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{1.2a2c} cancel culture is a result of context collapse

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Ultimately “cancel culture” is the process of someone saying A Thing → people disagreeing with The Thing and spreading it to more and more people who disagree with it → these two groups can’t coexist anymore.
- If the person being “cancelled” is a Twitter user, it’s typically just Twitter becoming an unsafe or undesirable app.
- If the person being “cancelled” is a politician, it’s typically them being removed from a position of power.
I’m oversimplifying the causes and effects of cancel culture, but it ultimately comes down to {1.2a2} context collapse – a group getting information that they weren’t necessarily supposed to get because of the way {1.2a2a} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network.
There isn’t a “culture” of cancelling people; it’s a platform failure.

created: 2024-09-28-19-13 ✻ modified: 2026-07-12-18-02 ✻ tags:

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