Another prediction from the writers of the animated series “The Simpsons” has appeared on the Internet - this time about the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank. The proof was a video of a scene from an episode many years ago. We have verified the authenticity of the video.
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) founded in 1983, until recently was engaged in servicing technology startups and was one of the 20 largest commercial banks in the United States. In March 2023, SVB was forced sell part of their assets at a loss; against this background, the so-called banking panic began, when clients began to withdraw their funds. On March 10, supervisory authorities closed the bank - media called This is the largest bankruptcy since the 2008 crisis.
On the same day, a 33-second video from the Simpsons episode went viral on the Internet, showing a building with a Silicon Valley Bank sign. In this scene, Bart Simpson causes a panic in the bank by imitating the voices of other people, supposedly outraged by the lack of cash in the till. As a result, the characters of the animated series start a fight. Social media users began to share this video with comments that “The Simpsons predicted the future again.”
For example, in the Telegram channel “Pool N3"(151,000 views at the time of writing this text) the video was commented on as follows: "Traditional American fun "Everything has already been in The Simpsons." Post by “Pula N3” with this video on the air of their program showed TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov. In addition, the channels “Lost past"(124,000 views), "Coincidence"(67,000), "Transnistrian" (34,000) and "Batkovich"(22,000), as well as numerous public pages and users of VKontakte (examples here, here, here).
The scene with Bart in the bank is authentic - it is taken from the 21st episode of the sixth season of The Simpsons. Series came out back in April 1995 and is called “The PTA Disbands”. The moment with the angry crowd demanding their money from the managers parodies a similar stage from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life» 1946. The character in the bank who tells people that their money is "in Bill's house and Fred's house" is based on the film's character, George Bailey. played actor James Stewart.
However, in fact, in the animated series, the sign on the bank does not say Silicon Valley Bank, but First Bank of Springfield (“First Bank of Springfield” - the city in which the Simpsons live). In the still image of the viral video, it is clearly visible that someone (relatively carelessly) superimposed a new inscription on a blue background on top of the original image.
On the video being circulated with a fake prediction, you can see the translucent inscription u/Narudatsu - this is the name user entertainment forum Reddit (the progenitor of the Russian-language portal “Pikabu”). There is a post with the original video on this person's profile published March 10 and at the time of writing this analysis it received more than 3,900 upvotes. At the same time, the author of the original source indicated that this is just a meme demonstrating “what really happened at Silicon Valley Bank.”
Thus, the viral video was edited as a joke, which the author of the edit never hid. And the original scene from The Simpsons was a parody of a moment from a film that was released almost 50 years before the release of this episode of the animated series.
“The Simpsons” has been running for four decades, and during this time it turned out more than 740 episodes. With so many ideas, it's not surprising that the writers inadvertently guessed what events happened in the future. However, in most cases these so-called predictions turn out to be fake, or it turns out that they are based on the usual delusion.
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