- 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 [[{1.2a2b1a2} viral targets on social media indicate a platform failure|a platform failure]].