Cancel Culture
You're Wrong About
Your Love Is Canceled
The word first appears in a 1981 chic song. In 1991 it shows up in the movie new jack city where there's a drug dealer and he says like cancel that bitch Oh, so everyone stopped following her on twitter. The modern resurgence of cancel as a commonly used verb comes from a 2014 episode of the show love and hip-hop New York.
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