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Every Simpsons prediction sourced, scored, fact-checked
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Every Simpsons prediction sourced, scored, fact-checked
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Viral Simpsons prediction videos have no sources. Half the clips are AI-generated fakes, and nobody built the actual database until now. Springfield Oracle tracks every prediction with verified episode references, real event citations, and honest fact-checks. The world so far has been relentless, and the Simpsons wrote all of it. Springfield Oracle tells you which claims are real. And which aren't.
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The deepfake problem is what makes this actually necessary rather than just fun. When half the viral clips are fabricated, the whole "Simpsons predicted it" phenomenon becomes impossible to reason about without a sourced database. This is the infrastructure that should have existed years ago.
The scoring system is the right call too. Confirmed with receipts versus Pending versus debunked are very different things and collapsing them all into "the Simpsons predicted X" is where most of the misinformation comes from.
Curious about the methodology for borderline cases. When a prediction is genuinely ambiguous, like something that kind of happened but not quite the way the episode described, how does the scoring handle that nuance? Is there a partial match category or is it binary?
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@joao_seabra Exactly the right question and honestly the hardest part of building this.
Right now, the system is deliberately conservative; if it doesn't meet the bar for Confirmed, it goes to Disputed or Pending, no partial credit. The risk of a "partial match" category is that it becomes a catch-all for lazy confirmations. "Kind of happened" is how misinformation starts.
There are genuinely interesting cases where the episode got the concept right but the details wrong, or got the details right, but the framing is contested.
The longer-term plan is a confidence layer that sits beneath the status, essentially a score that reflects how closely the episode maps to the real event across a few dimensions: specificity, timing, and source quality. So you'd see Confirmed at 91% versus 67% and immediately understand that one is a direct match and the other is a reasonable interpretation.
Not live yet. But that's where this goes.
@isha_godboley thanks. Looking forward to seeing this live then!
How cool is that, since I have watched only a few episodes and we have the internet full with such claims it would be nice abd useful to fact check them.
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@viktorgems Absolutely, and that's what we're building for. As we grow further, we'll be adding more predictions, episodic context and fact-check with the real world events. Thanks for the support!
@isha_godboley all the best of luck and maybe you can add other cartoons/films that predicted some facts for the future, I understand that not all did to the same extent as simpsons but still
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@viktorgems yep, that's in the pipeline, there's a lot to uncover, the statistical probablity is wayy too crazy.
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Hi everyone 👋
I kept wondering If thousands of people claim “The Simpsons predicted this”…
Why was there no actual database?
Springfield Oracle is our attempt to turn internet chaos into something structured.
The real question is: What happens when pop culture becomes data?
Curious to hear your thoughts.
Kaily
super super cool! got an early preview and i spent a LOT of time going through this.
this is the kind of personal projects to like to see 🫡
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@kritikasinghania Thank you so much, Kritika!
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Hi everyone, thank you so much for all your support and helping us get to #5. Onward and upwards from here on!
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