Cancelled

Its September 3rd 2018 and a tweet from an alt-right looking account goes viral. Embedded within the tweet is a forty-five second video which has racked up over eleven million views so far. It’s a single shot of a pair of white Nike trainers engulfed in flames on a burnt-out lawn. The trainers belong to an S Clancy, who by his own admission, has been a loyal customer of the multi-billion-dollar global sportswear brand for over 20 years. So, why would he proudly set fire to his favourite pair of sneakers? To answer that question, we need to rewind the clock, two years prior to Friday, August 26th 2016 when the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers were getting ready to play each other for a preseason NFL game in California.

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It's January 2021 and what is likely to be the craziest celebrity story of the year (you’d hope) has already made waves across Hollywood, Pop Culture and Social Media, which, let’s face it, is known for being the messiest Venn Diagram. At the centre of the story is actor, Armie Hammer who went from Hollywood Golden Boy to Hannibal Lecter Tribute Act,and, more pressingly, an alleged abuser, in the space on one evening. But how? Well, like so many of these stories, Trial by Twitter, and the unimpeachable power of the Meme.

This episode was written by Anton Ferrie.

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Morning television; It’s a medium built upon being the relaxing background music to your pre-breakfast routine. A light fusion of news, entertainment, and weather, wrapped up with soft furnishings and ambient intro music, with the melodious alto of a Scottish woman never far away. (Carol Kirkwood and Lorraine Kelly–holler). Hardly a bastion of excitement. But such tranquillity is fertile ground for a disruptor, and there is perhaps nobody more deserving of that adjective than one Piers Morgan.

This episode was written by Anton Ferrie.

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May last year. Do you remember that time? A strange and eerie period where lockdown still felt new. Think shuttered shops and restaurants, and more people than ever working from home. Remember that context as you listen to this episode and ask yourself how much lockdown boredom -and the never-ending entertainment of celebrities fighting -may have played a part in the media storm surrounding food writer and chef Alison Roman whose career grounded in making good food accessible, was being questioned about elitism, and her role in what critic Roxana Hadidi called ‘colonialisation as cuisine’.

This episode was written by Coco Khan.

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Today’s cancellation is a work in progress. Hailed as aqueer icon who blazed newtrails for gay people in the public eye,she’s now derided as the enablerof a toxic workplace, an arbiter of harassment, and a bully.Ellen DeGeneres is less falling off the cliff of cancellation, than tumbling down the hill next to it. But how did Ellen, once so beloved she’s in a category where her first name does all the work, go from a pioneer of the LGBTQcommunity to someone accused of being arbitrarilymean.And crucially –how is it that both of those things, ground breaker and faker,can be true at once?

This episode was written by Anton Ferrie

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