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The Emotional Roots of Cancel Culture

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Ben Sixsmith
Jul 29, 2025
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Online algorithms are always trying to wind us up. Outrage, as well as enthusiasm, keeps us invested in media. It keeps us clicking.

So, YouTube must have known that I would click on a video called “Rest in Piss: Hulk Hogan Dies”. Sam Seder, a left-wing commentator, is a sharp and relatively funny man who — fittingly, given the dynamics of the online lef…

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