Other Things That Predict Bad Events

 Some Other Things That Predicted Bad Events!

• Rosie O'Donnell made a comment about not ever wanting to see Anna Nicole Smith again just hours before she died.
• Sarah Palin's "Take Back the 20" website showed crosshairs over various states, including the very district in Arizona Gabrielle Giffords was elected for. A fundraiser event for Gifford's opponent, Jesse Kelly Lost The Vote
• The fact that Demi Lovato  was 'larger' than the average Disney star when in reality she actually did have an eating disorder. 

Amy Winehouse once said that one of her fears was joining the 27 Club (the name that's given to musicians who have died at age 27). On July 23rd, 2011, Amy's fears came true. Alicia Quarles, a report for the Associated Press at the time, explains that if Winehouse didn’t get her act together, she’ll die at 27. Quarles was on "Doomed to die? 13 Most Shocking Hollywood Curses" where she made that remark back in 2008 when the E! News special aired. What makes this eerier, Quarles was right.

At the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, Seth Meyers joked that Osama bin Laden was hosting a talk show on C-SPAN. The next day, Obama announced Bin Laden's death. This one was arguably Hilarious in Hindsight for most people. Hillary Clinton had been at a wedding that weekend and someone had asked her "when are we gonna get Bin Laden?" Being one of only a couple of people who knew about the raid (she couldn't even tell her husband), she quickly made some non-committal remark and excused herself

• Jokes about former NFL bust Ryan Leaf got a lot harsher when he got diagnosed with a brain tumor. Fortunately for him, the tumor proved to be benign and was successfully removed.
• For Halloween, Kelly Ripa and Nick Lachey dressed up as wedding Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries on Live with Regis and Kelly. An hour later it came out that Kim had filed for divorce. It could be considered Hilarious in Hindsight based on your views of the Kardashians.
• During the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, many jokes were made at the expense of Patrice O'Neal about his health. He ended up dying of a stroke two months after the Roast aired.
• There's a now-memetic video of a large man dancing like a lunatic while playing DDR, only to fall off once he gets down, funny at first, but he was asked about the video and it turns out the fall made his ankle break clean in half.
• The New Orleans Saints' 2009 Super Bowl run looks a lot worse when you find out that they were running a bounty program and paying guys to deliberately hurt opposing players
• This YTMND was uploaded seven years before the Edward Snowden scandal revealed that the NSA has been doing these kinds of things all along.

• One of YTMND's most popular memes was about Bill Cosby. Many of them, especially the ones that also involved Brian Peppers, can come off as unfunny after his  assault scandal.
• In 2007, Boston experienced a bomb scare when several devices were found all over the city. Turns out they were actually just lite brites that were part of a viral ad campaign. Many people laughed at how Boston could confuse a device like that for a bomb. It became less funny in 2013 when terrorists bombed the Boston Marathon using backpack bombs. 
• A video was posted of Frisbee Doge in 2013 that made it look like a memorial for Frisbee Doge (a picture of a dog getting hit by a frisbee while playing catch). However, on March 12, 2016, it was revealed that Frisbee Doge was put to sleep after suffering several health Issues, making the video more difficult to watch
• When presenting the nominees for Best Supporting Actress during the 2013 Oscars, Seth Macfarlane joked about how they no longer needed to pretend to be Harvey Weinstein. When news of Weinstein's decades of relationships on female actresses came to light in October 2017, MacFarlane himself revealed that "joke" was far more  than people realized.
• assault allegations against Bill Cosby Became  a meme Then to 2018, where he has been accused of at least some of those allegations.
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• On New Year's Eve in 2011, ABC would air a primetime special for the 40th anniversary of Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve, which included a tribute to Clark. When asked if the on-air tribute to him would indicate it would be his final year on the program, Clark responded with "I hope not." Unfortunately, that year would indeed be Clark's last, as he would die from a heart attack on April 18, 2012.
• Although it's hard to get much harsher than the original meaning, the (formerly) secret code phrase that would eventually be used to initiate the procedures for the death of Queen Elizabeth II, "London Bridge is down", certainly took on additional harsh meeting following multiple terror attacks there.
• The Guardian published a letter from a reader wishing she could be out of the country to avoid the inevitable frenzy come the demise of the Queen Mother, but realizing it wasn't the kind of thing one could plan in advance. It was published in the exact day the Queen Mother died, March 30, 2002.
• The city of Brussels started a campaign named #callbrussels in January 2016, to reassure potential tourists of how safe and welcoming the city was and to downplay the then-recently issued terrorist threat alert. It took two months to not be only a threat
• Around 2018 and 2019, there was a popular drawing shown in meme pages of a plane falling towards the ground, before hitting the ground and bouncing up with a "Boeing!" noise. Months later, 2 Boeing 737 MAX planes suddenly dived into the ground and crashed, killing hundreds and forcing Boeing to ground its entire 737 MAX fleet.
• Anthony Bourdain's wife once went on a vegan diet and dragged him into a vegan restaurant. He announced that the food was so bad it would break up their marriage, Years Later, They Would Break Up Their Marriage
•  fan-flash Anime Munters at one point shows Hetalia's Japan waist deep in water. Cue the "not funny" comments thanks to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.
• A 2014 Annotated Series riff of the Donkey Kong Country episode "Baby Kong Blues" had an annotation over A  unknown writer's credit labeled " PLEASE STOP WRITING YOU HACK". In less than three years, They Would Quit
• The Angry Video Game Nerd:
• In the NES Superman review, he makes a  deal about how part of the plot of the game involves Clark being sent to investigate an unexplained drop in stock prices, and how it was a ludicrous element to include in a superhero game. Funny then. Cringe-inducing for anybody with a 401(k) in the wake of the stock market dropping 1,000 points over the course of thirty minutes.
• During Chuggaaconroy's Let's Play of Super Mario Sunshine, a fair amount of humour came from how the game screwed him over, whether it was the time he had a power outage whilst recording, or the difficulty with the watermelon stage, or how frustrating the game was in parts. It became a lot less funny however, when (during his LP of Majora's Mask) Chuggaaconroyrevealed that during the LP of Sunshine he'd been suffering from a Creator Breakdown, and was trying to hide it.
• CollegeHumor:
• This video after Steve Jobs' 2011 passing.
• Similarly, the scene in this video when the Genie from Aladdin tries to “Dissapear” becomes pretty harsh after the dude who voiced the original Genie died.
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• An early YouTube gaming channel called GameLife attended E3 in 2006. During an interview, Dave, one of the hosts, said "We are definitely going to be dishing out episode after episode, and who knows where we will be one year from now?". Less than a year later, on April 17, their frontman, Andrew Rosenblum, was arrested and later sentenced for threatening To Have Allegations against his girlfriend 
• One mailbag segment on Giant Bomb featured someone gifting them, alongside some expensive toys and some Star Wars merchandise, two airsoft guns (which looked like a Sword and a modern military plane) and an ammo vest. It included a letter taking the use of the weapons very seriously. At the time they treated it like one of the pest packages they had ever gotten, having fun using them, But Then You Saw That The Fan Was Caught Owning Weapons
• In a 2014 video, toy reviewer Glenn Webb made a joke about using a Magneto action figure to short out his grandpa's pacemaker when he was a kid. In August 2016, Webb died in his sleep from heart failure caused by undiagnosed myocardial fibrosis.
• During "Food Games Part 2", JonTron talks about how the game seems to depict a post apocalyptic New York, but that Trump Tower seemed to still be standing, prompting him to say "Oh god, this is the alternate universe where Trump wins, isn't it?"
• Any time MoBrosStudios acted angry or burnt-out in his Sponge Bob Square Pants reviews becomes this after it turned out he was suffering a Creator Breakdown and regretting the decision to make the videos due to people seeing him as a rant channel.
• Cinemasins had a stinger at the end of their video for Justin Bieber: Never Say Never features a clip from Godzilla (1998) of an Air Force colonel telling a couple of pilots to destroy Madison Square Garden, followed by a concert clip, followed by a clip from Godzilla of the arena being blown up.
• Maybe not as harsh as these other Onion examples, but this old Stat Shot is becoming less and less funny and more prescient now that we live in a world where the "Sexy Cookie Monster Costume" exists.
• This article, written as though it was from the fictitious point of view of Chris Brown, who was honestly wondering why anyone still supported him, mentioned Drake as a better substitute, as Drake had until then avoided scandal.
• While the first Potter Puppet Pals short, "Bothering Snape," came out a few months after Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released, "Bothering Snape" can seem disturbing if you watch it after having read the scene in the book where James (Harry's father) and his friends bully Snape just for kicks (basically, the exams are done and Sirius is looking for some fun, and they decide to go mess with Snape who is just reading over his test). It makes Harry's "Let's go bother Snape" seem disturbingly like his father's bad side (although Harry in those shorts is generally more arrogant and more cruel than he usually is in the books).
• A SomethingAwful thread entitled "tim russert is the most handsome man on television" was posted on June 13th, 2008 as a joke topic. Barelythree hours later the news broke that Tim Russert had passed away. Needless to say it surprised everyone, and it's become a minor meme that if someone dies, the topic will have a title similar to "[Person] is the most handsome man on television
• This tweet: "Kobe is going to end up in a helicopter. It was posted in 2012. Fast forward 8 years later, the tweeter had to apologize

• The April 9, 2013 edition of What If? had as its topic "Am I right to be afraid of pressure cookers? What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen?" Barely six days later, somebody used a pair of pressure cookers filled with nails and ball bearings to bomb the Boston Marathon.
• A What Would Tyler Durden Do thread published in 2007 simply stated, "I predict Jett Travolta will die in the bath and be found by his caretaker at the end of 2008 due to Scientology. So sayeth the crystal ball."
• For many years, a popular New Year's Eve meme read something like "When someone asks me what it will be like in (X amount of years from 2020) and I say "I dunno, I don't have 2020 vision"". At last, 2020 arrived...and it brought such sheer insanity — including Australia being on fire, followed by California and Colorado— that it's possible almost no one will be mentally unscathed from it.
• Also, in December 2010, someone (whose name was never revealed) wrote on Twitter: "predictions for 2011... Twitter will be super-regulated #ladygaga". This may have been considered funny/highly speculative at the time, but not now that the 2011 Twitter gagging order row has happened, and it's definitely uncomfortable to read, particularly as this got quoted around a few football forums too.
• The photoset of Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumumberbatch went viral in April 2012. August 28, 2012, the featured species was declared extinct, and every single repost of those photos became an inadvertent memorial to the Japanese River Otter.
• This 2007 parody video called "Elmo upsets Little Miss Shy", later renamed "Elmo becomes a Man", in which Elmo tries to take Little Miss Shy home to supposedly Have A Relationship with her and eventually gets pissed at her. It's not funny now thanks to the fact that Elmo's puppeteer, Kevin Clash, resigned after being accused of having  relationships with underaged boys.