the news media was blowing it up. no one knew what facebook was

>Example of cancel culture goes all the way back to beginning
>of social
>media, 2004 ( facebook came about), with the Janet Jackson
>nipple controversy. Janet Jackson flashed a breast during her
>superbowl dance routine. Even though the areola was covered,
>social media was outraged with her actions, and she has been
>blacklisted ever since. She was the biggest entertainer in the
>world at the time, and the queen of pop. Everything she
>accomplished and built as one of the greatest song/dance acts
>of all time was all destroyed in one night.