Nick Bilton has officially been ‘future-bullied’ by his own prediction about social media doom.
In a twist that would make even Black Mirror blush, tech journalist Nick Bilton’s 2019 warning that “we only have five years to fix social media” is now trending ironically—because the internet is using his exact quote to point out that the apocalypse is late for its own deadline. The viral comedy? Users are screenshotting his tweet under headlines of “well, he was right that something would trend,” while bots argue in the replies about whether we are currently living in the pre-credits or post-credits scene of Bilton’s dystopian blockbuster.