Cancelling Plans Is OK
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Cancelling Plans Is OK refers to a Twitter snowclone parodying self-care rhetoric. A person will begin a tweet by saying "It's ok to cancel plans" and then escalating with various illegal or otherwise negative activities before writing, "It's called self care" or "Do what you need to do to cope."
Origin
On September 3rd, 2017, a Chance the Rapper fan account, ChanceFrom79th,[2] tweeted, "canceling plans to read is ok. skipping a party for the gym is ok. staying home to cook is ok. lets encourage it & respect self improvement," gaining over 246,000 retweets and 686,000 likes (shown below).
Spread
Parodies began to spread after the tweet went viral. On September 10th, 2017, Twitter user @KevinFarzad[1] tweeted, "Canceling plans is ok. Running your friends over with a car is ok. Poisoning the town's water supply is ok. It's called self-care," gaining over 7,400 retweets and 28,000 likes (shown below, left). The format began spreading in popularity in mid-2019. On August 22nd, 2019, Twitter user @JonahGreen[3] posted, "Canceling plans is ok. Staying home to cook is ok. Getting your life together is ok. Commiting a blood sacrifice to pledge your eternal loyalty to His Holy Darkness Satan is ok," gaining over 260 retweets and 1,000 likes (shown below, right).
The meme reached the height of its popularity in early 2020. On January 3rd, user @venusianmercury[4] posted a reference to the film Hereditary, writing, "cancelling plans is ok. getting high and driving ur 13 year old sister to the hospital while she is in anaphylactic shock is ok. swerving and chopping off her head is ok. leaving her headless body in the car is ok. becoming a vessel for Paimon is ok. do what u need to do to cope," gaining over 44,000 retweets and 228,000 likes (shown below, left). This set off a trend of people describing horror films with the template. User @onlineryn[5] posted the template referencing the film Sleepaway Camp, gaining over 1,800 retweets and 16,000 likes (shown below, right). The meme was covered at this point by Mashable.[6]
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External References
[1] Twitter – @KevinFarzad
[2] Twitter – @ChanceFrom79th
[3] Twitter – @JonahGreen
[4] Twitter – @venusianmercury
[5] Twitter – @onlineryn
[6] Mashable – Canceling plans is OK. This new meme says so.
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