50 Times The Simpsons Saw It Coming Before the World Did

Amid a quirky romance plotline between Ned and Edna, Homer clumsily fiddles with a smartphone. Among the app icons? A cryptic black “X” on a silver square. No Twitter bird, no blue—just an unexplained X. At the time, it was likely just random graphic filler.

But over a decade later, Twitter was officially rebranded “X” by Elon Musk in 2023, completely shedding its bluebird identity. The prediction didn’t come from dialogue or plot—it hid in the background like a wink from the future. Springfield, it seems, always knew the bird wouldn’t be the word forever.