That random comment on a 2019 YouTube video about the housing market that called the exact month prices would crash

I saw this guy named Dave from Austin post back in June 2019 that he was selling his rental properties because he had a hunch the market would peak around March 2020 and tons of people laughed at him but then March 2020 hit and everything went sideways, has anybody else stumbled across an old prediction that turned out scarily accurate like that?

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mark_green4d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah, the "told you so" part really got me. I used to think that kind of stuff was just lucky guesses, you know? Like someone throws out a random date and eventually it has to line up with something. But seeing it called so specifically, months in advance, with the exact month and everything, that's hard to write off. It makes me wonder how many other predictions like that are buried in old comment sections that we just never look at. Maybe there's something to people just paying real close attention to what's happening around them instead of just trusting the experts.

lucasw843d ago

Burying predictions in old comment sections" really got me thinking. That's a wild thought, how many of those could actually be sitting out there, just waiting for someone to scroll back and find them. It makes you wonder if some people are just wired differently, you know? Maybe they notice patterns the rest of us walk right past because we're too busy swallowing whatever the "experts" are selling. I'd bet there's a goldmine of those in early 2020 YouTube comments about markets and supply chains that nobody ever bothered to look up again.

shanec614d ago

That's always the way, isn't it? Some random guy named Dave in a comment section somehow sees the future while the rest of us are still trying to figure out what day it is. Bet all those people who laughed at him are real quiet now, probably still renting from the same landlord. Maybe we should start putting more stock into YouTube comment sections instead of the news. Just imagine Dave sitting there in March 2020, probably sipping his coffee and thinking "told you so" to his empty apartment.