Noah Beck & Griffin Johnson under fire for \u201ccancel culture\u201d comments YouTube: Josh Richards, Griffin JohnsonTikTok stars Noah Beck and Griffin Johnson are taking heat from critics due to their divisive comments on \u201ccancel culture,\u201d as told during an episode of Johnson\u2019s \u201cSway Way\u201d podcast. [jwplayer ZXB9LNVP] Also known as \u201ccall-out culture,\u201d the term \u201ccancel culture\u201d has become a popular phrase in the past few years as social media has flourished, allowing users to highlight abuse, bad behavior, or other negative actions from people online. When these bad behaviors are brought to light, the person responsible is usually called out, boycotted and ostracized, causing them to be publicly shamed and often ousted from their professional and social circles due to the resulting backlash. \u201cCancel culture\u201d itself is a divisive term, with many believing that it outright doesn\u2019t exist, as those being \u201ccanceled\u201d deserve to be called out for their actions and that those who are \u201ccanceled\u201d are never truly brought to justice from the outrage. Still, others feel that \u201ccancel culture\u201d is going too far and is resulting in a toxic online environment \u2014 but either way, people are no longer willing to abide bad behavior from anyone, and social media has given users a platform to speak up against things they consider to be unjust. TikTokers and Sway House members Griffin Johnson and Noah Beck recently spoke out on the social phenomenon during an episode of the Sway Way podcast \u2014 and their thoughts on the subject have sparked quite a bit of backlash against them. \u201cPeople are getting canceled for things that were totally acceptable,\u201d Beck said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say that people have gotten really sensitive, but at the same time, they have, and it\u2019s like\u2026 there were some things that were acceptable back then that people could say, now it comes back on them five, 10 years later.\u201d View this post on Instagram #noahbeck also speaks on people getting canceled for things that were acceptable in the past \u201cI mean, I\u2019ve done some things in my past where they come off as controversial today, but they weren\u2019t that deep,\u201d Beck continued, referencing his own controversial history on social media. \u201cI can see why people think it\u2019s a big deal now, but it\u2019s like\u2026 I never thought I would have this platform. I never thought I would have this stage. I was growing up just playing soccer. I liked a few tweets, but I didn\u2019t think anything of it at the time.\u201d Needless to say, both Beck and Johnson have received a substantial amount of criticism from listeners, with one user writing: \u201cHe really said that he never thought he would have gotten famous\u2026 so if you\u2019re not famous, you can be homophobic and it\u2019s not a big deal?\u201d Both boys have yet to speak out on the outrage, which only continues to grow in wake of their already storied history of sparking division among TikTok viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Noah Beck & Griffin Johnson under fire for \u201ccancel culture\u201d comments YouTube: Josh Richards, Griffin JohnsonTikTok stars Noah Beck and Griffin Johnson are taking heat from critics due to their divisive comments on \u201ccancel culture,\u201d as told during an episode of Johnson\u2019s \u201cSway Way\u201d podcast. [jwplayer ZXB9LNVP] Also known as \u201ccall-out culture,\u201d the term \u201ccancel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}