It’s a wild day for the internet following the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s sudden passing. While most would say it’s impossible to predict the things that’ll happen on the internet, one Twitter user put that notion to the test by pulling a full-on Back to the Future moment and predicting Her Majesty passing 38 days before it happened.
The tweet in question comes courtesy of Twitter user @BirdTheBanana, who raised more than a few eyebrows when they tweeted a meme of Sheen from Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius dancing with the caption: “Me and the Boys after successfully murdering The Queen Elizabeth II on the 8th of September, 2022.”
As you can see, the tweet was published on Aug. 1 2022, exactly 38 days before the Royal Family announced Queen Elizabeth II’s death on, you guessed it, Sept. 8 2022. Naturally, the internet had reactions.
More than a few people took the prediction very seriously, calling on gods and prophets to make sense of it all.
Others went with a much simpler explanation: time travel.
Most, however, were just simply confuzzled.
As anyone in @BirdTheBanana’s shoes would do in this situation, the prophetic Twitter user quickly released a statement of their own explaining the coincidental turn of events. “To any authority that might be interested in my knowledge,” they began. “I must make it clear that this statement was merely a comedic prediction and I have no connections to any cult, religion, organization and or conspiracy.”
Phew, that explains it all.
Then again when you think about it, there are over seven and a half billion people alive on the planet and only so many days and months to choose from (the Queen was 96 after all). It’s not completely outrageous to assume someone would guess the right date. That doesn’t make it any less terrifying, but it does ease the burden on all those gods and prophets running around the Twitter-verse whispering into peoples’ ears.