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There's been a bizarre increase of Right-Wing Cancel Culture, and I don't mean cancel culture against the opposing viewpoint, I mean cancel culture against what should technically be our own people.
What I'm talking about is The Daily Wire Brett Cooper/Reagan Conrad controversy for The Comments Section YouTube channel. Brett is no longer with DW, has her own EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL YT channel now, and Reagan is the new host for the DW's channel The Comments Section. Well, turns out, this was an incredibly controversial event. And instead of diehard Brettbros (I believe her fans call themselves that) peacefully transitioning to Brett's new channel, they are now doing the cancel culture thing of literally flooding all of Reagan's videos with bullying comments.
Now, I have nothing against Brett. But I'm 41 and far too old for this type of petty behavior. There is no call for there to be hundreds of comments on each of Reagan's videos literally lambasting her, hating on the DW, chanting for the downfall of the channel, etc. I am there for the content. When Brett was the host I was still there just for the content. I do not care who provides the information to me, I am loyal to the premise of the channel itself.
I do not need Brett's little anti-fan army reminding me on every single of Reagan's videos that Brett has her own channel, that her 1st, 2nd, blah blah episode are up. I KNOW! Do they think I've buried my head in the sand and have no clue what's been going on!? If I wanted to follow Brett and watch her content I would do so.
I also happen to be an extremely stubborn person. The more somebody pushes buttons to manipulate me into doing something or attempts to cause the downfall of someone, the angrier I am going to become and less likely it is I that I will actually do what you want.
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Cancel culture is an ugly thing. I regret participating back with the whole anti-Star Wars rant related to Gina Carano that WENT ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE. It's ugly when you try to silence opposing viewpoints because we should be better than our opponents and not do to them what they have done to us. But it is absolutely reprehensible for people who share the SAME BASIC PRINCIPLES to attempt to cancel someone simply because they didn't like what went down.
Hopefully I'm wrong and these people are just trolls. But I have an awful feeling that I'm right. I wish Brett well. I hope she has a great amount of success. But I will watch who I want to watch and right now, that person isn't her. Because Reagan and the DW have proven to be the "better person" in this whole situation by simply carrying on and not addressing the bullies. That takes a lot of guts and I applaud them for continuing to push out relevant content and not stooping to the level of the mudslinging Brettbros.
Any kind of in-fighting always bothers me a lot too, so I understand your annoyance and frustration. I'm really tired of the whole "if you're not for me, you're against me" mentality these days. Just because I don't like/agree with/support an idea or a person or a show or whatever, that doesn't necessarily mean I am against it. It just might not be my thing. ::shrugs::
ReplyDeleteYep, 100%. With the whole DW Brett/Reagan thing I'm thinking part of the problem is that we have young people who don't know what it's like to have a show change a host. We may not like it, but it can and does happen especially if the previous host stops being a good fit for the show and the company. It's normal and there are folks acting like it's a massive injustice and the end of the world. No, it's life. There's just entirely too much drama.
DeleteI agree with this entirely. The Right has become just as extreme and vitriolic with cancel culture as the Left has. They will literally grab a hold of any famous person that hints at their narrative, tote them around as their token spokesperson, and then leave them in the dust when they no longer share their ideologies.
ReplyDeleteJust out of curiosity, what was the ant-Star Wars Gina Carano rant about? I know the situation but what was your take on it? She was one the Right's Hollywood tokens for a while and now she's disappeared.
Yep, it totally has and I feel so sad about it! There used to be a time when if someone didn't share the same belief system as you, you could either still like that person's content, or if you didn't, then you just sort of quietly left and went somewhere else. No muss, no fuss! I miss those days so very much and it grieves my heart to see how absurd both sides have become.
DeleteWith Gina Carano, I was deeply upset that she was let go from the Mandalorian for expressing her beliefs when people with equally strong beliefs in the opposite direction (a.k.a. Pedro Pascal) were just fine. It was a huge awakening for me that suddenly the disclaimer at the beginning of DVDs and Blu-rays wasn't enough (the one that pretty much exonerated the company from anything the cast/crew might say or do).
I gave a lot of energy and negativity to downvoting and commenting in support of Gina on every new video on the Star Wars YouTube channel. Needless to say, it was not the wisest or healthiest choice for me. The irony is that Gina is too extreme in some of her views for me (covid, particularly), so I gave too much energy to someone who I'm not sure I would actually like all that much in person.
From what I hear, she's currently suing Disney, which I can't blame her since the firing was, from a freedom of speech standpoint, wrong. But now we have conservatives doing the same thing. I guess from my perspective, people need to rediscover what it means to just be a person online instead of an activist. And that totally goes for both sides. It's why I'm not really present on social media all that much because so much of it is now inundated with activism against something while being for something else and I just don't have that kind of energy.
Sorry, that was a long response to your question! It was good to hear from you, Ivy Miranda!