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I've been thinking about cancel culture lately and how much of a negative impact it has on all of us. Yeah, some people do bad things and there are those that remain terrible people but what about those that truly reflect on their actions and are able to better themselves? Assuming someone is guilty of whatever they're accused of, they are like all humans capable of learning from mistakes they made and this does include online personalities and any kind of celebrity. It's entirely possible that after some backlash and time off, they could become better people. In fact, people going to prison and being let back out into society and reforming is an actual thing that happens. People can be better even when they did a thing they shouldn't have done.
That applies to any one of us. How would you feel if you had accusations hurled against you, whether true or false and your replies were full of nothing but clown memes and hatred for you? It wouldn't be fun, would it? When it comes to drama involving different people, rather than jumping on a bandwagon, get some fucking info first. You should never blindly believe what others say. Educate yourself before you make your judgments. Next of all, when it comes to controversy involving different people that aren't you, just remember, they aren't you and their problems technically aren't your business. Relationship issues should only be discussed with the parties involved and not leaked for a ton of random strangers on the internet, because it doesn't involve them. It involves those having issues with their relationship. I very strongly take issue with people calling out others online, especially when it comes to illegal or at least questionable things, because these people usually just go to the internet BEFORE ever talking to the police or anything and that's really fucking disgusting. Moving on, when all this drama goes on, all kinds of different accusations and evidence for or against will be tossed around the web. You can make your own decision on whether it's credible or not. Worst of all, some of what we have to go by or what people say and not legit actual proof, so in those cases, who can you trust? If someone's claiming to be a victim and someone else is accused of doing something to them and all you have are words, that doesn't really mean anything. You aren't them. You don't know them. You don't know what's going on in their lives. You can't make a true and honest judgment in these circumstances. One of the biggest problems I have with cancel culture is people will believe pretty much anything even when they can't actually verify it. When you can't actually verify, you obviously don't know the whole truth. On one hand, it can lead to a false accusation, which can and does happen and this can be due to certain circumstances, which unfortunately includes the genders of the parties involved. In some cases, one person is more likely to be believed than the other person wrapped up in the situation. We can't blindly believe in someone's innocence either. I know most sane people wouldn't be happy to find out they defended a criminal, or a "monster" as the internet would most likely paint them. What's worse is cancel culture damages the reputations of the parties involved. Both the accused and those claiming to be victims of any of these situations. People lose respect for both because some believe an "innocent person was falsely accused by a horrible person" or someone turned out to be "a terrible person". In the end, cancel culture is bad for all of us with it having us pointing fingers and losing respect for those we once respected or in some cases having a bad first impression of them. Even when they're in the wrong, though, they can improve themselves. It's bullshit that none of us are willing to give people a second chance, not even after shit cools down. It would be nice if when stuff like this happened, people could learn and move on and in some cases, even forgive. All cancel culture does is ruin people's lives, whether they're guilty or innocent. And this all shows just how bad people in this world have gotten. Instead of posting clown memes or whatever, take some time to calmly take information in and then judge, but most of all, learn when to move the fuck on. It really pisses me off when you're still obsessing over some dumb shit a celebrity or online personality did or said ages ago. As I say this, there are ongoing controversies and they're certainly not going to be the last. However, what I'm saying is we really need to change how we react to these situations.
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Hey, all. Depressed here. Yeah, I don't really do updates on my own website that much. I'm not sure if I'll ever get around to doing that, but I guess I should just say what's going on here just in case you don't follow me on
Twitter or you're not someone that has to put up with me on my own Discord server. Usually, I don't give way to many details about my personal life and at this point, there are still things I'm not sure when or if I'll share. Anyways, lately I've felt a lot more depressed than usual. First of all, I keep failing in college so I've gotten to a point where I can't take any more classes unless I wait a year and even then my chances of getting back in aren't very high. Whenever I do fail, I just end up with my dad yelling at me and then it turns into a back and forth between the two of us, usually with me pulling hair out. And my dad has the nerve to claim I wasn't even trying. If I hadn't even been trying I wouldn't have shown up to class during the week I was sick, and there was an assignment I was required to physically be present for two days and if I missed any of those days, I'd pretty much be screwed for that assignment. This happening over and over is part of why I'm do damn depressed these days. Because of this, I feel a lot less motivated to do anything. To make things worse, I don't actually have a real job right now and my parents love to shove that fact in my face. Just recently, I was relaxing like everyone else was at home and was in voice chat with a few friends on Discord while playing a video game and my mom walks in and wants to pick a fight with me because someone we both know had written and published a book and she asks me why I'm not doing stuff like that. As I said before, I'm not feeling motivated to do stuff but like usual, she blames video games and says it's because I'm playing them all time even though I play them a hell of a lot less that I used to. My parents have a really bad habit of making me feel like crap, but even if I explain it to them it goes right over their heads. I know this because I've tried more than once. My mom may have come in to have a talk with me one day after a sermon at church about parenting and talking about how she knows she's not the best part but the next time that happens I'm really not gonna want to hear it because I know damn well she'll go back to being the same terrible person she's always been. I've gotten to a point in my life where I don't know what I should do or even what I want to do most of time and my parents aren't really helping out. Just making me feel even worse. At this point, I don't really know the fate of my projects. I still intend to release Fixing Things some time this year but the possibility of it being delayed to 2020 does exist. I have another one of my shorter visual novels that I already said was coming out this month. I hope it'll still be this month, but for all I know it could be pushed back to next month. There's also the story I started writing that I mentioned in one of my last posts on here. It's been in progress for a while. The planning started in 2017 but I didn't get started on the story for real until last year! I've written over 300 pages so far in Microsoft Word 2003 with size 15 font. Originally, I took a break from writing it so I could focus on college stuff, and look what good that did me. Now I'm feeling to depressed to pick it back up. Sometimes I'll open the document, but it only lasts for a short period of time. Hopefully, I can get back to being serious about writing this because I do have ideas that I want to go through with: plot twists I look forward to writing, but I'm just not sure how I'm going to execute all the ideas I have. If people weren't making me feel so bad and I didn't screw everything up, maybe I'd be more motivated to work on the damn thing! Sorry for the rant, I'm just far from the best I've been lately. |
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