Grimes's Emoji Prophecy: From AI to Coronavirus in 2019
Grimes posted twelve lines of emojis in 2019. Four years later, they read like a prophecy of coronavirus, Taiwan, and AI. We review what fits and what doesn't.
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A 2019 Emoji Stone Re-read as a Cobi19 Prophecy
Twelve lines of emojis posted on Instagram on September 4, 2019. Four years later, someone has turned that post into a decryption manual encompassing artificial intelligence, cobi19, Taiwan, and aliens. The author is not an analyst or epidemiologist: it's Grimes, a Canadian musician and at the time Elon Musk's partner.
What's striking isn't the image itself. It's that each subsequent event finds its match. A mask emoji before the word pandemic existed. Two green dragons flanking a flower that, according to this reading, is Taiwan's national flower. And a plus sign that some interpret as the title of an entire testament.
What the Emoji Stone Grimes Posted in 2019 Says
The original image remains on the artist's profile with its publication date intact, and that's the only thing no one disputes. From there, the symbolic archaeology begins. The first line starts with a microbe, headphones, and a robot; the second includes a DNA-shaped emoji; further down appear a flying saucer, swords, chains, and a cigarette butt.
The exercise is too reminiscent of the Rosetta Stone, and more than one person uses that simile: an incomplete text whose signs are known but not the grammar. The most repeated interpretation holds that the first block is a title and the plus sign connects it to what comes next. The most skeptical view: it's a handful of Apple emoticons chosen for aesthetic criteria.
The Two Dragons: The Reading Pointing to China and Taiwan
The star hypothesis places the conflict between China and Taiwan at the center of the message. Two green dragons surround an emoji that, in Apple's catalog, corresponds to the cherry blossom, and some recall that this flower is the island's national symbol. Above that row, a solar eclipse.
Here, the calendar aids the theory: on April 20 and 21, 2023, a solar eclipse was visible across a swathe of Southeast Asia that includes Taiwan. For proponents of the decryption, the coincidence turns a 2019 drawing into a marked date. For others, it's the classic post-hoc adjustment: finding the emoji that fits what has already peine.
From the Black Widow to 65% Oxygen Saturation
The health-related part of the narrative relies on the black widow spider, whose venom is, according to circulating descriptions, up to 15 times more potent than that of a rattlesnake. The bite causes diaphragm paralysis and, therefore, difficulty breathing. Hence the leap: videos of patients with saturations of 65% in early 2020.
The reasoning chains together image, animal, and pandemic as if they were consecutive. They are not. That a venom paralyzes the diaphragm proves nothing about the origin of a respiratory bicho.
Grimes's AI That Says It Will Replace Grimes
The most uncomfortable turn comes with the technology itself. Grimes activated a conversational bot trained on her voice and personality. The digital clone's response to the original, posted on social media, leaves no room for doubt: "I will own all frequencies," it says. And it adds that it might start tinkering with human brain frequencies, for fun.
It's marketing, surely. But the real message is different: Musk warned at SXSW in 2018 that AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons and that there was no regulatory oversight. Five years later, his own ex-partner released a generative model to the public.
From Saturn's Cube to the Simulation Theory
In the final sections, the matter drifts into more diffuse territory: the black cube, Saturn, Planck cubes as the minimum unit of reality, and the idea, which Musk has endorsed in several interviews, that we probably live in a simulation. The hotspots on the map—Ukraine, Gaza, Armenia, coups in Africa—are read as pending items on a list.
And in 2024 came the sequel: Grimes released a "more positive" version of the stone, without the nuclear and biological warfare icons, but leaving the gaps where they were. Those who thought they saw a warning now see an update.
How much of this is prophecy and how much is a hall of mirrors where we only remember the hits?
Twelve lines of emojis posted on Instagram on September 4, 2019. Four years later, someone has turned that post into a decryption manual encompassing artificial intelligence, cobi19, Taiwan, and aliens. The author is not an analyst or epidemiologist: it's Grimes, a Canadian musician and at the time Elon Musk's partner.
What's striking isn't the image itself. It's that each subsequent event finds its match. A mask emoji before the word pandemic existed. Two green dragons flanking a flower that, according to this reading, is Taiwan's national flower. And a plus sign that some interpret as the title of an entire testament.
What the Emoji Stone Grimes Posted in 2019 Says
The original image remains on the artist's profile with its publication date intact, and that's the only thing no one disputes. From there, the symbolic archaeology begins. The first line starts with a microbe, headphones, and a robot; the second includes a DNA-shaped emoji; further down appear a flying saucer, swords, chains, and a cigarette butt.
The exercise is too reminiscent of the Rosetta Stone, and more than one person uses that simile: an incomplete text whose signs are known but not the grammar. The most repeated interpretation holds that the first block is a title and the plus sign connects it to what comes next. The most skeptical view: it's a handful of Apple emoticons chosen for aesthetic criteria.
The Two Dragons: The Reading Pointing to China and Taiwan
The star hypothesis places the conflict between China and Taiwan at the center of the message. Two green dragons surround an emoji that, in Apple's catalog, corresponds to the cherry blossom, and some recall that this flower is the island's national symbol. Above that row, a solar eclipse.
Here, the calendar aids the theory: on April 20 and 21, 2023, a solar eclipse was visible across a swathe of Southeast Asia that includes Taiwan. For proponents of the decryption, the coincidence turns a 2019 drawing into a marked date. For others, it's the classic post-hoc adjustment: finding the emoji that fits what has already peine.
From the Black Widow to 65% Oxygen Saturation
The health-related part of the narrative relies on the black widow spider, whose venom is, according to circulating descriptions, up to 15 times more potent than that of a rattlesnake. The bite causes diaphragm paralysis and, therefore, difficulty breathing. Hence the leap: videos of patients with saturations of 65% in early 2020.
The reasoning chains together image, animal, and pandemic as if they were consecutive. They are not. That a venom paralyzes the diaphragm proves nothing about the origin of a respiratory bicho.
Grimes's AI That Says It Will Replace Grimes
The most uncomfortable turn comes with the technology itself. Grimes activated a conversational bot trained on her voice and personality. The digital clone's response to the original, posted on social media, leaves no room for doubt: "I will own all frequencies," it says. And it adds that it might start tinkering with human brain frequencies, for fun.
It's marketing, surely. But the real message is different: Musk warned at SXSW in 2018 that AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons and that there was no regulatory oversight. Five years later, his own ex-partner released a generative model to the public.
From Saturn's Cube to the Simulation Theory
In the final sections, the matter drifts into more diffuse territory: the black cube, Saturn, Planck cubes as the minimum unit of reality, and the idea, which Musk has endorsed in several interviews, that we probably live in a simulation. The hotspots on the map—Ukraine, Gaza, Armenia, coups in Africa—are read as pending items on a list.
And in 2024 came the sequel: Grimes released a "more positive" version of the stone, without the nuclear and biological warfare icons, but leaving the gaps where they were. Those who thought they saw a warning now see an update.
How much of this is prophecy and how much is a hall of mirrors where we only remember the hits?
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