Not sure this is the content we need. It doesn’t add anything to the story, it just amplifies boring gossip about someone who needs no platform. When you say we don’t need to do anything, we don’t. Really.
I am chronically online, but the overall story left me with a lot of questions. She was the first woman in the YT space (that I knew of) to have a public cancellation that wasn't beauty drama. It felt like a real line in the sand where the word cancellation has been *so* watered down just to describe people that had something vaguely controversial happen. I think what I really would enjoy leading on from this story is how do we engage with people that publicly fall from grace, and not thinking of the Colleen situation specifically - but for situations where someone has made a very human mistake - is there a way back for them to continue good work that they do? And how many real examples are there of that? I think that's where my brain kind of lights up thinking about cancellation. I don't listen to Michael Jackson, but I watched Andrew Callaghan's Hunter Biden Interview. I wonder where the lines really are, and if our feelings match up sometimes.
I think we can all choose for ourselves how to react to someone’s actions. The awful thing about social media is the assumption that everyone must act in a certain way because someone decreed it. People have forgotten how to use their own moral compass. I can share my own views online, but if I require everyone to agree and to follow my lead, I’m going against my belief in freedom of thought. We need debate and nuance or civilisation is lost. The lynch mob mentality is frightening.
Not sure this is the content we need. It doesn’t add anything to the story, it just amplifies boring gossip about someone who needs no platform. When you say we don’t need to do anything, we don’t. Really.
I am chronically online, but the overall story left me with a lot of questions. She was the first woman in the YT space (that I knew of) to have a public cancellation that wasn't beauty drama. It felt like a real line in the sand where the word cancellation has been *so* watered down just to describe people that had something vaguely controversial happen. I think what I really would enjoy leading on from this story is how do we engage with people that publicly fall from grace, and not thinking of the Colleen situation specifically - but for situations where someone has made a very human mistake - is there a way back for them to continue good work that they do? And how many real examples are there of that? I think that's where my brain kind of lights up thinking about cancellation. I don't listen to Michael Jackson, but I watched Andrew Callaghan's Hunter Biden Interview. I wonder where the lines really are, and if our feelings match up sometimes.
I think we can all choose for ourselves how to react to someone’s actions. The awful thing about social media is the assumption that everyone must act in a certain way because someone decreed it. People have forgotten how to use their own moral compass. I can share my own views online, but if I require everyone to agree and to follow my lead, I’m going against my belief in freedom of thought. We need debate and nuance or civilisation is lost. The lynch mob mentality is frightening.
Absolutely agree with you there! Thanks for responding :)