TikTokers have even produced maps that claim to show the path of totality going over these towns.
In reality, the path of totality isnt going over six, seven, or eight towns named Nineveh.
Does that mean Christmas is coming early this year?
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How about Ding Dong, Texas, which will also be in the path of the totality?
Will God deliver chocolate cake snacks?
Or what about Booger Hole, West Virginia?
Theyre saying be ready for like power outages and stuff like that.
Buy necessary groceries, look, one TikTok creator said in arecent videowhile pointing at screenshots of various articles.
It turns out hes selling flashlights and cellphone battery chargers.
Solar powered block, man, its got a flashlight obviously.
These people are selectively quoting real articles and taking them out of context.
Conspiracy theorists have also noted that some small-town mayors are making disaster declarations in the lead-up to the eclipse.
But this, yet again, is an example of people taking things out of context.
The problem is that theres no way to test this theory.
Humans have been makingapocalyptic predictionssince the dawn of civilization.
But these ideas can spread faster than ever, thanks to this big weird machine we call the internet.
You dont need to worry about the end of the world on Monday.
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