BLM

The black lives matter movement is a worldwide human rights movement that campaigns towards violence and systemic racism towards the black community. BLM commonly holds protests speak out towards police brutality and police killings of black people, and broader troubles such as racial profiling, and racial inequality in the United States crook justice system.  

Many young people protest and stand up for the black community regardless of skin color, race, and background. 

I've never seen this much unity for as long as I've lived. But I've also not seen so much division amongst people.

This seems to be a very black and white situation, you either with or against them. 

For example,, there has been a division on whether we should help with the movement in the Latino community.

Many Latinos are claiming that the black community has done nothing to help them with their pressing issues. And questioning why they have to help them if they haven't helped the Latino community.  

Which I don't think is a determining factor for why we shouldn't help. But that's just my opinion.

As well as many young Latinos are pointing out that the news directed towards Spanish speakers fuels the narrative that black people are reckless. And how Latinos have to educate parents and family about this issue and helping them realized that they should get their information only from one source. 

Which is valid.

Also, the division amongst people saying black lives matter vs. all lives matter.

I understand why saying all lives matter is not okay and how that just degrades the whole purpose of all black lives matter. 

Although this isn't cancel culture, I feel that it has to do with what's happening in some way. People were fed up with the way the system is and not only decided to cancel it but try to change it. Which is more than what cancel culture does for our community.

Although many don't agree with the movement, I feel it is necessary to make change. Because nothing changes if nothing changes.

Can cancel culture be justified

One thing I saw that rubbed me the wrong way, was this woman on the internet that adopted a child and returned him.

Myra Stauffer, an influencer by the name, has made videos in the past talking about wanting to adopt a child with special needs, and recently was able to complete the adoption.

After receiving the child, she decided that the child was too much for her to handle, and she returned him.

The internet came for her after hearing this and for obvious reasons.

And because of this she and her husband were canceled by the internet, which I agree with. The reason being is that they were able to see their error of there ways. Yes, this was probably not the way to go about it, but they needed to see how messed up this was.

A child is not an item; they are a human being that feels and is aware of what is going on.
I can't entirely agree with what they did and hope they understand that this is not okay.

An apology video does not make up for a child being abandoned because it is too much.

Watch somebody burn and crumble

About six months ago, Trisha Paytas and Jessie Smiles made videos addressing their issues with Gabbie Hanna.

Trisha revealed that Gabbie had told Trisha's boyfriend at the time (Jason)  that Trisha had an STD. The STD was something brought up to Gabbie by a friend, and instead of confirming the information first, she told Jason that Trisha should get tested. Trisha felt she needed to make this video because she didn't think it was right for Gabbie to talk about her without knowing the facts.

More people brought up issues they had with Gabbie, mainly that she betrayed her friend, Jessie Smiles, by supporting her rapist.

Jessie decided to expose Gabbie's behavior in a youtube video after she found out Gabbie was DMing a fan private messages from Jessie.

Gabbie did not respond to Jessi's video but messaged another fan about the drama.
Alx James also spoke up about Gabbie, making multiple videos talking about his truth and stating that both Jessi and Gabbie don't have anything to support their side of the story, but he did.
What he did mention is that Gabbie had pulled a horrible prank on him, which I don't know how that correlates with the rape allegation, but okay.

Jessi's friend Jen also claims that Gabbie told Jessi that it was hard being Jessi's friend because of the Curtis situation, making it difficult to network with certain people.

Jessi uploaded a new video after being gone from youtube for four months, answering questions about where she's been, what is happening in her life, and about Gabbie. Jessi mentioned that Gabbie had not reached out to apologize, but Jessi never thought Gabbie would, also stating that she does not wish to speak about the situation anymore.

Gabbie decided to address all the allegations made against her.

People found it weird that she decided to address the situation now as she then proceeded to releases a new song. Gabbie said that the only reason she chose to talk about it now was that she was on Jessi's thumbnail. Which didn't sit well with Gabbie as she thought it was for clout.

After receiving a lot of backlash, Gabbie uploaded another video discussing the effects that cancel culture has had on her.

Her video ' Watch somebody burn and crumble' shows her having a conversation about the hardships of being in the public eye. She starts to sing about how she feels when people tell that her emotions are not valid.

She talks about how she is perceived, how hard it is to change a narrative about her when it's already set in stone. The video shows how distraught she is and how cancel culture takes its toll on her mental health.

"No matter what I say or do, it's like you're the victim, you're the martyr, you're trying to pretend you're somebody, you're ignoring it... no matter what I do, what action I take its just your a bad person; you're manipulative. You literally want me to disappear, and so do i."

Just seeing how much this hurts her, makes me wonder why cancel culture still exists. It's visible how much cancel culture affects people, yet its still a thing. How are we able to value someone's worth by whether we agree with them or not.

If we were also in the public eye, will we finally understand its toxicity? Do we need to experience it to get rid of it eventually, what will it take to stop cancel culture.

How bad is cancel culture

Colleen Ballinger, a family vlogger, is recently under fire because of some severe allegations her underage fan-made.

Adam Mcintyre has been a fan of Colleen since he was 13 and recently opened up about their relationship behind the scene for the last four years.

He uses to run a fan page and quickly became more than just her fan. In his video, he talked about how she came to him when she was having problems with her now ex-husband when Adam was only 13. She also went as far as sending minor lingerie as a joke.

Adam would give Colleen content ideas for tweets and things with the promise of becoming a social media intern. She would 'preapprove' the ideas before posting, and whenever she would get backlash, she would guilt-trip him into taking the blame. She would even gosht Adam, which made him feel as it was his fault for the backlash. Since the video was posted, people just concluded that Colleen is at fault. Colleen hasn't spoken on the situation and seems to be unbothered by the circumstances, so we don't know both sides.

I find this conversation very urgent since it involves a minor, but not many people seem to be talking about it since it isn't canceled culture worthy.

Adam would give him content Colleen would let him run her account and would guilty trip Adam when Colleen would get backlash for it even though she would have to approve of all ideas before posting.

I don't see why she'd leave a minor in charge of her social media. Minors cant be held accountable for something of this magnitude. Guess it took her getting canceled to realized how wring this is.

The year that gummy viatimins broke the internet

For this blog to make sense, we need to go back to Coachella 2019, when one of the biggest scandals between two of the biggest beauty influencer happened between Tati Westbrook and James Charles.
James and Tati became close after Tati took James under her wing. She helped him with his brand as well as advice on how to become successful on youtube, helping him grow on the platform. Tati even flew in James to attend her wedding when he didn't have enough money to go. They both supported each other through every launch and collaboration.
A few years later, James attended Coachella, a music festival that many influencers attend. When James went, he bought VIP passes. Not realizing it was easy for a lot of people to get, which James didn't know until he was there.
He had asked one of his friends Nikita how she got a backstage pass, which is a more exclusive pass. She told him that a sponsor had given it to her and that she would talk to her connections to get him one.
Informing him that all he had to do to get the pass was post a video of him promoting Sugar Bear hair, and he would get backstage passes. But as soon as James posted the video, Tati posted a video in response to what James posted—expressing how hurt she felt by him as Tati also sells gummy vitamins by her own brand Halo Beauty.
After he posted the video promoting her biggest competitors, she proceeded to post a 40-minute video exposing him and portraying him as a predator. He was accused of going after straight men and trying to use his 'influence' to manipulate them.
Many people came forth telling their side of their story and how they too, were forced to have sexual relationships with James.
After news broke out, James started to lose followers, friends, and sponsors. Jeffree Star was one of the many people that accused him of being a predator, even going as far as calling him a danger to society. He played a significant roll on how people viewed him.
Jeffree stood by everything that Tati had accused James of and fueled the flame of this narrative.
During this time, all you would see was hate comments, death threats, and verbal attacks against anyone who was still associated with him.
He took a two-month hiatus off of all social media platforms because of the backlash. After his break, he expressed how much the hate got to him.
He was then interviewed to discuss the effects that social media had on him. James expressed how much social media has taken a toll on him and his mental health. After this incident, James gained a bad reputation, being recognized as a predator.
And because of how believable this was, straight men would purposely make James think that they were interested in him only to 'expose' him for clout.
James never stopped not receiving hate.
It wasn't until recently that more things were brought into the spotlight, revealing that James wasn't as guilty as people made him out to be.
Jeffree Star was a guest on a podcast; they talked about the incident that took place almost a year ago. It was revealed during the podcast that Jeffree and Tati were no longer friends and that there was no hate between the two.
After this was brought up Jeffree, proceeded to switch his story, now blaming Tati, making her responsible for James's downfall.
Which many people didn't agree with, as he was also the one that accused James of being a predator.
Both Tati and Jeffree played a part in James's downfall. And because of how quick cancel culture works, it was easy for people to hate regardless if there was evidence or not. I even believed this narrative because the majority of people accused James. But all this can be explained because we experience something in psychology known as Groupthink.
This is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people; it is the desire for conformity in the group resulting in an irrational decision-making outcome. It relates to this because people would rather stay quiet than to be associated with the minority opinion. Everyone else is scared of speaking up because the majority will attack anyone who disagrees with their perspective.
This happened to people who protected James during the scandal; they also got dragged into it, making it personal rather than what it actually was about.
I can't help but think that all of this could've been avoided if Tati would've just talked to James about how she felt. Yes, she told him he needed help, but i think like exposing him like this wasn't how she should've gone about it. The only reason why this came to light is that James' friend couldn't support someone how promoted their competition. And even if James being canceled was a bad thing at least, now he knows who his real friends are and who was just there because it benefited them.
It sucks that he had to be canceled for him to realize this. 

Cancel Culture is losing its meaning

Youtube has recently given James Charles an original youtube show that supposes to help small influencers grow.

The show started with six contestants, eliminating one artist each episode. Each episode was supposed to test the makeup artist artistry.

Every episode has a compact challenge, which is a mini-challenge before the elimination round, it is supposed to help the player who won the challenge have an advantage for the next round.
In the most recent episode, James made the contestants film themselves making an apology video with fake scenarios where they are under fire for a made-up sandal.

When the video was posted, people didn't respond to it well as it was supposed to teach contestants how to fake an apology video.  

James responded to the backlash by saying that a lot of the scandal he's gotten into have been situations blown out of portion. Which I understand, but the challenge degrades the whole purpose of an apology video.

Canceling him for making this challenge also degrades the value of cancel culture.

The thing about Cancel Culture

What I've noticed about cancel culture is that when you get canceled, it's easy for people to hate you. It's similar to when you dislike someone, and anything they say or do irritates you.

I say this because anytime I do one of these media diaries, I've noticed a large number of people spreading hate to James Charles. Which was the first person I wrote about, for the effects of cancel culture in today's society.

And it's not like he's being canceled time and time again but rather because he was canceled once anything he does is offensive.

Recently there was a trend going around where people took their mugshot photos. These photos were not actual mugshots, but people were taking pictures of themselves, adding makeup to look beat up.

I saw this trend going around everyone, and anyone was doing it, and James decided to follow the trend, but things didn't go too well for him. Because as soon as he joined, people found the pictures offensive, and he started receiving tons of hate.

But the thing is that he didn't create this trend; he just decided to participate in an activity that everyone was doing. But why is James the one who takes the hit for this?

Yes, I get its offensive to victims of domestic violence, but it's not like domestic violence victims didn't exist before James pictures. I don't how there wasn't any backlash for all the other people who also participated. And I'm not saying that people should go after every single person who joined in on the trend. But how is it right to go after someone because they did one thing that you didn't see right.

And I'm not saying all of this because I'm a James Charles fan, but I do not hate everything he does because of the Gage situation. We need to remember that James is just as much of a human as any of us.

His life is now in the spotlight from the moment he became an influencer; everything about him is going to be public. That sucks having everything out in the open regardless if you want it there or not.