Cancel Culture vs. Consequence Culture — And the Casualties of Ridiculousness

Jeremy Fassler
4 min readJan 11, 2022
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As perhaps the final major social media “disappearing” of 2021, acclaimed YouTube video essayist Lindsay Ellis recently announced she would quit vlogging forever. This followed a months-long Twitter-dogpiling stemming from an accusation that she’d tweeted a racist analogy about a Disney movie. Even though she really didn’t.

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.