Cancel culture is a key term on the rise over the last five years in America. Social media has amplified the voices of the masses to confront celebrities, brands, and anyone else for any grievance past or present and attempt to cancel them, a form of societal boycott and reprimand. "Cancelling" was coined when Hollywood stars like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey faced massive sexual assault accusations, and since then has been used on what seems like every major cultural figure pre or current to the internet age. Recent cancellations have come for brands like Ben and Jerries for them deciding to stop selling their products in Palestine which inspired this post to Hilaria Baldwin for faking her Spanish heritage, with many more taking place every week beginning on platforms like Twitter and YouTube. In America, generally people believe cancelling is a left leaning practice, and some say it is being used as a method to suppress differing opinions, when really it is a tactic being used by all sides of the political and social divide. Though the words cancel culture have a very controversial and abrasive effect, the act of boycotting and reprimanding has been ingrained in democratic societies since the Romans. But the internet has made it so much easier to find and group claims and sometimes gives benefits to accusers that now boycotts are happening much more often and quicker, and responses come out just hours after accusations, with millions of people weighing in meanwhile. Since it began in America and a lot of us are only exposed to the American internet and media, there is a question to be raised: has cancel culture acclimated into the rest of the world, specifically beyond western countries?
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