2019 Predictions Thread

With every new year comes new things, one of those things is new year predictions. This is the last year of the 2010s decade, the decade of minimalist excess in pop culture, social media celebrities, hyper-polarized opinions/politics, fake news, and probably the last era where the Millennial generation dominated youth pop culture. 2019 could either be the closing or accumulation of all that. My vote's on both. What are your predictions?

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* Global economy will have a major slowdown at the end of the year, if not contract.
* Artificial meat will be a huge topic by the end of the year.
* There will be a new Brexit referendum.
* Oil prices will continue to be low, and will be even lower by the end of the year.
* The new mainline Pokémon game for Switch will release.
* The Canadian Liberals will win the autumn election.
* The North Korea "deal" will begin to fall apart as China eases sanctions.
* Katy Perry will go back to making Walmart-friendly music and it will be a hit (this is her year!)
* Electric car sales will pick up.
* Facebook will begin to decline and will be dogged by more scandals.
* Facebook will launch WhatsApp Pay to compete with Paypal and Amazon Pay.
* YouTube will begin to decline.


Let's see how it goes :P

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I only seen 1 thread related to 2019 and people post similar threads all the time without closing it so... All these threads closing for no reason is why the forum is flopping tbh

I only seen 1 thread related to 2019 and people post similar threads all the time without closing it so... All these threads closing for no reason is why the forum is flopping tbh


Theres been atleast 5  2019 prediction threads made in the last year

* Global economy will have a major slowdown at the end of the year, if not contract.
* Artificial meat will be a huge topic by the end of the year.
* There will be a new Brexit referendum.
* Oil prices will continue to be low, and will be even lower by the end of the year.
* The new mainline Pokémon game for Switch will release.
* The Canadian Liberals will win the autumn election.
* The North Korea "deal" will begin to fall apart as China eases sanctions.
* Katy Perry will go back to making Walmart-friendly music and it will be a hit (this is her year!)
* Electric car sales will pick up.
* Facebook will begin to decline and will be dogged by more scandals.
* Facebook will launch WhatsApp Pay to compete with Paypal and Amazon Pay.
* YouTube will begin to decline.


Let's see how it goes :P


Katy Perry retired earlier this year, she said shes taking a long break away from music

-Recession 2.0
-Social Media Bubble will finally burst by the end of 2019
-iPhone 11 and Samsung Galaxy S10 bringing more innovative features
-Memes of the 2020 election, and debate starts
-Trap becomes formulatic and starts declining by late 2019
-More Trump backlash
-Justin Trudeau steps off as Prime Minister of Canada
-Star Wars Episode 9 may have good reviews (Hopefully)
-The next Avengers movie should better be good
-Dua Lipa and Bazzi become megastars of pop, while Ariana Grande remains decently popular
-Queen Elizabeth might die of old age (Hopefully not)
-Game of Thrones and the Big Bang theory might end
-Electro Swing or 1920s-inspired electronic jazz will become popular by October 2019
-Fortnite remains popular and dominant
-End of Moore’s law with new Technology like Quantum computers in late 2019
-Playstation 5 and Xbox 2 gets released by Q4 2019
-Nvidia releases the RTX 2060 and RTX 2050 for PC Gamers
-Either 10th Generation Intel processors, or Quantum chips
-Early Generation Alpha culture starts coming in
-KKK declines even more or dies out (Hopefully)
-Lakers vs Golden State Warriors in the NBA finals

-Recession 2.0
-Social Media Bubble will finally burst by the end of 2019
-iPhone 11 and Samsung Galaxy S10 bringing more innovative features
-Memes of the 2020 election, and debate starts
-Trap becomes formulatic and starts declining by late 2019
-More Trump backlash
-Justin Trudeau steps off as Prime Minister of Canada
-Star Wars Episode 9 may have good reviews (Hopefully)
-The next Avengers movie should better be good
-Dua Lipa and Bazzi become megastars of pop, while Ariana Grande remains decently popular
-Queen Elizabeth might die of old age (Hopefully not)
-Game of Thrones and the Big Bang theory might end
-Electro Swing or 1920s-inspired electronic jazz will become popular by October 2019
-Fortnite remains popular and dominant
-End of Moore’s law with new Technology like Quantum computers in late 2019
-Playstation 5 and Xbox 2 gets released by Q4 2019
-Nvidia releases the RTX 2060 and RTX 2050 for PC Gamers
-Either 10th Generation Intel processors, or Quantum chips
-Early Generation Alpha culture starts coming in
-KKK declines even more or dies out (Hopefully)
-Lakers vs Golden State Warriors in the NBA finals

* Global economy will have a major slowdown at the end of the year, if not contract.
* Artificial meat will be a huge topic by the end of the year.
* There will be a new Brexit referendum.
* Oil prices will continue to be low, and will be even lower by the end of the year.
* The new mainline Pokémon game for Switch will release.
* The Canadian Liberals will win the autumn election.
* The North Korea "deal" will begin to fall apart as China eases sanctions.
* Katy Perry will go back to making Walmart-friendly music and it will be a hit (this is her year!)
* Electric car sales will pick up.
* Facebook will begin to decline and will be dogged by more scandals.
* Facebook will launch WhatsApp Pay to compete with Paypal and Amazon Pay.
* YouTube will begin to decline.


Let's see how it goes :P


I think that's a possibility.

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Who named you "Thread police?" I was going to start this thread-like I do EVERY year but xenzue beat me to it.


Cat

My prediction for 2019 is that 75% of these predictions don’t come true.

I have been thinking about this and here are mine-as usual, political:

-Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen will leave post.
-More indictments-this time for people by the name of Trump (not necessarily the president).
-Mueller will finish his investigation.
-House will start impeachment hearings (probably by summer or fall).

I may come up with others later.


Cat

I think the British housing market will start a protracted decline sometime this year after 20 years of excessive growth. This will be welcomed news by people under 40, and potentially the only good thing to come from Brexit.

Gas prices will become even lower and lower
even more kiosks will be in some more fast food restaurants

Uhm social media bubble?

In sports, Dodgers could do well again this year. If they reach the World Series, maybe they'll win one game.

switch pro gets reveled  8)

The following events have been CONFIRMED for 2019:

Social Media will become important
NASA Space

Ok, everyone. It is time to look back at your predictions and see how well you did.

As for me?


I have been thinking about this and here are mine-as usual, political:

-Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen will leave post. Yup
-More indictments-this time for people by the name of Trump (not necessarily the president). Nope
-Mueller will finish his investigation. Yup
-House will start impeachment hearings (probably by summer or fall). Yup

I may come up with others later.


Cat


So, I missed one. Not too bad.


Cat

* Global economy will have a major slowdown at the end of the year, if not contract. Yup
* Artificial meat will be a huge topic by the end of the year. Yup. I'm actually surprised I got this right, it could have easily flopped like earlier attempts.
* There will be a new Brexit referendum. Nope
* Oil prices will continue to be low, and will be even lower by the end of the year. Yup.
* The new mainline Pokémon game for Switch will release. Yup.
* The Canadian Liberals will win the autumn election. Yup.
* The North Korea "deal" will begin to fall apart as China eases sanctions. Yup. China and Russia have appealed to the UN to ease sanctions.
* Katy Perry will go back to making Walmart-friendly music and it will be a hit (this is her year!) She finally got one big hit but she also had several flops
* Electric car sales will pick up. This one was too obvious
* Facebook will begin to decline and will be dogged by more scandals. There were scandals but no decline
* Facebook will launch WhatsApp Pay to compete with Paypal and Amazon Pay. Facebook announced their new digital currency Libra but is yet to release it
* YouTube will begin to decline. Nope


Let's see how it goes :P


I would say not too bad. I think I made mostly safe predictions though.

Gas prices will become even lower and lower
even more kiosks will be in some more fast food restaurants


I'm not sure about rising gas prices and I'm not sure about more kiosks in fast food restaurants even though that should happen in 2020 and 2021.

In sports, Dodgers could do well again this year. If they reach the World Series, maybe they'll win one game.

They did do well, winning 106 regular season games. But in the postseason they were eliminated in the first round... by the team that ultimately won it all.