All the Data Points to a Coming Apocalypse

Nothing changed. I just framed it differently.

Give me a few days worth of data and I’ll chart the end of the world.
Or a rosy future.
Whichever you prefer.

You don’t need to fake data to fake a trend. You just have to frame it right. Most people won’t notice the difference. That’s the point.

This same method works for anything.
Inflation. Temperature. Hospitalizations. Border crossings. Teen anxiety. Anything.
You just need a chart.

Here’s an example.

The average price of gasoline is $3.50 a gallon.

It’s been hovering there all week. High of $3.60, low of $3.40. Pretty steady.

Here’s the daily breakdown:

• $3.60

• $3.50

• $3.40

• $3.45

• $3.40

• $3.60

• $3.50

Seven days. Nothing dramatic. You could graph that with a $0–$5 scale on the Y-axis and all seven days on the X. The line would look flat. Maybe a little squiggle.

Nice and boring.

But that’s not what I want.

I want to show that gas prices are spiking. That they’re shooting through the roof. That something serious is happening.

So I cut the first two days and the last one. Now I’ve got:

• $3.40

• $3.45

• $3.40

• $3.60

And I shrink the Y-axis to hug the data—just $3.40 to $3.60.

Boom.

It looks like it’s going vertical. Like we’re two days away from $10 gas and martial law.

Same data. Same prices. No manipulation. Just framing.

That’s all it takes.

You pick the slice. You set the bounds. You decide what “normal” looks like and what counts as a spike.

Left side: calm.
Right side: crisis.
Both true.

Predicting the future is fun when you can back up any story you want with cold hard facts.