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Max Mustermann (maxmustermann@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 04:32:34 JST Max Mustermann You may not be able to put your finger on it precisely, but you know something went horribly wrong that year. 2013 was the Rubicon, the point of no return, the beginning of the Internet’s transformation from a freewheeling agora of freaks, sinners, uncensored discussion, a refuge from the real world into the tightly-controlled dystopia it is today, where the wrong utterance sends you into “help me find my frens” territory and the really bad people have their websites seized and are 666’ed out of the financial system altogether. There were many bricks that had to fall into place to create this world, but 2013 was when they first started being laid. What happened that year? Many bad things, but the most important was that 2013 was when “cancel culture,” as it would later be coined, became a thing. 2013 was when average people could wake up to millions of complete strangers wishing death on them because of a years-old Tweet, then go into work only to be fired because their boss was afraid of the bad PR. They’d then be blackballed because nobody wants the nightmare of having “the racist Tweet guy” on their payroll. Pax Dickinson got cancelled in 2013. So did Justine Sacco. For most of us, they were the first high-profile victims of cancel culture.
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