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128: Cancel Culture & The Death Of Caroline Flack | True Geordie Podcast

True Geordie Podcast

True Geordie Podcast

Comedy, News, Sports

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

The death of Caroline Flack by suicide has made many people question the roles of the media and social media in today’s society. True Geordie & Laurence McKenna discuss the tragic passing of Caroline and how her career as the presenter of ITV’s Love Island shaped people’s perception of her.

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0:20.4

I don't know in the UK if I've seen a death that's caused so much debate,

0:26.3

so much hurt pain, this sparked so much debate because of the scrutiny that

0:32.3

carolina inflect was under, three suicides in a very short space of time all connected by your TV show.

0:38.4

You can't ignore that, that's gotta be explored.

0:41.1

What they do is they go we're gonna put you through something terrible but don't worry we'll deal with it later.

0:44.8

But she was the face of that, people saw those values as directly connected to that.

0:48.3

It's kind of like because you're associated with those bullshit TV shows, you're fair game.

0:52.6

It's lived by the sword in a very direct nature, a die by the sword for in these people's minds.

0:57.5

One's people that associate you with something that is like your biggest fuck up, it follows you forever.

1:03.2

Your brain can't be built for millions of people seeing your downfall.

1:07.3

Saying someone else's downfall makes some people feel better about their own shitty lives.

1:13.4

Trauling is a community now, it's becoming like a pastime for regular people.

1:17.6

Carolina inflect had presenting, you have your thing, a lot of people out there have their thing.

1:22.3

A lot of people don't, in their heads they're punching up.

1:24.4

But you only get so many punches and the problem is people don't stop with the punches.

1:28.3

So you can't keep punching up just thinking that that's okay.

1:31.2

I've seen tweets in the past week going, just come up social media, what's the problem?

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