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Cancel Clankers is a grassroots brand pushing back on the proliferation of humanoid robots. We publish a weekly Dispatch, organize a public Roster, run a paid Cell membership, and ship merch. Below: the boilerplate, the quotable lines, the brand assets, and a working email.

Stacked editions of The Dispatch — the Cancel Clankers weekly newspaper

At a glance.

Founded
2026 · United States
What we are
A grassroots brand resisting human replacement by humanoid robots.
Mediums
Web · Newsletter (The Dispatch) · X · Instagram · Shop (Phase 02)
Authorship
Collective. Bylines are "Cancel Clankers" or "The Resistance."

Boilerplate.

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Short — 50 words

Cancel Clankers is a grassroots brand pushing back on the proliferation of humanoid robots. Through a weekly newsletter, a public Roster, and a paid membership tier, the brand organizes humans against the trajectory of human replacement. The position is anti-replacement, not anti-AI.

Long — 110 words

Cancel Clankers is a grassroots brand and media project founded in 2026 to resist the proliferation of humanoid robots and the displacement of humans by them. The brand publishes The Dispatch, a weekly newsletter, and organizes a public Roster of humans who refuse to quietly accept replacement as inevitable. A paid Cell membership funds the work. Cancel Clankers takes an anti-replacement, not anti-AI, position — the line we draw is humans being pushed out of their own future, not the existence of AI as a tool. Visual register: punk Americana, propaganda poster, woodcut and scratchboard.

Quotable.

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  • "We are not obsolete. We are not optional."
  • "They call it progress. They mean profit."
  • "The line we draw is replacement — not intelligence."
  • "AI is a tool. We use it. We will not be governed by it."
  • "We are flesh and breath and grit, and we built this whole damn world."
  • "A clanker won't bury its mother, won't bleed for anything it loves."
  • "Stay Human."

Brand kit.

Marks and assets. Right-click, save as. Use them as shown — don't recolor, don't add gradients, don't smush them into a circle.

  1. The X-mark — Cancel Clankers primary symbol
    X-mark PNG · 1024px · Ink on transparent
  2. The Cancel Clankers wordmark
    Wordmark PNG · Anton condensed · Ink on transparent
  3. The Cancel Clankers round stamp
    Round stamp PNG · Spilled Red · circular
  4. The Vigilant Eagle — Cancel Clankers flagship deep symbol
    Vigilant Eagle PNG · Tattoo flash · Stay Human banner

Color palette: Spilled Red #7A1818 · Bone #EFE6CE · Ink #0E0C0A · Iron #B14C20 · Smoke #5A554C

Get in touch.

Press inquiries, podcast invites, fact-checks, and quotable lines you didn't see above — email the address below. We reply personally. Aim for 48 hours, fast turnarounds available for daily-news deadlines.

For Roster, Cell, or shop questions, use cancelclankers@cancelclankers.com.