{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":1,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/users\/weekendspy","displayName":"The Weekend Spy :verified_gay:","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/133297-original-tmp20260323023741.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/133297-96-20260425225848.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/133297-48-20260325114701.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/133297-24-20260425225848.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"133297"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/133297-96-20260425225848.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Pon de pundit :laserkiwi: :tinoflag:","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/@weekendspy","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"weekendspy","displayName":"The Weekend Spy :verified_gay:","note":"Pon de pundit :laserkiwi: :tinoflag:"}},"content":"<p>I'm leaning towards the idea that there is no such thing as \"cancel culture\".<\/p><p>A lot of influencers or people with a platform who were supposedly \"cancelled\" are often co-opted by the same insidious groups with deep-pocket funding from the fossil fuel industry, tech-oligarchs, TERFs, the manosphere, white-supremacists, etc- they are simply embraced by useful idiots and shifted into the alt-right pipeline, next to the more extremist and violent factions. <\/p><p>The likes of Joe Rogan and Russel Brand claim they were \"cancelled\" by the mainstream and yet they're making more money now by spouting right-wing talking points, pandering to rich donors by giving airtime to the most selfish and toxic people who call anyone who isn't part of their cult a \"communist\". <\/p><p>That's hardly getting cancelled. It's a rebrand with a paycheck. <\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/tags\/cancelculture\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#cancelculture<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-28:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/users\/weekendspy\/statuses\/115951853355276856","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/users\/weekendspy\/statuses\/115951853355276856","objectType":"note","content":"<p>I'm leaning towards the idea that there is no such thing as \"cancel culture\".<\/p><p>A lot of influencers or people with a platform who were supposedly \"cancelled\" are often co-opted by the same insidious groups with deep-pocket funding from the fossil fuel industry, tech-oligarchs, TERFs, the manosphere, white-supremacists, etc- they are simply embraced by useful idiots and shifted into the alt-right pipeline, next to the more extremist and violent factions. <\/p><p>The likes of Joe Rogan and Russel Brand claim they were \"cancelled\" by the mainstream and yet they're making more money now by spouting right-wing talking points, pandering to rich donors by giving airtime to the most selfish and toxic people who call anyone who isn't part of their cult a \"communist\". <\/p><p>That's hardly getting cancelled. It's a rebrand with a paycheck. <\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/tags\/cancelculture\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#cancelculture<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/@weekendspy\/115951853355276856","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"cancelculture"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-01-24:objectType=thread:nonce=aa542c764291d34f","notice_info":{"local_id":"11992969","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-01-24T20:27:47+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.nz\/@weekendspy\/115951853355276856"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6089860","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}