cancel culture

If you’ve been on Twitter at least a few times over the past five to six years, you have probably seen # (insert celebrity name here) IsOverParty trending at some point. Currently being spearheaded by Gen Z on social media platforms, cancel culture has become a way to punish celebrities and influencers after they’ve done something offensive. Instead of people rightfully being held accountable for their actions, cancel culture attempts to exile them from the communities that made them famous, without the opportunity to apologize and learn from their mistakes. But Is cancel culture constructive? And can we actually cancel another person?