Şirince acquired world-wide fame when tourists flocked to the village in December 2012 to witness the Mayan Apocalypse, as New Age mystics believed its "positive energy" would aid in weathering the catastrophe, during the 2012 phenomenon.
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Using the videogame Minecraft, they used each track as a chapter of a movie based on the 2012 phenomenon.
This group also believed that the upcoming end to the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar would result in some form of apocalypse.
In 2012, the mountain was closed on December 21st, as a mass suicide had been proposed on Facebook to take place there due to the 2012 phenomenon.