‘Time traveler’ ‘has shared a photo from the year 5000’ and it’s not good news
It seems like there are many time travelers around these days, and yet none of them seem to be willing to give me the winning lottery numbers. Anyway, we’ve once again been warned about the future, but what is it we are adding to our ever-growing list of fears?
Time Traveler Issues Warning
A man named Edward says he was part of a time-travel experiment that launched him 3,000 years into the future – and he swears he has the photographic evidence to prove it. According to Edward, it all happened back in 2004 while he was working in a lab in Los Angeles. There, he claims he was “assigned the duty to visit the future and take photographs of what he saw.”
In a resurfaced interview shared by ApexTV, Edward’s identity was concealed with a pixelated face and distorted voice. But what he had to say was anything but subtle.
“I will tell you a story which will amaze you and you will be astonished,” he said. “I appeared to ‘place’. It was unbelievable.”
Edward described standing on “a huge wooden platform,” surrounded by buildings made entirely of wood. Then came the twist: “I realised it was the same city, Los Angeles, but underwater.”
He claims he wasn’t alone in this watery world of the future. Edward says he met a man who explained how the city ended up submerged beneath the waves. The cause? Global warming.
“That all was because of global warming. Pieces of ice in both poles saw that enough had been melted, and the world dropped under the water,” he said. “The flood happened because of too much quantity of Co2 in the atmosphere, which step by step destructed the natural shield zone.”
Predictably, not everyone is buying Edward’s deep dive into the future. Online viewers were quick to mock the interview, with one writing: “I guess in the future they haven’t figured out how to get to the point.” Another joked: “I want to time travel and get the last 18 minutes of my life back.”
A Painting That Might Just Show… an iPhone?
While Edward was showing off flooded cities, art lovers were busy debating whether a woman from the 1800s was casually scrolling her iPhone a century and a half before it was invented. The painting in question is The Expected One by Austrian artist Ferdinand George Waldmüller. It shows a young woman walking through nature, seemingly absorbed in an object she’s holding in her hands, while a young man waits for her with a flower.
The artwork, currently on display in Munich, has sparked numerous theories suggesting that the mysterious object is – of all things – an iPhone. Peter Russell from Glasgow told Vice that he noticed the resemblance during a visit to Germany with his wife. “What strikes me most is how much a change in technology has changed the interpretation of the painting, and in a way has leveraged its entire context.”
He explained: “The big change is that in 1850 or 1860, every single viewer would have identified the item that the girl is absorbed in as a hymnal or prayer book.” But, as he put it: “Today, no one could fail to see the resemblance to the scene of a teenage girl absorbed in social media on their smartphone.”
And the internet absolutely ran with it.
One X user declared: “This 1860 painting ‘The Expected One,’ painted by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller clearly depicts a time traveling woman holding her iPhone. It’s amazing what kind of inspired vision artists can have.”
Another tweeted: “Time travel is real. She’s definitely holding an iPhone in this 1860 painting.”
Do you think time travel is real?