Cancelling someone that you don't stan...

You can call out problematic behavior whether you stan somebody or not

Yeah. I can't exactly cancel someone I never supported in the first place. At most I can go back to ignoring their existence.

I see cancelling as more of a collective social media effort rather than just one individual disliking someone.

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I'm talking more about when some is saying: "I'm cancelling them."

Doesn't that mean "I'm going to stop liking them and stanning them." ?

And it might be weird if someone who didn't like or care about this person in the first place says "I'm cancelling them."

This take makes sense. It's like when people "boycott" a store/product/service they never used anyway.

On one hand, yes, absolutely call out Activision Blizzard for what they did to their employees. But it's not like you're actually boycotting Call of Duty if you were never a purchaser of that franchise in the first place. Literally zero impact on their sales either way.

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I'm talking more about when some is saying: "I'm cancelling them."

Doesn't that mean "I'm going to stop liking them and stanning them." ?

And it might be weird if someone who didn't like or care about this person in the first place says "I'm cancelling them."

Just a general comment from me. I think 'cancelling' anyone is stupid, tbh.

idk why people get stuck up on semantics so much...just because you personally haven't bought anything doesnt mean you cant join in and spread awareness to encourage other people to not take part in the product lol.

Exactly.

A person cancelling that one they don't stan won't make any impact on their sales or anything, they're just gonna be a hateful pain in the a**.

I find unacceptable what people consider cancelling, it's basically virtual lynching, when they could just ignore that person's existence and move on with their own lives.

I've always said you cancel whoever you want to for whatever reason you want to...

but then again one is always free to defend such person or group as well...

it really doesn't matter if one was a fan or not to begin with...it's that person's choice to jump on the bandwagon if they want to

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idk why people get stuck up on semantics so much...just because you personally haven't bought anything doesnt mean you cant join in and spread awareness to encourage other people to not take part in the product lol.

Exactly.

Like I’ve never bought any of Chris Brown’s music, but also will never recommend anyone to listen to him. It’s that simple.

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Exactly.

A person cancelling that one they don't stan won't make any impact on their sales or anything, they're just gonna be a hateful pain in the a**.

I find unacceptable what people consider cancelling, it's basically virtual lynching, when they could just ignore that person's existence and move on with their own lives.

It depends what the issue on hand is. If a person is exposed to be bigoted racist, misogynist, serial criminal, or somewhere along those lines then by all means I hope they get a virtual lynching. I’d rather sacrifice that one person’s lifetime career considering those types of behavior has prevented the socioeconomic development of millions of peoples for centuries and I’d rather society not turn a blind eye on it.

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It depends what the issue on hand is. If a person is exposed to be bigoted racist, misogynist, serial criminal, or somewhere along those lines then by all means I hope they get a virtual lynching.

For sure, but the question is, how many people actually get cancelled for these heavy stuff and not a silly thing Twitter people gets pissed about?

That's the concept of cancelling currently for me.

The so called Cancel Culture just seems to exist 'cause laws are shitty out there and people want to do justice with their own hands, but it went overboard and it became a weapon for hating people for whatever they think it's fair or not, that being a fact or not.