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John: about 40 people will buy the Pizza John shirt on October 13, 2020 (2020)

prediction · status: proved wrong · last event: proved wrong (2020-10-14) · owner: John

On 5 October 2020 John guessed that about 40 people would buy the Pizza John shirt on the day his video went up. They sold more than 95, so the guess was wrong.

About: Pizza John

date event what video
2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) (happened 2020-10-05) predicted John predicts about 40 people will buy the Pizza John shirt on upload day, and tells viewers not to be afraid to beat that expectation. (hedged) Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle 00:01:27
2020-10-14 proved wrong Hank says they blew John's shirt prediction out of the water, selling more than 95, an example of how imagining the future affects the future. John Predicts the Future! 00:00:58

Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).

What is said about it

2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John notes the main news on the morning he films: the US President has been hospitalized for COVID, and many people close to him caught it after indoor maskless gatherings. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John suspects that news, very big to him, will not feel big to viewers eight days later because news cycles are moving much faster. (hedged) — 00:01:56