What is the lamest thing anyone has ever been canceled for?

Lindsey Ellis comparing Raya and the Last Dragon with Avatar: The Last Airbender

That was such bullshit over something so small.
It felt a lot more that she was getting cancelled because she was an easy target.

I always thought that Pee Wee's exile for spanking it with a bunch of other guys in a porn theater was pretty performative. It was the suits at CBS that kept trying to turn his adult material into a kid's show in the first place. It was fine for them to snap back to reality and reconsider his audience, but blacklisting him from everything was too far.

I feel like a lot of people were more prudish back then. What he did didn't harm anyone.
- I think "what he did" was be gay.
I agree. It would have been a great opportunity for him to recast himself as an adult. Just like Rowan Atkinson doesn't need to be Mr. Bean.
It sucks that this is a question that has reasonable answers for it that has to get nuked because lemmy is full of censorous slime, who are self-conscious of their own censorous nature. Mean while they have posts on the front page pointing fingers of censorship at others.

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The Red Scare and Lavender Scare both seemed really lame. I vote those.

Cancelling is pretty lame.

Is boycotting a better word or what about exiling?
If a person does something that a bunch of people don’t like why should they continue to give that person money?
Like Elon musk is a solid example where he is actively using his wealth support far right groups around the world and his fortune is largely based on the value of Tesla stock so if you disagree with his actions why would you buy a Tesla?
- Boycotting isn't cancelling. Cancelling is witch hunting someone off of social media and destroying their ability to make money.
  Let's take an example that happened to me. I live in Rural SC, USA. When COVID hit I was employed by a grocery store that was owned by a German company. So masks were mandatory. Even for customers. At the time I still had some social media accounts and wore a name tag. Told some knuckle dragging hillbilly that he had to mask up if he wanted to come inside. He was so incensed that he decided to troll my socials, my family's socials, several other workers socials and coordinated a complaint campaign targeting myself and a few other workers for "discrimination against his religious right."
  That event was the tipping point for me nuking my socials and never wearing a name tag again. So, again, cancelling is pretty lame. For any reason. Yes even the ones you think are justified.
- Excommunicating is the best example

Richard Stallman being cancelled for defending a dead colleague against Epstein accusations.

It was clear people already had an axe to grind him, and they just used that as an excuse.

It was another reason for me not to take the average idiot seriously.

People don't get cancelled. They get exposed for the horrible people that they are.

So you just blindly believe it every time?
- Still waiting for all those examples of people who didn't deserve it.
- Nope.