Did Bo Burnham get canceled?

Late blog post sorry :( but I didn't have anything to say till now. Was Bo Burnham canceled? Iโ€™ve seen a couple videos of people on TikTok saying heโ€™s a crappy guy, most of which because heโ€™s homophobic and racist. (I donโ€™t want to use the โ€œitโ€™s just a joke so get over itโ€ argument cuz thatโ€™s really cringe, and satire doesnโ€™t mean you have to like it.) for him being homophobic the only thing Iโ€™ve seen is he said the f slur, this may sound bad but I donโ€™t think that makes you homophobic, homophobia is hating someone for being gay saying the f slur doesnโ€™t mean you hate gay people. I saw this TikTok saying Bo bullied a gay kid in high-school (canโ€™t find it now donโ€™t know if they deleted it or I blocked them) what they said wasnโ€™t (in my mind) bullying it was just an older student being mean also didnโ€™t seem homophobic so idk. Bo also said when he was a kid his mom said something homophobic and he doesnโ€™t talk to her anymore cuz of it, from what I know heโ€™s not homophobic he just says the f slur. For the racist part Bo has just made a lot of racial jokes which idk you donโ€™t have to find funny idk if that makes him racist. I donโ€™t know everything Bo has done tho so tell me if he went up to a gay person and called them the f slur or something. If he did something actually bad I wonโ€™t defend it but from what Iโ€™ve seen the people hating on him are either forgetting a lot of his songs are satirical or he doesnโ€™t actually hate insert group of people. 8/12/24 (if I sound like the โ€œgen z is canceling Eminemโ€ girl Iโ€™m sorry)


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Alexisonfire ๐Ÿฆ‡

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i'm really late to this, sorry.
there's a fair share of ppl that don't like him for his past jokes, but i don't think he was really "cancelled". a lot of ppl still like him and have kinda moved on from it (including me). i can't really defend all of his past jokes, in my opinion, some were in poor taste. But he has clearly changed with the times. I don't wanna hold that stuff against him. i'm not trying to excuse it because "everyone was doing it", but in my opinion, a joke isn't always a reveal of character. especially when its satire. i don't think it erases value from his work and you shouldn't feel guilty for enjoying it.


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