"Nick Bilton Is Trending Again, and the Internet Can’t Decide If It’s a Glitch in the Simulation or Just His Fault"
As a meme historian, I can tell you exactly why Nick Bilton is suddenly all over your feed, and it’s not because he discovered the next Silicon Valley unicorn. Bilton, the tech journalist and author who famously predicted things like the death of Twitter, is trending because someone dug up his old take that “the metaverse is already dead” right before Meta’s stock rocketed. The irony? It’s peak timeline humor: a guy who’s been wrong so many times that being wrong is now his brand. The internet is clowning him with side-by-side screenshots of his doom-and-gloom headlines versus the actual outcomes, calling him “the human version of a buffering wheel.” The funniest part? Bilton himself posted a laughing-crying emoji in response, inadvertently sending the meme into overdrive. It’s the perfect storm of tech schadenfreude, failed predictions, and the eternal truth that the internet loves a punching bag who can take a joke.