YouTuber with 1mn+ followers quits social media, ‘canceled’ over perceived racism

An author and content creator is dumping her massive social media following amid a ‘woke mob’ controversy

The latest raging debate on cancel culture is centered around Lindsay Ellis, who sports over one million YouTube followers but is deleting social media, following accusations of racism.

The original controversy around Ellis tied back to a tweet published all the way back in March that compared the animated film ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ to the anime series ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender,’ with critics claiming the comparison between the two Asian-themed stories was an overgeneralization and possibly anti-Asian. 

Goodbye. https://t.co/zcpwbq0Q04

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— Lindsay Ellis (@thelindsayellis) December 28, 2021

“Also watched Raya and the Last Dragon and I think we need to come up with a name for this genre that is basically Avatar: the Last Airbender reduxes. It’s like half of all YA fantasy published in the last few years anyway,” Ellis tweeted at the time, kicking off a storm of controversy that apparently has not ceased. Ellis even deleted her Twitter for a time. 

In a separate tweet trying to explain her point, Ellis tweeted that she “could see” where “if you squint I was implying all Asian-inspired properties are the same.” She went on to claim that the “basic framework” of ‘Avatar’ is “becoming popular in fantasy fiction outside of Asian-inspired stuff.” 

She later addressed being ‘canceled’ where she accused her critics of having “ascribed” her with an “intentionality which wasn’t there.”  She also recommended that others not tweet in the morning. 

In a Patreon post available to subscribers, Ellis said she is tired of the endless barrage of criticism over the incident.

“I know now that being in the public eye at all is a losing game,” she wrote, according to The Sun. She called her celebrity status “hollow and brittle” and said the last year “taught” her “how eminently expendable” she is. 

Ellis said the latest video she was working on will never be finished now. She is also a bestselling author, having released a sci-fi novel last year.

The last video I was working on was loosely about After Hours by The Weeknd, an album I've listened to ~650k times over the last 18 mos. I'll never finish it now, so I'll just leave my favorite track off the album here (which i've listened to ~651k times) https://t.co/P19PQXHMGO

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— Lindsay Ellis (@thelindsayellis) December 28, 2021

Though Ellis has received her share of criticism, many rushed to her defense on social media following her announcement, blaming cancel culture and the “toxic space” it has made, though some accused Ellis of the same woke criticisms of others in the past too. 

Oh here's Lindsay scolding Tom Scott because a woman in one of his videos made "transphobic posts" years ago that she deleted and he didn't know about. But I guess a lot has happened in the world since *checks tweet date* Saturday. pic.twitter.com/Cr4YL2K6y2

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 28, 2021

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The whole Lindsay Ellis thing is a great reminder that we need to admit cancel culture DOES exist. It just only functions against people without power to begin with, usually on the left. We're tearing each other apart out of performative righteousness and it's hurting people.

— Kevin (@scribblesscript) December 28, 2021

What happened to Lindsay Ellis is an indictment against the cannibalism of the online left. A woman was harassed to her breaking point because she said a movie reminded her of a show and the people who did it thought they were heroes when really they are just toxic shitty people. https://t.co/LkeCghb3si

— Chernobyl Hobo (@ChernobylHobo) December 28, 2021

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