Watched a local artist lose 300 followers for a joke he made 8 years ago

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?

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verac403d ago

That 2016 tweet was from 8 years ago, the guy was probably 20 or something at the time. People change a ton in almost a decade, it's not fair to hold them to 2024 standards for a dumb joke they forgot about. Doesn't that just punish people for growing up and learning?

stellas563d ago

Oh come on @verac40, that's a convenient excuse. If someone is old enough to tweet in 2016, they're old enough to know a racist joke is wrong - there's no magical age where common decency suddenly appears. People don't change that dramatically, they just get better at hiding their true selves.