The Internet is becoming toxic and how Creatives can help

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This is a video that I posted on my YouTube a while back but I think it is important to have it here as well as I really want to open up the discussions. Over about the past year and specifically the past few months I have seen a trend of DISGUSTING behaviour from people on Twitter. With cases like Jessie Smollett, James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), and The College Admission Scandal Code Name: Operation Varsity Blue (Lori Loughlin & Olivia Jade) people are extremely quick to only read headlines, presume guilt before these people are even convicted and then “Cancel” them. This is affecting peoples lives and job. The general public has now realized if they make a big enough fuss about something they can generally get what they want. In the Case of James Gunn, he was fired by Disney from directing Guardians of The Galaxy 3 for tweets from 10 years ago. For Jessie Smollett, People demanded he be fired from empire after a police conference that accused him of faking an attack only for the charges to be dropped. This has gotten so bad that even “Facebook friends” get blocked for not having the same opinion. We are creating a culture that undermines the justice system and changes popular opinion into fact which is VERY dangerous. On top of that after listening to an Episode of The Colin and Samir Podcast featuring Paul Rabil where he talked about the cross-section of culture that many athletes are at and it really got me thinking about a Musician duty to voice their opinion and not shy away for fear of being cancelled but the new Cancel Culture we live in. Clearly, We need to learn some Internet Etiquette and stop boycotting everyone and everything that doesn’t have the same viewpoint as us. The internet is broken so I broke it down with all of my Dani sass in full force. Connect to me on social: Youtube Twitter Instagram