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Are these "cancel culture" takedown campaigns at all reflective of popular sentiment? In 2018 and 2019 these campaigns and their ramifications (be they positiv
by jennyholzer 1y ago
Are these "cancel culture" takedown campaigns at all reflective of popular sentiment?
In 2018 and 2019 these campaigns and their ramifications (be they positive or negative) were consistently present in in-person conversations I was having at the time.
In 2025, these campaigns strike me as outdated and significantly less popular compared to 5-7 years ago. The people I know in real life talk about other things.
It is plainly clear to me that with a decent botnet one can easily manufacture the illusion of social outrage on Twitter/X.
With that in mind, I find it hard to believe that there is even a critical mass of people supporting this takedown campaign.
Has anyone with any sort of reputation backed this takedown campaign?
- fn-mote 1y ago> Has anyone with any sort of reputation backed this takedown campaign? Once the payment processors are on board, it doesn’t matter who else is involved. That’s all the rep you need. Even if this was entirely the result of manufactured outrage (and I think this is your point?), you need a way forward. I believe it is not getting rolled back even if someone were to discover the instigators are (say) Russian sock puppets.
- Forgeties79 1y ago>Are these "cancel culture" takedown campaigns at all reflective of popular sentiment? I mean look what happened to Budweiser for sponsoring one person identifying as trans and making like 2 cans for it. Doesn’t matter if it’s popular or not, if the outrage is loud enough you can dominate these businesses.