Introduction: Why I Started TheJoshWorld
For almost a decade I’ve noticed things lining up — market shifts, global headlines, random coincidences that seemed to mirror thoughts or posts I’d made. In early 2025 I finally decided to document them publicly through TheJoshWorld. What follows isn’t a victory lap or a “look-at-me” list. It’s simply a highlight reel of the wildest, most telling moments that unfolded once I started putting my observations out in the open.
1. Power and Politics: From Royal Dinners to Joshua Tweets
Early in the year, the political world delivered one of those uncanny overlaps.
I tweeted about how King Charles & Trump should get together for a ‘Chuck Steak, ‘ here. Two days later The Guardian ran a headline about an “unprecedented second state visit”. Timing like that always makes me pause.
Not long after, a video circulated that seemed to feature Donald Trump mentioning my “poker” idea — a symbolic table where world leaders play cards instead of wars. In the clip, he even alludes to something sounding like my “geotokenizer” concept. Whether genuine or cleverly edited, it was surreal to watch. Around the same time, Trump posted a message on X about being “strong and courageous,” a phrase that mirrored themes I’d been discussing that week.
These moments set the tone for the rest of the year: political theatre meeting digital coincidence.
2. The February Short and Market Mayhem
My birthday falls at the start of February, and this year I felt that the market — specifically the E-mini S&P — was positioned for a serious short squeeze. I talked about it privately and hinted online that conditions looked perfect to “put pressure on longs.”
That forecast would end up aligning with what I called a “$350 billion move.” The timing wasn’t luck; the structure of the market looked heavy, and within weeks, indexes cracked hard. Even after I realized the contract expiration wasn’t when I’d thought, the drop played out nearly exactly as expected. It was one of those periods where instinct and structure converged.
3. Tesla, Suppression, and the 420→220 Slide
From January through March I was posting constantly about Tesla, Elon Musk, and how Twitter/X itself seemed to throttle certain voices — including mine.
Hashtags disappeared, tweets vanished, notifications glitched. One of my accounts with 13K followers couldn’t even follow anyone.
During that same stretch, Tesla’s stock sank from $420 to $220. Correlation isn’t causation, but I couldn’t help noticing the symmetry between railing at the algorithm and watching one of the platform’s biggest figures take a market hit.
At one point I even turned the frustration into a bit of wordplay:
“The ladderless lunk of a sunk to a sank of a song sing sung already.”
It was creative venting — and a timestamp on a strange season for both social media and Tesla investors.
4. Pendle, Brazil, and the Global Trades
Not every highlight was a complaint; some were just perfect timing.
Pendle’s Airdrop Surge
I posted about it here. Within 17 days of receiving an airdrop the token had spiked roughly 60 percent, to the literal day of when I received the airdrop and had searched about it. Yes, a fake airdrop, but real market rhythm. (And if you dig down in my tweets, I do apologize for my ‘choice words’ on occasion, but unfortunately situations at points deemed as such it seemed at the time) 🙂
The Brazilian Real
Another thread here carried the caption, “Don’t invent the wheel, reinvent the ‘real.’” I often liked to tweet Elon Musk about things sporadically throughout the year, one tweet highlighted — “The 350 billion [prediction] in the ES last month was more substantial, but 5–6 million in a day [as predictions go] for Brazil still isn’t too much to scoff at.”
The Real stayed about 8–9 percent higher months later. It felt fitting that a Kansas City native — Chiefs fan, former Geico employee, practically a neighbor of Patrick Mahomes — would make a good call on Brazil, where the Chiefs opened their season this year.
And don’t get me started on the ‘People Go’ song I produced that I tweeted Taylor Swift about (kind of jokingly) and then 3 days later after telling Travis to marry her they got engaged. And no I’m seriously not joking.
It’s nice to know maybe some people read my tweets haha
5. The Summer Short and the 2016 Mimic Pattern
In July I posted a chart showing how 2025’s market looked eerily like 2016’s.
The accompanying tweet here warned that the setup could bring the usual September sell-off.
“That would get us through sell-offs in September… but I doubt it would take out 4832/4835 in that move lol.”
Sure enough, the market followed that mimic pattern closely. It was one of two or three déjà-vu-style trades that year where history didn’t just rhyme — it almost copied and pasted.
6. Crypto Whiplash: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the OpenSea Freeze
The 74 K Call
In late spring I posted a long, tongue-in-cheek tweet about Bitcoin pulling back to the mid-70 Ks:
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we hit down 74–78 before … less of a buy trap from Trump/gov push…”
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The market did exactly that — dropped into 74 K territory before rocketing to 127 K.
The 127 K Double Top
By the time Bitcoin touched 119 K–127 K, I called it a double top here and noted I’d been riding it down “since like 126.” Hours later the official @Bitcoin account celebrated its first 20 K-point daily candle — right into the 102 K low I’d mapped out.
I posted follow-ups explaining the logic — that heavy bid walls were forcing a mechanical drop — here and here.
Bitcoin the coming weeks continued to drop from that double top all the way down to nearly 80k.
Ethereum and NFTs
Around the time I started NFT-ing, Ethereum jumped roughly 36 percent in five days, eventually gaining about $1,700 from where I’d entered the NFT scene.
Later I tweeted that it was “gunning the highs” here.
The OpenSea Block
At the peak of that momentum, a buyer tried to purchase one of my NFTs for $70 K — and OpenSea blocked the sale. I posted the screenshot here.
Nothing like watching a life-changing notification turn into an error message.
7. Oil, the Middle East, and a 10 Percent Swing
One night I posted:
“Whoops lol just called this LIVE AND REAL TIME IN MY OWN ETHER SPACE LOL…
YES YES SHAWTY ARABIA IRAN SHAKL BE CUT OFF FROM THE COMEX CME NYMEX LOL.”
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It was right as reports broke about U.S. strikes on Iran. Markets spiked at the open — then sank hard.
Several months later I sent a half-serious, half-sarcastic reply to @khamenei_ir and @netanyahu, noting how the region seemed calmer and joking about “adding them back to the COMEX.”
Five days later I followed up:
“HOW ABOUT UP 10 % for ya Mr. Khamenei … since I posted this above.”
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Oil had indeed risen nearly 10 percent. Whether I called it or just felt the tremor early, the chart tells the story.
8. GoDaddy, Glitches, and a 100-Point Drop
Tech platforms had their own sense of timing.
One Thursday evening around 7 p.m., my GoDaddy site dashboard flashed a glimpse at the normal dashboard and immediately redirected to a secondary dashboard hiding my messages and other elements. Glitches like this seemed potentially another personal mishap like the other company induced blunders that had occurred throughout the year (of which there is a seriously growing list that I try to forget about). I posted a short video complaining:
“Smh what the hell @GoDaddy 😔 Why? Really? What a bs country and to think they’re on the S&P 500 now unbelievable.”
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Minutes later, the E-mini S&P dropped 100 points.
My follow-up captured the disbelief:
“WHOOPS MY BAD GUYS WHEN DID THAT 100 POINT DROP START AT 7:00 O’CLOCK ON A THURSDAY… MY TIMESTAMP TO A T NEARLY 👍 #s&p #markets.”
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9. Reflections and What’s Next
Looking back, 2025 wasn’t the first time these patterns appeared — it’s just the first time I shared them in real time. From political oddities to crypto double-tops, from fake airdrops to blocked sales, the record now exists in timestamps and links rather than just memories.
The goal of TheJoshWorld has never been to prove supernatural timing or market mastery. It’s to document the overlaps — the places where digital expression and real-world movement seem to cross.
Some of these highlights deserve deeper dives: the February short mechanics, the Tesla-suppression saga, the crypto reversals, the oil spike. I’ll be expanding on many of them likely in weeks/months to come.
For now, this is the 2025 highlight reel — the year I finally started keeping track publicly. The patterns may be strange, but they’re real enough to record. And that, more than anything, is what TheJoshWorld is about.
