https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58647/10-words-simpsons-made-famous
Your average believer in low level conspiracy mumbo jumbo isn’t going to spend a lot of time watching educational TV. Bill Nye Saves the World? Mythbusters? These shows contradict their worldview which consists of claiming to be right about everything, then when those educational shows point out that they’re wrong it’s time to double down and find supporting (manufactured and fake) evidence on the Internet. This not so educational sources are a lot more fun for them too. Being racist, misogynistic and homophobic is not just allowed, it’s encouraged. But the Simpsons. That’s cool. It’s raunchy, older episodes had some top notch writing, and surprisingly educational. Subtly so, and often your conspiracist wouldn’t get the joke about how their attitude was being mocked.
Simpsons viewing and conspiracy content have achieved legendary status. Because despite a lot of it being due to the math being more favorable there has been enough strange coincidences to give it an aura of mystery.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/simpsons-future-predictions-accurate-1140775/amp/
And that story is only a week old. The Simpsons predicting the future content is an add on. A sort of condiment to be added to the main dish. Often wildly off topic. Often stretched to and beyond the limits of believability. It’s something known and comfortable, well trodden territory that won’t get you admonished by your cult leader, because Predictive Programming is magical and cool to talk about anytime.
In regards to gematria, the Simpsons and predictive programming there is an odd paradoxical relationship. The same math centered around the enormous amount of content over a long series run has produced a running gag of new words or enhanced visibility.
Someone has figured out that gematria doesn’t make sense in regards to language evolving. And it’s not unreasonable to point out that in a conspiracy soup of crank magnetism that if the Simpsons predictions are so damned important and gematria is so damned important that there should have been some, or even a lot, of decodes about how these words fit in to current events. I’m not suggesting that the paradox will ever be resolved. There’s no way for the predictive programming to predict itself predicting new words. That would be fun to throw into one script, but not worth the effort for a long running joke. We’ll settle for having some decodes throwing in an embiggens or cromulent every now and then. Embiggens would be a perfectly nice word to Phraseshop in as a synonym for enlarge. TRUMP EMBIGGENS CLUELESS VOTER BASE WITH TASTELESS AND ILLEGAL CEMETERY STUNT = xxxx.
Since gematria doesn’t work at all it doesn’t work in a predictive setting. But it sure does give it a shiny gloss that it does. Any story more than a couple of days old doesn’t work for outrage porn. The only way EMBIGGENS is likely to be used in a decode is if a celebrity actually mentions it and that makes it to MSM. The evil scapegoat of choice, by their own admission, set the wheels in motion long ago to create perfectly cromulent words in our lexicon that show the Yankees game was rigged in advance as Aaron Judge embiggened his home run and RBI totals. And if you learn the secret gematria code you can see through the predictive programming that I’m reporting on long after the claim it was a prediction makes sense.
A true prophet and/or member of an evil empire somewhere would have etched down a prediction that included some words we didn’t know. Rest assured some day my children, FUGLY (a perfectly fine Wordle submission) doesn’t mean anything today, but just wait for it. The plans are set in motion for its use in the future. All I can tell you now is that using it to attack right wing baseless conspiracies is Meh at best. And don’t dare to point out that the upcoming dictator has a fugly soul. You gotta wait until after the events are over and the new words are popular to use them.
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