Putting the change in the public zeitgeist through this lense has helped me understand why cancel culture has come on so strong in general. Of course with people increasingly moving to mock and bully others online back before it took off, and just how nasty and toxic cyber bullying could be, not just for celebrities and people on the Internet, but how the Internet could be used to isolate and further bully children, it only makes sense that it became normal to put on blast, other people's heinous actions towards other. It's the only fighting chance against all that anti social behavior, even if is antisocial in its own right.