This is a Carousel guest post by a Twitter anon, the entrepreneur behind Pluribus.
Cancellation is a plague, and like all plagues there’s profit in the cure. We’ve grown accustomed to it hanging over our heads like the Sword of Damocles for the better part of the past decade. Considering the Creator Economy is a $100B industry comprised of 50M+ creators and their 4B+ followers, it’s rather surprising that the market hasn’t managed to produce some form of cancellation insurance. Until now.
How do you calculate risk when a core feature of the phenomenon is how arbitrary it is? Even if the rules were consistent, how would an actuary gauge someone’s likelihood of saying the N-word? And if you somehow manage that, how does the claims adjuster determine if they didn’t do it on purpose to get a payout?
Cancellation insurance is impossible through traditional mo…
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