Getting cancelled on social media, as examined through the lens of Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung:

All over America, there are people who wake up, every day, to find themselves transformed into giant bugs – in the view of others, if not themselves. The psychological journey here is a lot like that of someone who has been cancelled innocently. Who, suddenly, is being treated as a monstrous vermin by everybody else in society, and is just trying to go about their lives on the inside.

— Walter Kirn, on America This Week, episode 47