One of the many rare cases where the clean version is superior to the explicit version

yeah, cancel culture is def limited to online but the run-off effects of sociopaths who hide behind it isn't. ofc it's not intrinsically connected but it's a symptom of how interconnected everything is to social media. it's not really everyone else's fault calling someone out for something that someone unhinged decides to carry over the internet into real life.

The 'jose the jalapeno on a stick' skit is unhinged at this point.

I'd argue the sociopath part isn't something that happens often, but I see your point. I feel like the anonymity helps a lot with people feeling like they can just have any opinion with zero recourse; ultimately, I wouldn't put Twitter cancelling Lil Nas X for genderswapping on the same level as say, Harvey Weinstein or Adam22 getting flamed for their respective s***crimes.

I feel a lot of people conflate the two when they talk about cancel culture to push their own political narrative and it just makes no sense, especially considering Elon's view of Twitter as a "public square" for the internet; the gossip and arguing are the literal purpose and business model of the site itself and that alone helps me take the more histrionic types less seriously.

Like I said, in general I don't really think "cancel culture" is an issue. It's a natural part of how people socialize in wide groups observable anywhere - there's boundaries and thresholds for things like acceptability and the like. The problem is that social media is too monolithic and global, and it's easy for individuals to take advantage of wider trends (or simply open access to others) to twist for their own means. I, of course, don't think this happens extremely often to be clear, but is definitely does happen, and I feel when people talk about "cancel culture" this is really instead what they're angry at but have trouble identifying it.

digging up stuff from 10 years ago will never not be toxic behavior (unless politics)

it's toxic but like the knock on effects are negligible. it's the twitter equivalent of calling someone a slur in a 2008 CoD lobby. what doesn't happen in an 08 CoD lobby usually is someone searching your personal info to get you fired.

That whole 'puritanical moral policing' bullshit that terminally online people are resorting nowadays is quite literally such bullshit. That whole 'victimization and outrage culture' is so tiring and lame. Everyone has skeletons in their closet.

r/askreddit type of thread

It usually only happens to people who are influencer/celebrities anyway so they are fine.

ive seen it happen to like microcelebs / etc before and it def sucks a bit more than when it happens to actual celebs. everyone's "in group" does it in one way or another though - like prominently we always think of people "canceling" others for saying slurs in like 2010 or something, but republicans will do the same s*** and search up right wingers old tweets saying stuff like "i don't think there's an issue with being gay" and be like "wow look he's a far leftist invading the right". it's all dumb af nonsense

Singing along to auntie diaries by Kendrick Lamar

He said we can say it together

Unfortunately it has gotten somewhat worse, where people might not necessarily put you on blast; instead they'll send public information or screenshots containing pictures and information (dirt they can use to expose you with) to their echo-chamber group. Then they'll all gang up and post it. It happens all the time on social media now.

Problem is that younger people (<40 years) also don't really care about privacy, and the even younger demographic (<20-25 years) really don't care about their privacy, so everything is logged online.

No one’s ever canceled

s*** isn’t real

BUT only if you let a white girl say….

THIS maybe?

Rush Hour 4

That guy was never funny and not because some would consider this offensive. He just sucks ass

i don't understand u niggas. do u think "cancel culture" is a new thing? do you think a group of people collectively deciding to boycott someone/something is a new blessing powered by twitter(tm)? are you that stupid?
nigga what about the salem witch trials? what about the satanic panic? yeh it is only now that internet has gotten more centralized that it's easier for someone to get "cancelled" but don't act like it's a new thing p**** ass
also what stupid ass quesstion is this? hurr durr nigga DAE miss the times where we could legally marry 14 yyear olds :( where has feminism taken the real american spirit in us...

yea it was literally airing a while back

Ed is back on the menu

The f word that rhymes with bag

Legit a good societal shift

Unless you go down south