hey everyone my name is ash and welcome
back to my channel for today's video we
will be discussing cancel culture we'll
talk about what cancel culture is the
origins of it who has been cancelled and
thoughts regarding cancel culture as a
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started at this point it seems like
everyone on every side of the world
knows about cancel culture the term
has been passed around a lot in the last
couple years random people on the
Internet to high-profile celebrities all
have fallen victim to being cancelled
but what exactly is cancel culture
there are many different definitions
that you can find on the internet all
with varying descriptions but for this
video the definition I will be using comes
from dictionary.com where it states
that cancel culture refers to the
popular practice of withdrawing support
for public figures and companies after
they have done or said something
considered objectionable or offensive
cancel culture is generally discussed
as being performed on social media in
the form of group shaming cancel
culture has been known to start trends
on Twitter with hashtags containing that
so-and-so has been cancelled early
versions of canceled culture came from
accounts like yourfaveisproblematic
on tumblr for example a blog dedicated
to exposing the wrongs of celebrities
the term started to pick up speed around
the time of the metoo movement as more
accusations and arrests regard ____
came up social media began its process
of canceling those it deemed problematic
more recently the concept of cancel
culture has really shifted in simplified
terms the internet can cancel a person
for just about anything while a good
deal of it has been justified other
hashtags have ended up causing
unnecessary harm to those involved
another definition I thought was
interesting comes from urban dictionary
the first one displayed is a desire to
cancel out a person or community from
social media platforms but the one that
caught my eye is that it is
characterized by the response of an evil
individual when they are shown to be
wrong they will call on their followers
to report the social media accounts of
the person
or group that did the criticizing rather
than discussing the criticism or showing
by evidence where the criticism is
incorrect I thought this definition was
interesting because it shows a different
side of the topic of cancel culture but
I will be discussing this in more detail
later the idea that if you do something
that others seem problematic you
automatically lose all your currency
your voice is silenced you're done those
who condemn cancel culture usually
implied that it's unfair and
indiscriminate the problem that I have
with this perspective is cancel
culture isn't real at least not in the
way that people believe it is instead
it's turning to a catch-all for when
people in power face consequences for
their actions or receive any type of
criticism something they're not used to
cancel culture has moved into the domain
of call out culture people have started
calling out big brands celebrities and
influencers alike on their misdoings
it has also had a hand in showcasing
who these companies and people really
are and what they stand for in their
apology posts and videos cancel culture
has garnered many different views while
the collective of the internet tends to
believe that they're doing more good
than harm cancel culture has extended
itself more into personal matters than
before to be specific I will be talking
about cancel culture as it pertains to
Twitter since Twitter is usually the
platform that people go to when the
discussion someone getting cancelled
comes up also when someone is first
established as cancelled there seems to
be a process that they go through and it
usually starts on Twitter first when
someone is cancelled
there is usually a hashtag about it
while these hashtags have sometimes
gotten overridden with kpop fans using
the trend to showcase fancams and
others posting memes with not much
context after some scrolling users
usually come across the offending
material they then choose if they want
to partake in the discussion either for
or against the person getting cancelled
this sometimes turns into numerous
amounts of hate and even threats to
their life if there are celebrity or
influencer they may end up losing brand
deals those who are youtubers have lost
monetization before and even regular
people have lost jobs and college
acceptances due to their problematic
behavior on social media however more
recently cancel culture has even
entered the realm of doxing
for those who don't know what doxing is
it is defined as the internet based
practice of researching and publicly
broadcasting private or identifying
information especially personally
identifying information about an
individual or organization usually those
who have been doxed have been those
making problematic comments and old
tweets fake Instagram accounts and
private Tiktoks recently Skai Jackson
came underfire for allegedly doxing a
13-year old while she was retweeting and
sharing tweets sent from fans with
personal information about racist users
on these platforms with cancel culture
in full force we have seen countless
examples of its impact the next step is
to see how it has truly affected those
being cancelled now that we know what
cancel culture is we can now look into
who has been cancelled and to what effect
please keep in mind that some of these
situations are still ongoing and it's
currently unclear as to what the final
outcome of their career will be now
cardi B is no stranger to being cancelled
early on in her come up she has been
cancelled multiple times about her
comments regarding ____ and degrading
black women most recently she was
cancelled for a fake finsta account
where she supposedly talked badly about other
female celebrities when it comes to
cardi B she's been cancelled so often
that she doesn't seem to care cardi has
made apologies regarding some of her
past comments but due to the fact that
she is now getting cancelled for
something she apparently didn't do she
seems to have taken a more comical
approach to how she feels about it
Doja Cat was cancelled not too long
ago for allegedly being on tinychat
with incels and using the n-word with a
hard r around men of different races
while she went silent a complete switch
from her usually consistent posting
every day she recently came back slowly
posting about the black lives matter
movement new music and new music videos
for doja much like other celebrities
when they get cancelled
they are usually advised by their team
to stay off social media for a while and
wait for it to blow over eventually they
slowly make their way back posting new
content and slowly interacting with fans
again this tactic worked so well because
the internet tends to forget and move on
allowing the celebrities essentially to
pick up where they left off
shane dawson has recently come into a
lot of trouble after old content of his
was exposed all over the internet shane
has been making youtube videos since
2008 and his years of ____ and _____
videos were made by himself
in Shane's case he wasn't cancelled
until he made his comments regarding the
beauty community which was heightened
after Tati Westbrook a beauty guru and
ex friend made her video regarding him
and jeffree star this conversation is
still ongoing seeing as it happened
within the past couple weeks and there's
still much to be resolved
jeffree star is probably the most
infamous
of the social media personalities to
ever be cancelled he has a rather long
running history of racism even before
his time on youtube he has since grown
his following and even received a lot of
support after starring in Shane's
documentaries
however like Shane his past has recently
come to surface yet again and now people
are questioning his effect on the beauty
community and the YouTube community
Jeffree is one of those people that the
Internet has never truly been able to
cancel he's currently losing followers
and appears to be cutting ties with
Shane but seems rather unbothered by it
he has been seen taking photos with
fans buying cars and hanging out with
blac Chyna
so while Shane and his own fans have
been defending him he seems pretty
unbothered by the drama cancel culture
affects everyone differently depending
on the severity of their problematic
behavior with that being said the
general public has had to determine who
gets cancelled but now the real question
arises is cancel culture even real and
is anyone actually able to truly be
cancelled as cancel culture has
evolved people have questioned if it's
even a real thing anymore the common
argument is that the original intention
has been far surpassed and has now
evolved into full-on call out culture
for anything a good amount of people
deem unacceptable here are some points
that articles have discussed regarding
the in legitimacy of cancel culture
one cancel culture is performative and
doesn't actually change anything
I found that while it does feel like a
decent amount of people aren't here for
a brand or person and cancel them
their career and income are never fully
disrupted they may go into hiding but
like the other examples I discussed they
usually get back to work in some
capacity
this is possibly due to the fact that
these people are still using the brands
and supporting the people whether they've
been cancelled publicly or not for
example in a vox article
it states that though many of the most
prominent examples of cancellation have
arrived in the metoo era most of the men
who have faced accusations have also
dodged long term consequences after
multiple women came forward with
allegations of misconduct against him in
2017 louis ck's career hiatus lasted
around ten months before he returned to
stand-up comedy and performed dozens
of sold-out controversial shows after
high-profile documentaries explored
allegations of decades of ____ ______
against each of them were released
earlier this year both r Kelly and the
late Michael Jackson saw increases in
streams of their music rather than
decreases while cancel culture has
brought awareness to movements like
black lives matter metoo and LGBTQ
rights
it has also detracted away from the
movements because of negative press both
from internal and external places
another point is that we don't have a
general foundation or what´s cancelable
and what's not while certain things are
understandable as right or wrong we rank
them on a different spectrum based on
our experiences because of this people
have voiced their concerns that certain
people hadn't been cancelled when they
were first deemed problematic and they
should have been for example shane´s previous history of ___ finally
was the breaking point of his career but
some feel as though the ____ that was
more widely known before should have
been the breaking point not only this
but since there isn't much of a general
foundation we end up falling into a mob
mentality where we just adopt the anger
of canceling someone even if we don't
fully understand the problem this goes
into the next point which is that
cancel culture is misguided while
people have done really damaging things
that they should be held accountable for
people are also being cancelled for one off
problematic stuff not only this but
there is a concern of it not really
enacting overall change
Aaron Rose a corporate diversity and
inclusion and consultant talks about
this in the vox article saying
mainstream internet activism is a lot of
calling out and blaming and shaming we
have to get honest with ourselves
about whether calling out and cancelling
gets us more of a short term release of
cathartic anger Rose used to think that
those tactics created change he said but
eventually realized that I was not
seeing the true change I desired we were
still sad and mad and the bad people
were still bad and everyone was still
traumatized he says he now wants to
create more stories of transformation
rather than stories of punishment and
excommunication due to cancel culture
having become rather demonized people
with problematic paths aren't being
cancelled their fandom protects them
saying they've changed and that the
tweets and posts were old fans help
promote the stereotype that cancel
culture is just trying to make the fave
look bad
but that isn't its true intention the
next point is that some people who are
cancelled don't seem to care like I
stated earlier Jeffree has been avoiding
dramaggedon three but staying silent
and doing whatever he wants offline the
general idea is that these people don't
have to care again fans will protect
them they've already made their money
and people are usually going to still
pay attention to them cardi B best said it
when she made this post about her
getting cancelled rather recently hi
everybody so that failed attempt that yall tried to say that I have a fake Instagram like I´m ___10 years old since it failed
old
yall are tryna look up ___ from my past to cancel me ah ah ah bring up old ____
I don't give a ____ you guys cancelled me last year
four times the year before that like
five times this is what I'm wearing this
year to the cardi B is cancelled party
and like you know i haven´t released any music in
eight one so it's like if I only been posting on instagram
and eating food and that still bother
yall that just means I'm really that
important in yall hearts and my prescence
really bother your soul and guess what I
don't give a ___ bye
the last point is that people who are
cancelled sometimes don't think that
they're in the wrong and think that
cancel culture is trying to silence them
while many of those who have been
cancelled have made their apologies
others have made it apparent that they
haven't fully grasped what they've done
wrong this is also coupled with the fact
that they sometimes aren't told what
they did was wrong because people
automatically shun them this has led to
cancel culture´s shortcomings after
discussing a good amount of what has
gone into this internet phenomena a
question I have for you the viewer is do
you think that cancel culture has gone
too far let me know in the comments
below in my personal opinion I don't
believe that cancel culture as in its
actual or original purpose is real or at
least not anymore cancel culture is
supposed to be holding people
accountable not just celebrities but
also ourselves and I believe that for
some people being cancelled was necessary
as it helped them learn and grow into
better people however nowadays it has
tended to cause hate threats and leaking
of personal information some quick
points I want to touch on are the
following when a celebrity is cancelled
not everything that they've been
cancelled for is a stan or fandom
problem some of these issues that the
celebs get cancelled for are actually
serious and shouldn't be taken as run of
the mill drama celebrities are real
people who make real mistakes and should
be held accountable for the same things
that we as in the masses would be
especially if it's an actual crime if
you haven't done anything wrong then you
shouldn't be worried about being
cancelled I've personally seen many
examples of people thinking if they say
certain things or act certain ways that
they'll be cancelled because society is
too sensitive but my thing is if you
think that what you will do will get you
cancelled then it's probably something
you shouldn't be doing if the shoe
doesn't fit you wouldn't shove your foot
into it right along with this point
people who find these things offensive
should be allowed to speak on such and
shouldn't be silenced not everyone is
going to find the same things offensive
but if a group of people are genuinely
hurt by a company or person's actions
they should be given the opportunity to
make it known without being suppressed
by others because they are uncomfortable
now the big question should those who
have been cancelled have a second chance
my answer is maybe and here's why if
their behavior has truly changed and
they are or have taken the necessary
steps into moving forward then no they
shouldn't be cancelled however if they
haven't made any changes and are
continuing to be problematic then
obviously yes they should be canceled I've
seen that when tweets or posts from a
long time ago come up we tend to start a
little fence about the situation because
usually it has been seen multiple times
that people are being cancelled over
trivial things that they have said when
they were younger which they probably
shouldn't be but some have been fully
grown adults saying the same things and
then we are split based on the situation
of what they said are done speaking of
that I found the cancel culture has a
tendency to not hold similar situations
to similar degrees for example when
Skai Jackson allegedly doxed a 13 year
old it made me concerned seeing the
timeline dox her are right back
now I'm not condoning her behavior on
the matter but if it was wrong to dox
a minor then how does doxing her
make us better especially on the similar
grounds the skai is only 18 years old
herself plus I noticed that Skai received a
lot of backlash for it but other small
accounts have also been doxing people
especially teens who might also still be
minors now I do believe it's the child's
age that people had an issue with
because of other people who have been
cancelled and doxed have been older but
honestly doxing itself maybe shouldn't
be happening anyway lastly the time
article I took points from stated that
cancel culture is oversimplified and I
agree we lump high criminal crimes with
cultural appropriation under the same
wide umbrella while both topics are very
important they exist in completely
different spaces since cancel culture
encompasses a lot of different behavior
it does go without question that we
can't just compare apples to oranges but
I have found that we don't even hold
ourselves accountable for the missteps
that we've made with cancel culture
and as a society we should if we can't
even hold ourselves accountable we will
never truly accomplish anything that
cancel culture intended for us and for
the rest of the world anyways that's it
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