Social Media and Cancel Culture

The cancel culture continues to make it's mark in the South African entertainment industry.

What this term means is that any celebrity /Influencer /Public figure who trends for the wrong reasons or has been exposed to immoral social standards on social media should be cancelled. Whether it's to take away work from them or contact their business partners to part ways with them. Which seems very unfair and unjust.

What equates for a celebrity or public figure being cancelled? Is it because of their beliefs and values in the public eye? Should the rough streets of social media be the determining factor that whether the ethics of a figure expose should be cancelled? Should we continue to allow Twitter to rip people's integrities apart?

I understand that the responsibility of any public figure is to maintain a good moral status within the public eye and hold values for those looking up to them.

Everyone makes mistakes including our idols and celebrities. Their being in the public does not excuse them from taking part in human errors.

I plead with this generation and 'keyboard warriors' to be gentle to public figures. As the saying goes "To err is human, to forgive is divine.

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