With everyone spending most of their days on social media especially now more than ever, various trends start to boom out of nowhere and unfortunately, cancel culture has been one of those. Social media has become one if not the most utilized medium of expression. It is such a convenient platform to exercise one’s right to free speech.  Although it has appealingly immense benefits such as giving voices to less powerful people, it has also been one of the major platforms for debates, bashing, and criticism, and most of the time, this gets out of hand leading to personalities getting “#cancelledt”. 

The term “cancel culture” is the removal or “canceling” of a person, brand, product, company, or anyone due to a statement, action, or event that the public disagrees with or finds inappropriate. It breaks the support from the people, labeling the individual as “bad” without any redemption. Who could forget about the time when Marcus Adoro, Eraserheads’ band member, got cancelled because of alleged domestic abuse? You might have heard of Donnalyn Bartolome’s controversial birthday shoot which was called out because it sexualized babies. Ella Cruz’ “history is like chismis” remark surely crossed your social media timeline. You sure have encountered the cancelling of Toni Gonzaga after her support to the then presidential candidate Marcos Jr.