“I see a need for it, but I also don’t like it because mental health has become so important, and no one should be canceled.” “It’s no different,” says Umindi Francis, whose global brand consulting firm, UFCG, represents personalities and corporations. Think of it like a swift and impassioned boycott. It’s the mass act of cutting off support for a person or brand to punish them for hurtful or offensive behavior. Though it may owe a debt in part to television shows being canceled by popular outcry, there’s more to it. “The more emotional inflammation you have, the more passion, the more cancel culture,” she observes.īut what exactly is cancel culture? It can be confusing. In response to a climate where emotional stressors have been ratcheted up, cancel culture is just one result of an on-edge social environment. Lise Van Susteren, MD, a psychiatrist who co-authored the book Emotional Inflammation (Sounds True Publishers). But is it sometimes going too fast, as well as too far? Are we helping society while hurting individuals? Marbles knows as well as anyone, cancel culture can be particularly unforgiving.Īnd in our increasingly connected, polarized and diversified society, cancel culture is ubiquitous. I don’t want to put anything out in the world that’s gonna hurt anybody,” she sobbed in her video farewellĬlearly, she’s remorseful. She blocked the videos, so they can no longer be viewed and she issued a tearful apology to her followers. In a second video, Marbles purportedly donned blackface and dressed up as rapper Nicki Minaj and in yet another, she mocked Asians.Īn early influencer who’d been on YouTube since 2010, Marbles apologized for the racist and sexist videos. Viewers charged that one video was misogynistic-slut-shaming girls who slept with multiple guys.

The actor and comedian, 33, whose real name is Jenna Mourey, faced mounting criticism for offensive YouTube videos from her past. Influencer Jenna Marbles amassed 20 million followers to her YouTube channel, but despite this impressive success, in June she quit the platform amid a slew of disapproval.

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