The timeline below shows the total weekly seconds of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News in which the phrase "cancel culture" was mentioned since June 2009. The phrase first appears on MSNBC on February 4, 2019 with "cancel culture has to be canceled" and is picked up further in April 2019 on CNN with "cancel culture, call out culture … that's poison. we can't go on that way." It then really begins picking up on Fox News in August 2019 and Fox has mentioned it the most to date.