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sundin13 on 28 June 2020
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Immersiveunreality said:
sundin13 said:

To be fair, Jenna Marbles kind of cancelled herself and I think that demonstrates the opposite of what you are trying to say. She recognized the harm of her behaviors, apologized for them, and decided to take a step back from Youtube because she wasn't having fun and she didn't want to have a negative impact on people. She didn't need to do it, and there wasn't an angry mob demanding she do it. If you check her social blade account, you'll see that she lost no subscribers, and in fact gained 100k subscribers. She made the decision on her own. 

I think that "cancelling" someone, as a phrase, has lost almost all of its meaning. The scope of the phrase has become far too broad. It seems to have become the new bogeyman, in place of "SJW" for people to rail against the "snowflakes" while saying nothing of actual importance...

bolded :I see she is destructive for her own good self because this whole culture has made her believe she is bad or was bad and when good meaning people selfsacrifice themselves for those things and for hatefull people that will never forgive them,i just feel sad about it.

Sec bold: If you and others in here underrstand what it is then i'm happy enough with the meaning it still has,it is indeed broad and the behaviour is shared with almost all different groups of people and it is partly instinctive to humanity but it is always good to try and make others selfaware of that.

Feel free to feel sad. However, justifiable criticism should not be considered cancel culture, but somehow it is. The concept of "regret" should not be considered cancel culture, but somehow it is. Again, this is my issue with the phrase. You can't just stretch it over hundreds of unique cases and then go "Cancel Culture Bad". It is empty language at that point, because "cancel culture" is not bad. "Cancel culture" isn't really much of anything. There are aspects of internet justice which are bad, but there are also a lot of good things stuffed into that box.