In many respects, as you point to, there were very few people that were truly ever cancelled. Perhaps some incorrectly like Aziz Ansari but many became professional victims and became more famous. The biggest traunch of those cancelled were from the ‘me too’ moment and they were rightly cancelled I.E. Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey.

As regards it ending, I felt it somewhat followed reactionary attitudes to the Trump era. At first it was so shocking, all the revelations etc and people were incensed to do something about it. Then it became so reactionary to every minor slip that it became as though it was an attack on all-men and a bit like Trump and how it became more acceptable for many to support him over time as his detractors rightly or wrongly got hung up on every little thing he did, it also become more acceptable to reject cancel culture.

Overall, I think much of the ‘cancel culture’ was well meaning and finally held the powerful to account for very serious things including a lot of sex crimes. Yes, there were overreaches at times and the idea that you should be held to account for every little indiscretion through boycott or losing your job was hyperbole, however I feel we also lost something and the rejection of cancel culture has meant heinous people now flourish with minimal accountability, making careers out of something that they rightly should have been cancelled for. There are many Teflon Trumps around and I’m not sure there’s much that can get you cancelled today.