D’oh! No, ‘The Simpsons’ Did Not Predict Queen Elizabeth II’s Demise : leisure

Sorry, conspiracy-theory followers: “The Simpsons” didn’t in actual fact predict the date of the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II, in accordance with fact-checkers.

The false declare that the animated hit present — legendary for its eerily prescient prognostications — foretold the Queen’s loss of life has been the topic of dozens of doctored movies and memes by hoaxsters which have gone viral on TikTok and different platforms.

In a single altered TikTok video — which at the moment has greater than 26 million views — a cartoon model of Queen Elizabeth II is proven mendacity in a casket under a plaque that reads “Elizabeth II: 1926-2022.” The clip additionally exhibits a sticker, superimposed within the background of precise footage from “The Simpsons,” that shows the date Sept. 8, 2022, the day of the Queen’s loss of life.

For the reason that Queen’s loss of life, movies with the pretend picture of her mendacity in a coffin have circulated on TikTok, Fb, Twitter, Reddit and elsewhere, sometimes with captions falsely stating that “The Simpsons” predicted the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II. “The Simpsons have executed it once more,” says one TikTok video with greater than 16 million views.

However no episode of “The Simpsons” ever included the dates of the Queen’s loss of life, in accordance with fact-checking organizations together with PolitiFact and Lead Tales. A earlier hoax used an analogous picture of Donald Trump mendacity in a coffin to falsely declare the sequence had predicted his loss of life on account of COVID.

The Queen appeared as a personality on “The Simpsons” six instances, in accordance with the fan-curated Wikisimpsons website, together with in a 2003 episode titled “The Regina Monologues” from Season 15 through which the monarch’s carriage was rear-ended by Homer (pictured above).

“The Simpsons” famously has predicted different main occasions. In a 2000 episode, the sequence included a joke that Donald Trump would turn into president of the US. And in 1998, “The Simpsons” foreshadowed Disney’s acquisition of twentieth Century Fox, virtually 20 years earlier than the Mouse Home snapped up twenty first Century Fox (and subsequently depositing reruns of the favored present on Disney+).

In the meantime, different debunked claims about “The Simpsons” predicting the long run embrace that the present foretold the COVID pandemic and the lethal tragedy at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Competition final yr in Houston, in accordance with fact-checking website Snopes.