8 years later, this theory continues to track.
@dailygrail You say this now, but he kept telling us we only had five years so he brought it on himself
@dailygrail “Turns out, that was a load-bearing Bowie.”
@Julie @dailygrail ha! Clever AND a librarian? I'm a fan. 😊 ❤📚❤

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Prince, Carrie Fisher, George Martin, Keith Emerson, George Michael, Muhammad Ali, Victoria Wood, Caroline Aherne, Gene Wilder, Robert Vaughn and Alan Rickman (among other significant people) also went in 2016, which I think just completely overloaded the matrix.

@TheBreadmonkey @dailygrail Too many load-bearing supports removed at once.
@dailygrail I am (not) @CorentinLamy and I (know he would) approve of this statement.

@dailygrail my theory is that everything went to shit right after we killed Harambe. 🦍

I think it’s related.

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nope, nope, nope... you are all wrong!
This
THIS is what did it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_World_Series
2016 World Series - Wikipedia

@MsMerope @dailygrail why? What happened there? I don’t follow sports of any sort
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This gets one small detail wrong: That point was about two weeks earlier, when Lemmy died

@dailygrail I guess everyone will just gloss over the fact that Bowie fucked underaged girls and instead Star worship him because he was famous 🤷

This shit was rampant back then, but still inexcusable. Probably is still rampant, but we at least have a dialogue about consent these days.

Star worship is so fucking weird

@DMTea @dailygrail this!! People always seem to shrug their shoulders or just don’t want to know when it comes to Bowie specifically

@emseeitch @DMTea @dailygrail

"Baddiel then said that the girls then got naked and one of them "copped off with him". He said: "There was sexual goings-on but she didn't sleep with David. "I said 'Why on Earth would you not want to lose your virginity to David Bowie?'""

That's what 'comedian' David Baddiel said in surprise to his then 16 year old friend turning down then 40s Bowie and Jagger.

https://meaww.com/david-baddiel-claims-david-bowie-wanted-threesome-with-teens-on-caribbean-holiday-with-mick-jagger

David Bowie tried to have a threesome with 16-year-old girl and her best friend while on holiday with Mick Jagger, claims comedian David Baddiel

Singer David Bowie has admitted in the past that he had been 'incredibly promiscuous' at times in his life saying, 'I was hitting on everybody'

MEAWW

@emseeitch @DMTea @dailygrail

(Baddiel himself also sounds sus when he didn't realise a 'joke' about wanting anal with 14 year olds might be a bit distasteful to some folk.)

@dailygrail he has always been a man ahead of his time. He knew it was time to leave the planet. It is a lost cause.
@dailygrail I think about this a lot.
@dailygrail It's true. I must confess I was never much of a Bowie fan, but you can't argue with data. It's now clear to me that Bowie was a magical force holding the whole world together.

@dailygrail Add data points for "deaths of George Michael, Carrie Fischer, Alan Rickman, &c", "Brexit referendum", "that Trump cretin", and more.

Such a shit year!

@dailygrail he must not have taken his protein pills.
@dailygrail Personally, I have the Enshitening pegged at Lemmy's death, but pretty much the same period.
Motörhead "Heroes" (David Bowie Cover)

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@dailygrail almost everyone died in 2016.
@dailygrail @burritojustice that was, unfortunately, a load-bearing Bowie