Almost no day goes by without The Simpsons making an accurate prediction, and today is no exception.
In the episode Ned ‘n’ Edna’s Blend Agenda, which aired more than a decade ago in 2012, the beloved cartoon predicted that Elon Musk, 52, will rename Twitter to X.
In it, social media users have noticed that Homer Simpson’s smartphone has an app with an X that seems uncannily similar to Tesla creator Elon Musk’s new logo.
It’s the latest in a long series of Simpsons predictions, including a Barbie plot that mimicked Greta Gerwig’s ‘feminist’ reinvention of the Mattel doll in the film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
The eldest Simpsons daughter implores the toy’s inventor in the 1994 episode, Lisa vs Malibu Stacy, to transmit a more feminist message to young girls, prompting followers on Twitter/X to write that the programme had ‘done it again.’
Last month, viewers were taken aback when a 2016 episode appeared to presage the Titanic submersible disaster, following Homer as he lost consciousness and oxygen on an underwater adventure.
The Titan went down in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, June 18 before wreckage was recovered roughly 1,600 feet from the ship’s bow, killing the five people on board.
The Simpsons also anticipated a Cypress Hill concert by the London Symphony Orchestra over three decades after the joke was made on the programme.
Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October, and an email addressed to the company’s business partners in April stated that it had been renamed X Corp but would continue to function under its old name.
However, in a tweet posted on Sunday morning he said: ‘And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter [sic] brand and, gradually, all the birds.’
A second post quickly followed, adding: ‘If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live [sic] worldwide tomorrow.’
The domain x.com went up on Sunday evening and was routed to twitter.com. and soon after, the new logo was projected onto the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.
The new X logo and name can be found on the company’s Twitter account, and by mid-morning UK time, the entire site had been modified to match the new appearance.
The Simpsons is available to stream on Disney Plus.
