In the latest of many, many predictions of the end of the world, the Earth is set to end on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, according to a conspiracy theory going wild on TikTok and X. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Every now and then, someone ( sometimes, but not always, Isaac Newton ) suggests that the world is about to end in some horrifying new way. Without exception (see: you aren't dead) they have all turned out to be nonsense, sometimes to the embarrassment of the "prophet" who suggested it. If you're older than 13, you have already lived through being dinosaured by imaginary planet Niburu several times, and the great Mesoamerican apocalypse of 2012 .

This year, despite no apocalypse predictions ever pann

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