History and Culture | Age of Division

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EUROVISION:
JE N'AI QUE
MON AME

TV HIT OR MISS:
FRIENDS

SEQUEL FEVER:
STAR WARS
(ORIGINAL TRILOGY)

WILL RYAN GIGGS
AND PAUL SCHOLES
PROVE TO BE
MANCHESTER UNITED'S
GREATEST EVER PLAYERS?

"David Bowie starts the 1980s with a bang"

DOWNTON ABBEY
IN THE ERA
OF COVID

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Divisionary

Cancel Storm

Used to describe the sudden whipping up of controversy and associated demands for a person or entity to be cancelled due to offence apparently caused by said partly. Such a storm of controversy can drive a news cycle and be energised by social media platforms (particularly Twitter and Facebook). A pre-modern era example of a cancel storm was for New Coke to be abandoned in 1985 (which it was, with the previous version of Coke, brought back by the Coca-Cola Company within three months, following sustained consumer pressure for this outcome).