Bad things have happened around the globe forever, but many people are saying that 2016 was especially bad. Where did we go wrong? I decided to look back at some Twitter predictions from 2010 — a Goldilocks year of sorts where there weren’t too many tweets to sift through, but enough to produce some wonderful guesses.
FLASHFORWARD IS CANCELLED. Dec. 12, 2016 will forever be a mystery.
— Carl (@drmcmuffin) May 14, 2010
FlashForward was a short-lived television show that aired on ABC. It was one of many shows that ABC and other major networks greenlit in hopes of finding the next LOST. Spoiler alert: none of them really ever found the next LOST. (HBO might have with Westworld, for better or worse.) To solve Carl’s mystery: December 12th was Ding-a-Ling day, and Donald Trump gave some bad people more power.
@aplusk Well my first bill as president 2016 will be the 30 hour work week that would include a 3 day weekend, more jobs and time to spend $
— Kevin Harmala (@KHarmala) April 12, 2010
In 2010 Kevin promised Ashton Kutcher that in 2016, as president, he’d roll out a slimmer 30 hour work week with a longer weekend for Americans. Kevin did not win the 2016 election but judging who did and how, this platform would have been enough to get him some votes!
.@owillis 2016 will be #millertime?
— Amit Mistry (@amitmistry) February 22, 2010
I’m willing to guess 2016 drove lots of people to drinking so, yes.