However, I have heard that sometimes non-powerful and/or famous people get “cancelled,” and these people don’t get a chance to apologize or make amends in any kind of meaningful way
sometimes kinda "internet famous" people get actually cancelled
one that comes to mind is Adam Koebel, stopped streaming and youtube because of it, got dropped by roll20 as a professional GM and lost contracts
"After suffering some damage, Johnny stopped by an old friend’s place to get fixed up. Instead of performing the requested repairs, that old friend — a non-player character (NPC) performed by Koebel — committed an act of sexual assault. You can watch the scene play out on YouTube, where an archive of the livestream remains." - Source
I'll agree that this seems like kind of a weak reason to cancel someone. This was also just several months ago, so hopefully he'll be able to pivot to something else soon.
But I guess this brings up the fact that in any kind of movement like this there will inevitably be some people that unjustly end up in the crosshairs. It sucks, and I don't really see any way to prevent mob mentality from allowing that to happen to certain people, but is that also enough to justify rallying against the entire movement as a whole? (Not trying to say you are trying to cancel Cancel Culture, btw, just trying to understand the mindset of those kinds of people.)
“After suffering some damage, Johnny stopped by an old friend’s place to get fixed up. Instead of performing the requested repairs, that old friend — a non-player character (NPC) performed by Koebel — committed an act of sexual assault. You can watch the scene play out on YouTube, where an archive of the livestream remains.” - Source
yes, i'm aware, i watched it live when it happened
I wasn't much of a fan of Adam, him being a very privileged vagueleft scab, but holy shit, twitter people were acting fucking psychotic
sometimes kinda "internet famous" people get actually cancelled
one that comes to mind is Adam Koebel, stopped streaming and youtube because of it, got dropped by roll20 as a professional GM and lost contracts
"After suffering some damage, Johnny stopped by an old friend’s place to get fixed up. Instead of performing the requested repairs, that old friend — a non-player character (NPC) performed by Koebel — committed an act of sexual assault. You can watch the scene play out on YouTube, where an archive of the livestream remains." - Source
I'll agree that this seems like kind of a weak reason to cancel someone. This was also just several months ago, so hopefully he'll be able to pivot to something else soon.
But I guess this brings up the fact that in any kind of movement like this there will inevitably be some people that unjustly end up in the crosshairs. It sucks, and I don't really see any way to prevent mob mentality from allowing that to happen to certain people, but is that also enough to justify rallying against the entire movement as a whole? (Not trying to say you are trying to cancel Cancel Culture, btw, just trying to understand the mindset of those kinds of people.)
yes, i'm aware, i watched it live when it happened
I wasn't much of a fan of Adam, him being a very privileged vagueleft scab, but holy shit, twitter people were acting fucking psychotic
Oh I wasn't trying to explain it to you; I didn't know who he was and was just sharing what I found for anyone else who also might be unfamiliar.
Twitter mob gonna twitter mob, I suppose. Sometimes people just want blood.
Truer words never spoken, though it must have sucked harder for him seeing people who were close to him add to the pile on