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It was proven here during the appocalypse. Someone here was a major player in some tech support sub always answering questions. He used one of those account scrubbers when he left and when he looked all his answers had been put back.
Account scrubbing does nothing
I have a two-edged sword kind of an opinion regarding these archival methods places like what Reddit does.
It should put it into perspective, how careful you have to be with yourself more than ever with today's internet. Nobody will ever forget because it will most likely never be deleted, even if you went out of your way to purge things. Don't share or tell things to strangers online that you wouldn't even tell your closest loved ones in person. Doing so, sets you up for a unaccounted personal disaster that you won't escape from.
However, people should simply be allowed to purge and not have certain things haunt them. It is already disturbing in Facebook's case where you think you've moved on from deleting things. But as soon as you create a new account, suddenly you're pitched contacts that are too familiar to you. People you wanted to forget about, almost as if Facebook has trained it's algorithms from it's many data server farms, to specifically never letting you forget.
It is insane there are people who are that devoid of reality and morbidly obsessed with archiving and keeping track of everyone's data.