📈 Generative video (Veo 3) collapses Hollywood inside a year
Chamath's dated aside inside his Google bull case: Veo 3 is good enough that the traditional content production business is finished within a year. The value accrues to whoever owns the model and the distribution funnel (Google/YouTube), and the legacy studio production model is the loser.
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CONVICTION
peaked 29.3 EMBER
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT WBD
expression · bearish equities
MISS
outcome · R -145.3% · α -171.1%
2026-06-21
window closed
⚖ Why this verdict
fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2025-06-21 → 2026-06-21 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▼ SHORT WBD (primary play). WBD rose 145.3% over the window → direction-adjusted R = -145.3% (the call lost money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +25.8%
→ α = -145.3 − (+25.8) = -171.1%
— what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
Stock-selection read: -119.5% — did WBD move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
- Rule fired:
· HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5· PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0▶ MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath | proxy-sensitive: DIS→PARTIAL (+10.8%)
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2025-06-21)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ SHORT | WBD | stock | PRIMARY | pure-play legacy studio production exposure |
| ▼ SHORT | DIS | stock | adjacent | the other large legacy studio content producer |
Mention log
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -24.6 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E232 2025-06-21 | init | +29.3 | 29.3 | E232 born by Chamath (explicit_prediction x2) [w=0.84] |
| E233 2025-06-28 | decay | -1.2 | 28.1 | E233 silent |
| E234 2025-07-04 | decay | -1.1 | 27.0 | E234 silent |
| E235 2025-07-11 | decay | -1.1 | 25.9 | E235 silent |
| E236 2025-07-19 | decay | -1.0 | 24.9 | E236 silent |
| E237 2025-08-01 | decay | -1.0 | 23.9 | E237 silent |
| E238 2025-08-09 | decay | -1.0 | 22.9 | E238 silent |
| E239 2025-08-15 | decay | -0.9 | 22.0 | E239 silent |
| E240 2025-08-22 | decay | -0.9 | 21.1 | E240 silent |
| E241 2025-08-29 | decay | -0.8 | 20.3 | E241 silent |
| E242 2025-09-07 | decay | -0.8 | 19.5 | E242 silent |
| E243 2025-09-19 | decay | -0.8 | 18.7 | E243 silent |
| E244 2025-09-27 | decay | -0.7 | 18.0 | E244 silent |
| E245 2025-10-03 | decay | -0.7 | 17.2 | E245 silent |
| E246 2025-10-10 | decay | -0.7 | 16.6 | E246 silent |
| E247 2025-10-17 | decay | -0.7 | 15.9 | E247 silent |
| E248 2025-10-24 | decay | -0.6 | 15.3 | E248 silent |
| E249 2025-10-31 | decay | -0.6 | 14.6 | E249 silent |
| E250 2025-11-07 | decay | -0.6 | 14.1 | E250 silent |
| E251 2025-11-14 | decay | -0.6 | 13.5 | E251 silent |
| E252 2025-11-22 | decay | -0.5 | 13.0 | E252 silent |
| E253 2025-12-06 | decay | -0.5 | 12.4 | E253 silent |
| E254 2025-12-13 | decay | -0.5 | 11.9 | E254 silent |
| E255 2025-12-19 | decay | -0.5 | 11.5 | E255 silent |
| E256 2025-12-31 | decay | -0.5 | 11.0 | E256 silent |
| E257 2026-01-10 | decay | -0.4 | 10.6 | E257 silent |
| E258 2026-01-17 | decay | -0.4 | 10.1 | E258 silent |
| E259 2026-01-30 | decay | -0.4 | 9.7 | E259 silent |
| E260 2026-02-07 | decay | -0.4 | 9.3 | E260 silent |
| E261 2026-02-13 | decay | -0.4 | 9.0 | E261 silent |
| E262 2026-02-28 | decay | -0.4 | 8.6 | E262 silent |
| E263 2026-03-06 | decay | -0.3 | 8.3 | E263 silent |
| E264 2026-03-13 | decay | -0.3 | 7.9 | E264 silent |
| E265 2026-03-19 | decay | -0.3 | 7.6 | E265 silent |
| E266 2026-03-27 | decay | -0.3 | 7.3 | E266 silent |
| E267 2026-04-03 | decay | -0.3 | 7.0 | E267 silent |
| E268 2026-04-10 | decay | -0.3 | 6.7 | E268 silent |
| E269 2026-04-17 | decay | -0.3 | 6.5 | E269 silent |
| E270 2026-04-24 | decay | -0.3 | 6.2 | E270 silent |
| E271 2026-05-01 | decay | -0.2 | 6.0 | E271 silent |
| E272 2026-05-08 | decay | -0.2 | 5.7 | E272 silent |
| E273 2026-05-15 | decay | -0.2 | 5.5 | E273 silent |
| E274 2026-05-22 | decay | -0.2 | 5.3 | E274 silent |
| E275 2026-05-29 | decay | -0.2 | 5.1 | E275 silent |
| E276 2026-06-13 | decay | -0.2 | 4.9 | E276 silent |
| E277 2026-06-19 | decay | -0.2 | 4.7 | E277 silent |