By: Bailey Steen
This article first appeared on TrigTent.com
It’s becoming something of a staple among Twitter mobs to throw their most respected anti-hate creators onto the cancellation pyre. The most recent notable figure to be on the receiving end of this treatment is Lindsay Ellis, one of YouTube’s most prominent feminists, authors, and film essayists. Though Ellis has made a career, in part, out of pointedly combatting and condemning online bigotry, this hasn’t stopped the perennial outrage mob from attempting to burn her reputation to the ground — instead, old and new tweets of hers are being used to frame her as holding some sort of “anti-Asian bias”. In response, Ellis decided to shut down her social media account before the online harassment could continue.
If you went online on March 26th, you would have seen that Ellis randomly started trending across multi-national channels such as the United States, Australia, and England before even making a single statement regarding her own drama. In fact, she was merely the centerpiece of a decentralized effort by trolls to use her tweets to find supposedly problematic content, such as her latest opinion on “Raya and the Last Dragon,” a new fantasy animated film produced by Disney, in which she compared its narrative…
