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Individual Provides Japanese Artists Advice on Avoiding Cancel Culture

A string of ever-increasing examples of “cancellation” attempts against Japanese artists on Twitter has encouraged one helpful user to create an infographic warning about the most likely individuals that would participate in such behavior and how best to contend with such bullying.

Some of this wise individual’s advice in both Japanese and English (they received help in translating the images into Japanese):

The infographic lists people with specific alignments and labels in their bios that would be most likely to engage in behavior that puts artists at risk. The instructions contained within the set of images encourages Japanese artists to block, mute, and otherwise not interact with people criticizing them based on political affiliation, a misguided sense of morality, or any other unreasonable argument:

While the response to the image has generally been overwhelmingly supportive, the usual suspects and those that would absolutely attempt to remove “undesirable” artists from Twitter have criticized the post and the infographic for “perpetuating hate”:

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