it's wild that The Fifth Element made one of the most accurate predictions of all 1990s sci-fi, anticipating the rise of the streamers and influencers as major celebrities.
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It also pretty much predicted the broligarchy. Zorg could be Musk or Altman or Thiel.
aug 27, 2025, 4:53 am • 49 2 • view
I was watching it the other day and thought that's basically elon.
aug 27, 2025, 1:18 pm • 8 0 • view
The resemblance is uncanny. That speech about the robots? 100% Elongated Muskrat.
aug 27, 2025, 1:25 pm • 10 1 • view
It's basically just "80s guy" reskinned
aug 28, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 12:29 am • 2 0 • view
I thought it was retro sci-fi that he had a principally audio content strategy. Then podcasts came along and shit damn fuck we prefer to listen while doing things we are looking at.
aug 27, 2025, 4:54 am • 8 0 • view
I keep thinking i need to watch "Americathon" again. That one had some eerily accurate predictions too, almost too many
aug 27, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
(it was an *awful* movie on so many levels, but it'd be real interesting to watch it again right now, preferably with a bunch of friends to heckle it)
aug 27, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
And, the pleasure of watching Meat Loaf destroy a car with a sledgehammer 😺
aug 27, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
That movie holds up surprisingly well and is still a favorite.
aug 27, 2025, 4:14 am • 25 0 • view
I love the movie dearly, its main flaw being the plot is entirely driven by the “born sexy yesterday” trope
aug 27, 2025, 5:57 am • 20 0 • view
Why hello, fellow Pop Culture Detective Agency enjoyer 😌
aug 27, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Hiiiiii
aug 27, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
The world would be a bit more tolerable if the Fifth Element had also influenced fashion. A Jean Paul Gauthier/Moebius driven fashion scene might have kept us out of the abyss of Forever21, H&M and Lululemon.
aug 27, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
also that a giant ball of evil fire will destroy us all
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 30 0 • view
Maybe with the power of love and anime we can also blast it with lasers and turn it into a second moon
aug 27, 2025, 2:35 pm • 3 0 • view
God dammit I came here to post these exact words
aug 27, 2025, 5:52 am • 5 0 • view
I'm still waiting on having my daily ration of cigarettes delivered to me via pneumatic tube TO QUIT IS MY GOAL
aug 27, 2025, 1:48 pm • 6 2 • view
Super green!
aug 27, 2025, 4:13 am • 13 0 • view
Uh, negative, I am a meat popsicle.
aug 27, 2025, 4:17 am • 13 0 • view
"prediction" seems a strong word. at the time Ruby read like another celebrity news anchorman or shock jock DJ doing man-on-the-street interviews
aug 28, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 5:34 am • 13 0 • view
It's always the shittiest predictions that come true. I just want a door to door noodle shop.
aug 27, 2025, 4:13 am • 201 3 • view
It can work like an ice cream truck. Just troll through a hip neighborhood and play a little tune.
aug 27, 2025, 3:15 pm • 2 0 • view
a flying ship one, please.
aug 27, 2025, 11:40 am • 7 1 • view
Fuck yeah
aug 27, 2025, 4:45 am • 18 0 • view
They shouldn't be celebrities, especially if they only cause problems.
aug 27, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
sadly not as many pompadours, like my only reason for watching the ghostbusters cartoon as a wee baby trans was egon's hair. Fuck dangling keys i could stare at that hair for hours.
aug 27, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
Leeloo was AI and her learning earth’s encyclopedia was early data scraping. That movie is a warning
aug 27, 2025, 4:19 am • 30 0 • view
That rapist pederast really cooked when he made that film. I like the hot alien lady with the baby brain that Bruce Willis wins as a prize in the end.
aug 27, 2025, 10:32 am • 1 0 • view
So I unironically do love the movie, but god damn if that wasn’t the best review of it I’ve ever read lol.
aug 27, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I like it too, it's a lot of fun.
aug 27, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm waiting on my microwave cube to turn into a full roast chicken dinner
aug 27, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Ruby Rhod could do a 24/7 charity livestream but Kai Cenat couldn't bring the same energy to the Ruby Rhod show. Much to pontificate.
aug 27, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
If only Mr Beast dressed that well.
aug 27, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
Super green
aug 27, 2025, 10:33 am • 1 0 • view
Infinite Jest
aug 28, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
And of the masses living so tightly packed together
aug 27, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I DEEPLY adore that movie.
aug 27, 2025, 4:15 am • 11 0 • view
No streamer will ever have the rizz of DJ Ruby Rhod. Supergreen.
aug 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I means it’s not that much of a stretch given Oprah
aug 27, 2025, 4:15 am • 2 0 • view
Their prediction of the format is more impressive though
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 2 0 • view
The Incal by Moebius & Jodorowsky is worth a read for any Fifth Element fans. Not 1:1 source material but definitely in the mix.
aug 27, 2025, 5:33 am • 0 0 • view
Aziz, light!
aug 27, 2025, 5:58 am • 0 0 • view
I only read it once in grade school but wasn't Ender's Game's brother basically a right wing vlogger or something?
aug 27, 2025, 4:14 am • 45 2 • view
his brother and sister troll the comments sections of online articles and ride that all the way to the presidency lol
aug 27, 2025, 6:14 am • 3 0 • view
yeah although in retrospect of the author, that feels less like a speculative fiction pull and more like the latent fantasy of him and all his cohort of conservatives
aug 27, 2025, 5:00 am • 8 0 • view
He defeated his sister's fake online liberal persona with Facts and Logic so fucking hard they crowned him President of Earth. Peter was Peak Redditor decades before Reddit existed.
aug 27, 2025, 4:27 am • 85 1 • view
But ended and valentines kept him in check with videos of him torturing small animals as child. Which also reflects the reality of far right politicians today.
aug 27, 2025, 12:08 pm • 14 0 • view
Peter believed he was a philosopher king, but was mostly an autocrat while Val was the actual philosopher king
aug 29, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
his brother and sister start off in not-usenet arguing on the politics boards until his brother gets elected president of earth. it's been a long time since I read it but that part stuck out as especially strange.
aug 27, 2025, 4:27 am • 7 0 • view
Adopted on February 10, 1967, the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment clarifies presidential succession and procedures for handling presidential incapacitation
aug 27, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
and my multipass
aug 27, 2025, 4:40 am • 18 0 • view
I'd Tier-3 sub Ruby Rhod no joke.
aug 27, 2025, 4:47 am • 4 0 • view
Here I thought it was RoboCop... Sunscreen: Sunblock 5000 Auto with dinosaur Ads: The 6000 SUX was a large 4-door, executive type car with reclining leather seats, cruise control, and a Blaupunkt radio. The car was proudly advertised with a fuel economy rating of 8.2 miles per gallon.
aug 27, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I never thought of Ruby Rod as an influencer. I felt he was a space version of a popular DJ like Casey Kasem or Garrison Keillor or even Howard Stern. Someone that made a spectacle of regular things (like a croquet contest winner). It felt very grounded in modern culture
aug 27, 2025, 5:03 am • 5 0 • view
It was a radio show, he was a shock jock, like Howard Stern. Not a debate bro or Mr. Beast
aug 27, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
The horror movie with the brain worms was closer
aug 27, 2025, 6:25 am • 1 0 • view
And yet we're still waiting on the 1001 follies, jollies, and lick'em lollies. This place's priorities are all out of whack.
aug 27, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Underrated movie right there.
aug 27, 2025, 4:14 am • 4 0 • view
Tragically, THAT opera style hasn't taken off
aug 27, 2025, 7:06 am • 18 0 • view
Honestly it kinda sounds like something off a persona ost iirc
aug 27, 2025, 9:16 am • 5 0 • view
Mostly because it was intentionally designed to be well outside of human range.
aug 27, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Counterpoint: it completely missed the mark on taxis still being a thing
aug 27, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
No it predicted ROBOTAXIs which... oh wait those aren't a thing either. Never mind.
aug 27, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
No. No. Tesla is coming out with robotaxi
aug 27, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
But it didn't predict Robotaxis. Bruce Willis's job was being a taxi driver. There were no Robotaxi in the movie.
aug 27, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
OMG I conflated this with Total Recall and thought they used a Johnny Cab.
aug 28, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
and yet, Ruby Rhodd did radio. The radio star strikes back >:)
aug 27, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I think the part with The Diva's performance is my favorite part.
aug 27, 2025, 7:45 am • 0 0 • view
why's it feel like idiocracy tho
aug 28, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
Sadly, no such luck on the invention of the instant microwave.
aug 27, 2025, 8:52 am • 1 0 • view
I always felt that Transmetropolitan also did a great job predicting the future. Like how news gathering is open source and widely just pr releases instead of journalism.
aug 27, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 5:55 am • 14 0 • view
“In the future people will all be super annoying” holy shit it nailed it!
aug 27, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Whoa. Spot-on.
aug 27, 2025, 6:00 am • 0 0 • view
12 monkeys… hope that one does not come true in any way…almost though…almost.
aug 27, 2025, 5:04 am • 7 0 • view
I’d take ruby over the lot we have today
aug 27, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Also that cops would be just covered in gear.
aug 27, 2025, 4:46 am • 23 0 • view
I can't wait for a flying Chinese food truck to arrive though
aug 27, 2025, 4:14 am • 52 0 • view
Not a very profitable business module tbh
aug 28, 2025, 7:38 am • 0 0 • view
Mr Kim just needs to fly by my place and he'll make bank
aug 28, 2025, 8:32 am • 0 0 • view
Top 5 all time movies I will click on and watch even if it’s half over
aug 27, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 4:52 pm • 2 0 • view
This movie was my intro to the chameleon Gary Oldman. The man is incredible.
aug 27, 2025, 4:58 am • 19 0 • view
Wow! His marital history is... something.
aug 27, 2025, 5:51 am • 3 0 • view
Trades them in every 2-3 years like a car, seems like.
aug 27, 2025, 10:31 am • 4 0 • view
Super green
aug 27, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
just have to mention the great soundtrack 🎶
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 6 0 • view
can you imagine asmongold being the one to save the universe
aug 27, 2025, 5:30 am • 1 0 • view
I love this movie. Every year one of our movie channels plays it all day back to back, 6 or 7 times and I just leave it on.
aug 27, 2025, 7:45 am • 3 0 • view
Supa green!
aug 28, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
Also see: tally isham from the sprawl trilogy
aug 27, 2025, 1:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Luc Besson also personally predicted powerful men marrying children
aug 27, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Enders game did the same thing in the book predicting the wildly, powerful influence of memes
aug 27, 2025, 4:52 am • 7 0 • view
and social media forums where Enders two older siblings, take on fake names and pretend to argue with each other from different viewpoints and amass wildly huge following which become political parties, and the two end up becoming world leaders of nation states
aug 27, 2025, 4:52 am • 10 0 • view
Hell Kierkegaard did that. He wrote under several pseudonyms and argued with himself. He would have LOVED social media.
aug 27, 2025, 6:19 am • 10 0 • view
lol I didn’t know that!
aug 27, 2025, 11:27 am • 2 0 • view
Anyone with half a brain could have predicted it though. There was also that Black Mirror episode. It's not that hard lol people ruin everything with money
aug 27, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
There isn't a streamer alive with half the charisma of Ruby Rhodd.
aug 27, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t know 12monkeys predicted the board game pandemic
aug 27, 2025, 4:45 am • 0 0 • view
You know I didn’t get it at the time, but me today man honestly I’d totally watch Ruby Rhod. Anything can happen with that guy. Really puts on a show
aug 27, 2025, 4:47 am • 33 3 • view
'With our special guest today, Corbin Dallas. Corbin, my man, are you ever nervous in the service?"
aug 27, 2025, 9:44 am • 11 0 • view
Supergreen
aug 27, 2025, 4:18 am • 86 0 • view
"What up lads, it's ya boy..."
aug 27, 2025, 8:09 am • 31 0 • view
SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON
aug 27, 2025, 11:45 am • 14 0 • view
Multipass!
aug 27, 2025, 4:36 am • 4 0 • view
Also, there's a JG Ballard interview from the 70s floating around where he's like, eventually technology will let you have not only a home broadcast studio but one you can carry in your pocket, and we'll all become nodes (I'm paraphrasing from memory TBC)
aug 27, 2025, 4:48 am • 18 0 • view
Jonsin’ for some Gemini Croquettes right about now.
aug 27, 2025, 5:28 am • 1 0 • view
And yet I still can’t get chicken that easily 😑
aug 27, 2025, 4:17 am • 3 0 • view
Multipass
aug 27, 2025, 4:18 am • 3 0 • view
He knows its a multipass!
aug 27, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd listen to Ruby Rhod!
aug 27, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
Ruby Rhod was talented though
aug 27, 2025, 4:22 am • 32 0 • view
Yeah, that and how we all wipe our asses with three seashells now are the two big predictions that came true
aug 27, 2025, 5:43 am • 57 0 • view
The 3 seashells thing came from all the bathroom decor back then involving a basket and the seashell fancy soaps that just got filmy from tiny tp and Kleenex dust fur. 😆
aug 27, 2025, 5:57 am • 3 0 • view
The Three Seashells were from Demolition Man, though.
aug 27, 2025, 5:46 am • 6 0 • view
I know
aug 27, 2025, 5:49 am • 9 0 • view
That's from Star Wars, get it together Mildred
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 pm • 3 0 • view
don't delete it, all those 90's sci fi movies are the same fever dream.
aug 27, 2025, 5:49 am • 2 0 • view
The seashells is from demolition man.
aug 27, 2025, 5:47 am • 15 0 • view
Something tells me he doesn't know how to use the three shells.. because it's in a different universe
aug 27, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
We are clearly in the wrong future. Perhaps it’s because of all that Taco Bell that we need special toilet features like that
aug 27, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view
It *is* also no longer cheap to eat at Taco Bell
aug 27, 2025, 12:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Streamers were in Neuromancer too.
aug 27, 2025, 4:34 am • 11 0 • view
Gibson is my 70s-80s-90s visionary sci-fi guy.
aug 27, 2025, 5:00 am • 11 0 • view
He's here, FYI!
aug 27, 2025, 6:47 am • 9 0 • view
Nathan Barley was also ahead of the curve on this and much funnier!
aug 27, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The only science fiction stories that predicted that the first moon landing would be televised live from the moon were the Sunday Newspaper comic, Buck Rogers, and the movie First Men in the Moon. A hundred years earlier, Verne mentioned Cape Canaveral and Texas as possible take-off points.
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Yet it thought that phone books would still be as relevant as they were in the 90s
aug 27, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
Not to mention the hunger for power and just "more," from the rich.
aug 27, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
So right! So when can we expect personal micro drone cameras that follow us round and constantly stream our lives
aug 27, 2025, 9:02 am • 1 0 • view
Doesn’t that already exist?
aug 27, 2025, 11:17 am • 1 0 • view
Visionary (Moebius, too). However, what Besson couldn’t have possibly predicted was the collective stupidity of Tim Poole, Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson, and Charlie Kirk.
aug 28, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
I appreciate that he started writing it in his teens, but kept tweaking it until it was good enough.
aug 27, 2025, 4:26 am • 17 0 • view
All night loooong
aug 27, 2025, 4:12 am • 34 0 • view
It's similarly wild that the movie Outbreak was an optimistic look at the societal effects of a global pandemic.
aug 27, 2025, 4:15 am • 66 3 • view
Didn't predict what would happen if a viral load shaped like a man was in charge of the United States
aug 27, 2025, 2:33 pm • 6 0 • view
"At least I got lunch" "Good philosophy, see good in bad"
aug 27, 2025, 3:51 pm • 3 0 • view
I love this movie so much
aug 27, 2025, 4:56 am • 46 0 • view
God this scene was perfect
aug 27, 2025, 5:21 am • 4 0 • view
A near miss for back to the future
aug 27, 2025, 6:52 am • 13 1 • view
I'm dreading the inevitable Trump heart attack followed by his being kept on life support on a golden throne while his advisors issue policies in his name.
aug 27, 2025, 8:32 am • 1 0 • view
Super green!
aug 27, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Zorg and Elon are kissing cousins too.
aug 27, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
even in our wildest dreams robots can only dispense beverage and vacuum floor
aug 27, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
Are you human? No, I'm a meat popsicle.
aug 27, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future would blow your mind.
aug 27, 2025, 10:05 am • 1 0 • view