She claims near the beginning that she's neither going the right-wing emboldened by canceling route, nor the crying apology video route. The video is an hour and forty minutes long, so I don't have much more info for you now.
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Thanks as well!Lindsay Ellis drops a take so bad she has to nuke her Twitter
That take is pretty yikes on its own, but read the room, Lindsay.www.resetera.com
If you squint?Lindsay Ellis drops a take so bad she has to nuke her Twitter
That take is pretty yikes on its own, but read the room, Lindsay.www.resetera.com
i have no dog in the fight and barely know what she is "cancelled for" but just wanted to say if she went that route people here and elsewhere would be roasting her anyway saying they don't believe her.An hour and forty minutes...
How hard it is to say "Sorry, I messed up, it's on me I'll do better,won't happen again"
Guess I'll find out
I was told as an Asian person, I'm not allowed to be offended by this.
Here is some context
Lindsay Ellis' Roya tweet explored: Star responds to being 'cancelled'
Here's a look at Lindsay Ellis' Roya tweet which led her to be 'cancelled' on Twitter. On December 28, Lindsay confirmed she would be leaving YouTube.www.hitc.com
On March 26, Lindsay became the center of attention after she tweeted her thoughts on 'Raya' and 'Avatar: The Last Airbender.' In a now-deleted tweet, she wrote: "Also watched Raya and the Last Dragon and I think we need to come up with a name for this genre that is basically Avatar: the Last Airbender reduxes. It's like half of all YA fantasy published in the last few years anyway."
Her tweet received backlash and in a bid to justify her statement, Lindsay made another tweet. She wrote: "I can see where if you squint I was implying all Asian-inspired properties are the same, especially if you were already privy to those conversations where I had not seen them. But the basic framework of TLA is becoming popular in fantasy fiction outside of Asian inspired stuff."
Unfortunately, people were not pleased with her statement, and the backlash continued. Several Twitter users jumped on the bandwagon of cancel culture and called Lindsay out for her words.
An hour and forty minutes...
How hard it is to say "Sorry, I messed up, it's on me I'll do better,won't happen again"
Guess I'll find out
She certainly doesn't seem to understand the concept of an economy of words.A feature movie length video about a tweet comparing two cartoons.
I honestly don't see anything wrong with that tweet. What am I missing?
I honestly don't see anything wrong with that tweet. What am I missing?
Yeah, YouTube apology videos are a bit of a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. Either you get right to the point, keep it brief, and people accuse you of glossing over the controversy - or you go in depth and people accuse you of milking the moment for content.i have no dog in the fight and barely know what she is "cancelled for" but just wanted to say if she went that route people here and elsewhere would be roasting her anyway saying they don't believe her.
I wonder how many white people are going to go into this thread with the exact same meaningless "do better" tripe that the Twitter dogpile consisted of.Gonna watch, lets see if she actually apologizes and promises to do better or not
No, it's not, what the fuck.She doubled down and made another tweet basically (paraphrasing) saying You'd have to "squint" very hard to see anything nefarious. That's such a racist remark.
You're right, Trump never had anything to apologize for.People don't need to apologize for shit they don't feel was wrong just to appease frothing mobs on twitter.
The majority of the video is almost exclusively going over and discussing why some past behaviors are problematicWhy not a separate two minute video with an apology? Why do these people tie their apologies to hour long videos about cancel culture?
She doubled down and made another tweet basically (paraphrasing) saying You'd have to "squint" very hard to see anything nefarious. That's such a racist remark.
I really don't know anything about this person. I'm...having trouble seeing what was so wildly inappropriate about what was said, though.Here is some context
Lindsay Ellis' Roya tweet explored: Star responds to being 'cancelled'
Here's a look at Lindsay Ellis' Roya tweet which led her to be 'cancelled' on Twitter. On December 28, Lindsay confirmed she would be leaving YouTube.www.hitc.com
On March 26, Lindsay became the center of attention after she tweeted her thoughts on 'Raya' and 'Avatar: The Last Airbender.' In a now-deleted tweet, she wrote: "Also watched Raya and the Last Dragon and I think we need to come up with a name for this genre that is basically Avatar: the Last Airbender reduxes. It's like half of all YA fantasy published in the last few years anyway."
Her tweet received backlash and in a bid to justify her statement, Lindsay made another tweet. She wrote: "I can see where if you squint I was implying all Asian-inspired properties are the same, especially if you were already privy to those conversations where I had not seen them. But the basic framework of TLA is becoming popular in fantasy fiction outside of Asian inspired stuff."
Unfortunately, people were not pleased with her statement, and the backlash continued. Several Twitter users jumped on the bandwagon of cancel culture and called Lindsay out for her words.
Seems like that's the bulk of it. Largely unpacking Twitter hyperbole and how valid criticisms can spiral out of control via dogpiling.Yeah, watching it now. It seems to actually be a video essay about canceling more than a specific response, which is actually interesting to me.
But man I hope she at least apologizes for using "squint". That was just such a bad choice of word but I refuse to believe she did that intentionally to poke/prod asian readers. It's still a very solid fuck up.
Not disagreeing that it probably should've been thought out a little better, but isn't it just a reference to the tendency of people to squint their eyes when they're looking at something carefully or to try to see something in a new way? Like, that's pretty commonly referenced, I thought. like in this clip:She doubled down and made another tweet basically (paraphrasing) saying You'd have to "squint" very hard to see anything nefarious. That's such a racist remark.
But in general it's a piece about how Twitter (and most modern social media sites) thrive on blowing things up, with everyone being encouraged to get a voice in even if the person affected cannot reasonably read it all, literally cannot read it (she wasn't reading Resetera, for example), or got the point hours ago.