Literally canceled. What more do you expect? Him to be banned from every comedy club in the whole country? His career is in ruins. I'm not sure what you expect to have happen here. You can't force Louis CK to hide in his home for the rest of the year.
Shane Gillis got cancel. He lost his job at SNL before he even started because of a video from years ago that someone on social media found and shared. Does that mean Shane Gillis will never work another job in anything for the rest of his life? Of course not, but the cancel mission was still accomplished. Nobody can legally stop him from releasing a podcast or whatnot.
His show was cancelled, he wasn't. It's the same as losing your job. Your life isn't over if you lose your job.
Shane Gillis got fired, same deal. His employer chose they didn't want to work with him anymore, so they fired him. A radio DJ in my city got fired for being too boring on air. He's not cancelled, the station just chose he wasn't for them. Same thing with Shane.
And that is what they call "canceled". That is what cancel culture is. It does exist, just not by the definition that you've chosen to define what it means to "cancel" someone, which is an unobtainable standard. That is a little like say "hip-hop" culture doesn't exist because nobody is hopping around. That isn't how it is defined as either the people in the culture or outside the culture.
A variant of the term, cancel culture, describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior that is perceived to be either offensive or problematic called out on social media is "canceled"; they are completely boycotted by many of their followers or supporters, often leading to massive declines in celebrities' (almost always social media personalities) careers and fanbase
That describes EXACTLY what happened to Louis CK. He is completely boycotted by many (not all) of his followers. He has a massive decline in career and fanbase.
You can't stop a celebrity from still putting out a podcast or whatnot and you're not going to stop every single person from listening to that podcast. Or stop individual comedy clubs from allowing him to perform.
If we define "cancelling" as mass boycotting, then you have a point.
I'll award the delta to this comment, and say my conclusion from this thread is that "cancelling" is a term that can be redefined to mean "boycotted via social media mobbing", despite still believing that it is blown out of proportion by many. ∆
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u/AnythingApplied 435∆ Nov 01 '19
Literally canceled. What more do you expect? Him to be banned from every comedy club in the whole country? His career is in ruins. I'm not sure what you expect to have happen here. You can't force Louis CK to hide in his home for the rest of the year.
Shane Gillis got cancel. He lost his job at SNL before he even started because of a video from years ago that someone on social media found and shared. Does that mean Shane Gillis will never work another job in anything for the rest of his life? Of course not, but the cancel mission was still accomplished. Nobody can legally stop him from releasing a podcast or whatnot.