Being bored, I just fact-checked this dumb tweet, and, unsurprisingly, it's completely wrong.

1. The run of Dilbert coincided with UPN CANCELING shows starring Black talent and consigning the remaining handful to Mondays.

2. Most of those shows had many white writers. At least one had a white showrunner.

3. The real culprit is WWF Smackdown, which took up an entire night of UPN programming. (It, like Dilbert, debuted in 1999.)

4. UPN also went all in on sci-fi stuff nobody remembers at this time, a prelude to when they would nab Buffy in fall 2001.

5. Despite a big debut, Dilbert's ratings slumped quickly. (It did not help that it was paired with Shasta McNasty, however.)

6. "Your show was canceled because you're white" is a thing Hollywood agents tell their clients, without grounding in anything real, all the time. (It's a bad lie that should stop.)

7. It's far more likely UPN chose a different animated project named Gary & Mike over Dilbert.

(Gary & Mike only made it a season, so UPN arguably made the wrong call.)

8. Anyway, the one new half-hour UPN aired the fall after Dilbert's cancellation was Girlfriends, which is a terrific show.

9. The Dilbert cartoon, to put it kindly, was dog shit.

These are nine reasons Scott Adams is wrong, from someone who knows what she's talking about.

Yes, the early 2000s saw UPN drastically cut the number of shows it made starring and written by Black talent. https://twitter.com/filipefurtado/status/1278477702312443909