In response to Facebook Gaming streamer Disguised Toasted getting hit with criticism on Twitter for jokes made in his past, Twitch streamer xQc said that he’ll “never” be canceled, calling cancel culture a facade.
Getting “canceled” online is a fairly normal occurrence for big personalities. The core idea behind cancel culture is holding people responsible for their actions, but it often targets things that occurred in people’s past. It typically involves using a slur or making unsavory jokes at the expense of a marginalized group, and one recent occurrence of someone getting canceled in the gaming sphere was Disguised Toast. After he was banned for watching a video using a slur, people began digging up other instances of Toast making racist and sexist jokes. Disguised Toast responded to the accusations in a TwitLonger, which xQc read during a recent stream.
Specifically, xQc says people will never get him to do something “stupid” like responding to allegations directly. To the former professional Overwatch player, xQc believes this is manipulative and content creatures shouldn’t react to cancel culture in the way that Disguised Toast did. Streamer xQc points out the number of times people have actually been de-platformed in the last year due to being called out on social media, saying that nothing will actually happen to them in the long run.
The backlash toward Disguised Toast has sparked split opinions in the content creation community. Specifically, xQc reacts to a video of Sodapoppin, another Twitch streamer who denounced cancel culture. Sodapoppin explains that, in the event he’s faced with backlash online for his sense of humor, he would “take it up a notch.” Sodapoppin feels it’s not worth his time to explain why others are wrong, but it does make him “happier to make you more upset.” Twitch streamer xQc feels the same way, he notes in his reaction video.
He also reacts to another rant calling out cancel culture, specifically the people behind it that act “better” than others. YouTuber and esports commentator Ludwig Ahgren comments on how the “canceling” of Karl Jacobs actually resulted in him getting several thousands of new followers. Ahgren says cancel culture should expect people to “learn from their mistakes,” be better, and move on, but that’s often not how the online community treats it.
Ahgren points out a flaw with some attitude regarding cancel culture that xQc seemingly agrees with as well: “You grew up in a time where people happened to be more progressive,” he says while commentating on a Super Smash Bros. Melee fight. Though nobody’s perfect, Ahgren believes that canceling sometimes blows flaws that people have out of proportion due to not being born in a “woke culture.”
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