Wait. Britney Spears was With Carole Baskin at the 2002 VMAs and My Brain is Now Broken

Remember a couple of hours ago when I said there's a glitch in the Matrix because Doc Antle handled Britney's tiger in her iconic "I'm a Slave 4 U" number at the 2002 VMAs?

Child's play.

As unlikely as Bhagavan Antle appearing in a cage alongside of the Queen of Early 2000s Pop in one of the most famous musical numbers of all time is - and I still contend that it is cosmically unlikely - the odds of her sitting next to Carole Baskin the following year at the same show are infinity to one. 

And yet, here's our proof. It is proof, isn't it? The camera doesn't lie. And who the hell else would've been wearing a ridiculous get up like this at an MTV event in 2002. Or any year.

I mean, other than Carole, who admits she never wears anything that doesn't include a cat print. 

That's her it has to be her. Satan herself. The crusader against keeping exotic cats in cages, who keeps exotic cats in cages. The fighter for fair pay for animal handlers who has an all volunteer staff who get paid in t-shirts. The succubus who changed her millionaire second husband's will to reflect she gets the money in the event of his "disappearance" instead of his death, just as he turned up missing. The one who definitely didn't feed him to her tigers but knows that in order to get tigers to eat a human you need to use sardine oil. The shrew who declared him legally dead one day after the five year grace period. The inspiration behind this timeless gem:

The most infamous woman in America right now. Somehow got a seat right next to Britney at the height of her powers. Still a couple of years away from her three day marriage to Jason Allen Alexander. Long before Kevin Federline, shaving her head and driving with a baby on her lap. Peak Queen B. And through impossible set of circumstances, these two met in 2002. 

I was right earlier. We are living in a vast computer simulation, some great advanced intelligence messing with us intentionally and none of this is real. If later on we find out Brit was friends with Joe Exotic, I'm checking out of this existence.