Just realized canceling James Charles didn't actually teach anyone anything

I was scrolling through old beauty drama videos last night and it hit me. We canceled James Charles back in 2019 for the Tati thing, then uncanceled him, then canceled him again for the underage stuff. But all that back and forth did nothing. Brands still work with problematic influencers 3 months later after a "break." I don't get how we pretend a hashtag matters when nobody stops buying the products. Has anyone else noticed how canceling just turns into a cycle with no real change?

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wyatt_mitchell269d ago

Yeah I can barely keep up with who I’m supposed to hate this week so I just gave up.

torres.thea8d ago

My neighbor has this whole whiteboard in his garage where he keeps track of which companies to boycott and which politicians to be mad at. It's honestly kind of wild how fast the outrage cycle moves now. I mean one week everyone's screaming about some fast food chain and the next week nobody even remembers what happened. Feels like we're all just running on this treadmill of manufactured anger that keeps speeding up. Idk maybe it's just me but I think we'd all be better off if we just unplugged from the constant firehose of stuff to be mad about. Hard to hate anyone when you're just trying to figure out dinner.

hollyl258d ago

My friend had to make a literal spreadsheet just to track which apps she was supposed to delete on principle. She had color coded columns for "hate this week" and "forgive next month" and everything. It got so ridiculous that she accidentally boycotted her own therapist's coffee shop because she mixed up the owner with some random CEO who made bad headlines. She finally just deleted the whole spreadsheet and went back to buying whatever gas station snacks she wanted.

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