6. #Cancelled

#GraceHallIsOverParty

Seriously. How many people are going to get ‘cancelled’?

Lockdown has proven that we can’t go a week without someone being cancelled. Whether it’s Youtube Creators, celebrities or your next door neighbour- we’re all #cancelled.

It’s an internet phenomenon that seems to have come from nowhere, based on the assumption that if someone does wrong, we can cut them from their profit and platform permanently by airing their dirty laundry, or, in most cases, simple mistakes.

(This is not in reference to those who do blackface and use racial slurs, because that will always be fucking stupid and unacceptable).

Also discussed:

• How cancel culture arose in Youtube’s beauty community (I’ve not got the time to do an entire timeline of events, though, so it’s very brief)
• Accountability and how it plays into cancel culture
• The importance of education in avoiding future mistakes
• Differences between genuine issues that deserve addressing and repercussions (such as use of racial slurs and black face) and those that require education
• The psychology of ‘cancellation’, using Lerner’s ‘Just World Hypothesis’

 

 

A quick link to update you on the ‘beauty community’ drama, and cancellation in general: https://www.insider.com/why-some-celebrities-seem-bulletproof-to-being-canceled-2020-7

 

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Hall of the Mountain King Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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