2025 Predictions

Sup nerds,

Because I’m a true cyberpunk, it’s my duty to look to the future.

Last year, I correctly predicted X would survive the Elon-pocolypse, AI girlfriend apps would make millions, TikTok would survive in 2024, the Humane AI Pin would flop (does anyone even remember this?), and more.

I was definitely wrong about a few things (namely Apple Vision Pro being a “hit”), but hey, so was Tim Cook and all of Apple I guess. Cost them billions, only cost me $4,000 and my dignity and the respect of my family. But so it goes. That’s life! All the joy of being an early adopter in tech!

This is a much longer piece than usual, so grab a Red Bull and get ready:

Prediction 1: A pornstar fucks a Tesla robot.

Kim Kardashian posts pics getting handsy with a Tesla robot.

Lily Philips fucks 100 dudes in a day and is going for 1,000 next year.

The highest paid OnlyFans star made more than the highest paid NBA stars.

Like a Black Mirror episode, we’re seeing an increase in the absurd shit people will do to get attention on the internet—and the exponentially higher returns on investment every year (what exactly is the ROI of sucking 1,000 dicks????).

So yes, I think a pornstar will fuck a Tesla robot and she will make millions doing it.

Perhaps, it may even be you, dear reader?

Prediction 2: The first real AI Agent is Siri.

AI agents are currently a scam.

Autonomous my ass. Programmatic, sure, but autonomous, fuck no. Most of them are literally just regular old software rebranded to “AI agents” for VC money (a16z’s Andrew Chen explains the logic reason being ”AI” startups get a 25-40% higher valuation).

But hopefully with the release of OpenAI’s newest model o3, we get some real agents working where I can go tell my agent to book me a flight or go do all my analytics for my business or handle my taxes or whatever I want because it’s my AI slave. I know there’s a ton of startups work on this and Claude teased something on this, but I haven’t heard 1 person actually find an AI agent that is autonomous or even works. So my guess is the first true killer AI Agent we all have been looking for was here the whole time (Siri).

Apple and OpenAI are collabing. ChatGPT can now view your screen and answer questions. This leads me to believe Siri will be able to do the same. Can’t wait to say “Hey Siri, open Memelord Technologies and make a dank meme!”

Prediction 3: The % of non-technical founders who start unicorns in 2025 will be > 40%.

Currently, 40% of unicorn founders are non-technical.¹  

I think this number will rise, but because unicorns aren’t built overnight, it will take 5-7 years to show up in the data. The non-technical founders building companies right now will be building the unicorns of 2030.

As I wrote about in You Can Just Do Things, anyone can build software now. With OpenAI’s new o3 model announced on Friday, the internet went haywire. “The new invaluable traits: Taste. Insight & intuition. Resilience. Technology has turned roughly everything else into a commodity,” wrote one founder. “If you’re smart, pivot to being cool/hot,” wrote another. My take went particularly viral.

This is literally about me building Memelord Technologies lol.

Prediction 4: VC money flows like Niagara.

Raising VC saw a huge dip the last couple years.

With Trump economy and less BS regulations, IPOs and acquisitions will come back — meaning VCs and founders will get paid out and it’ll be easier for VCs to raise capital from LPs and thus founders to raise VC.

On top of more money to go around, I think where will be a TON of new founders jumping to start companies: a mix of non-technical marketing founders like me PLUS the Big Tech engineers who are getting replaced by AI….

Personally, I know who I’d invest in, but hey that’s just me 😉 

Prediction 5: A love and talent for reading and writing become the most important rare skills in the world.

We already have text-to-image, text-to-video, text-to-music and even text-to-app.

The future is talking to AI agents and even robots. Prompting AI clearly will be what determines your outcome. The difference between a regular prompt writer and a 10x prompt writer is real af. So you better learn how to write and speak well. Being a good prompt engineer will be extremely important (why I invested in PromptLayer).

Because everything will rely on writing/speaking, knowing how to read well, write, and speak will be increasingly important. The kicker is that all 3 of these skills come from clear thinking, which is increasingly rare in a world of distractions.

Prediction 6: We’ll see a rise in “screen time coaches”.

We have health coaches, marriage therapists, sex therapists, etc.

Why don’t we have screen time coaches?

My friend Randy Ginsburg turned me on to this idea and is building a whole business around it along with a bunch of free tools like his Screen Time Calculator and recent Roast My Screen Time. I’m a screen time addict and see the value 1000%.

Less scrolling, more sleep, clearer thinking, more money.

Everyone thinks AI is going to make us not have to work, but the opposite is already becoming true. I’m working more than ever. Same with my friends. Because we have so much leverage and what feels like infinite opportunities to make money, it’s getting harder and harder to put away the phone.

Sure, there’s apps for screen time and those will be used by the masses, but I think the top .01% will actually hire real screen time coaches. If you’re making 6-7 figures, paying a screen time coach $200/hour or whatever to help you get some sleep and put things into perspective is extremely realistic.

Prediction 7: Most background music on Spotify will be Spotify-produced GenAI slop aka Slopify.

Sooooo this is already happening, sorta. I found this out Thursday.

Did you know most of the music on popular Spotify-created background music playlists are actually made by stock music companies hired by Spotify??? Yes, seriously. Think background music like Lofi beats, jazz, meditation music, etc.

It’s cheaper for them to pay the stock music companies than pay out regular artists so they just fill up their Spotify-curated background music playlists with stock musicians aka “ghost artists” that make Slopify. Spotify makes profile pics and stories about them and everything. Insane. How long until it’s all just AI generated music on Suno or something? (AI generated my podcast intro music, it can easily do lyricless music). Tbh this is probably already happening and we’re just listening to AI music all the time.

I had no idea this stuff happens, but it makes sense.

And the ramifications of this coming to light are huge for other creator economy companies too. You know the fireplace YouTuebe videos that stream for 10 hours or the 8-hour doggy YouTube videos or the Lofi beats endless 24H stream? Like maybe that’s just YouTube hosting that to avoid payouts and make it a more valuable platform. And if they’re not doing this and they find out Spotify is doing it, why wouldn’t they start doing it to save money????

Prediction 8: X launches 🔥 original shows.

I had a call with the X content team 2 weeks ago and I’m super excited because they’re investing heavy in producing original shows and content.

They just announced a Khloe Kardashian podcast and there’s much more TBA soon. Not just podcasts or talk shows. I think we’re going to see some straight-up original scripted comedy shows and stuff coming.

Under Elon’s vision of an Everything App, X is gearing up to take down YouTube. I said this last year and I stand by it. With X being the free speech platform and YouTube, Netflix, and most of Hollywood still being wacky and woke, my bet is X will have much funnier unhinged original shows than anywhere else. This will drive true comedy fans.

We’ve had a lull in comedy since 2010s woke era started (notice how all comedy movies aren’t funny anymore???). Fortunately that era is ending in tech and soon Hollywood. As Elon said, “comedy is legal again”. And you should never bet against Elon.

So I’m thinking we’re gonna see some great shows coming this year and I can’t wait.

Prediction 9: We enter a meme marketing renaissance.

When I became the meme marketing guy 2 years ago, people thought I was crazy.

Now I’m literally being asked to write stuff like HubSpot’s Guide to Meme Marketing, my book Memes Make Millions is selling more copies every month, and my meme marketing software Memelord Technologies is growing like wildfire.

We’re in a meme marketing renaissance.

I believe this trajectory is for 2 main reasons: AI and politics.

First, let’s talk AI marketing.

This is what compelled me to go all-in on meme marketing (also it’s just more fun than anything else). The moment ChatGPT came out in November 2022, I doubled down on funny writing because I knew the internet would fill up with boring AI slop and AI can’t be funny. Humor is too much about surprise and absurdity, AI is all about predicting the next logical word. There’s no funny AI. Humor doesn’t have logic, it’s absurd. And sure, AI is getting better everyday, but ChatGPT still isn’t funny. None of the models are.

So the best way to stand out in marketing is to be funny.

The same is true with image creation and video creation. Sure, AI can make any image, but it still can’t make banger funny memes (trust me I’ve tried every AI meme maker out there and it’s all just nonsense or sloppity slop). And yes, AI can make boring faceless videos and AI slop, but it still can’t make funny sketches or viral subway videos 😉 

Big internet-famous founders are thinking similarly as me here.

“This is why I double downed on shitposting last few years, no joke,” wrote indie hacking legend Pieter Levels with 500k+ followers making $2M+/year on software. “AI right now is agreeable, politically correct, socially acceptable, consistent, responsible, way too normie to ever be a famous influencer (for now),” he continued here. “Being spicy and based online is now the main way to prove one's humanity,” wrote Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon, better known as Beff Jezos with 150k+ followers.

The second main reason here is political.

With the unwokeification of corporate America, we’re about to see marketing become unhinged again. Marketing and advertising used to be extremely unhinged (I didn’t invent unhinged marketing, just see my post here on sexvertising). But we stopped being unhinged out of fear of cancellation. Well, cancellation is cancelled. We’re finally hitting the point marketers can now be unhinged again and let their creativity run wild.

“Tech has a slightly deranged, shackles are off kind of energy lately and I think it's great,” wrote Jack Altman, founder of Lattice and yes, Sam Altman’s brother. “Founders were held hostage by their employees, hostage by DEI, hostage by bad ideas about how to run a company the ‘right way’. 2025 is the year to lead authentically,” wrote Emery Wells, founder of Frame who sold for $1B to Adobe (who you might remember from my podcast). I saw this early with billionaires like Elon, Garry Tan, and Marc Andreessen who already had Fuck You Money and knew woke culture was stupid (as I wrote in Memes Make Millions). But now that this is common knowledge, it’s spreading across Silicon Valley and beyond.

It’s not just Elon, it’s all of Silicon Valley getting back to normal.

Cheers to a memelord’s dream in 2025.

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BIG WEEK from me and my memelord mafia all made on Memelord Technologies

Thanks for reading nerds.

Create some cool shit this week.

Jason “The Memelord” Levin

Founder of Memelord Technologies, Author of Memes Make Millions

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