Boycotting isn’t cancelling. Cancelling is witch hunting someone off of social media and destroying their ability to make money.
Let’s take an example that happened to me. I live in Rural SC, USA. When COVID hit I was employed by a grocery store that was owned by a German company. So masks were mandatory. Even for customers. At the time I still had some social media accounts and wore a name tag. Told some knuckle dragging hillbilly that he had to mask up if he wanted to come inside. He was so incensed that he decided to troll my socials, my family’s socials, several other workers socials and coordinated a complaint campaign targeting myself and a few other workers for “discrimination against his religious right.”
That event was the tipping point for me nuking my socials and never wearing a name tag again. So, again, cancelling is pretty lame. For any reason. Yes even the ones you think are justified.
That is what happens when you get cancelled. It just happened to be that this was one person doing all the work rather than it getting distributed across the fan base.
That’s not canceling that’s just called harassment and you could have (and probably should have) pursed legal action. Cancelling would be if they never went there again and blasted your place of business all over their social media saying nobody should go there because they are “insert random mask slur”
“ In pop culture, canceled means to make someone or something irrelevant due to current drama”
When people say they are canceling target because target did something to offend someone (I don’t even remember what it was anymore) they mean they are going to refuse to go there and are going to tell other people they shouldn’t go there it doesn’t mean they are going to @ employees and their families and harass them
When people say they are canceling Kanye they mean they are going to refuse to his listen to his music and buy his stuff maybe even go a step further and refuse to do business with any place that does business with Kanye, it doesn’t mean looking up the security guards working for Kanye and their family members and sending them hate speech that’s back to harassment
Canceling can lead to harassment but they are not the same and you can cancel someone without harassing them and especially without harassing individual employees and their families
Boycotting isn’t cancelling. Cancelling is witch hunting someone off of social media and destroying their ability to make money.
Let’s take an example that happened to me. I live in Rural SC, USA. When COVID hit I was employed by a grocery store that was owned by a German company. So masks were mandatory. Even for customers. At the time I still had some social media accounts and wore a name tag. Told some knuckle dragging hillbilly that he had to mask up if he wanted to come inside. He was so incensed that he decided to troll my socials, my family’s socials, several other workers socials and coordinated a complaint campaign targeting myself and a few other workers for “discrimination against his religious right.”
That event was the tipping point for me nuking my socials and never wearing a name tag again. So, again, cancelling is pretty lame. For any reason. Yes even the ones you think are justified.
When you start thinking that social media actually matters, you’ve fully committed to voluntarily living in Plato’s cave. So congrats on leaving.
Beyond that, I think you are being pretty grandiose to describe your experience as “getting cancelled”.
I’d call someone making a concerted effort to make me unemployed as a cancellation attempt.
That is what happens when you get cancelled. It just happened to be that this was one person doing all the work rather than it getting distributed across the fan base.
That’s not canceling that’s just called harassment and you could have (and probably should have) pursed legal action. Cancelling would be if they never went there again and blasted your place of business all over their social media saying nobody should go there because they are “insert random mask slur”
“ In pop culture, canceled means to make someone or something irrelevant due to current drama”
When people say they are canceling target because target did something to offend someone (I don’t even remember what it was anymore) they mean they are going to refuse to go there and are going to tell other people they shouldn’t go there it doesn’t mean they are going to @ employees and their families and harass them
When people say they are canceling Kanye they mean they are going to refuse to his listen to his music and buy his stuff maybe even go a step further and refuse to do business with any place that does business with Kanye, it doesn’t mean looking up the security guards working for Kanye and their family members and sending them hate speech that’s back to harassment
Canceling can lead to harassment but they are not the same and you can cancel someone without harassing them and especially without harassing individual employees and their families