Jenna Marbles and the Dark Side of Cancel Culture

What happens when good intentions result in catastrophic outcomes.

Jenna Marbles speaking at VidCon 2012 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Courtesy of Flickr by Gage Skidmore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

It isn’t unusual for YouTube’s top brass to be embroiled in some sort of controversy, as that has come to define the platform’s standing in popular culture. Between filming live suicide, convincing someone that their longtime best friend is dead, and paying people to…