Cancel Culture is worse than you think
Hello All, something quick I wanted to post. I'm only talking about this because this topic just so happens to be the exact thing I have been concerned about after all this time of being public.
Not that I want to go into a full deep dive about my life, I just want to brief by saying I am an artist, I create things and I happen to also post online. So what's the big deal?
Well, through this whole year of being cut off from being able to post online, I have gone through a good chunk just re-thinking over life and what being online means.
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The pros are that I can share my projects to the public for other sane and normal people to enjoy and make life a better place to live and laugh.
The cons, I have to also expose myself to trolls, cynical people, negative reviews, hateful teenagers and baby adults, and all sorts of nitpick internet police activist I call CANCEL CULTURE.
See, the problem with cancel culture is, no one is safe. One day you are the most loved online celebrity like The Act Man, the next you are attracting all sorts of angry people and opponents by the thousands because of your stance on a topic.
The same fans you think are supporting you, will one day also disown everything about you.
Specifically, what I'm exposing in this blog are those critics and opponents.
We live in a time where being online has been easier than ever. No longer do you have to find a desktop or laptop to sign in or make an account and share your comment to the world.
No, now you can do your trolling at the lazy whim of a finger, on your phone, with the internet to hide behind.
Yes, talking smack has been easier than ever when the energy of writing to your opponents has been simplifying to using emojis to react.
Negative people and trolls are nothing new. I'm trying to say that the easy access to do this, is new.
Along with the trolls secret weapon: unity.
Twitter is one example that is arguably worse than other online forums to discuss about topics. Yet, I will give it to twitter, now under X, for at least cracking down on fake news or double checking posts, or even addressing online drama.
But Twitter is one of those online sites that anybody can join if they have a phone. Yes, any 8 year old kid with a phone their parent's give as a form of entertainment parenting is able to go online and be a part of the horde.
I would argue, that people GREATLY undermine the collective power of trolls. That we all know there is one or two no-lifes on the internet that rate down a post, or share a mockery emoji, but do we really understand the scale? The amount? How easy it is to tip the news in one favored perspective?
I knew, a few days ago, that maybe there were a couple, maybe a few trolls on twitter. But until recently, I never knew how much there actually was.
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So enough with superficial conspiracies, let's start listing some examples. Consider a famous youtuber, how they can easily influence a fanbase if they were active on such sites like Twitter. Given enough time, that Youtuber can not only grow their view count on Youtube, but they could also frequently post on Twitter, or Facebook, or any type of social media. Not so much for promotions or updates, but more so to engage with people.
On the surface, this seems innocent. But what happens when that Youtuber eventually creates Drama? Are they going to be professional and keep their social media pages relevant? Or more likely, are they going to also engage with their fanbase?
The first type of problem with all this social media influence is when an Internet personality uses their fanbase to attack their critics. I know, because I have had this done on me. One person goes on their social media page, makes a post about their side of a story (totally almost always bias), and then calls for affirmative action on their fans to then go attack their critic about the situation.
This is one way social media is used to create drama.
The second type, and the most common way, is when people use news-trends, like in the case of twitter to stack one side of a story over another. People see an event happen, no one can deny the series of events that just occurred, but soon after, people begin to warp what happened to paint one exclusive side of the story. This is often caused by whichever side has the best active user community.
In this second example, reality be damned. Because it's not going to be about who the victim was, but what society recognizes as the victim later.
The reason this is relevant to trolls and critics, because like I mentioned before, any 8 year old kid that is trolling online can easily build up a conspiracy or rumor, or even worse, may be influenced to think one way more than another because a famous Youtuber is telling them to.
This often causes the chaos that I see today. Where the normal level-headed people that are standing in reality, are often blurred out by the crowds of secondary viewpoints and rumor.
(source: the internet)
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Which leads me back into the idea of Cancel Culture. Where we live in a time when the most nitpick, baby whiner, first world problem speaker, butt is itchy user, can build a cancel culture environment over the smallest of things that don't matter. Like in the case of the current gaming community.
That's why I say, never underestimate the hordes that a keyboard neck-beard can influence if a small, almost irrelevant issue, can grow into a massive real world objection.
That the term "keyboard neck-beard" is a perfect label to call people that develop unhealthy time online than a normal person. That while a normal person uploads their content, goes on with their day and maybe responds to a few emails at night.
The Neck-beard will have spent the whole day reaching out to more people, creating memes to mock or shame, and gathering a horde to build a collective negative reception.
And in today's age, is that so hard to do? Is complaining easier than gathering the facts? Is an emoji faster than a concrete argument?
Sometimes, I personally feel tired of using an adult line of reasoning and logic to people that simply reply with an emoji or emotional reaction.
Sometimes, I feel like I'm not getting paid to educate people on things they should know before arguing--and if I have to backtrack and educate on an issue again and again, then you already lost your objection.
Like, sometimes I wish there was a scoreboard in an online debate so that after a while people will stop to know the clear loser in a topic. I see this all the time in real conversations. A discourse starts off evenly, then by the end one side as won 0 their points and yet continues to engage in debating.
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(source: the internet)
But this just goes back into what I'm saying, the amount of negative people online is what causes these large scales of Cancel Culture participants. That a normal person like myself, uploads something online, and goes on with their day. But a critic will obsess night and day to build a tiny complaint into a huge issue. That by the time an hour passes, you have an entire rumor or hate trend against you because the critics overwhelm the news to one side.
I'll tell you, the news today is either 50% facts or 50% one sided.
And in the internet, it could easily be 10% facts, 90% one sided by your opponent.
I'll end off by saying, this happened exactly recently with the whole Jack vs SniperWolf drama. Jack was the Youtuber, that was also active on twitter. And SniperWolf was a Youtuber, but didn't spend so much active time online in commentaries. Jack was able to grow a one-sided crowd of fans for months before the whole drama began, and Sniperwolf didn't use that advantage. While Sniperwolf did whatever she was up to that day, the Jack fanbase took over the early news on twitter to build a Jack-only view of this story. I know, I was online at the time having a late snack before I went to bed. And, let me just say, there was only 1 person other than myself that actually approached the twitter thread and tried to talk about both sides. I deleted my comment when I noticed I was trying to convince the wrong crowd. But the other guy, Asuka, stood his ground; and even if you don't like the whole drama, you at least got to say he has balls to stand up to such a horde of opposition that is already in Jack's favor.
Now, if you guys are really wanting to know where I stand on this, I stand like I did then as the middle man and continue with my stance. SniperWolf shouldn't have posted a picture of Jacks house. And Jack shouldn't have been an A-hole in the first place.
The only reason I'm not totally on Jack's side, is because I went back and noticed how the internet as a whole has been isolating their hate on this one girl when there are worse people out there making content like the dude that just got arrested in Japan. So to me, a girl that makes reaction videos is nothing to be obsessed about, JACK. I would argue that Jack's unhealthy obsession with her is part of the fault of why he was doxxed in the first place. He wanted drama. He got drama. He cries to his twitter about his consequences. Can you really blame Sniperwolf? How would you guys feel if someone was actively making it their day job to mock you. not just to a few, but tens and hundreds of thousands of people? Over what? the same nitpick drama over reaction sources? And why her specifically? Many people do reaction videos, even streamers like Ludwig and Asmongold. I personally like watching someone react to things I also like, especially if they're new. But this again, doesn't make Sniperwolves carelessness to source her videos AS BAD as Jack who hates her over it instead of likewise going after other people. Even before this drama, I saw Jacks videos. I wasn't a fan of Sniperwolf, but just seeing Jack's videos even I had to say to my self, "dude, why is this guy so creepy after her?" It's plain bully behavior what Jack has done to her. And I'm surprised more people aren't addressing this. It's not a simple one or two videos trashing against Sniperwolf, no Jack does a whole channel in the spirit of "parody" to bully this girl's mannerisms, what she says, appearance. It's just sick. I don't know what kind of normal person watches Jack's videos and doesn't pick up on his creep obsession behavior.
So in short, I don't like any of them, but I also won't call Jack a saint in this drama.In fact, I could easily call him a bully for jumping on the trend hate against Sniperwolf --which by the way, has anyone else seen the other videos against her? The story's always look one-sided and always paint her guilty in the end. Even Ray William Johnson, a famous Youtuber did a take about her, admitting he didn't know her side of a story, but still making the video based on the opposition and thus painting her as publicly guilty. Which Should be concerning in the way we cover topics in the future.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq57mgj0WFA)
Anyways, that's all I wanted to say. I don't see myself making a career out of talking about recent news like other Youtubers do like Charlie (penguin0). This topic has ironically been a core reason why I'm not super excited about the internet lately, and hopefully this will make other's pause to reflect what it means to be public. Anyway you feel, just know. The trends of News is so messed up these days. We may laugh at 1 internet troll, but it's the crowd of cancel culture nitpick critics that will make it their day and night job to influence more people against you. And that's just where we are as a society. Our privileges of open comments, rating systems, even hashing tags, are all useless if the critics can upvote the most comments, negative bash the enemy, and make more hash tags based on their story for new viewers to find. Today you are the victim, tomorrow you are hated.
I'll end this by my comment I made on Ludwigs video. "1. I hate cancel culture. Anybody that hates reaction channels and tries to go on twitter to get others to cancel you, is horrible. 2. I think it's even more nitpick when cancel culture people go for the small details like "where is the source for that meme. I'm going to cancel you now" 3. At this point, most people are playing into the hate trend of isolating on Sniperwolf, especially Jack. His obsession with her is sick and not a lot of people are talking about this. It's one thing to upload a video to critique someone, but to make a whole channel to do so, even to the point where he's criticizing her as a person, is horrible. Jack is no saint. Neither is Ludwig as he has said, or any streamer that just does reaction content. So, yes, I can see how Sniper did what she did. Because Jack was being a straight a-hole about this. In fact, most of youtube has been on the blind trend to hate this girl recently. If you guys look at any critic videos about her, it's always against her without her side of a story. Isn't that something we should be noticing? People's defense right now is "she doxed him," where as forgetting "why she did so."
Bonus. Someone else with sound reasoning, but who were called Simps for simply not hating on Sniperwolf.(click to view).
I'll tell you, the internet today has no middle ground. The trolls and cancel culture people should be addressed as a bigger problem so that we think twice about how people abuse the rating and comments to influence media, especially in the cases of influence bullying. But that's asking too much from people. If you guys had a platform, would you use it for good or to bully after your critics / tell one side of a story?
[Update. PewdiePie just uploaded another reaction video and is recieving OVERWHELMING positivity without a single popular comment even addressing "stolen content." If we can all be guilty of this "crime" then we should reflect our hatred of SniperWolf evenly across other people like Ludwig who also says hes a normal person that does reaction videos too. All in all, this is just proof that Cancel Culture is real, it goes after isolated targets, and is often led by one baby adult. Like Jackfilms, a person that acts like he just discovered the internet and our ability to share news, clips, and the whole series of why videos go viral in the first place. Jack, and many other baby adults like him are a prime example of Cancel Culture elitist that bully others for the smallest of nitpicks. I'll end by saying, your memes are stolen too. Get off your high horse. Welcome to the internet sharing. ]
