The Toasty Podcast Ep 15 | What is Cancel Culture?
What’s up everybody I’m Skye (and I’m Matt). This is The Toasty Podcast and today is the toastiest episode we’ve ever done. What is cancel culture? We’re going to talk about that and we’ll lay out some recent examples. We aim to explain the effects of such a prevalent trait of American Culture.
You’ll be surprised how many people don’t actually support such a society. We’re about to get toasty right after this quickie from ya boi —-
To begin, let’s pose our first question to our listeners; feel free to email, tweet or use pareon in order to send us your answers, questions or comments.
What is Cancel Culture?
Here’s a quick definition from dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/ Cancel Culture Definition
What Obama said about Cancel Culture:
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically ‘woke’ and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy, there are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids. And share certain things with you.“
CNN actually responded to that by writing:
The rise of “cancel” culture — particularly on the left and particularly on social media — is one of the defining hallmarks of our culture in the post-Obama presidency. Say something wrong, tweet something people disagree with, express an opinion that is surprising or contradicts the established view people have of you, and the demands for you to be fired, de-friended or otherwise driven from the realms of men quickly follow.
Even Andrew Yang, our boi with the Universal Basic Income idea when he was running as the democratic presidential candidate says we need to move past it…He was talking about Gillis here, the comedian that was pretty much canceled for saying quote on quote offensive words during a comedy skit.
“I believe that our country has become excessively punitive and vindictive about remarks that people find offensive or racist and that we need to try and move beyond that, if we can. Particularly in a case where the person is—in this case—a comedian whose words should be taken in a slightly different light.”
Become a Patron!Recent Examples of Cancel Culture
- Cardi B of all people was being told to cancel herself by a large string of follows mostly due to the rumors that she has a “secret” (but obviously not too secret) instagram account made in order to roast other female rappers or raptresses if we’re trying to be trendy. Her response is not too surprising….she practically told her followers if they don’t like it they can leave in an instagram story to her 70 million followers. Holy Stuff. That’s insane. And honestly it might be a good response. I care nothing about Cardi B’s career or any of that, but she’s obviously doing something right to be grinding away at music. She used to be a stripper and drug men at the strip club, but our generation is worried about her private instagram account.
- Jenna Marbles, the YouTuber with approx. 20 million subscribers posted the video “A message” on the 25th of June stating she’s sorry for old content she has created and she removed a lot of old videos from her channel as well. At first glance, this might be a good thing. In reality you are taking away the growth of any content creator so no one will know where they came from. She has since grown a lot and knows how to create content much better than she did. The videos she got rid of are all 7 years and older I believe too.
This is what she had to say about it in the video:
“I don’t want to hurt anyone, I don’t want to offend anyone. I just want to have a good time and I’m not having a good time.”
Those are just the most recent celebrities. There are 20+ more very well known people that have also been “canceled” so to speak by a very progressive left social media presence. Even CNN admitted it is a mostly “left” presence in the earlier article we quoted so I think it’s pretty clear there’s just as many people that don’t agree with cancel culture as there are people in the cancel culture. As usual in these circumstances, the squeakiest wheel gets the grease so I wouldn’t see it ending anytime soon.
I’ve heard a few people actually irritated that Jenna would do such a thing because it’s as if she has “given in” to the mod so to speak. But in reality you never know what she is going through on a personal level…and that actually speaks to both sides of this topic. The same people that are shaming well known actors, comedians, and people that generally just have a lot to talk about are the same people that are against internet bullying. Lines are constantly being crossed on a daily basis now and quite honestly, even though I try to state information and be unbiased, I’m sick of it.
At some point someone is going to have to stand up and meet in the middle.
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What will this lead us to?
Matty B says a civil war may happen at some point not only because of cancel culture, but because of the divisiveness of our presidents almost all the way back to Clinton. The cancel culture just divides us more.
Is there a way around this for content creators?
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