Current Events > Lindsay Ellis getting cancelled really sums up how worthless Twitter is

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pinky0926
04/16/21 8:48:00 AM
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Consistently inciteful, thoughtful critic who has brought so much actually woke commentary on film says a wrong thing on twitter (and sure, she was wrong, or at least didn't read the room or whatever). Rather than this simply being refuted, argued with or handled in any sensible manner, the twitter ghoul machine starts harrassing her until she deletes her account.

So...good job twitter?

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cavalierking
04/16/21 8:51:25 AM
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am i the only person who doesn't know who she is or something

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Kitt
04/16/21 8:52:33 AM
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cavalierking posted...
am i the only person who doesn't know who she is or something
Google is a thing, ya know.

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DeadBankerDream
04/16/21 8:53:04 AM
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Is she still cancelled?

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pinky0926
04/16/21 8:55:49 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
Is she still cancelled?

I think she decided that twitter is garbage, which was probably the right move. She's still making youtube videos though.

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marthsheretoo
04/16/21 8:55:55 AM
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Kitt posted...
Google is a thing, ya know.

Oh god.

I just googled the controversy, and, uh, I've thought it was about Lindsey Stirling the entire time.

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Shablagoo
04/16/21 8:57:02 AM
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I mean the video she released yesterday has close to 800,000 views already so I dont think shes canceled no matter how many Twitter folks got mad at her.

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CyricZ
04/16/21 8:57:29 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
Rather than this simply being refuted, argued with or handled in any sensible manner,
The thing is that's what these people believe their doing. These hundreds and hundreds of people. All at once.

"All she has to do is address my concerns."
"Why can't she have a dialogue."
"Listen to POC!" (always posted by a white person)

Like I personally never got why anyone legitimately felt they were doing good by joining in on a Twitter pile-on. You're not going to be read or heard. At all. It's all performative for your own personal audience.

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TwoDoorPC
04/16/21 8:58:08 AM
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twitter is garbage. if i ever find myself in the public spotlight, i'm deleting my twitter.

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pinky0926
04/16/21 8:58:35 AM
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Shablagoo posted...
I mean the video she released yesterday has close to 800,000 views already so I dont think shes canceled no matter how many Twitter folks got mad at her.

Yes, so I'm not really saying "this is cancel culture" so much as I'm saying "this is how garbage twitter is"

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SRR Capdown
04/16/21 9:00:38 AM
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Not really aware of who she is, but after a Google it definitely seems like a lot of nothing.

Seemed like 45% of reactions were people misinterpreting her stance and then doubling down when she explained.

Another 45% were just 'gamers rise up!' types who already hated her and were ecstatic that she was under scrutiny.

And then like 10% being reasonable.

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ultimate reaver
04/16/21 9:01:35 AM
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twitter is nothing but astroturfing bots and people sitting around waiting to get mad at things

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Persona6
04/16/21 9:07:51 AM
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I will add her to the long list of people who were steamrolled without having a chance to explain themselves.

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Shablagoo
04/16/21 9:12:14 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
Yes, so I'm not really saying "this is cancel culture" so much as I'm saying "this is how garbage twitter is"

Oh yeah I know, I just thought Id mention it. I went to her channel cuz I was worried you meant she deleted her YT account for a sec.

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Xavier_On_High
04/16/21 9:16:05 AM
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Was this not just self-flagellation? People argued with her on Twitter and then she willingly deleted her Twitter. It's not like her agent dropped her or she lost a multi-million dollar contract with Netflix or whatever.

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cjsdowg
04/16/21 9:19:59 AM
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She was not cancelled people disagreed with here and she went to playing a victim. That is all that happened. We can't question people like her now ?

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pinky0926
04/16/21 9:25:02 AM
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cjsdowg posted...
She was not cancelled people disagreed with here and she went to playing a victim. That is all that happened. We can't question people like her now ?

Criticisms are fine, but were they valid? Because mostly white people screaming "listen to POC voices" and spreading the idea that she's contributing to the wave of hate crimes on asians seems like a pretty incoherent idea of "questioning".


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creativerealms
04/16/21 9:25:45 AM
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People on Twitter have no power.

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YoungMan
04/16/21 9:27:00 AM
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Twitter is a microcosm of the way liberals want to run the world. Get with the groupthink or face being "canceled".

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KiwiTerraRizing
04/16/21 9:27:28 AM
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Being cancelled isnt real

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Squall28
04/16/21 9:28:44 AM
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https://youtu.be/rJqiC8fURak

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LostForest
04/16/21 9:33:05 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
Criticisms are fine, but were they valid? Because mostly white people screaming "listen to POC voices" and spreading the idea that she's contributing to the wave of hate crimes on asians seems like a pretty incoherent idea of "questioning".

This.

From an outside perspective, it seems easy enough to just ignore hundreds upon hundreds of replies and DMs at once, but its probably super overwhelming.
And when you're a known public figure, trying to recover from any sort of bad press like that is really difficult to do. Once you're in a group's sights, they're going to micro-observe everything you do from them on out lol

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assassingriskel
04/16/21 9:33:35 AM
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LostForest posted...
This.

From an outside perspective, it seems easy enough to just ignore hundreds upon hundreds of replies and DMs at once, but its probably super overwhelming.
And when you're a known public figure, trying to recover from any sort of bad press like that is really difficult to do. Once you're in a group's sights, they're going to micro-observe everything you do from them on out lol
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eston
04/16/21 9:33:39 AM
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Twitter has always been trash, and I absolutely would not put this in the cancel culture box

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Samurontai
04/16/21 9:47:54 AM
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...
Being cancelled isnt real

I mean its caused people to lose their jobs and even get kicked out of colleges/lose scholarships, so Id consider it real tbh

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Giant_Aspirin
04/16/21 9:48:27 AM
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CyricZ posted...
It's all performative for your own personal audience.

yeah thats all twitter etc is about

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Giant_Aspirin
04/16/21 9:49:53 AM
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YoungMan posted...
Twitter is a microcosm of the way liberals want to run the world. Get with the groupthink or face being "canceled".

you say this like its only liberals who do that. if you actually believe conservatives dont get all wrapped up in "groupthink" you're victim to the very groupthink you claim to be above

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YoungMan
04/16/21 2:14:59 PM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
you say this like its only liberals who do that. if you actually believe conservatives dont get all wrapped up in "groupthink" you're victim to the very groupthink you claim to be above
Conservatives vote with their wallet. Libs just silence the dissidents.

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ChopinList
04/16/21 2:15:58 PM
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Why did she rage quit twitter? Couldn't see just not login until it blew over.

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Garioshi
04/16/21 2:16:41 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
I mean the video she released yesterday has close to 800,000 views already so I dont think shes canceled no matter how many Twitter folks got mad at her.
You can have abuse hurled at you no matter how many views you have

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IShall_Run_Amok
04/16/21 2:17:31 PM
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assassingriskel posted...
boo hoo she chose this life
Haha I wonder what this guy got suspended for.

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CyricZ
04/16/21 2:19:33 PM
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YoungMan posted...
Conservatives vote with their wallet.
Conservatives vote with bullets.

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Ararararagi
04/16/21 2:25:01 PM
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IShall_Run_Amok posted...
Haha I wonder what this guy got suspended for
He said that it was her own fault that she was sexually assaulted in college

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UnholyMudcrab
04/16/21 2:32:57 PM
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YoungMan posted...
Giant_Aspirin posted...
you say this like its only liberals who do that. if you actually believe conservatives dont get all wrapped up in "groupthink" you're victim to the very groupthink you claim to be above
Conservatives vote with their wallet. Libs just silence the dissidents.

This is a poor attempt. You can do better. Probably.
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COVxy
04/16/21 2:35:37 PM
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Twitter is how I get wind of 90% of the new science I end up reading. So it's not all bad.

As a social platform for purely social things, rather than a news ticker which is how I use it, it does kind of suck in that it allows for really shitty discourse to dominate.

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KiwiTerraRizing
04/16/21 5:19:18 PM
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Samurontai posted...
I mean its caused people to lose their jobs and even get kicked out of colleges/lose scholarships, so Id consider it real tbh

Thats called consequences for what you say and do, be smarter.

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cjsdowg
04/16/21 5:21:40 PM
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pinky0926 posted...


Criticisms are fine, but were they valid? Because mostly white people screaming "listen to POC voices" and spreading the idea that she's contributing to the wave of hate crimes on asians seems like a pretty incoherent idea of "questioning".


POC were calling her out. And she called them crazy.

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Stalolin
04/16/21 5:25:40 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
POC were calling her out. And she called them crazy.

She addresses this in her video. And besides very few of them were actually POC lol.

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One_Day_Remains
04/16/21 5:29:02 PM
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assassingriskel posted...

boo hoo she chose this life


Every time I see you post you're always bitching about women. Who hurt you
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mech dragon
04/16/21 5:30:25 PM
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Saying "getting cancelled" is just virtue signalling. If she's losing followers just say that. Is her youtube channel being deleted? Did she lose her platform? Is she at anyway prohibited from making videos? from producing content online? No, she is not cancelled. That's virtue signalling nonsense.

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MedeaLysistrata
04/16/21 5:30:47 PM
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You're next Jenny

jk >_>;;;;

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cjsdowg
04/16/21 5:31:18 PM
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Stalolin posted...


She addresses this in her video. And besides very few of them were actually POC lol.

I follow lot of people of color who were calling her out.
And she use those cute girl tears to get everyone on her side.

People disagreed with her. There were not people saying she should be deplatformed, there was no masses called for her head. Just people disagreeing with her.
Hell Doug Walker get most hate then that every other week .

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sevihaimerej
04/16/21 5:31:58 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
POC were calling her out. And she called them crazy.
POC can be wrong you know, there is nothing even slightly racist about comparing something to a thing it was directly inspired by...that being said very few actual POC were involved, the overwhelmingly white wokescold mob WAS crazy just as anyone that justifies the behavior of the lunatics

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LightningAce11
04/16/21 5:33:16 PM
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Deleting your own twitter account is considered cancelled?
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Background_Guy
04/16/21 5:33:42 PM
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cavalierking posted...
am i the only person who doesn't know who she is or something
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Background_Guy
04/16/21 5:36:04 PM
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What she said was right, though.
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Stalolin
04/16/21 5:37:48 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
I follow lot of people of color who were calling her out.
And she use those cute girl tears to get everyone on her side.

People disagreed with her. There were not people saying she should be deplatformed, there was no masses called for her head. Just people disagreeing with her.
Hell Doug Walker get most hate then that every other week .

Watch the video.

and share some names/tweets.

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Background_Guy
04/16/21 5:57:15 PM
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Not everyone can just be a Chad like Doug and power through all the hate without showing weakness
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SquirtleSkwad
04/16/21 5:58:37 PM
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Kitt posted...
Google is a thing, ya know.
Yeah, but not when something is presented as common knowledge.

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