- Ultimately “cancel culture” is the process of someone saying A Thing → people disagreeing with The Thing and spreading it to more and more people who disagree with it → these two groups can’t coexist anymore.
- If the person being “cancelled” is a Twitter user, it’s typically just Twitter becoming an unsafe or undesirable app.
- If the person being “cancelled” is a politician, it’s typically them being removed from a position of power.
- I’m oversimplifying the causes and effects of cancel culture, but it ultimately comes down to {1.5a2a} context collapse – a group getting information that they weren’t necessarily supposed to get because of the way {1.5a2} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network.
- There isn’t a “culture” of cancelling people; it’s a platform failure.