- Joined
- May 30, 2019
Without giving away my power level, but I severed ties with my closest friend of 14+ years because he went "woke" and tried to cancel me on Facebook because of some edgelord 4chan-tier jokes I said (he's actually somewhat popular in his area and has like 3,000 friends on FB). We were practically brothers at that point; he was so close that I would celebrate Thanksgiving with his family instead of my own, since I was closer to his family than mine.
Just another casualty of wokeness, cancel culture, and the political divide.
You know, this solidified something I've been thinking about for a while: Cancel culture is just middle school all over again.
You want to be part of the in-crowd? Well you'd better be lockstep with what all the cool kids say, wear, and do. If you're ever seen talking to any of the nerds or losers, your popularity and social status is shot. You need to distance yourself from them and/or continually pick on them in order to prove your superiority. Oh, and you'd better never do anything even mildly embarassing, because nobody will ever forget it.
Of course we find this infuriating, we're goddamn adults. This shit is for 12-year-olds and spoiled trophy wives. Social media has turned adult society into the 8th grade.