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From Modern Plights

Cancel Culture

Guilty by trending topic.

Here we go again Can't say shit anymore without a trial online Type one joke wrong and they’re drawing chalk lines Internet detectives with a keyboard badge Same couch-potato judge with a moral stance Every tweet a court case, every meme’s a crime Cancel culture circling like a pack of wolves in line Say one thing sideways, suddenly I'm the villain Half these people outraged don't even know what they're feeling Scrolling through rage like it’s digital crack Same fake revolution from a bedroom Slack Thirty thousand activists with a ring light glow Selling righteous anger like a goddamn show Everybody preaching like they’re born to decide What you’re allowed to think, what you’re allowed to write But the loudest saint in the purity parade Got skeletons dancing in a closet they made Fuck your rulebook, fuck your moral checklist I’m not rewriting every thought to make the mob less pissed So sick of the noise All the outrage, all the fake-ass poise Everybody screaming just to hear their name Everything’s a scandal, everything’s a flame So sick of the noise Every post another war deployed If thinking for yourself is now a crime Then lock me the fuck up, I’ll do the time Corporate virtue like a costume parade Rainbow logo while the workers underpaid Boardroom clap when the PR drops clean Meanwhile rent still eating the scene Every brand suddenly cares this week Till the fiscal quarter dips and the headlines leak They’ll sell you rebellion in a polished ad Then tax-deduct the activism they never had Thirty seconds clipped and your career’s in a grave Welcome to the algo court where the loudest behave Facts don’t matter when the pitchforks trend Truth gets strangled by the outrage blend Half these critics got a halo on loan Throwing stones from a Wi-Fi throne Don’t need permission from a mob online Don’t need approval from a comment line So sick of the noise All the outrage, all the fake-ass poise Everybody screaming just to hear their name Everything’s a scandal, everything’s a flame So sick of the noise Every post another war deployed If thinking for yourself is now a crime Then lock me the fuck up, I’ll do the time Everybody righteous till the cameras off Everybody perfect till the screenshots drop Whole damn world playing judge and king While the real problems rot underneath everything Call me toxic, call me whatever’s trending today The mob needs a villain just to keep the rage paid By tomorrow they’ll forget what the hell they were mad at New target lined up in the digital habitat I’m not your puppet for a viral parade Not your guilt-soaked mascot for the rules you made Keep your hashtags, keep your scripted remorse I’ll be over here living without the algorithm’s force So sick of the noise All the outrage, all the fake-ass poise Everybody screaming just to hear their name Everything’s a scandal, everything’s a flame So sick of the noise Every post another war deployed If thinking for yourself is now a crime Then lock me the fuck up, I’ll do the time Yeah Turn the fucking noise off