Let me show you a portion of an article talking about this.
In Tucson, Arizona, Adam Smith decided to order a free cup of water himself. Smith, a successful young business executive, had recently witnessed the struggle his brother-in-law experienced coming out. He felt righteous joining in on the protest, and he decided to film the whole exchange and post it to YouTube. In the video, Smith is seen telling the drive-thru attendant, "I don't know how you live with yourself and work here. I don't understand it. This is a horrible corporation with horrible values."
"It was my first protest. I thought it was benign. I thought it was really safe to put it on video as opposed to going out into protesting and getting into big crowds," Smith told CBSN Originals. "Certainly, I didn't think about any consequences that it might have."
After uploading the video to YouTube, it went viral overnight. His employer received bomb and death threats and fired Smith for posting it. Smith was "canceled" before that terminology existed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancel-culture-changed-lives-forever-cbsn-originals/
He didn’t think about ANY consequences? He thought it was a protest?
Dude! It’s a fricking drive-thru! That’s not the place to go and protest. It makes perfect sense why he would suffer for protesting in a drive-thru, and not only that, but putting it on YOUTUBE.
And yes, it’s bad that his employer received death threats from people. That sucks. But seriously. I almost guarantee you that his employer would have fired him anyway. If you look more into the article, it shows he got fired from a different job BECAUSE of that video. That other employer got no death threats. He wasn’t forced to fire him. He just did.
So, I know why he got fired. It’s because he did something that was blatantly stupid!