cancel culture

Have you noticed Twitter hasn't tried to 'cancel' Chris Pratt since Elon Musk fired the trend curation team?

It used to be clockwork. Actor Chris Pratt would do something that reminded everyone he exists, and some form of "cancel Chris Pratt" would trend on Twitter. Then Elon Musk fired the Twitter Curation team. They were the commie-as-f*ck employees tasked with curating what you saw trend. Now, two major movie trailers later and no one has thrown a Chris Pratt is over party. Weird, right?

I was just thinking about this because when the trailer for the Guardian of the Galaxy Christmas Special dropped, I was expecting the usual suspects to cancel the "worst" Chris. Yet even with new trailers for Super Mario Brothers and Guardians 3, it's conspicuously quiet.

Prior to Elon buying Twitter, all it took was Pratt showing up in the Thor trailer for "Twitter" to "demand" Pratt be canceled. Or, when the actor would post something about his family. You see, the knock on Pratt (by idiots) is that he likes Jesus, America, and hunting. And because he uses his platform to make millions of people happy and NOT attack Trump supporters, leftists hate him. Presumably, the same leftists who would curate what they wanted to trend on Twitter.

Then, other leftists who hate him and who work in digital media would write about how Pratt was being canceled on Twitter. It was a never-ending cycle.

It's not just a lack of Cancelling Chris. Japanese Twitter users noticed after a reporter complained she had no one left at Twitter to call anymore to make sure her "news" articles trended, the bird app was becoming more pleasant:

Users appear to consider the new trending list as more authentic than the politics-infused list allegedly curated by Twitter, which is a fair assumption. Japanese users have compared this list to previous days where almost all trending topics were political in nature. The user who posted the list called the new trends “peaceful” and joked about how the curation team must have spend their time “sorting out topics like this every day”.

It turns out that when Twitter employees don't have their finger on the scale, Twitter users don't care about the political topics those Twitter employees want them to care about. Like, for example, one of the few A-List actors who doesn't validate the now former Twitter employees' "commie as f*ck" political worldviews.

Dig through Twitter, I'm sure you will find a hand full of dinkuses angry about Pratt's existence. But they stayed a handful of dinkuses and weren't turned into a national trend. With no one to cherry-pick a few tweets to create the illusion the internet hates Chris Pratt, the internet doesn't hate Chris Pratt.

Or, it's all a coincidence we're reading too much in too. There have been a number of those coincidences since Elon took over.

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