Hannah Fry notes that despite the prevalent concern around 2012, there was never any actual suggestion from the Maya that the world would end in that year.

“But hold on a second. Did the Mayans actually say that this world, the fourth world, ours will only last 13 bok tunes like the one before? They never did. They never ever did.”

Michael Stevens suggests that while the Earth did not end in 2012, a new world began that year due to shifting cultural and technological trends.

“But in another way, I think there's an argument to be made that the world did end in 2012 or at least a new world began, a fifth world.”