Vent: That moment I watched a mob pile on a comedian for a 10-year-old joke

I was scrolling through Twitter last Tuesday when I saw a thread dig up a joke this mid-level comic told at a club back in 2014, and within 3 hours people were calling for him to lose his booking at a local theater in Cleveland. Did anyone actually laugh at the time, or are we just hunting for stuff to be mad about now?

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uma_johnson13d ago

Isn't it wild how fast people forget context though... I had a similar thing happen to a buddy of mine who did a bit about a local politician back in like 2012, and suddenly last year people were digging it up and calling him a sellout. The joke was literally just making fun of the guy's haircut, but by the time the mob was done with him he lost like two paying gigs and had to lay low for months. Feels like nobody even bothers to watch the actual clip anymore, they just get mad off a screenshot and a bad description.