They just made it sound like a corporate robot wrote it and the internet roasted me harder, has anyone else tried the DIY route instead?
Last month there was a thread about some indie author getting called out for a tweet. I jumped in and posted a angry comment based on just the screenshot. Then someone replied linking to the full thread which showed context I missed completely. The author was actually quoting someone else and agreeing with the opposite position. I deleted my comment but 30 people had already liked it. Has anyone else caught themselves joining a cancellation before checking the original source?
I still think about that week in March. A buddy from class posted an old video of our teacher making a racist joke during a field trip in 2005. Then someone dug up a tweet from a former class president who said something dumb about vaccines. Within three days, like six people from my old school were getting dragged on Twitter. One girl lost her job at a non profit over a Facebook comment from 2012. I remember sitting there watching it all unfold on my phone during lunch break. Felt like a domino effect. Nobody talked to each other for months after that. Anyone else have a whole group get wiped out at once like that?
I checked my profile stats last night and saw I had exactly 1,023 posts in this community alone since joining two years ago. That is a lot of time spent arguing about whether some teenager in Georgia deserved to lose her scholarship for a tweet from 2015. It hit me that I was treating each case like a court case, trying to prove who was right or wrong, but I never asked if the pile-on was actually helping anyone. Have any of you stepped back and counted how many of these cases you have followed to the end without losing sleep over it?
Everyone keeps saying James Charles got canceled for just being a bad friend, but the real issue was his inappropriate behavior with straight guys and the whole Tati video exposing that Vitamin Water lie. Tati lost a ton of followers too because she dragged it out and people saw her as manipulative. Do you think James deserved that massive backlash or was the internet just way too quick to throw him under the bus?
I read through the whole thread from that LA stylist who posted the screenshots, and honestly her frustration about last minute cancellations felt valid to me. She lost $400 that afternoon because the client no showed after booking 3 weeks out. Has anyone here actually worked on commission and had to eat that loss?
So I'm scrolling through Twitter last Tuesday and see this girl from Phoenix claiming she got fired for posting a pic of her cat. Turns out she actually got canned for leaking customer data, I found the whole thread from her old boss. I replied with receipts and suddenly 2,000 people are telling me I'm the villain for 'policing empathy'. Wild part is the thread got deleted after she got caught lying again. Has anyone else been attacked for just posting facts in one of these cancel mobs?
I keep seeing posts in here about how someone got 'ruined' because they lost a few thousand followers or got called out at work. Meanwhile I watched a contractor buddy of mine get publicly dragged on Facebook last year for taking deposits and ghosting clients. He lost like 15 regular customers overnight. Yeah it sucked for him but he also had to actually refund people and clean up his act. If nobody had canceled him he'd probably still be screwing people over and eventually face real legal trouble. Sometimes the public shaming is the only thing that forces someone to fix their behavior before it gets worse. Has anyone else seen a cancel situation that actually prevented a bigger problem?
Spent 90 days watching people get roasted for the same half-hearted sorry I used to dish out, then it hit me that nobody wants the explanation, they just want you to shut up and own it, so who else figured out the hard way that the second paragraph is always what gets you canceled?
I followed this guy on Instagram who makes dark humor comics. Someone dug up a tweet from 2016 where he joked about mental health, and within 2 days he lost 300 followers and got kicked out of a small gallery show. The tweet was dumb but it was also clearly a joke, not something he actually believed. My question is, does digging up old jokes that don't match today's standards seem fair, or should people just know better by now?
I followed the whole thing on Facebook last week, and what struck me was how nobody even tried to read the post in context, they just grabbed a screenshot of two sentences and ran with it, has anyone else noticed people skipping the actual evidence in these cases?
I mean, I dropped $400 on a used Sony a6000 back in June specifically to film my takes on cancel culture cases for my channel. Thought it was gonna be a waste since I'm not a big creator or anything. But after breaking down that whole Colleen Ballinger situation and getting like 12k views, it basically paid for itself in a month. Has anyone else spent money on gear to cover these cases and actually seen it work out?
I used to grab funny tweets from other people and repost them on my own page without naming who wrote them. Didn't think much of it until one of my followers DMed me a screenshot showing my post next to the original person's tweet from 3 days earlier. She said I was stealing content and making people think I wrote it. Once I saw them side by side it hit me that I was basically taking credit for someone else's work. Has anyone else had a moment where they realized they were the problem in a cancel situation?
I read through the whole thread about that indie writer who got called out for a joke in 2019, and I think people missed the context where it was clearly sarcasm aimed at a specific event. The mob moved so fast they didn't even wait for her full explanation video to come out three days later. Has anyone else seen a case where the apology came out fast but nobody bothered to actually watch it?
A teacher at my daughter's middle school in Dayton made a harmless joke about homework during the morning assembly, and a parent filmed it and put it on Facebook. Within a week, the school board got 200 emails demanding she be fired, even though the kids laughed and she's been teaching there 15 years. Has anyone else seen something this small blow up that fast?
I'm talking about that indie musician who got roasted last February for using Midjourney backgrounds in her low budget video. Her name was Sarah something, and she had like 300 bucks total to make the thing. People acted like she personally killed traditional animation, but she literally could not afford a real artist. Has anyone else seen smaller creators get destroyed for stuff big names do all the time?
I'm in a few local Facebook groups in Orlando and every time someone brings up a cancelled influencer, half the comments are like "they should be in prison" or "they got what they deserved legally." Like no, that's not how this works. Take that food blogger from Tampa who got cancelled for faking charity donations - she didn't commit a crime, she just lost her sponsors and followers. Why do people mix up losing business with actual legal punishment?
I actually paid a woman 500 bucks for a single Zoom call back in 2021 because her Instagram looked so legit. She was all about "manifesting your dream career" and I was stuck in a property management job I hated. After the call I realized she just read from a generic script and gave me zero actual advice. A few months later a bunch of people posted screenshots showing she was recycling the same "custom" plans for everyone. She deleted her whole account after that but I never got my money back. What gets me is she still pops up on TikTok with a new username selling the same garbage. Has anyone else fallen for one of these online guru types and how much did you throw away before you caught on?
I follow this small fashion blogger from Austin who got canceled last year for posting some tone-deaf stuff about BLM. She went quiet for about 2 months, then dropped a 12 minute video where she just listened to critiques and didn't make excuses. After that her engagement shot way up, and she started getting brand deals again. Has anyone else noticed certain people bouncing back harder after they actually show accountability instead of doing the typical PR apology?
Saw a trending thread yesterday calling out a local news anchor for saying something racist on air. Turns out the clip was from 2014 and she had apologized and done training years ago. The account that posted it had like 50 followers and no history. I commented asking about the date and got dogpiled for defending her. Then someone actually checked and the whole thing fizzled out in like 2 hours. Has anyone else run into old clips being recycled to start drama like this?
Back in 2018, I posted something kinda dumb on Twitter about a local band from Cleveland. Got ratioed hard within an hour. People were digging up old tweets, tagging my work. My first instinct was to fire off an apology or explain myself. But my internet went down for two days thanks to a storm. When I got back online, the whole thing had blown over. Nobody cared anymore. Made me wonder if half these situations just need time instead of a response. Has anyone else seen someone make things worse by jumping in to defend themselves too fast?
I had to choose last week whether to call out a coworker for taking credit for my idea in a meeting or just let it slide, and I went with speaking up... it got awkward fast but my boss actually backed me up. Has anyone else had that backfire or work out better than expected?
Back in 2019 I posted some dumb joke about a celebrity on Twitter. Totally forgot about it. Then last month someone screen grabbed it and it started getting shared around. I lost 200 followers and had to private my account for a week. It was just a dumb joke but people took it real serious. Has anyone else had old stuff come up years later?
I was scrolling through a local Facebook group for bakers in my town, and someone posted about a cake they ordered for a kid's birthday... it had a huge spelling error on it and the colors were all wrong. The baker tried to explain that the customer changed the design 3 times and didn't pay the full deposit, but people already had their pitchforks out. By the next day, the baker had lost like 20+ regular customers and had to shut down her page for a week. I looked at both screenshots of the messages and honestly, it felt like a messy miscommunication on both sides. Has anyone else seen a small business get wrecked over a misunderstanding like this?