‘Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right’ by Angela Nagle
It’s a book that was published in 2017 and it references the ‘Exiting the Vampire’s Castle’ piece mentioned below.
Product Description:
> Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the alt right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures right through to its mainstream expression. Kill All Normies explores some of the cultural genealogies and past parallels of these styles and subcultures, drawing from transgressive styles of 60s libertinism and conservative movements, to make the case for a rejection of the perpetual cultural turn.
Fair warning - it’s about online culture as a whole, so not specifically all about cancelling and not from one political perspective.
It is good though, and I do recommend it if you’re looking for something to pick up that touches on this.
Someone should do a compare and contrast between 1997 Cinderella and Bridgerton.
When I was 16 I convinced my grandma to get me what was clearly a college academic textbook on Colorblind Shakespeare casting.
spoiler alert, you can read the full version--it's available for purchase here