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French adjective that, besides « cancelled » (an event, a decision), is used online for a public figure who is shunned or boycotted by their public after a controversy, the French rendering of English « cancelled ». The related noun is « annulation » (cancel culture). The sense is contested and often critical in tone.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Après la polémique, certains disent qu'il s'est fait annuler."

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionnaire lists « annulé » as an adjective meaning that something has become void or no longer has effect. The social-media sense follows « cancel culture », which Wiktionnaire defines as the ostracism of a public figure who fails a group's norms, calls a 21st-century borrowing from English, and documents with Le Monde (29 November 2019) and France Culture (2020), the latter suggesting « annulation » as a translation. A 2023 20 minutes sentence shows the idea in use. The adjective « annulé » itself in this sense is a recent term; no dated source found yet.

FIRST SEEN
Cancel culture borrowing documented in 2019; the adjective in this sense has no dated source found yet
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2020s, French social media and press
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang

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Cancel culture borrowing documented in 2019; the adjective in this sense has no dated source found yet
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