Because all I’ve got is Kevin Spacey.
People talk of this like it was a huge problem that destroyed lives. So I feel like there should be plenty of names.
- 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.
yeah, the real cancel culture is all the black panther and BLM leaders getting shot, and things of that nature.
the campus protesters against genocide being mass arrested, charged for terrorism, kicked out of university, put on no-hire blacklists, etc.
Haven’t heard from Charlie Kirk in a while…
Pop a perc for Charlie Kirk
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
Conta Points excluded from this tally.
Shes like the only one w enough money, TME clout and connections to avoid it
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.
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The Dixie Chicks, now just “The Chicks”
They didn’t deserve that, goodbye earl fuckin rips
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.
Oh yeah James Somerton might actually be the person who was genuinely the most cancelled. As in he did a thing that wasn’t just a serius crime and as a result of it no longer had a career.
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
It’s always self inflicted as far as I can tell. These people chose to be shitheads.
Kind of the same story with Glup Shitto Muscle Mommy Gina Carano. She got fired from Disney and had to go take acting gigs working for Ben Shapiro, and when that didn’t pan out, she went back to MMA for a one-off match against Ronda Rousey. I guess Disney were cowards and she got a settlement for the wrongful termination suit that she brought against them, so not that effective of a #canceling at the end of the day, because I’m sure she made bank getting her face kicked in by Rousey.
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, Homer Sexual, Hugh Jass, Bea O’Problem, Maya Buttreeks, Eura Snotball, Haywood U. Cuddleme, Drew P. Wiener, Yuri Nator, Moe Ron.
Just to name a few.
Jane Fonda
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.
Spacey and Majors are why I said this
Also all the people brought up when discussing “cancelling” did fine and were criminals
I’ll have you know Majors is acting in the Ben Shapiro production studio, at least until his defenestration a couple months ago
Colin Kaepernick, and, uh… dunno who else.
Also all the people brought up when discussing “cancelling” did fine and were criminals
Somehow I don’t think the people who worry about rich “canceled” abusers, care as much about rehabilitation of just regular convicts who served their term.
Louis CK fits here, although I don’t recall if his misconduct was criminal or just “would get you fired from every job.”
michael richards, tho not like his career post seinfeld was great
