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TommyG663513 posted...

Yes and her career prospects are...........

A Ben Shapiro movie lol

Yeah her career is going nowhere dude

I agree with an awful lot in your post. I believe people should face consequences for their actions. I fully support cancel culture. I just want it to be better. I also find it laughable that people try to deny the reality of cancel culture. Especially when it is obviously used as a disingenuous counter to disingenuous arguments made by Republicans about stupid culture war BS.

I agree that cancel culture as a concept has always been a thing. Mob justice is the same concept. The difference is cancel culture is a modern term which encompasses modern stuff like the use of social media. No one is showing up at your door when they can tweet at you instead.

It's just that people should stop being so reactionary about it. Comics especially are ones who should get more leeway on the matter. There's this weird puritanism going around comedy circles where people are constantly trying to police comedy. It's becoming its own religion.

Then you get cancel victims like Aziz Ansari and Al Franken who just make me go WTF and I'm like the punishment just far exceeds the crime

Like I can't say I agree with all the targets of cancel culture. I think it's really silly to act like a growing syst.of mob rule couldn't ever have any negative consequences ever. Again, I mostly think it's a good thing. I just think we should criticize the bad parts of it and try to improve him. I find that significantly healthier than acting like cancel culture doesn't exist when clearly here we are all talking about it.

I mean I agree with the sentiment but all social media really did was give a gauge to businesses.

Theres definitely cases I disagree with but Im also not looking at the books. I imagine they largely look at the demographic thats outraged and decide if said person is still bankable off of that. Aziz is a weird case because he was popular but aside from me I havent met anyone who liked his shit. Im too lazy to look up how much revenue he was generating but Im guessing it wasnt a ton, but I could totally be wrong about that.

From what I usually see its the own fans that get upset about something, even if it is stupid. But as its always been, if you lose your fans you lose your star power. This means dropping pretty damn hard.

So its complicated but I dont think its anything remotely new, its just a new buzzword.

Mel Gibson is perhaps the greatest example of cancel culture and at the time his rant happened I can guarantee you remember the talk being separate the art from the artist. That conversation was around before him. Can we say people dont do that? Id say no since hes been back for a bit and doing well. Hes not as big of a star as he was, but he still had enough fans to be successful over time.

So I mean, its a cluster fuck. But it still boils down to being fired and having to work your way back in. The Dixie chicks from what I recall pivoted to like Rock and roll since they couldnt do country anymore.

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