Haters

Death by 1,000 cuts

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What even is cancel culture?

It’s people trying to silence you.

When they silence you, they take away your power, your identity, your self of self.

Trying to silence people can come in a lot of ways.

The obvious ways are things like taking away your bank account, your payment processor, your platform, etc.

Those things suck. It’s like being unpersoned.

But there are other things that are bad, too. Perhaps not as severe, but still bad.

One of the reasons I’m interested in Nick, specifically, is that he is surrounded by obsessed haters who literally build internet careers off of hating him and everything he does.

It’s this insular community, one that you don’t see from the outside.

They think everyone knows about everything they’re doing because the only people they talk to are in their community.

They believe their community is the only community that exists because they only speak to people within the community, not realizing that there’s an entire world out there that they haven’t come close to touching.

They’re a little cult that doesn’t realize that they’re just one of thousands of little cults that exist in the world.

There are a lot of people with (to put it nicely) self-esteem issues in this cult.

And because of that, it attracts a higher disproportion of haters.

There are two types of people in the world: Creators or Destroyers.

Creators know they have something valuable to give the world, and so they create things to do that service.

Destroyers don’t believe they have anything of value to offer the world, and so they spend their time destroying the things that creators create.

Haters are destroyers.

Haters are the death by 1,000 cuts.

They’re parasites.

The only reason they have any success at all is because of you.

All their content only exists because you exist and you’re creating it.

They would have nothing without you.

They make it their business to destroy you.

They revel every time you have a failure (spoiler: everyone has failures).

They twist things out of context, they lie, they ignore any information that disrupts their confirmation bias.

They also make it more likely you’re going to experience more severe forms of cancelation, forming mobs of people who contact businesses demanding your ostracization.

They get obsessive to a scary degree.

They spend all their time thinking about you.

They spend their time talking about you.

They contact anyone you associate with publicly.

They stalk everything you do.

They defame you.

They dox you.

They SWAT you.

There is no line they will not cross once they get started.

What’s worse?

People say that controversial people bring cancelation on themselves.

But let me ask you this:

Which is worse?

Saying things that people might find offensive…or stalking a person, day in and day out?

Which crime is more worthy of cancelation?

I’d argue that stalking a person is far more unforgivable than saying mean words that no one has to listen to.