Digital media lets publicly canceled figures rebuild lucrative careers

Evidence

But in the age of digital media, there were always ways to work around exile. By the mid-2020s, the counter-counterculture had grown into a thriving industry, offering a lucrative second life to men once cast aside. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 788

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the ‘death of the sellout’ mechanism — canceled figures monetize their exile rather than being silenced by it.
• QUESTION: Does this ‘second life’ industry itself become a new subculture with its own status dynamics, ironically reproducing the structure it claims to subvert?