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The kitchen of accurate predictions🔮
🎬Each episode of “The Simpsons”, if we simplify, has several levels of scripting: on the first level there are Charlie Chaplin-style “gags” (Homer regularly bangs his head against everything in the world), on the conventional second level the plot of the series itself is played out, including characters from the Simpsons universe, and on the third level the most interesting thing happens. Traditionally, each (or almost every) episode of the series is built on an analogy of a culturally significant story. The basis can be anything from ancient Greek myths to Quentin Tarantino's bloody movie tracts. Scriptwriters sometimes disguise the so-called precedent text with external layers of the event pie (it must be interesting to chew on info-food), but there are usually no mysteries for the regular audience. How do the creators manage to come up with new plots for 36 seasons and still accurately guess social trends and make predictions? The thing is, they don't. Well, or hardly at all🥱
They follow the numbers, make graphs... In general, they monitor everything that is burning. And in the scenarios themselves, they offer options for the development of events.
❓What “The Simpsons” predicted
Dotcoms, gentrification and making money in Dota👩🏻💻
Over the past three decades, there has not been any significant social trend that would not have caught in his cartoon lens “Simpsons”: economic upswings and recessions (Homer created the site on the wave of the dot-com boom and, of course, it ended badly), new trends in public life (the city of Springfield, the main dump of America, suddenly became the center of hipster culture - gentrification occurred). Relatively recently, Homer allowed Bart to spend many hours playing a computer game that looked suspiciously like Dota, because winning virtual tournaments brought money... Ring any bells?
🎬Each episode of “The Simpsons”, if we simplify, has several levels of scripting: on the first level there are Charlie Chaplin-style “gags” (Homer regularly bangs his head against everything in the world), on the conventional second level the plot of the series itself is played out, including characters from the Simpsons universe, and on the third level the most interesting thing happens. Traditionally, each (or almost every) episode of the series is built on an analogy of a culturally significant story. The basis can be anything from ancient Greek myths to Quentin Tarantino's bloody movie tracts. Scriptwriters sometimes disguise the so-called precedent text with external layers of the event pie (it must be interesting to chew on info-food), but there are usually no mysteries for the regular audience. How do the creators manage to come up with new plots for 36 seasons and still accurately guess social trends and make predictions? The thing is, they don't. Well, or hardly at all🥱
They follow the numbers, make graphs... In general, they monitor everything that is burning. And in the scenarios themselves, they offer options for the development of events.
❓What “The Simpsons” predicted
Dotcoms, gentrification and making money in Dota👩🏻💻
Over the past three decades, there has not been any significant social trend that would not have caught in his cartoon lens “Simpsons”: economic upswings and recessions (Homer created the site on the wave of the dot-com boom and, of course, it ended badly), new trends in public life (the city of Springfield, the main dump of America, suddenly became the center of hipster culture - gentrification occurred). Relatively recently, Homer allowed Bart to spend many hours playing a computer game that looked suspiciously like Dota, because winning virtual tournaments brought money... Ring any bells?