The Simpsons seems to have predicted the “shambolic” Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience that has left the web in stitches.
The occasion at Glasgow‘s Box Hub on Saturday (February 24) had dad and mom reeling after their £35 tickets purchased them and their youngsters entry to a near-empty warehouse. Completing the expertise was a slightly bored-looking Oompa Loompa, a creepy character named The Unknown and a slightly bold AI-generated script, the Daily Star beforehand reported.
The scenes had social media customers in suits of giggles after they have been posted to X (previously Twitter). One eagle-eyed web sleuth even noticed the expertise bore a hanging resemblance to the beloved cartoon.
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“The Simpsons did it again,” they wrote, accompanied by side-by-side collages of the episode and the real-life occasion. The animated scenes have been taken from three episodes of the present together with one known as Homerland, first launched in September 2013.
The display grabs confirmed a slightly disappointing funhouse product of mattresses and dubbed “Fort Adventure,” a lemonade stand and even a personality that appeared like an Oompa Loompa smoking a cigarette.
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The snaps taken from final weekend’s occasion additionally confirmed a desk lined in half-filled cups of lemonade and a girl in an Oompa Loompa costume stood behind what seemed to be a chemistry set. Users have been fast to touch upon the coincidence, with one writing: “down to the sad oompa loompa ???”.
It shouldn’t be the primary time the beloved cartoon has “predicted” real-life occasions. The present, which first aired as a brief in 1987, is claimed to have foreshadowed quite a few occasions from Donald Trump‘s presidency to the pandemic, the horse meat scandal and even the invention of sensible watches, the Daily Star beforehand reported.
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The host of the video The Simpsons Conspiracy: How They Predict The Future even got here up with a idea as to how the predictions are so spot-on. “Unlike most other shows, The Simpsons writing team consists largely of writers who are extremely educated in fields ranging from mathematics to social sciences because of this they are also really connected to those that are on the cutting edge,” they mentioned.
No quantity of training would have been sufficient to organize the attendees of the Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience for what lay forward, nonetheless. The occasion’s advert had promised a “paradise of sweet treats” and an “enchanted garden containing giant sweets and mysterious sculptures”.
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According to The Daily Record, it even boasted of an “imagination lab with mind-expanding projections and optical marvels”. But dad and mom have been gobsmacked when the occasion noticed youngsters given only a few jelly infants.
A House of Illuminati spokesperson mentioned: “We fully apologise for what has happened and will be giving full refunds to each and every person that purchased tickets.”
The firm is claimed to have used AI-generated photographs to promote the occasion. Joe Davies, founding father of digital advertising company FatsJoe, mentioned folks might spot AI photographs by searching for nonsensical backgrounds, bizarre particulars in widespread objects and shadows or lighting that do not make sense.
“As more and more companies start to advertise with AI images, there’s an urgent need for increased awareness among consumers around how to spot them,” he mentioned.
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