Cancel Culture
Cancel culture is an act of shaming a person online in the event that a person makes a mistake or otherwise the person goes against the societal norms. In as much as it is a form of criticizing a person for a wrongful act, sometimes it crosses the boundary and in turn becomes cyber bullying. Depending on the reason for the shaming, the results may either be positive or negative. A number of celebrities have fallen victims of cancel culture, because of posting obscene information, or making racial remarks which is targeted towards a specific race. For that reason, it is necessary to delve deeper into online shaming, in a bid to understand whether its significance, this paper will focus on providing reasons backed up by evidence concerning the cancel culture.
- Cancel is relevant in the sense that it helps keep celebrities as well as popular persons in check, thus making them to think twice before making awful remarks.
For instance, if a celebrity let’s say a comedian cracks a joke in which he directly discriminates an African American, it becomes clear the comedian is racist.
Nonetheless, through cancel culture, the comedian becomes responsible for his actions thus preventing the spread of racism through comedy.
Secondly, through cancel culture, the a lot of information concerning the perpetrator will exposed to the general public through the social media, hence unmasking the person.
In addition, losing fans and is one of the worst nightmares owing to the fact that their content becomes less reliable.
They in turn end up losing endorsement deals as well as tours and performance which are the main source of their income.
Henceforth, cancel culture only streamlines the morals of celebrities’ thus encouraging togetherness and discipline when it comes to matters entertainment.
- 2. Cancel culture is responsible for creating and also strengthening social connections.
Cancel culture is not a private activity as it involves multiple people. People derive gratification from coming together against a committer.
Moreover, they tend to enjoy the sense of commonality it provides. In so doing, it strengthens social connections for members within a similar group.
For example, a WhatsApp group may be formed by students in order to shame a perpetrator. Through the group, students from different faculties will get to know each other, share ideas, and in the end expand their knowledge concerning different issues.
Similarly, more people are likely to join in the discussion as a means of being part of the unity and also in order to be able to show solidarity to the affected.
- Cancel culture encourages peaceful coexistence between all people regardless of their rank or position.
Everyone must be held accountable for their actions, thus it is necessary for cancel culture to come in as a means of ensuring sanity within the society.
In the event that a person humiliates or discriminates a mentally handicap person over the social media, it is necessary for action to be taken against the person.
The mentally ill person may not be able to defend himself or herself due to mental issues. However, this act can be stopped through the cancel culture, whereby the perpetrator will be criticized.
Through criticizing the perpetrator, those who are likely to do the same will be coerced not to do such a thing due to the fear of being shamed on the social media.
Furthermore, through the social media, a person of a higher rank can also be shamed without the fear of being arrested.
In so doing, people from a high level in life may not take advantage of those who are challenged, hereafter encouraging togetherness and respect for others.
- Cancel culture reveals the true friends and enemies.
When being attacked on the social media, nearly everyone is always against you, but those who stand by you in such situations are your true friends.
In this situations, enemies are forced to reveal themselves, and in most cases they tend to come up with additional information concerning the perpetrator.
When politicians become victims of cancel culture, it becomes easy for them to understand who truly stands with them, and those who are only there for them in times of happiness and not in times of need.
Similarly there seems to be no mechanism to deal with those who make awful remarks on the social media.
The idea of pulling down a social media account alone is not enough, as the perpetrator may open a different social media account and post the same message in a different way.
It is therefore necessary for everyone using the social media to have limits of what they are posting, in order to avoid evil utterances.
Finally, companies and brands may use this as a platform of understanding who their competitors are and who their customers are.
For instance, if a company posts information which provokes the general public, most people would definitely criticize the act and boycott its products.
However, there are those customers who will support the company, and in that process the company will understand whatever it has to do in order to remain relevant.
