Last updated Nov 29, 2025
Chamath @ 00:58:52Inconclusive
Over time (over the coming generations as large digital footprints accumulate), cancel culture will fade and effectively disappear due to mutually assured destruction from everyone having embarrassing or problematic historical digital content.
And so you'll have a choice, which is if you're going to hold me accountable, I'm going to hold you accountable. And so it's mutually assured destruction. And I think that's what causes cancel culture to go away in time.View on YouTube
Explanation

Chamath’s claim is explicitly long‑term: he says cancel culture will “go away in time” over the coming generations as everyone accumulates compromising digital histories and thus faces “mutually assured destruction.” That implies a multi‑decade horizon, which clearly has not elapsed by late 2025.

Empirically, cancel culture is still widely recognized and actively discussed as a social phenomenon. Reference works and surveys in the mid‑2020s describe cancel culture as an ongoing form of public shaming/ostracism, with majorities of Americans aware of it and many saying it has gone too far or affects what they feel comfortable saying, indicating it remains salient rather than having disappeared. (en.wikipedia.org) Media analysis in 2023 notes “no sign of decline” and continued high‑profile cancellations, while 2025 commentary argues that although cancel culture may have lost some impact in terms of permanently ending careers, online outrage cycles and calls to cancel people are still common. (digitalis.com) These mixed signals (persistence of the practice but debate about its changing effectiveness) do not resolve whether it will eventually fade out as predicted.

Because the forecast is about what will happen over generations and we are only a few years out, there is not yet enough elapsed time to judge whether cancel culture will effectively disappear. Therefore the prediction’s accuracy is inconclusive (too early to tell).