Exile’s economic feasibility neutralizes the social discipline of cancellation

Evidence

The more the canceled proved they could make a living outside traditional gatekeepers, the weaker the concept of cancellation became. “There is no point,” The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood wrote, “in yelling ‘racist’ at someone who is already yelling racial epithets at full volume.” In the early twenty-first century, “fuck-you money” described a fortune large enough to exempt its owner from social norms. The canceled twisted that logic into a business model: making a living by saying “fuck you” to everyone, all the time. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 790

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: cancellation as the last status sanction that requires gatekeeper control to bite — once outcasts earn independently, the punishment loses all force.