The Legacy of Cancel Culture is That Actors and the Acting Industry Will Be Erased orig: >> https://www.reddit.com/r/C_S_T/comments/dnz35k/the_legacy_of_cancel_culture_is_that_actors_and/? In many ways, Marvel's Thanos was a prescient, cautionary tale, breaking the fourth wall by informing Marvel actors and the hollywood industry itself that many of their ranks would simple disappear into ash, due to their unwise decision to participate in political warfare. Culture Wars "Deepfakes" are getting better and better, just as "Cancel Culture Wars" are getting worse and worse.  Both sides in a hot war over boycotts of products, brands and yes even people and the work they create--including but not limited to websites, corporations, and films.  Some blame Trump and libertarian populism as culturally retrograde, while oppositely, others blame out-of-control political-correctness, which has evolved into radical word-policing; and still others blame 4th wave feminism as an outcome of the frankfurt school machinations, downloaded via weaponized social psychology of the corporate-managed media. "Damn that fast food chicken restaurant for something their CEO said that was mean to gay people 15 yrs ago. I'm going to make a sign and screech at fat Christians". and "Damn that thing that those superhero Marvels actors said that was mean and unfair about Trump. I'm going to get a dumb looking hat and antagonize purple haired wiccan lesbians" In the Trump era, the culture war has heated up so much that we look back at our popular films of the last 4 or more decades, and they leave a bad taste in our mouths, because instead of Actor-Celebs we used to love, we see "Trump Deranged Lunatics" and "Forking Trump Supporters".  The common refrains are "STFU and ACT" or "How About Stick with 'Acting'" or (speaking of social media) "Delete your Account". Weaponized Social Spychology We have been divided by coordinated hate, mostly (like 90%) promoted by the Establishment Mainstream Media, and secondarily by various political groups through social media coordinating with the former, on both sides.  The media, of course, blames Trump.  But Trump's media empire--for all intents and purposes--is ONE Twitter account.  Seriously.  That's it. It would appear to be a radicalization effort using a coordination of the "Master Suppression Techniques" on both sides (this means making the good things you do invisible and then amplifying the bad things you do; and most of all, ridiculing, lampooning and heaping shame and depriving of praise), funded by the Atlantic Council and other transnational NGOs in order to bring about a 'color revolution' and ultimately destruction of the status of the US as 'the world leader' in most things.  I'm saying, that the people running the world have decided to shutter America and make another country 'the chosen one'.  After 3 yrs, many of us have had enough of this MKULTRA mind kontrol nonsense and have 'walked away'... canceled their cable in preference to internet; a small few have turned off the TV and stayed off the computer and decided to do something different with their lives than participate in an obviously imploding American culture. That having been said, and unfortunately for me--and for you--observed firsthand, the absolute animus against celebrities for their vocal support of the political side opposite of my own is something so hostile (and unforeseen) that I don't believe people will ever forgive them, even when President Donald Trump is long gone.  People believe--on both sides--that they are acting as willing Agents-of-Destruction of our country (or society or values or future or civilization) and whatever that means to them. Faceblock That is why I believe there will be an emergence of Erasure culture. The daily outrage mafia of the left--and it IS only the left because the right is not doing this--has already given society "permission to erase.", through the propaganda-of-the-deed: democratic socialist student protestors been defacing, destroying, demanding removal of historical statues, out of a misplaced and wrongful 'need' to delete any traces of potenial anxiety that these historical markers might create for marginalized groups or potentially anxious future groups of people.  The whole thing is a little bit ridiculous, because there is no self-awareness in the movement.  For example, I don't like confederate statues any more than the next person, but I understand that this statue is history and history is a cautionary tale That is sometimes the purpose of historical statues--they aren't always held for 'honorary' or 'celebratory' purposes, but for rememberance and cautionary or even informative purposes. There is going to be a time when computer resources, software wizardry and deepfake AI is going to enable realtime replacement of actors faces and bodies in our most popular films.  I believe People will create Apps to Real-Time-Erase politically-adverse Actors within older films (and new ones that are streamed), by overlaying atop their likeness camouflage imagery that is more politically-digestible-- celebrities with whom they agree, or possibly 'politically-neutral' artificial stand-in, CGI persons; effectively 'face swaping' a substitute of an actor with whose political beliefs we agree. In this way, Actors will become completely irrelevant in the future as "new and beautiful artificial people" are created as "Stand-Ins".   Langleys Media Muppets CGI was always, ultimately going to replace actors anyway, because CGI can't sue you for "casting couch" and #Metoo type activities; or extort your production company for 5 Million dollars an hour of screentime; or sicc the Screen Actors Guild on your production company for various minor or imaginary violations.  Which means that Realtime-Faceswap-Erasure forces in the political domain are simply going to be the catalyst to speed up the erasure of the entire acting industry. To quote DC's Comet Pizza's James Alefantis--a pizzamongering satanic pederast and hero of our times--I would say to these political-actors this: "You did this to you.  It's your culture." I can't say that I feel too badly for these political-actors, because they could have kept their mouths closed, instead of participating in political warfare.  All wars have casualties.  I'm sure they'll be crying in their retirements to their three to five mansions all over the globe.