Celebrities can be cancelled. Fandoms are forever
- Written by Alison M Joubert, Lecturer in Marketing, The University of Queensland
Cancel culture — withdrawing support for public figures when they do or say something offensive — has become so widespread it was Macquarie Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year.
A practice where people come together to remove the offender’s cultural capital and “cancel” them, the phenomenon has intensified since...
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