Cancel Genghis Khan

About

Cancel Genghis Khan was a viral campaign on Twitter calling for the cancelation of the 13th Century Emperor of the Mongol Empire Ghenghis Khan in August 2020. The hashtag #genghiskahnisoverparty trended on Twitter after one Twitter user posted a lengthy thread on why Ghenghis Khan was a horrible person. Shortly after, many Twitter users began to parody a 21st Century cancelation of the leader in various tweets.

Origin

On August 12th, 2020, Twitter user @priya_27_ posted an 18 tweet thread which has been preserved on threadreaderapp.^[1] The thread began by saying, "THREAD: Genghis Khan did to central Asia what islamic invaders did to India, maybe worse. He single handedly killed 11% of world population at the time. Yet some want to glorify him as a hero conquerer. That's your personal choice but objectively, Genghis Khan was a barbarian." The tweet garnered over 5,000 likes that day.

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On August 14th, 2020, Twitter user @GiantSonInExile^[2] reposted the since-deleted tweet by @priya_27_ and said, "Genghis Khan died almost 800 years ago. I think maybe cancelling him isn't a huge priority right now" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 3,000 likes in three days. That same day, Twitter user @bombsfall^[3] commented on the thread by tweeting, "saw a thread cancelling genghis khan in 2020 and now i'm imagining khan stans who are like whoa ok it's been tough day for all of us, if genghis still means a lot to you that's VALID but we have to call out pillaging within the fandom and that means holding our heroes to account" and continued by saying, "wow i see some of you are still following genghis khan on here" (shown below, right).

On August 15th, Twitter user @dnbtt^[4] mocked the hashtag by tweeting, "genghis khan dropping an apology video on youtube in 2 days" (shown below, left). The post received over 15,900 likes and 2,000 retweets in two days. That same day, @redford^[5] posted a photo of Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell with an image of Ghengis Khan place over Epstein's face saying, "Oh no, this is NOT GOOD for Genghis Khan" (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 4,800 likes in two days. Meaww^[6] and The Daily Dot^[7] published articles on the trending hashtag.

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