The viral screengrab from Captain America: The First Avenger.
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Did Captain America predict the coronavirus in 2011? Screengrab from Marvel movie goes viral as internet sleuths investigate

For the previous few days, a screengrab from the primary Captain America film has been extensively shared on-line, with a number of followers suggesting that the scene ‘predicts’ the coronavirus pandemic. Internet sleuths have now seemingly debunked the claims.

The screengrab, from the post-credits scene of Captain America: The First Avenger, present Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers waking up in modern-day America, and operating out into Times Square. As he seems to be round in confusion, he’s met by Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury. But if within the background, eagle-eyed followers seen that the a few billboards could be carrying hidden meanings. While the one over Steve’s proper shoulder is promoting Corona beer, one other over his left shoulder seems to seem like the spiked illustration of the particular coronavirus.

Other followers additionally discover a billboard that reads “By George, we did it!” which they took as a reference to the George Floyd protests. “OMG ITS NOT FAKE. Captain America. On right, coronavirus, on left a corona beer and a sign that says BY GEORGE WE DID IT. Captain America The First Avenger from 2011!” one particular person wrote in a tweet. “Well it’s official: Captain America: The First Avenger predicted the coronavirus,” wrote one other.

 

But an web sleuth went on an investigation, and that is what they discovered. “A friend who’s fully into the covid conspiracies sent me this post that says Captain America predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 2011, and while its obviously bs, I started fixating on that circled image on the right,” they wrote in a tweet. “It looks so familiar. What is it? I began to investigate. At first I thought it reminded me of a YA novel cover design from that era. I went through all the main ones until I remembered the Divergent cover had the same colour scheme, but not quite the same design. Close, but no cigar,” the Twitter consumer continued.

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The sleuth then started determining when the scene was precisely filmed, and “Looked up every movie and broadway show released from April through the summer. Nothing.” The sleuth continued, “I started watching random YouTube videos and looking for images from April 2011 in Times Square. No clear view of the poster. Wes started scouring Bing and google street view.” Finally, they wrote, their good friend discovered a transparent picture taken of Times Square from across the time when the scene was crammed and “recognized the logo and the colour scheme. We cracked the case.”

The Twitter consumer shared their findings. The billboard over Steve’s left shoulder doesn’t present the coronavirus, however is as an alternative an commercial for Barilla pasta.

 

Several different pop-culture titles reminiscent of Asterix, The Big Bang Theory and even our very personal CID have been stated to have ‘predicted’ the pandemic.

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