{"id":22594,"date":"2021-05-11T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=22594"},"modified":"2021-05-16T18:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T18:03:31","slug":"donald-glover-canceled","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/donald-glover-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does \u201cCanceled\u201d Even Mean Anymore, Donald Glover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22596\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22596\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1179702121-e1620747595481.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Donald Glover\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Glover (Photo: Gregg DeGuire\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Words: they have meanings. Sometimes lots of them! That\u2019s something we teach little kids, who will inevitably go on to forget it completely once they get on the internet or are hired to farm viral content for an online media organization.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: Last night, Donald Glover took to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donaldglover\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> to engage in a seemingly innocuous conversation about the state of creativity in the entertainment business. \u201cSaw people on here havin a discussion about how tired they were of reviewing boring stuff (tv &amp; film),\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe\u2019re getting boring stuff and not even experimental mistakes (?) because people are afraid of getting cancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we&#39;re getting boring stuff and not even experimental mistakes(?) because people are afraid of getting cancelled<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; donald (@donaldglover) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donaldglover\/status\/1391996668376227840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The ensuing \u201ccontroversy\u201d is about as 2021 as it gets. Battle lines have been drawn! On the one side you have those \u2014including media outlets posting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/donald-glover-says-cancel-culture-is-resulting-in-boring-art-2937828\" target=\"_blank\">bad faith<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/11\/donald-glover-cancel-culture-makes-boring-tv-and-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">provocative headlines <\/a>\u2014 claiming that Glover was invoking so-called \u201ccancel culture,\u201d a favorite straw man of the Right. On the other, you\u2019ve got fans on Twitter insisting that he simply meant that creators are nervous about their <em>television shows<\/em> being canceled by networks. And then on a third front, there\u2019s everyone who got a kick out of the fact that Glover doesn\u2019t seem to know how to post a tweet thread, and honestly, they may be the least absurd actors in this whole scenario.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Glover being cancelled because people thought he was talking about people being cancelled when in actual fact he was talking about tv shows being cancelled is peak 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TFDXkbtvGu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TFDXkbtvGu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KJL (@kerryjeanlister) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kerryjeanlister\/status\/1392112736000163853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But sifting through his actual words, there does seem to be at least <em>some<\/em> evidence for both interpretations. In his first tweet, Glover specifically mentions both TV <em>and<\/em> film. And \u201ccanceled\u201d isn\u2019t really a term used very much in reference to movies. People don\u2019t talk about films being <em>canceled<\/em> the way they do TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, of the two media, Glover is primarily a television creator. His Emmy-winning FX series <em>Atlanta <\/em>is one of the most beautiful, surreal, and significant shows to ever air on TV. (Seriously, we should all probably drop this and go re-watch <em>Atlanta<\/em>\u2019s first two seasons real quick.) Earlier this year, he also signed a multiyear deal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/donald-glover-sets-rich-amazon-overall-deal-exclusive-4134497\/\" target=\"_blank\">with Amazon<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/malia-obama-donald-glover-series\/\">develop content<\/a> for Prime Video. It is entirely plausible, likely even, that in his second tweet, he was speaking from his own experience specifically as a TV creator. In that case, it would make sense that he would use the word \u201ccanceled\u201d to refer to networks declining to renew shows, like his own, that take too many risks.<\/p>\n<p>Glover himself hasn\u2019t yet clarified what he meant by the tweets. Possibly he\u2019s hard at work on his actual job, or just still asleep. Maybe he <em>won\u2019t <\/em>explain what he meant. The last time he tweeted was back in November, so he might just have a vastly healthier relationship with the online discourse than the rest of us do and will simply refuse to engage. We will continue to obsessively monitor Twitter for future developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":22596,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Does \u201cCanceled\u201d Even Mean Anymore, Donald Glover?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Donald Glover&#039;s recent tweets have people wondering whether he&#039;s invoking so-called cancel culture. \u201cWe\u2019re getting boring stuff and not even experimental mistakes (?) because people are afraid of getting cancelled.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/donald-glover-canceled\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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