i’ve never made one of these threads before but i decide why not give it a try lol (:
if you’ve been on twitter (more specifically stan twitter), you’re probably familiar with cancel culture. that’s basically cancelling/boycotting a person (usually a celebrity) after they make a mistake or do something bad. for example if a celebrity uses a derogatory slur, or says something offensive, they’re cancelled, and twitter might trend #celebrityisoverparty or #celebrityiscancelledparty.
wikipedia definition
Call-out culture (also known as outrage culture ) is a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals and groups accountable by calling attention to behavior that is perceived to be problematic, usually on social media. A variant of the term, cancel culture describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion on social media is “cancelled”.[1][2]
when someone is cancelled, people will stop buying their music, stop supporting them, and call out their supporters telling them they should be supporting someone less problematic.
cancel culture is mostly known for not forgiving someone, even when they give an apology. or, years later, they can bring up something controversial they did in the past and claim they’re cancelled, and even if they’ve stopped doing it, they’re still cancelled.
i wanna know, what’s your opinion on cancel culture? is it toxic? is it good? does it help people or just cause more problems?
my opinion
in my opinion, cancel culture is incredibly toxic. you should be upset at someone and not support them if they do something bad but constantly bringing it up and not letting them grow from it is toxic. if someone grows from their mistakes and doesn’t do it again, they shouldn’t be cancelled.
this is just my opinion though and i understand if yours is different !
I feel the same way. Some people forget that those celebrities ,or anyone who you call out, are still human. They aren’t robots without feelings and a perfect system. No they are human, they make mistakes! Yes you can call them out if they do something wrong but people just take this sh*t way to far! if you really don’t like the person anymore just don’t follow them anymore! Don’t be a cyber bully and destroy their life!
I hate that people celebrate cancelling others. It makes it seem like the stans enjoy watching people fail and do bad things, which is awful. Why would you enjoy finding out that a bunch of people have used make-up with asbestos in it, for example? It’s just awful.
It kinda depends on who it is. what they did and why.
for example, a famous person getting angry at a fan who bothers them. that is not a reason to boy cott them. sometimes you just get enough of people
but a person who I followed on youtube and really liked turn out to be a person who had already been ban from youtube. which really hurt me because I really like him. and he always hearts my comments. and finding out who he really was. well I did boycott him
I think it can be good when cancelling someone who continues to do or say insensitive things with no remorse and think they can get away with it because of who they are. But a lot of the time, people like to blow things out of proportion and like to cancel those who’ve only made a minor mistake and continue to support those who have done much worse. It just makes them seem as haters to me if you get what I’m saying.
One thing I don’t like about the cancel culture is that people will make such a big scene about cancelling this person and a lot of the time, people will only be cancelling that person because that’s what everyone else is doing and then a few days later, act as if nothing happened. If you’re gonna put all that energy into announcing that someone is cancelled, then cancel them for life. Don’t uncancel them because the hype has now died down. It’s stupid.
I hate cancel culture because it doesn’t give a person room to move on from a situation that happened in the past. It’s definitely not good to call out someone; especially on social media.
To be honest, I really don’t like it when people start dragging the celeb through the mud with hateful comments and rude memes. There’s nothing wrong if you stop supporting an artist if they did something awful or say something that goes against your values, or even calling them out with tasteful comments, but flat-out mass-bullying them online is going too far.
What they did:
Harmful things like discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality etc or criminal things leading to being cancelled makes sense. In my opinion the only justification is being young but I take that really lightly too because you eventually form opinions and make desicions by yourself so your upbringing will eventually stop being an excuse.
However, honest mistakes and things that were resolved shouldn’t be used against someone. A lot of people cancel others because they never liked them in the first place and this one tweet they found can be used as a form of punishment, and they don’t actually care about what the person did they want to end their career - which is messed up! Small things shouldn’t lead to someone’s cancellation because we would all be cancelled if that was the case.
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If they’ve changed:
For me, you can’t just say sorry or say “I’ve changed” or use the classic “I was in a dark place”. There needs to be some form of growth! Influencers such as Jeffree Star or James Charles will “apologise” for past controversies then do the same thing next week and their fans will always defend them. In their case, making racially charged comments then saying “I shouldn’t have done it” isn’t apologising. It’s playing victim. There needs to be proof of the growth or the “apology” means nothing in my eyes.
Choosing not to support someone is a personal decision. I stopped watching J* and James Charles videos based on their actions but it isn’t my decision to make for other people who still support them. I’ll disagree with people supporting them but I’ll never tell them what they can and can’t do.
On the flip side, you can’t force people to support a cancelled person either. After Jeffree’s racist behaviour, it’s really up to POC to decide if he’s cancelled seeing as they were the ones directly affected. It’s quite disrespectful to tell POC to get over something that directly affects them and accept his apology that wasn’t directed to you.
Just to add to my opinion just a little bit: it is justified in lots of different ways. For one, there are so many celebrities who only seem to care about their negative actions when they get caught. They don’t truly care about the thing they did wrong – if they even understand the problem. The big issue is their reputation. Then you get apologies like this:
Afua Hirsch was right about the person being accused of racism (or other discriminatory stuff) becomes the victim. Laura said terrible stuff about POC but we we’re supposed to feel bad for her because she was “”“crying”""?
I didn’t mind it at first because some people needed to desparately be “cancelled” but now it’s gotten to a point where someone makes a mistake and people gang up on them just because.
