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Triggered: Kids Guide To Modern Day Cancel Culture
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 12
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 15 2020
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You said the wrong thing. Or someone decided you said the wrong thing, which in the current landscape amounts to the same thing for the purposes of what happens next. This book guides you through the contemporary process: the initial post, the pile-on, the screenshot, the apology, the second pile-on about the first apology not being sufficient, and the various stages of online accountability that conclude either in cancellation or in a news cycle moving on, which is the closest thing to forgiveness currently available. The guide is practical. The content is familiar to anyone with a social media account and a posting history longer than two years.
This adult parody book is a satire of cancel culture and internet outrage that doesn't pick a political side so much as document the mechanics of a process that operates with remarkable consistency regardless of which direction it's pointed. The trigger event is documented. The response ecosystem is documented. The apology formats are documented. The outcomes are documented. This is a field guide to a cultural phenomenon that shows no signs of simplifying itself and that needed an illustrated cartoon guide considerably earlier than it received one.
This Book IS For:- Adults who have watched the cancel culture process unfold enough times to recognize all the stages in the book
- Fans of satire that documents a cultural mechanism without needing to validate or condemn it to be funny about it
- Anyone who has drafted an apology, considered the reception, and revised the apology based on anticipated response
- Gift-givers who want to give something that makes a specific comment about a specific cultural moment
- People who find this subject too politically loaded to be satirized regardless of the tonal approach
- Readers who believe cancel culture is either entirely appropriate or entirely unfair and need the book to agree with their position
- Anyone whose personal cancel situation is too recent to have gained any comedic altitude yet
- People who have written multiple apology threads and still feel tender about the reception of each one
- Gag gifts for anyone who works in social media management and has the process memorized from the professional side
- White elephant exchanges among people who have strong opinions about online culture and can laugh at those opinions
- Gifts for anyone whose job involves a public-facing persona and who has considered the risk management dimension of posting
- Anyone who has been chronically online long enough to have witnessed at least one complete cancel arc from trigger to resolution
The internet has produced no shortage of content about cancel culture: earnest defenses, earnest critiques, and a lot of takes that are themselves cancelled before they finish loading. This book produces none of those. It produces a guide. The guide covers the mechanics. The mechanics are consistent across political positions, platforms, and subject matters. The consistency is itself the joke. Everything is fine. Nothing is safe. The guide tells you what to do when fine ends.
Buy it for someone who is online enough to recognize every stage of the process being documented. Buy it for someone who works in PR and has handled the real version of what this book describes. Buy it for anyone who has ever watched a pile-on develop in real time and noted that the stages were completely predictable and still impossible to stop. The trigger happened. The process began. The book has the rest. Everything is fine.
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