Online Onslaught…

Cancel culture has become an entity unto itself.

Used and abused in accordance with the agendas it befits.

The internet allows for instant cancellation of, well anything really. and the scariest part is, no real evidence is necessary.

I can only imagine, being Megan Markle, Prince Harry, Julian Assange, Charlie Teo, Kanye, Elon, Britney, Will Smith, Amber Heard, Pete Evans, Rachel Leviss, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Russel Brand, to name a few.

Regardless of which side of a fence you may have sat on, you'd have to agree that the level of public bullying directed towards these targets is horrifying. Some see cancel culture as a form of justice, but is it, or is it mass bullying.

Imagine being on the receiving end of this type of bitter ideology, a smear campaign designed to shame and destroy, it's targets. I'm not sure I'd survive it.

Recently, I watched a few small facebook pages go after the author of another page. Many commentors saying 'what did she do', you could almost feel the eagerness to join the crusade, to have a seat at the table.

After being given a short vague reply, with no real context or condeming evidence, the consensus was she should be cancelled. Right there and then, they jumped on the bandwagon, no debate, no yeah buts.

Mind you, had they have dared to question the narrative, they too would have become the fodder, the hunted.

Next it's on to phase two, the cancellation of anyone affiliated, pages that have interacted with said villain, regardless of the good that they may be doing, become part of the boycott mentality.

And there you have it a merry little posse of like minded followers united in mutal outrage, just like that, the cause gains momentum.

These are the same people whom you might see later in the day jumping up and down about bullying - the irony.

The positive thing to come from cancel culture, or more aptly consequence culture, might be that a public figures, who tend to have large followings, might give more consideration to what they share. How they influence.

But what kind of future do we have, if a single sentence, a word even, has the power to extensively end you.

Does this not encourage a false narrative, a persona, one that might have dysfunction skulking behind closed doors.

You can only hope that cancel culture will eventually cancel itself. Because as it stands, it would seem the majority are starting to question the agenda with which it is being used. People are starting to question the accuracy, the credibility and the fairness posited towards those that the are being exploited. And that's not to say that all parties are innocent, but surely there are better ways of assigning culpability.

I mean innocent until proven guilty, is still a thing, right?