Article Claims world actually ended in 2012. We're living in a post-glitch simulation.

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They clearly got the idea of transitioning to an illusionary world from Philip K. Dick ("the empire never ended").
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Wild theory claims the world actually ended in 2012... and we are now living in the apocalypse chaos
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...-2012.html

INTRO: A shocking theory that claims our world ended in 2012, and humanity has been living in a simulation ever since, has regained online popularity. The theory was born out of the ancient prophecy surrounding the Mayan calendar, which was said to mark the end of the world on December 21, 2012.

It referred to the end of a major cycle in the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar, which some people believed predicted a catastrophic apocalypse or some sort of global transformation.

However, 2012 appeared to come and go without a world-ending cataclysm, leading experts to suggest that the Mayans did not predict the end of the world, but a simple cycle rollover in their astronomical calendars.

Now, called the 2012 phenomenon, it has regained online popularity, spurred on by recent events like the Covid-19 pandemic, various climate crises, and social and political unrest throughout the world, creating a near-endless sense of dread.

The belief is that the world we see today is considered a 'post-glitch' universe, a sort of parallel dimension where all human consciousness was sent when our original universe came to an end over a decade ago.

The controversial 'simulation' theory has given the Mayan doomsday prophecy new life, as supporters claim everything that's happened after December 21, 2012 has taken place in a simulated reality where all human consciousness was transferred.

Simulation or afterlife theorists have argued that the world's end was a programmed reset or collective death event, with ongoing existence sustained by advanced aliens, a matrix-like system, or some type of spiritual framework created by a God-like being.

On social media, claims that the world ended in 2012 have become a common excuse for why strange, catastrophic, or unexplainable events take place throughout the world.

'All the doomsday prophets can't fool me,' one person on X claimed. 'I know the world ended in 2012 and that we are actually in the final thoughts of a shared consciousness made of billions of dying brains.'

'The world ended in 2012. We are in the purgatory,' another social media user declared.

There has been no credible scientific or historical evidence that can confirm this theory as being true, with the controversial interpretations of the Mayan calendar being repeatedly debunked by experts in physics, archaeology, and astronomy... (MORE - details)

[Magical Realist]

Has all the hallmarks of any other conspiracy theory, particularly in that it is totally unfalsifiable. Hence the red herring of there being no scientific evidence for it. That is precisely what one would expect of a faithful and seamless simulation. As mentioned before, I remember gazing out my window on December 21st 2012 and being impressed by what a beautiful sunny blue-skied day it was. I'm sorry. The ancient Mayans didn't know shit about the future.

[stryder]

Y2K and the Y2k38 were issues of scope based upon the level of technology at the time. As technology and the nature of obsolescence moves on, those issues become less of a problem overall.

In the case of the Mayan calendar, there is no mention of the other calendars that developed independently from it. In other words if one calendar failed, there always a back. That of course is just to register what day it is, not to switch server or some such.