Is there a silver lining?

Since cancel culture has become widely popular, many people take advantage of the clout they gain and do controversial things just to get noticed—people like Trisha Paytas. This social media influencer is known for taking advantage of cancel culture only to gain clout.

There are many incidents of Trisha doing this, but one of her most recent scandals involves her self diagnosing herself to have a multipersonality disorder. She recently posted a youtube video about her claiming to have dissociative identity disorder. Throughout the video, she was explaining how she concluded that she had this disorder, which people didn't take all that well, especially people that suffer from this.

Before her video, Anthony Padilla posted a youtube video regarding this disorder. Has a series where he "spend a day" with different types of people trying to understand more about a group of people. He recently did a segment " I spent a day with multiple personalities..." learning what it means to have multiple personalities, interviewing serval people to gain perspective.

This series became a thing because Anthony himself suffers from depression and axienty,  so he decided to start this segment to educate people on specific topics. Now more than ever, people speak out about these issues, but a lot of times there are missconseptions.
Mental illness has always been a thing, but people never really addressed it in public because of the shame that came with it.

So when Anthony became aware of the situation, he spoke up about how mental illness is not something to joke around about, which Trisha didn't take so lightly. Because of all the backlash she had surrounding this issue, she made a video in response to Anthony, stating how he was insensitive for making her feel crazy about her mental illness. A lot of people came to Anthony's defense, calling out Paytas for diagnosing herself, not having any credibility to do so.

Trisha is the type of person to be obsessed over something and will still drag on the lie despite the copious amount of evidence suggesting otherwise. After this whole situation blew over, she still insists that she suffers from this, "showing" proof of her having episodes.

Paytas has been canceled time and time again and has rarely taken accountability. Cancel Culture doesn't seem to affect her, as it has affected other people, which I'm not sure if that's good or bad. From my point of view, given that i don't know her personally or have had any interaction with her, cancel culture helps her become more aware of her actions. What I mean by that is, she seems to have no filter and doesn't seem to notice when shes crossed the line and being canceled does.

It's all about perspective.

Who gets the short end of the stick?

If there is a group of people that get canceled more than any other group, those would-be influencers, more specifically the beauty community. These people are constantly being judged for any affiliation, collaboration or association they might have to any person or company. Take someone like Jaclyn Hill who has been a part of this community since it first started. Since Jaclyn was considered a beauty guru it only made sense for her to release her own makeup brand.



Hill teased for years that she would be starting her own makeup line, but it never seemed to happen. Instead of releasing her own brand like she said she would just keep collaborating with other big makeup companies instead.



Morphe is known to have huge beauty influencers collaborate with them on makeup projects. Working with big names like Jeffree Star, James Charles, and Jaclyn Hill. Jaclyn’s first collaboration with Morphe was back in 2017 when they released the Jaclyn Hill pallet, which was a huge success and remained successful.



Because of the success of the original pallet, they released their second collaboration in June of 2018 and introduced the “vault collection”, which didn’t receive the same love as the original pallet.  Even though it was said to have the same loved formula, the eyeshadows showed a lot of inconsistencies with the formulation. The launch was a complete flop.

In May of 2019, it was announced that Jaclyn’s makeup line was finally arriving, which reached a lot of backlash from the public. Many people were disappointed with the fact that Hill was said to finally release her OWN makeup brand since 2014, but the day never came. Fans lost interest as they forgot about her wanting to start Jaclyn Cosmetics.
Things got worse for Hill when she released her lipsticks. It all started when a fellow YouTuber: RawBeautyKristi exposed the moldy lipsticks, from there it only got worse. Several other people were also received what the company was calling the defective batch, which I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the case as everyone seemed to only receive lipsticks from the defective batch.


While this was all happening, Jaclyn remained quiet on the situation. When she finally broke her silence, people weren’t happy with her response and because of the way she responded to the situation, she became cancel yet again. She was accused of making these lipsticks back in 2015 and was just selling them now, even if they’d been sitting on the shelf for over 5 years.



After the whole lipstick incident, Jaclyn found herself in yet another scandal. Jaclyn announced that she and Morphe were collaborating yet again. She was still collaborating with other companies despite her having her own makeup line. And this launch just like every other launch had problems. Around the time when she released “Jaclyn Hill Pallet Volume II”, there was a video surfacing around calling out the fact that the formula for Jaclyn’s eyeshadows had changed.



Jen a smaller YouTuber became known for a video she posted stating that her sister-in-law's pallet was good but the one that she had was even better, coming up with the theory that something had changed. Jen began to investigate why her pallet and her sister in laws pallet were so different, even though they were supposed to be the same. Jen emailed Morphe about their situation, how her sister-in-law's pallet was different and if that was normal.



Morphe responded saying that nothing has changed, that everything was the same. So, Jen bought another pallet to compare all three, to see if her sister in law really did get some defective pallet. After a copious amount of investigation, she found that all three pallets were different and how her pallet was the best even though it was the oldest. The newer ones weren’t performing as good as the one she bought when it first hit the market.



Later, Jen discovered that the formula had indeed changed. Meaning that not only were the formulas on her pallets different but so was the formula in the new Jaclyn hill pallet. When fans heard this, they became upset with both Jaclyn and Morphe for not making the public aware of this transition.



The pallets were also originally marketed as cruelty-free but were found to have one ingredient that suggested otherwise: Carmine. When the original pallet first premiered, they weren’t using this ingredient, and nobody seemed to question the integrity of this pallet since it had a very good reputation at the moment. But after this was revealed people became furious as Morphe and Jaclyn were, still marketing it as cruelty-free and it hasn’t been for a while.



And even though Jaclyn was said to be unaware of this transition, I find that very difficult to believe. The reason for that is because when she was making a minor adjustment to the design of the pallet, she made everyone aware of it, and why announce that but not something major like the formula changing. All this just doesn’t add up.


As of right now, they are currently canceled for the shady business that has been going on between both parties. And even though I feel cancel culture is very toxic both Morphe and Jaclyn don’t deserve the support they received from people who were affected by this transition. With all that being said, people shouldn’t bash every little thing they do from now on. Yes, they messed up big time and screwed over so many people, but we need to remember that they are also just people. Just because they receive hate all the time doesn't make it okay. 

Should cancel culture be canceled?

Cancel culture is something that has always existed, but it wasn’t as mainstream as it is now. It’s very common for people to be canceled for literally anything; being canceled because of something they said or something they did. This idea of canceling people has become something normalized in today's society. When someone is canceled, they lose the support of their audience, whether that’s them bashing anyone who still supports said person or boycotting anything that has to do with them.



There is one influencer that comes in mind when I think about being canceled, and that is James Charles. James Charles was the first boy to ever be featured on Covergirl, this was huge as no boy has EVER been recognized by this makeup company. From the very beginning of his career, many people began to judge his every move, he couldn’t do anything without being criticized for it.




Because of the number of followers, this made it rather easy for people to keep tabs on him. One thing James was known for, was pursuing straight males, this was something speculated about him but never confirmed. It wasn’t until some guy named Gage Gomez that James found himself in some serious heat, allegations against him were made, and that was when things got out of control. Gomez accused James of taking advantage of him when he was confused about his sexual orientation.


It wasn’t long after this happened that one of his former friends: Tati Westbrook had exposed James on how he manipulated people into doing what he wanted. Posting a 40-minute video talking about several instances shes witness or heard about him behaving inappropriately around straight men. Stating that she no longer wishes to be associated with him.

The video depicted James as this guy who was on the hunt for straight men only and when things didn't go his way he played the victim. Explaining how he took advantage of vulnerable people using his "fame, power and money" to manipulate people's emotions, according to Tati. Tati mentioned how she told him to get help on numerous occasions but how none of it affected him.

This outraged many fans. He lost many subscribers the day after this video went up. The amount of hate he received was astonishing. Many people returned a pallet he made in a collab with Morphe. James received a lot of hate from the public.

I get what he did was bad, but the amount of hate he received was so unnecessary. The amount of hate was too much even for me and I wasn’t the one being grilled; I couldn’t imagine what it was like for him. Many people were against James and anyone who defended him was also canceled. This idea of canceling people is a rather toxic way of fixing problems. How are people suspected to learn from their mistakes if they’re not given the opportunity?

.The fact that he had to take a break from social media to remain sane is just sad. The amount of influence others has on us is worrying. In the end, people are just human and humans make mistakes.