There Is a Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Floating Around That Claims the World Ended in 2012

A conspiracy thread: Did the World End in 2012? pic.twitter.com/gFqh8ntF3S

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

I’ve wanted to talk about this subject for a while now. The other day I had a random urge to look into it again and read some old stuff. You know, just for ‘fun’. Ever since then, I’ve noticed other people talking about it again.

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

But the strangest part is.. I can not find anything online about it anymore. Like I said, you can find people talking about it causally or joking about it.. but I can not find ANY of the in depth material I had read before.

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

This has actually been really frustrating for me because I have nothing to refresh my memory while writing this. I’ve found a few things here and there that are helping me piece the puzzle together again, but I know there used to be so much more out there.

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

I can’t even remember the first time I’ve heard this theory, but it’s become somewhat of a meme. I did find a video of Max Laughan, that ‘child genius’ from YouTube, touch on this theory, but I don’t think he’s the first to talk about it. I think originally it was some girl.

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

So did the world actually end in 2012? Well, it was the year scientists at CERN finally found the Higgs Boson, you know, the particle Stephen Hawking predicted could destroy the universe, or in his own words, cause the universe to “undergo a catastrophic vacuum decay.” pic.twitter.com/YuBaNrdXyW

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Well, what would happen if we destroyed the universe? Would we know? Maybe CERN accidentally created a black hole that sucked us in without us even noticing, and we’ve just been living in it. Some physicists actually believe this is possible. pic.twitter.com/haIAPDNQvX

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

There’s the old cliche argument that nothing has ‘felt right’ since 2012. I agree with this. Maybe it has something to do with ‘growing up’ and getting older, but ever since then it seems like the world descends more and more into chaos each day. Time even feels faster. pic.twitter.com/uyCJGI9k7q

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

There’s some sort of calamity happening almost daily. Mass shootings only stay in the headlines for like 12 hours now. Did we all die and go to Hell? I don’t really believe that, but some people do. Maybe we’re in a similar situation to the characters in The Good Place. pic.twitter.com/2ZD31TximM

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Like I’ve said before, I think we live in series of simulations. Perhaps the universe was destroyed by CERN and our collective consciousness was moved into a parallel universe next door. It would be *almost* identical. pic.twitter.com/njGc873y5P

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

In fact, there are people out there who are reporting small differences in this reality and the one they remember before 2012. This is a phenomenon often referred to as the Mandela Effect. Below is one of the most famous ’ME’s. pic.twitter.com/GlstZ7o7RM

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Some people remember Febreeze rather than Febreze. Some people remember Sketchers instead of Skechers. Loony Toons instead of Loony Tunes, JCPenny instead of JCPenney. The list goes on. If these don’t look or feel right to you, you’re not alone. pic.twitter.com/HsaY95L94E

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

The name comes from Nelson Mandela, whom many people believed to have died in prison in the 80s. However, to many peoples surprise, his funeral was national news in 2013 and he had lived a long and happy life. pic.twitter.com/P7DGbLMORa

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Mandela Effects get much creepier though. Some people remember the Statue of Liberty being in a totally different location, that location being Ellis Island. It’s actually on Liberty Island. pic.twitter.com/vkLNpDZGHb

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Here’s a painting clearly depicting the statue at Ellis Island with no other islands near by. Was the artist just not paying attention? Did he just like it better this way lol? I really don’t think so… pic.twitter.com/hMH8nR1MFP

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Now if that’s not strange enough, if you go on Google Maps street view, there’s a few specific areas of Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty is just… gone. Residue from the previous timeline? pic.twitter.com/1PEn2XD7fy

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

The account uploading these strange pictures goes by the username of Auguste Bartholdi. That’s the designer of Lady Liberty herself. The account also sports his picture from the 1800s. He’s Google approved. pic.twitter.com/2hpUKVhXaX

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Apparently, right before the United States’ entry into World War I, the Germans committed the first act of terrorism on US soil. It was considered one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions to have ever occurred. I’m wondering why I didn’t hear about this in school? pic.twitter.com/czJ2zDCzE1

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

So anyways, this explosion is the reason the Statue of Liberty’s torch is closed to the public. It’s been closed for over 100 years. There’s only one problem though, people remember going there! pic.twitter.com/CTq059Odvf

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Then there’s these pictures I found taken from the torch. But just look at the users’ profile pictures. Creepy. Were they time travelers? pic.twitter.com/CL6TivQCRv

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

There’s also this weirdo twitter account, @StatueEllisFdn, which makes no mention of Liberty Island at all and sports a creepy banner photo of people walking up stairs that lead to nothing. pic.twitter.com/ShUfeaKiyR

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

And last but not least there’s this video:https://t.co/FU7Tg1llzw

It’s a collection of Facebook photos where people have tagged their location at “Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island”. However, the people are posing in front of and staring at NOTHING. It’s really unsettling.

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Well anyways, a while back there was a viral thread on 4chan posted by someone who claimed to be one of the 23 scientists at CERN responsible for creating the Mandela effect. They claimed the planet was destroyed and we were placed in a simulated world. pic.twitter.com/tFFkLocbfb

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

However, the thing I thought was most interesting, was that whoever this person was, described reality as being like a set of Russian dolls, where there are worlds nestled within one another, or like we’ve talked about, ‘simulations’ within ‘simulations’. pic.twitter.com/21f3FI3Iu8

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

The idea of ‘simulations’ within ‘simulations’ or a ‘multiverse’ is not something new. It has been a part of Eastern philosophy since the 3rd century. A quote by Alan Watts illustrates it perfectly. pic.twitter.com/A1N2b1CKuJ

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

“Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum…” pic.twitter.com/A7X0LOovMF

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

“… That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.”

This also reminds me of the ‘Turtles all the Way Down’ myth, the story that the world sits on the back of a turtle, who’s standing on a larger turtle, who’s standing on an even larger turtle… you get the idea. pic.twitter.com/8T2FNgOfEF

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

But anyways, besides the Mayans, there were some other people who predicted 2012 would be the end. One of these people was Terrance McKenna. Well, he didn’t necessarily believe 2012 would be the end, but he predicted there would be some ‘reality-rearranging’ event. pic.twitter.com/wBS4Hh4Xcl

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

He made this prediction using his Timewave Zero formula, which supposedly mathematically ‘decodes’ the King Wen sequence of the I Ching into something that graphs the fractal patterns of history. pic.twitter.com/3UexwfX0wg

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

The graph culminates in a singularity point of infinite complexity. To better understand this concept you can imagine a tape wrapped up in a spiral like you find inside a VHS tape. Time goes round and round in smaller and smaller loops until eventually, it runs out. pic.twitter.com/D2HHWlb5CD

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Is there another meaning to ‘the end of time’? Preston B. Nichols, a supposed whistleblower who wrote books detailing time travel experiments at the Montauk Air Force Base, claimed that they were never able to time travel past 2012 because they could find no future beyond it. pic.twitter.com/0KWKImBtH3

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

According to him there was a very abrupt wall there, with nothing on the other side. Whether he’s a crackpot or not, what I find interesting is he did this interview in 2014. Like it’s just a strange thing to say considering you’ve already made it past that date, right?

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Stranger Things and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are actually both loosely based on those supposed experiments. pic.twitter.com/95vNhOdR3w

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

There’s also a theory floating around that we’ve reached the end of history. The ‘end of history’ is a philosophical idea that has been talked about by such notable figures as Hegel, Marx, and most recently Francis Fukuyama. pic.twitter.com/hb1G3b4bEm

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

At the ‘end of history’ events still happen, but humanity has reached the end of it’s sociocultural evolution. This theory has nothing to do with time travel or simulations, but rather, the stagnation of human progress. pic.twitter.com/XzQi74JL48

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

I just find it fitting that people think this is happening. It kind of fits the dream-like purgatory theme. It’s this theory I find most when trying to research the topic of the world having already ended.

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

If you think fourth dimensionally, or beyond linear time, we could say that the universe has already ended. The moment it began, the end was set in stone. pic.twitter.com/TqkRgZRldV

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019

Perhaps the universe is in a constant cycle of expanding and contracting, the Big Bang and Big Crunch happening over and over, and our souls are just taking a ride on the Cosmic Ferris Wheel. Thanks for reading. pic.twitter.com/CJM0iY9QeF

— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019