Cancel Culture

Have you ever heard of online shaming? Today I’m going to inform you about cancel culture and online shaming.

Online shaming is when a group of people or somebody brings up something the person said, either now or in the past and if they don’t like it, they stop giving their support to whoever the person is that they are shaming either online or the real world. Cancel culture is aimed at celebrities in hope to ruin their lives. People try to get others to hate the person, and if they’re successful, the person could lose their jobs or not get the number of roles they’d usually be getting. When people use the words “cancel culture,” they use it negatively. People shouldn’t be trying to cancel each other. It’s stuff in the past that most people try to bring up to ruin the person’s reputation and get them shamed online.

An example of a celebrity who got canceled is Dee Nguyen. She made offensive comments about the Black Lives Matter movement and was very soon fired from MTV’s show called The Challenge, as said in Cancelled. You might not know who she is, but the list of celebrities being canceled is growing. Some other celebrities that got canceled are Abby Lee Miller, Hartley Sawyer, Ellen DeGeneres, Demi Lovato, J.K Rowling, Doja Cat, Jimmy Fallon, Shane Dawson, and Lea Michele. All those celebrities were canceled for either something they said or something that happened in the past. People need to let things go, especially if it happened in the past, and even now, some things just shouldn’t be said out loud. 

So many celebrities have had their lives ruined for something they said or did, either now or in the past, but because they have been cancelled or have been threatened to get canceled,  some of them have changed for the better. People who try to cancel somebody are just childish. If they were mature adults, they would realize that everybody makes mistakes, some worse than others, but at the end of the day, we’re all humans, and God made us as equals, so we shouldn’t be acting like this to each other. It’s the same with the racism we’re seeing today, everybody should be treated as equals,  but some people just love seeing people fail, and love to hurt people both mentally and physically. Cancel culture needs to stop. All it’s doing is messing with people’s lives and their jobs/dreams and making them lose their supporters. You wouldn’t want people to do that to you, would you?

Cancel culture is a joke. Yes, people don’t always say something you want to hear, but that doesn’t give you the right to ruin their lives. Nobody wants to be canceled or online shamed. I would never wish that on anybody. As a society, we need to forget things in people’s past and start focusing on the future of the United States. There are bigger things to worry about in the world, and cancel culture should not be one of them.