The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites, arguing that the application of useful anger by minoritized people and groups has been effectively harnessed in social media spaces as a strategy for networked framing of extant social problems. This strategy is challenged, however, by the dominant culture’s ability to narrativize the process of being “canceled” as a moral panic with the potential to upset the concept of a limited public sphere.

“取消文化”一词对定义数字和社交媒体行动主义的话语具有重要意义。在本文中，我简要地探讨了Black Twitter（由在线文化链接的社区组成的元网络）所执行的数字问责制的演变。我追溯了社交媒体标注的实践，从其起源于黑人白话传统到社会精英在数字时代的挪用，认为少数群体和群体对有用愤怒的使用已在社交媒体空间中得到有效利用，这是一种策略。解决现有社会问题的网络框架。然而，这种策略受到主流文化挑战能力的挑战，这种能力使作为道德恐慌的“被取消”的过程变得混乱，并有可能破坏有限的公共领域的概念。