the.com/cancellation
Internet jury, internet verdict, no appeals court, but always a sequel.
means The act of withdrawing support from a person, event, or plan — whether it's canceling a flight or publicly disowning a celebrity.
from From Latin cancellare, 'to make like a lattice' — literally to cross out writing with lattice-shaped marks, from cancelli, 'crossbars' or 'grating.' The same root gives us 'cancel' in the mundane sense (crossing out a mistake) and, through the lattice-work screens that separated clerks from the public, 'chancellor.' The internet didn't invent the crossing-out — it just made the lattice a public spectacle.
- origin shift
- from boycotts to tweets in one decade
- attention economy
- outrage drives more clicks than forgiveness
- comeback rate
- most careers survive, just quieter yachts
- real punishment
- usually a brand deal, not jail