The Emotional Roots of Cancel Culture

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…