Cancel Culture

This week we talked about Cancel Culture and how it has positive and negative aspects to it. I think Cancel culture is to the greater extent pretty pointless. From what I've seen online, countless influencers are called out for their actions, in an attempt to calm their fan base down,  they come out with apology videos. But, how many of these people really mean what they say in these videos? They all have the same structure where they apologize and ask for forgiveness over and over, and eventually, everyone gets over it until the same person makes the same mistake... again. If the reason why cancel culture exists is to get people to adapt to better viewpoints, or to spread awareness for their actions, shouldn't it last more than a couple of months? How much does this endless cycle really contribute to society, if there is no real progress being made? Through this approach, the likeliness of these people changing their perspectives on things is much lower than the likeliness of them avoiding expressing their true feelings, and thoughts altogether. Often, fans cross the fine line between holding someone accountable and bullying. Ostracizing people and their viewpoints, if you ask me, is pretty dehumanizing. Pointing and laughing at someone for what they're doing wrong in your perspective won't magically make them change for the better, if anything, it could make them worse. Explaining and making them understand why what they did was wrong is a better approach. This way, it actually gives them the opportunity to do some reflection. I'd say that cancel culture does a lousy job in remaining concrete, and effective. Why? Because of Nepotism. Certain people are more prone to being canceled than others. This inconsistency of who it goes after yeilds a confusion in content creators. Which ultimately leads to the lack of expression of unpopular opinions and a lack of progress in society.