an independent woman who studies hard, and the idea of an anti-intellectual family, the creators show the difficulties of blue-collar families in the United States: hopeless promotion, class solidification.
According to Chang Jiang, an associate professor at Tsinghua University's School of Journalism and Communication, "The Simpsons" analyzes various imbalances in American society.
The environmental website also presented Lisa with an award, saying that she inspired an entire generation, teaching young people to respect others, be eager to help others, pursue equality and protect the ecology.
The cruel realism revealed by "The Simpsons" made the US President George W. Bush Sr. look down on it, and at the 1992 US Republican National Convention, he said:
"We want to try to make American families more like Walton [Walmart's founding family, rich, smart, and hardworking], than the Simpsons."
Image source: CNBC
Today, 29 years after Bush's ambitions, it is hard to say that his wishes have not been fulfilled, but what is certain is that the "Simpson Prophecy" has become the holy word of popular fanaticism.
Take a closer look at the simpson-predicted heat and you'll see that it took off in February 2020. This node coincides with the intensification of the epidemic in the West and the political turmoil in the United States, and most of the fictional Simpson rumors are also at this moment, like Saudi crude oil, gushing out of the cracks of the Internet.
Therefore, the sudden explosion of Simpson's predictions in the West is not surprising: in a moment dominated by the powerlessness and uncertainty brought about by the epidemic and the recession, these mystical arguments have become the dependence of many people on the floating world, which is the answer and the straw.
Even if these answers seem so ethereal, the process of studying them is like a practice of "everyone is drunk and I am awake", which is annoying and comforting.
After all, for those who don't know where to go, there is an imprecise answer, and it is better than nothing.
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