Everyone online wants to be right and everyone wants to be first, so what better way to be both right and first than to make predictions? Most of your predictions, naturally, won’t come true but when time proves you correct on something you will look very wise indeed (and nobody remembers the ones you got wrong, anyway.).
These digital Nostradamusses even have their own forum on Reddit called r/AgedLikeWine where people can marvel at how they got things eerily right. Incredibly many of these spot-on predictions were made a year or even several years ago, and yet…