Another prediction from the screenwriters of the animated series “Simpsons” appeared on the Web - this time about the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank. The proof was a video with a scene from an episode of many years ago. We checked the authenticity of the video.
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), founded In 1983, until recently, he was engaged in the service of technological startups and was one of the 20 largest commercial banks in the United States. In March 2023, SVB was Forced To sell part of their assets with a loss, against the background of this, the so -called bank panic began, when customers began to withdraw their funds. On March 10, supervisory authorities closed the bank - the media They called it This is the largest bankruptcy since the 2008 crisis.
On the same day, a 33-second video from the Simpsons series, which shows a building with the Silicon Valley Bank sign, was encircled on the Internet. In this scene, Bart Simpson provokes a panic in a bank, imitating the voices of other people, allegedly indignant at the lack of cash at the checkout. As a result, the heroes of the animated series begin a fight. Users of social networks began to spread this video with comments that the “Simpsons” again predicted the future. ”
For example, in the Telegram channel "Pool N3"(151,000 views at the time of writing this text) The video commented as follows:" The traditional American fun "everything was already in" Simpsons "." Post "Pula N3" with this video on the air of its transmission showed TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov. In addition, the channels told about the authors of the animated series of prediction "Lost past"(124,000 views),"Coincidence"(67 000),"Pridnztrovets"(34,000) and"Batkovich"(22,000), as well as numerous publics and users" VKontakte "(examples here, here, here).
The scene with a bart at the bank is genuine-it is taken from the 21st episode of the sixth season of Simpsons. Series I went out Back in April 1995, it is called the “Teachers' Busters”. The moment with an angry crowd requiring the control of his money is parodying a similar scene From the film "This is a wonderful life"1946. The character in the bank, who tells people that their money is “in the house of Bill and the house of Fred”, is based on the hero of this picture of George Bailey, played Actor James Stuart.
However, in fact, in the animated series, the sign on the bank is not Silicon Valley Bank, but by First Bank of Springfield (“The First Springfield Bank” is cities in which Simpsons live). On the stop frame of the viral video, it is clearly noticeable that someone (relatively inaccurately) put a new inscription on a blue background over a genuine image.
On a distributed video with a fake prediction, you can see the translucent inscription u/narudatsu - this is the name User Reddit entertainment forum (the ancestor of the Russian -speaking Portal "Picabu"). In the profile of this person, a post with source videos published March 10 and at the time of writing this analysis, I gained more than 3900 pluses. At the same time, the author of the original source indicated that this is just a meme, demonstrating, "which actually happened in Silicon Valley Bank."
Thus, the viral video was edited as a joke that the author of the installation never hid. And the original scene from Simpsons was a parody of the time from the film, released almost 50 years before the release of this episode of the animated series.
Simpsons have been going on for the fourth ten years, and during this time It turned out more than 740 episodes. It is not surprising that with such an amount of ideas, the scriptwriters inadvertently guessed what events occurred in the future. However, in most cases, these so -called predictions are fakeor it turns out that they are based on the usual Treatment.
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