What is cancel culture? Cancel culture is the process of boycotting or withdrawing the support of a particular group or person due to actions sought out to be wrong by society. I believe cancel culture should be “canceled” because it doesn’t allow people especially celebrities to make mistakes. Whenever a celebrity does something that is deemed to be wrong by society’s standards they are “canceled” and not given another chance. This process is similar to blackballing in Hollywood where celebrities are cast away due to the bad reputation they have in society. Instead, we should call out these people when they do something wrong and help them write their wrongs, so they can grow as a person. 

One person that has wrongfully gotten canceled was comedian Kevin Hart, who was set to be the host of the 2019 Oscars, but unfortunately, his past came back to haunt him. I’m not condoning what he did at all as it was in poor taste, but the reason he was canceled was because of the homophobic jokes pop up from around 10 years ago that was extremely demeaning towards the LGBT+ community. The stuff tweeted was not at all ok to say, but it happened in an era where dark humor and homophobic jokes were much less problematic than it is now. If he were to get canceled for this, it should have happened long before the Oscars, but internet trolls went back into his old tweets and ruined his chance at hosting, as the Oscars would not let him host the awards that year due to this issue. I believe that Hart has changed his comedy and himself from when that was tweeted and he had already issued apologies about it in the past, but this didn’t stop the internet from launching a crusade against him as he got hate tweets and other celebrities condemning his acts.

Though cancel culture can be put in a negative light, it has also helped us get the truth about celebs behind the cameras. There have been a number of A list stars that have rightfully gotten canceled such as Ellen DeGeneres, who earlier this year got called out by crew members of here show for creating a hostile and toxic work environment. If this had taken place not even 20 years ago this might have been swept under the rug and with how long Ellen has been on the air, it was for a very long time. Yes, cancel culture does create a toxic environment online but sometimes it’s very much justified. 

Cancel culture is not going anywhere anytime soon, but I do think that it has gone too far. Especially with fake news making the rounds every day of this cursed election year we have had plenty of celebrities being scrutinized by the public over every sentence they say, and some are justified, but moist is unwarranted toxic behavior that is exhibited on the internet. One question I would like to pass off to you is, Do you think the cancel culture is effective, or do most people stop caring after a couple of weeks?