A person, usually a self-proclaimed internet activist, who spends most of their time online maligning anyone they deem "problematic" or "offensive" on social media in an effort to defame or "cancel" said person(s).
"There's this movie that I've been wanting to make for years, but I'm scared those cancel pigs on Twitter will try to shut it down, all because of an innocuous statement I made over a decade ago."
"When I told my brother that I wanted to share my thoughts about controversial topics on social media, he told me the cancel pigs would eat me alive."
"When I told my brother that I wanted to share my thoughts about controversial topics on social media, he told me the cancel pigs would eat me alive."
by Jonkama December 13, 2023

by Rizzy alpha July 15, 2024

Hym "The canceled all espouse the same rhetoric. 'Spiritual war,' 'attack on our institutions,' 'protect the children,' who is paying these motherfuckers to go around and say this shit? It's Dr. Phil, Rosanne Barr, the entire non-shit-lib half of the internet is doing it. Where is that coming from? Isn't that bizarre to watch? Somebody has got to be paying them. All of these people have been canceled for some form of social impurity. All of them are people I've named. Somebody has got to be bank rolling it. They all rebrand and it's all this 'spiritual war against the woke' bullshit to pollute the political landscape and prevent actual discourse about the things that are actually happening. Like the thing that is actually happening to me. I'm going to murder a kid if I'm not provided with recourse for this. No amount of doing what you're doing is going to is going to get me to accept living like this."
by Hym Iam June 20, 2024

by Summer.thequ33n October 30, 2020

The action of convincing the audience of a specific person, usually on the internet, to shun/not acknowledge them. This is usually due to some sort of controversial content that was posted on the platform they use by them.
by dictionaryblob128 August 25, 2022

A system in any work place where promotion or transfer is prevented by Human Resources or a Manager due to the politically incorrect standing of an employee or due to other factors such as age discrimination). The one being shadow cancelled does not know this is taking place to undermine their professional career.
My boss and director recommended my for promotion, but HR vetoed it-I'm sure it is due to me being shadow cancelled so I can't advance.
by Cuivre2004 July 18, 2022
