re: Cancel Culture Origin

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Country radio stations decided that nobody should hear Dixie Chicks. It wasn't a boycott. It was the very definition of "cancel culture"

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Country music stations followed their audience to not lose advertising money based on ratings and target market (They left has that covered today and protects companies that go against their customers).

Even if sales didn’t immediately decline it wasn’t necessarily due to country music fans still buying records. There was a pretty good effort by media and other elites to label them as heroes. Temporarily they got even more fans who wouldn’t normally be country music fans. They also got Interview with Diane Sawyer, Cover of Entertainment weekly, support from Springsteen & others, appearing at Rock the Vote deal, winning Grammys.

That’s why this really was not the same thing as being canceled today and closer to a boycott. They weren’t threatened with completely losing their business, job, house, and so on. They had other doors to open, support from elites in industry, won grammys, and so on; and they even said that they stopped considering themselves country music musicians. Their long hiatus was after winning a Grammy for album of the year in 2007.

Country fans may have influence on country music stations, but how powerful are country music fans and stations for that matter compared to google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Big Media companies, and leftist hedge funds. Those are the true power behind cancellations.

Boycotts are bottom up pushes by real people to push for change even if misguided at times. Cancellations just pretend to be grassroots but most are really top down. They use some real people mixed with paid protestors and use some posts by some real people mixed with some from fake profiles and bots along with trending algorithms to push as being grassroots the agenda of the leftist and liberal elites who run big tech, big media, and other corporations and hedge funds. Cancellations don’t push change or accept change but just seek to punish and destroy those who they don’t agree with politically and use this to scare any further dissent.

Dixie Chicks survived a boycott by country music fans and some stations and pushed themselves to the left, but they wouldn’t have survived cancellation if they had decided to keep the Dixie in Dixie Chicks.