#gen z cancel john lennon

[kayla161]

he wasn’t as bad as people make him out to be but he was also an utter twat 👺👺

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[the-endless-storm]

Posting this now so I can include December in next years list, but this is all the major events and memes I’ve seen on Tumblr this year. It's by now means comprehensive, but please enjoy.

Tumblr and events of 2022

January

* Horse Plinko

* John Lennon ass crack transplant

* Winnie the Pooh enters the public domain (AA Milne original not Disney)

* Wizards

* Empaths

* Blorbo (from my shows) Scrunglo and Glup Shitto

* Andrew Garfield popularity resurgence

* Green M&M loses her heels

February

* Feral pokemon (Legends Arceus)

* Little German boy

* Jeff D'onofrio quits as Tumblr CEO

* Twink Pinocchio “Father, when can I leave to be on my own?”

* “It's me boy, I’m the PS5”

* Tumblr ad remover

* Russia invades Ukraine

* Pokemon Gen 9 announced

March

* Live slug reaction

* My brother in Christ, you did the thing

* New tumblr users

* Convincing new tumblr users to leave

* Putin talks about JK Rowling and being cancelled

* Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars

* I drinkd

April

* CRABS

* Manscaping Ads

* Tumblr seeks a new SuperWhoLock

* Tumblr Blaze

* Thus has been your sign to become catholic

* Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter

* Warning off of Twitter to Tumblr transplants

May

* KUNGPOWPENIS resurgence

* Homophobic dog

* Dracula daily

* Eurovision Song Contest

* NFTs and crypto tanks

* Staff's Secret Blog told off by the real Staff

* Davey Jones’ beard / Paul McCartney mpreg

* Staff ban and cover up blog that calls out staff member as a terf (supposedly)

* Morbin / Morbius GIF

June

* Pride Month

* Swedish people don’t share food

* Lechonk

* Queen's Platinum Jubilee

* Pikachu man

* Dall-E generated images

* “You had to make it sexual”

* Gravity Falls vs Disney S&P

* Roe vs Wade overturned

* Pikachu man replaced by Spacesuit man

* Whitehouse coven

July

* Boris Johnson resigns

* Shinzo Abe shot

* Tumblr crabs are back

* Ivana Trump found dead

* Stray

* TikTok Pink Sauce

August

* Taylor Swift private jet usage

* Prince William pegging affair

* Wereralph purge

* HJBUH

* Gougar

* Crabs for sale in Tumblr store

* Harry Style gay sex/tenderness comment

September

* Tumblr app icon changed to cute little guy

* Queen Elizabeth dies

* Everyone really hates the Queen

* Harry Styles spat on Chris Pine

* Halle Bailey's Little Mermaid triggers the right

* Why isn’t Neil Gaiman verified?

* Tumblr icon changes back to neon lines

* “The Queue”

* Porn ban is over!!!

* No it's not!

* Ned Fulmer thrown out of Try Guys

October

* Halloween month

* Great British Bake Off Mexican Week fiasco

* Posts that have 10k notes to me

* Anal bead chess cheater

* Hocus Pocus 2

* Velma is a lesbian <3

* Chris Pratt ruins Mario movie (trailer launch)

* Angela Lansbury dies

* Robbie Coltrane dies

* Terfs run Graham Norton off twitter

* Liz Truss resigns after 45 days (shortest serving PM in UK history)

* Rishi Sunak becomes first Uk POC PM

* Leslie Jordan dies

* Tumblr logo goes spooky

* Elon Musk buys Twitter

November

* Nudity (not porn) is back!

* Heidi Klum worm costume

* Ryan Reynolds is on tumblr (boo)

* Lynda Carter is on tumblr (yay)

* Tumblr logo gets a shiny paint job

* Twitter's rapid decline

* Gen Z votes blue

* Twitter users return to tumblr

* Two blue check marks

* Resurgence of old tumblr posts

* Goncharov

* Jason David Frank (The Green Ranger) dies

[phoneybeatlemania-bit-the-dust]

I think the main reason John is canceled is how he’s made out to be Saint John the Beloved Peace Activist Martyr. I don’t think his estate is entirely to blame because the same sort of thing happens to most celebrities who die young, but it’s worse with John because he’s glorified more as an activist vs. as an artist. His activism was fine, but treating him like a saint is unrealistic. At some point, people get tired of having the same pretentious, constructed image shoved in their faces, so it’s satisfying to take him down a peg (especially when it’s Gen Z taking down a boomer icon). Ringo hasn’t been lionized in the same way so it makes sense that he wouldn’t be canceled. “Imagine singer John Lennon beat his wife” is just a more sensational headline than like, “It Don’t Come Easy singer beat his wife”.

Re: Would John Lennon be “cancelled” in the 21st century?

Like I stated in my post, I really just don’t have an opinion on whether the story about Ringo physically beating Maureen, almost to death, is true because ive never been able to pinpoint an exact source in which Ringo admits to this. I know ive heard in passing that Ringo discussed this incident in an interview, but after researching it, I just haven’t found any credible source in which Ringo actually states this, so I just don’t know. If anyone does have the original source for this, by all means send me it because id love to get some closure on this topic - but as for now, I just remain neutral on this topic.

But going onto the second point, I absolutely agree that Johns “cancellation” is largely perpetuated as a response to his mythologised status.

His name is supposed to be almost synonymous with “peace and luv” - but anyone who has read up on the actual behaviours and actions of John knows that he was abusive, vitriolic, cruel, violent and lets face it, often times he was just a plain a bully. BUT we also know he was deeply insecure, alienated, mentally ill, depressed, chaotic, emotionally unstable, drug-addicted etc. And none of these aspects to John negate the other - as ive stated here (x), if someone doesn’t like him because he was abusive, I don’t have an issue with that; that he was “sad and insecure ☹️” ultimately isn’t a justification or excuse for his behaviours. Some people just aren’t going to have a lot of empathy for him, and its not up to me to decide whether they do or don’t forgive him. But also, the freedom to decide whether we do or don’t like or respect him is just a part of the real image of John Lennon: the one that was simply just a human being, not a mirage of Peace, and not the embodiment of abuse - literally, he was just some guy.

But I think 2 things to factor into the quite abrupt “cancellation” he’s received are 1. that the reality is is that there is something I guess satisfying in knowing the all-too-perfect person is actually pretty rotten - we’ve seen this with plenty of other symbolic figures throughout history, be it Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, Walt Disney or basically anyone else who you’d expect to find on a “10 respected historical figures who were actually terrible people” list. These supposed idols are put on a pedestal, and idealised to such an extent that when they fall, there often just is something pleasing about it, because theres a type of security in the knowledge that idols and earthly-Gods do not exist; that they were just human all along. Im reminded of an extract from East Of Eden, when Steinbeck wrote:

“When a child first catches adults out…his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again.” - John Steinbeck, East Of Eden

Another thing to account for is, 2. Most people don’t know the contexts behind Johns behaviours, because a lot of them have just read “10 things you don’t know about John Lennon - no. 1 He beat his wife, no. 2 He abandoned his son etc.”, and so for me thats the main thing with tackling the more controversial, miserable side to Johns life: just give people more context. I’ll just reinstate my earlier point in saying, some people aren’t going to have a lot of empathy for John, and I get it. Nobody has to like him. But I think the contexts surrounding a lot Johns controversies are worth taking into account, because whilst saying “he was a wife-beater” isn’t necessarily untrue, it isn’t entirely accurate either, and there are various other factors to be accounted for. So with people who want to “cancel” John Lennon, I think its best to just expand upon his more critical subjects and explain them in better detail, because I certainly don’t think its a bad thing to discuss the darker edge to John Lennon - although having said that, I admit I probably wouldn’t really bother talking with people who want to “cancel” John online, because I imagine the majority just want TikTok views, and aren’t in fact interested in having a genuine discussion about him.

If John hadn’t died, perhaps he wouldn’t be so much “cancelled” (which ill just say again that I don’t think he actually has been/never will be) but rather we’d just see a progressive disillusionment within our perceptions of him.

[kayla161]

it’s cynthia’s birthday which means i shouldn’t be in school because it’s a public holiday 😜😜

[kayla161]

happy birthday to this prick ig 💤💤

[kayla161]

paul push him over immediately 😖