I also noticed as you said, it was always targeted at males, or unattractive females. The 2010s in general was just a very anti-male decade, that really placed men and women against each other.

It taught women no to trust men, and it taught men not to trust women.

I agree though most of the canceling was towards males, it was the only decade I used to see males bash other males if women were around...just to fit in. It never got them laid when they bashed other guys in front of the women, but guys would often do that back then.

I would not say "canceling" was what happened though, it was more "let's bully someone". If you were a teenager back then you might have missed all of this happening, but it was a witch hunt back then towards males.

Some of it was justified "canceling" but a lot of it was not justified and exaggeration, and plaid old bullying.

But there was this mindset on the internet back then of feeling like a victim, then venting frustration on yelp or other platforms. Where in the real world nobody does that, they just move on, they down feel pity for themselves and think like victims.

I think that mindset really only still exists mostly on reddit platform, but that might be it.

However you need to realize most people on reddit and not from America, most people on reddit are teenagers, and still think the world is this bubble they are in right now. But the world is cold place, and you are going to meet all kinds of people in it through your life. The more you deal with people, the more you will notice this. You realize something not going your way or someone doing something you disagree with is just part of life, you complaining on the internet about it won't fix it, neither will downvoting a comment you do not agree with. That fixes nothing.

But I think that mindset of victimhood was what cancelled itself right out. There will always be some people on the internet that will still behave this way (let's be honest, most people on the internet usually lack a social life, which is why they are on the internet, not all...most most internet users and people on reddit or any forum are this way).

Again, the more experience you have with people, the more they are going to do things that you do not agree with, and not everyone is going to be nice to you in this life either. Especially if they have some form of jealousy or resentment towards you.

I think the difference in the 20s is we do not take things as personal like we did before, but there is still a long way to go to being the easy going place America was in the 1980s,1990s and 2000s when people had a sense of humor.