Is metaverse expected in The Simpsons?

The Simpsons supposed to have predicted the existence of the Metaverse?

Science lovers - The cartoon series that often presents future "predictions", The Simpsons, seems to be back in the conversation after presenting a metaverse picture in one of its episodes.

Previously, cartoons that began to be famous since the 80s have managed to "predict" some things in the future such as Donald Trump becoming U.S. President, the corona pandemic, the FIFA scandal, and several others.

Who does not know the animated series The Simpsons, which has been popular in America and even the whole world since decades ago?

In addition to the storyline and interesting characters, The Simpsons are also known for the conspiracy of prophecies that exist in several episodes of its question.

This time has also revealed a new allegation, where The Simpsons allegedly predicted Metaverse from 2011 ago.

Whereas as we know, Metaverse itself is a new digital world developed by Meta (facebook's new name).

In November, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook's name to Meta.

And at that time Zuckerberg introduced a digital world called Metaverse that can create a 'new life and world' for humans on Earth.

More about The Simpsons predictions, the allegations you can see on The Simpsons show in episode 9 season 23.

The episode was launched by the company in December 2011 under the title "Maggie in the future".

In the storyline in the episode, it is not clearly explained how The Simpsons predict the existence of the Metaverse.

However, there are some scenes that show how the characters in the animation transform the digital world.

Later in the episode, it is also shown that both of Bart's parents are reading a book that appears digitally through a square-shaped tool.

Then the emergence of a number of technological objects was shown, ranging from Christmas decorations such as holograms to teleportation devices that Maggie wanted to use.

So where is The Simpsons supposed to have predicted the existence of the Metaverse?

An illustration of the digital world in The Simpsons series that is allegedly metaverse.

The Simpsons Predicts the Metaverse 

In The Simpsons episode 9 season, 23 is shown how Lisa Simpsons was sitting at a table with her son.

He saw how his son opened the laptop and flashed a cable to the neck to move into the digital world.

It was done by Lisa to save her child who was addicted and trapped in the digital world.

From the scene of The Simpsons series, it was shown how Lisa sees people in the digital world.

Metaverse itself is actually not a completely new concept, because it went viral in 2013 because it presents a virtual world that can also make real money for its players.

This time, the metaverse comes in a blockchain technology that is expected to carry the concept of decentralization and use crypto assets as currencies in it.

Based on a tweet from the Swiss Unique Watch Club account, a video was shared showing snippets of episodes from the cartoon that are thought to depict what a metaverse is.

It was an episode in season 23 of "Holidays of Future Passed", which first aired in 2011, or about 11 years ago.

Using a laptop device and a connecting cable, one of the characters in the cartoon seems to be entering a new world that is considered a digital or virtual world.

There is also a digital screen that can make users of the digital world can choose a virtual friend.

Then on a piece of impressions also shows a large screen that says "NewTube" which is allegedly a play on the name YouTube.

But is this really a Metaverse prediction deliberately made by The Simpsons?

There has been no official confirmation or statement from anywhere, but what do you think?

Although not so "detailed", we can already ascertain what is presented there. It is a metaverse in the general and simple picture.

Many comments came in, where one of the highlights was, "did The Simpsons predict the metaverse, or Did Mark Zuckerberg steal the idea from The Simpsons?"

Of course, the question is just a joke because this concept itself has been around for a long time and is not a completely new thing.

Mark only developed it to get better (according to him) by utilizing today's technology. Of course, it's more sophisticated than it was a few years ago.

Despite all these predictions, of course, the current metaverse is still widely expected to be decentralized (not centralized).

Meanwhile, Meta Inc. certainly won't present this in a non-centralized manner because their base is a private company. Most likely it won't use blockchain.

At the end, who is able to win the hearts of users will become even bigger in this era of metaverse that has just begun. Let's watch.