How many times have you gone online and seen some kind of Internet personality or celebrity get called out, or canceled for something they said or did in the past? Even if it’s something small that is being blown way out of proportion?
welcome to cancel culture. Instead of using the Internet to communicate with others, people that are part of this culture will find any small thing that they can use to call out any kind of personality or celebrity to try to get them cancelled, or for them to leave the Internet. It’s almost as if the Internet has turned from a community to a digital courtroom in the span of mere seconds.
Some of the things that I have seen people get cancelled for are inappropriate comments or tweets about other people or races, cheating on partners, being abusive, or a whole host of other accusations.
I do want to clarify though, just in case the messaging is not clear, that I am in no way defending the people that are being canceled for good reason. I don’t believe that those people who use their platform to spread hate or pain to others should have a platform to begin with.
I feel if anything, what's happening in the TADC fandom is an ACTUAL case of Cancel Culture that isn't just a regular callout
– digging up stuff that's either jokes/already talked about
– framing almost anything they do/did as bad
– finding ANY excuse to be right/act superior— JamestheJerk 🍉 (@JamestheJerkk) April 24, 2026
Sometimes though, cancel culture can go too far. Attacking people for small infractions or a small slight does not feel fair to them. It can ruin lives or livelihoods, for something that they potentially didn’t even do. The most common defense that people will use is that they were young or dumb, or they didn’t know what they were doing was wrong.
But in the eyes of public opinion, once they’ve been cancelled, they’re done. It’ll be hard if not impossible for those personalities to reclaim their previous standing or community that they had built because of the effectiveness of cancel culture.
The most interesting thought is to see how it will affect future generations. Will cancel culture still be the same? How much media training will we see future personalities have to prevent these kinds of cancel culture mobs go after them and take everything from them.
Is it effective? Yes, yes it is. Is it always justified? That’s a different question. Sometimes it can be for very serious offenses, but for something small it is hard to justify. As long as you’re a good person, and treat everyone the same, and don’t do anything stupid, I don’t see why anyone should be afraid of cancel culture in the slightest.