[TheJaz]

"Cancel culture" rarely sees anyone permantly lose work, outside of the people who have done the very worst things, like Weinstein

Most people who get cancelled continue to get work, many just have to shift their target audience to the people who actually liked whatever they did (look at Louis C.K. for an example of that method of recovery, now he just caters to the people who supported him)

One of the most famous early Internet "cancellings" I can remember is James Gunn, and while that must have been rough at the time it's hard to say it permanently hurt his career. Suicide Squad 2 is done production, and since Disney even rehired him now Guardians 3 and the Guardians Holiday special are in early production

If we're talking about celebrities who didn't commit literal crimes it seems like few who have been "cancelled" have lost all prospects of future work, I can think of more who are still working off the top of my head honestly

A recent example would be Gina Carano, who got picked up to be in some movie Ben Shapiro is making pretty much the instant Disney cut ties with her

On the internet celebrity side of things I'd say many notably "cancelled" people are doing the same or sometimes better than before they were "cancelled"

JonTron is one of the earliest Internet cancellings I remeber being around for and now my understanding is he has more subscribers than ever

Some more recent one's include ProJared who managed to make a nearly complete recover after he literally received nudes from minors and sent nudes to minors, many people say it wasn't his fault because he asked people their age, but it was only due to his own lack of responsibility and his choice to create a NSFW blog aimed at getting nudes from his fans that it even happened, it was all due to his own decisions... yet he recovered from that

Recently Dan Avidan and Vinny from vinesauce have also largely survived getting "cancelled" with minimal acknowledgment of the issue on their parts

People act like cancel culture is so scary, but most of the time people just want an explanation or apology, it gets blown out of proportion, and then the target recovers regardless of if they actually ever owner up to what they did

It's largeky a buzzword at this point the way people use it, and not a real threat to you or most people

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Originally Posted by IndigoArms

,like Hank Azaria voicing Apu, when nobody cared the entire time Simpsons was on.

Lot's of people thought Apu was an uncomfortable stereotype for years, saying no one at all used to care sounds like perception bias to me, just because you personally never saw anyone complain doesn't mean nobody was, I assure you lots of people didn't like hearing a white guy pretend to be a stereotypical Indian man for years before the issue exploded, notably a large chunk of the people affected by the Apu thing were kids at the time getting called "Apu" at school who couldn't properly voice their discontent on a large platform until they were adults