Cancel Culture
For this week's post, I will be talking about cancel culture and more specifically the presence of cancel culture in the influencer realm. To be canceled online is to hideaway for 6 months to a year, not long enough to lose monetization on your platforms, make a short form video or instagram story apology, take no accountablity, lose majority of your following, and come back like nothing happened. Being cancelled constitues having done something morally wrong enough for the internet to run you off every platform in hopes of silencing you. Cancel culture is not real, it is an effect of one's actions that happen to be on the forefront of their existence ie. Tyra Banks for ANTM, Miranda Sings for grooming minors and sharing pornography in group chats with minors, James Charles for repeated instances of communicating with minors, Chris Brown for his past of sexual and domestic abuse, Drake Bell for having relations with a minor, Elen Degenerous for being mean to her employees, Tristan Thompson for being a serial cheater, Rupaul Charles for being married to a man whose family fracks oil, etc. Almost every, if not every, name on here still has a successful carrer in the limelight and one that is most notable of them all is our very own president. Should be and would be demolished by cancel culture if he was still inudated by his reality star life. Most people who are "cancelled" have done legit crimes without being legally repremanded so instead the social life on the internet takes it into their own hands to ostrachize them out of society. Off the media. And into hidng. All this to be said, there is a lot of reasons to educate someone on being a better person and to show an indoubtably bad person why their actions hurt people. To be cancelled is to be prompted to learn a lesson. Reformation is possible whether that is at home or in a state prison.
I too wrote my post on something having to do with cancel culture and how ridiculous it is.
ReplyDeleteHiii, I think you make a good point that cancel culture isn’t real accountability because most influencers face temporary backlash and can come back without real consequences.
ReplyDeleteI think cancel culture has its pros and cons. I think it's very important for influencers and celebrities to be held accountable for their actions. I do however, think cancel culture can be taken too far. I feel like sometimes people reach for reasons to "cancel" somebody, just because they feel like it. Also, the effectiveness of someone being cancelled matters about the person themselves. Some people truly reflect and will change, others will recognize their mistake and apologize, but make no change. Others will simply just ignore people trying to cancel them and go about their lives.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the statement that some people "reach for reasons" to cancel an individual and that the lesson that cancel culture is supposed to cause often doesn't truly make the individual reflect or learn or hold them accountable. In some instances I do think some influencers have reflected but as the main post states, influencers receives temporary backlash with no real consequences.
DeleteI think cancel culture has some pros as it can sometimes hold people accountable but oftentimes it does more harm than good. Sometimes in an attempt to cancel someone, it doesn't always work and the person who should be held accountable for their actions does not learn anything from it. The biggest thing that comes to my mind is Logan Paul and his video from Japan in 2017. He arguably has a larger platform now than he did back then and acts like that never happened.
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job of being forth the celebrities who still have platforms and a cult following despite doing actual crimes. If there’s internet and social media, cancel culture cannot be effective because there will always be that handful of people who support or even support the actions of the individual. Additionally, people pick and choose who they want to cancel; Diddy is an actual criminal, yet people still attempted to bring Beyonce into the mix, even though she wasn’t the one that committed the crimes or went to trial, or is going to jail.
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