• Bill Nye

Crime: he said trans people are ok and vouched by science. So he was successfully cancelled for thoughtcrime.

• Anita Sarkeesian

Crime: saying illegal opinions and challenging some sacred cows on the internet. She’s the OG victim of cancel culture and it’s ok because she told the truth instead of what’s popular.

We’re the actual victims of cancel culture, but we don’t complain because we know eons of pro-west propaganda means our ideas are not going to be well received. Even saying basic lib shit can make you feel like Huey Freeman causing everyone to panic with the truth.

Haven't heard from Charlie Kirk in a while...

Tara Reade, for daring to mess with the Sleepy Joe

99% of actual victims of "cancel culture" trans women who got targeted by harassment campaigns for rly minor shit. Isabel Fall who was mentioned in another comment is a v good example, if u want more theres basically everyone targeted by kiwifarms

Isabel Fall is the only one that comes to mind.

Oh, and probably Jeremy Corbyn too. Bullshit antisemitism accusations hit his political career pretty hard.

The Dixie Chicks, now just "The Chicks"

Kevin Spacey is doing pretty well when you compare him to James Somerton lol. ofc that's hardly a typical example of cancel culture either, given that it had zero to do with SA allegations and he instead got wiped from public existence for plagiarism, which is very easy to prove conclusively in a longform youtube video. But i feel i need to bring it up because it's an actual example of that exceptionally rare thing where somebody's reputation gets totally, irreparably obliterated from one day to the next. Guy only exists as a punchline for tumblr posts nowadays.

Graham Linehan, but that was very self-inflicted. If he hadn't been such a whiny shithead on twitter, his cancellation may well have blown over. But he simply couldn't stop posting, so now his career is pretty much over, luckily

Here's a "full" list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations

Mike Hunt, Ivanna Blowue, I.P. Freely, Jacques Strapped, Oliver Klosoff, Seymour Butz, Hugh Jass, Bea O'Problem, Maya Buttreeks, Eura Snotball, Haywood U. Cuddleme, Drew P. Wiener, Yuri Nator, Moe Ron.

Just to name a few.

There's the actor Jonathan Majors if that counts. He hasn't been in anything since 2023. But that's also not an instance of outcry against his opinions or politics or whatever, but because it turned out he's assaulted multiple women.

I hate how vague the term cancel culture is. Reactionairies use the term to mean anything from a person on twitter getting 5 negative comments, to someone getting fired from a newspaper because they were having an affair. It just means "when there are consequences to something I think is ok." For a while it seemed like the primary victims of cancel culture were white professors and conservative journalists who kept saying slurs and getting reprimanded by their employers. But the way reactionairies talk about it is some kind of 1984 panopticon of groupthink that violently destroys people for arbitrary reasons.

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Also all the people brought up when discussing "cancelling" did fine and were criminals

How's Charlie Rose doing?

List of people who were actually "cancelled"

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Colin Kaepernick, and, uh... dunno who else.

Bill Cosby got cancelled by the US government - briefly. He got the charges vacated and ended up paying civil suits but he was selling out shows right up until he went to jail and low key I think of he ever makes good on those plans to do a comeback tour I think he'd sell them out again.

Jeff Epstein

but anyway, my guess is the meaning is purposely ambiguous so it can suit the needs of the reactionary making the complaint.... but probably the most reasonable working definition is that the "cancelled" person is not being offered development or appearance/promotional contracts by the larger, legacy media groups that want to pay lip service, at least, to representation/inclusivity and also being (rightfully) targeted by cultural critics.

anyway, cultural hegemony aside, i think part of developing media literacy is accepting that the landscape is less and less a monolith as we separate from the old paradigm. to be clear, i do not see this as an improvement, because capitalism is the force underlying the changes in technology and power/ownership. its more like the old system imploded and now new rats are growing fat on the bloated carcasses.

in this way "cancelling" is just a new name for being cast into a new brand. everyone and no one is cancelled, because anyone can cancel anyone else for anything. its only as effective, paradoxically, as how many continually pay attention to the cancelled.

michael richards, tho not like his career post seinfeld was great

Roman Polanksy, R Kelly and Harvey Weinstein.

Imus

The funny thing is how many of these people just sucked and their career would've never lasted anyway. Then they found the chud grift to stay afloat.

But sure, Kevin Sorbo totally would've been the next action movie leading man if he hadn't been ostracized for his views.

I think one of the main people they'd point to is that one woman from the Mandilorian.

I don't remember the story nor care to look it up, but she got canned for saying some shit. They'll have a dozen examples of shit like that.

Then they'll take it smaller scale where they're popping off on Twitter then someone snitches to their boss and they get fired. They'll probably have Dave Chappelle, JK Rowling, and Louis CK for good measure.

That's sort of frequency they're operating on

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