It's just another word for "call out culture".
When a famous person says something controversial they will receive a massive amount of criticism. That will be seen as a direct attack and the famous person will never own to their mistake and just cry they're being cancelled.
Most of the time no one is really cancelled for real.
Sometimes someone will be investigated and might lose movie deals because productions don't want bad press. That has always happened and has never been cancel culture.
Ironically, the people who cry cancel culture will gain popularity, so in a sense it has become a way of skirting responsibilities and deflect the attention from the actual horrible things they said.
When a famous person says something controversial they will receive a massive amount of criticism. That will be seen as a direct attack and the famous person will never own to their mistake and just cry they're being cancelled.
Most of the time no one is really cancelled for real.
Sometimes someone will be investigated and might lose movie deals because productions don't want bad press. That has always happened and has never been cancel culture.
Ironically, the people who cry cancel culture will gain popularity, so in a sense it has become a way of skirting responsibilities and deflect the attention from the actual horrible things they said.
Jenny: Did you hear they cancelled JKR??? Those awful gays
Kim: You mean J K Rowling? The one who made history writing HP? That's the best example of a victim of cancel culture you could think of?
Kim: You mean J K Rowling? The one who made history writing HP? That's the best example of a victim of cancel culture you could think of?
by Kjh938583994 October 17, 2021
Get the Cancel Culturemug. A popular trend among social media users allowing activists to publicly shame, or "cancel", media influencers for previous inflammatory posts, sexual allegations, and discriminatory behavior. Cancel culture surfaced due to the similar public shaming trend, the #MeToo movement, where women call out sexual predators. As a result of the cancellation, the individual may lose their job, their status on social media, and their reputation. Canceled people are mainly ostracized even to the point of social media users boycotting products or shows related to the individual.
Brock Turner is Cancel Culture's newest player and has lost his reputation after he was accused of raping an intoxicated woman.
by This-was-for-a-school-project January 14, 2021
Get the Cancel Culturemug. The collected behaviors associated with portrayal of cool, disaffected, or gangsta-hip lifestyle. Can be evidenced by speech patterns, oversized clothing, and tude (including, but not limited to, slouching, frequent and prominent gesticulation, and a middle-distance gaze.
by Safire July 30, 2008
Get the cool-pose culturemug. Any trend or entry in popular culture or mainstream entertainment that focuses on the supernatural, paranormal or unexplained. Example: ghosts, paranormal investigations, psychics, cryptozoology, UFOs, aliens, vampires, monsters, zombies. First usage was July 2009 by writer Aaron Sagers, who calls himself a "paranormal pop culture expert"
Because it combines the pursuit of the supernatural in a mass media format, 'Ghost Hunters' on the Syfy channel is a hit Paranormal Pop Culture TV show.
by Jacob Faulkner March 9, 2010
Get the Paranormal Pop Culturemug. When you feel intimidated and irked either due to a lack of knowledge in trendy pop cultural/meme references, or from the fact that you probably have no interest in them. Usually happens when you're out with a new group of peers, and they be saying some memey phrase or sharing some pop cultural fad and you have no idea what it is or what it means (nor do you care). Likewise, this is also very commonly experienced on the internet, most notably in the YouTube comment section.
1) Jimmy felt very pop culturally intimidated by his girlfriend once he found out that she knew more pop cultural references than him.
2) Matt joined his new group of female peers to work on a course-related project. While he didn't have trouble socializing with them, he felt extremely pop-culturally intimidated by the odd memey phrases that their peers were tossing around and giggling about. Then, they started sharing pictures of Korean guys and went on talking about their favorite kpop star. "Stop. Please...", he wished to tell them.
2) Matt joined his new group of female peers to work on a course-related project. While he didn't have trouble socializing with them, he felt extremely pop-culturally intimidated by the odd memey phrases that their peers were tossing around and giggling about. Then, they started sharing pictures of Korean guys and went on talking about their favorite kpop star. "Stop. Please...", he wished to tell them.
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian October 19, 2019
Get the Pop Culturally Intimidatedmug. The expression politics-cultural complex describes the relationship between a country's politicians and the cultural industry that is funded by them, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
A: Did you know that the British Prime minister appoints the board of Tate?
B: Really? We truly live in a politics-cultural complex.
B: Really? We truly live in a politics-cultural complex.
by freeze_magazine March 11, 2023
Get the politics-cultural complexmug. Agreeing to anything someone from another country tells you, no matter how far fetched it may seem, lest you be revealed as ignorant and insensitive.
"Marie Kondo says we should thank all our crap before we throw it away. It kind of sounds like she just made that shit up, but let's just practice a little Cultural Suspension of Disbelief. That must be how they do things in Japan."
by Peter Auteur January 10, 2019
Get the Cultural Suspension of Disbeliefmug.