(I swear didn't watch it I just scrubbed through it please don't take me to the gulag)

EDIT: Link, in case you have an hour and forty minutes and hate yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4

  • joseph [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Honestly, I'd even go as far to say she hasn't been canceled at all. This video got 400k views in 4 hours, she clearly still has a platform - it's not like canceling has denied her access to making thinkpieces on youtube and I'm pretty sure she still has a NYT bestselling book and tons of patreon supporters. IMO complaining about "cancel culture" when you can still influence hundreds of thousands of people with a click is just a waste of time.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      cancelling really only works on normal people who get popular/infamous only, or at least mostly, bc of a controversy. Someone who requires wage labor that they may be denied to bc a company may opt on the safe side of just not hiring them and risking blow back. Someone who already is at least in some way in control of their own income with patreon and book sales and stuff like that is most likely immune to this kind of stuff. (obviously there are extenuating circumstances this just seems to be the case most of the time.)

      • joseph [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Right, in the context of these influencers the only true canceling is the loss of their platform on the major social media and fundraising sites, which has only happened in a handful of cases (Milo, Alex Jones off the top of my head).

        • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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          4 years ago

          yea I'm pretty goddamn online but not enough to speak too definitely of it, I'd like to think no one is bc the internet has to many pocket communities, but a lot of the time it seems quite a lot of people tend to double down on defending the creator. Especially if they're not leftists. Certain left groups absolutely will drop someone like a hot potato but outside of that it seems to me that the trend is people pushing back, too much in some cases, against the idea of cancel culture by being extremely vocal in their support of the creator.

          I feel like we kinda saw this with Vinny Vinesauce recently. I don't really have an opinion on this either way and it does seem like some of the evidence may be sus but honestly it seemed like nearly everyone I saw was immediately like "nope fuck that fake! fake!" as an instant reaction. like right or wrong, i don't think vinny is gonna lose any money over it I guess is my point

    • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I think by "cancelled" she means the shitload of abuse (including trying to find where she lives, they go as far as the city she lives in) she got to the point that she was trending at #2 for like 2-3 days straight.