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I've witnessed this thing called Cancel Culture many times, and it's one of the reasons I said nothing would make me go into football as a player or a coach. I would prefer to be a die-hard fan hiding behind my keyboard and making all the noise, but going out there to play on the field or being a coach? Nah! I just can't be found there! I can't stand my name being dragged to the floor in social media 🥲.
First of all, I'm channeling this to the football aspect since that's the part I've paid the most attention to, and it pains me a lot because the hatred these people often get when they're underperforming is always too much. People know fully well that these players are human and are bound to lose track once in a while.
I remember during the 2019 AFCON match between Nigeria and Tunisia, where we lost to Tunisia and got kicked out of the tournament. Heavy attacks were channeled towards one particular midfielder because he picked up a red card and the goalkeeper because the losing goal got past him in a funny way. These footballers couldn't help it; they had to temporarily put their social accounts under lock and stay off social media. I couldn't stop imagining their state of mind then, knowing that they were being hated by almost everyone in the other part of the world, which is bigger than the real world.
What happened, though maybe they underperformed, they also tried to put in their maximum effort to balance things out, but it just didn't work. In the end, all their efforts turned out to be a curse.
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Many times, we have seen such people who faced such hurtful attacks in social media resign from football due to their inability to withstand all those harsh criticisms and move on with their lives.
Talking about whether Cancel Culture is right or wrong;
I only discussed the negative effects in my first paragraph. The truth is that it is also good to some extent because it pushes corrective measures for a lot of negative things that are becoming acceptable.
Sometimes last two months, a politician in northern part of Nigeria moved his internation marry 100 orphanages(all girls) and said it is his initiative to alleviate poverty. He got a lot of attacks on social media and after a while, he came out to say he never meant what he said.
You see, this drags and attacks on social media sometimes end up correcting some negative ideas.
The only big problem with cancel culture is that it's getting abused, with people taking it to extremes. Imagine a situation where it gets really harsh to the extent that the victim (if it is a person) can't be seen publicly; otherwise, the person might face physical abuse.
Aside from this, if a company is involved maybe on a situation that is mere, it can drag down the company's reputation, making it hard for the company to recover even after the issue has subsided.
At the time of writing this, there's a lady, a s3x worker, who's being dragged for what she put out online on her high charges. This didn't sit well with the country at large, she's has been literally dragged heavily in social media. Her highly followed social media accounts like TikTok and Instagram have been suspended, and with this, she can't make any money from them, which affects her everyday living if she's been depending on that source of income for survival. Somehow, the call-out has put a caution on what people put out in promoting such stuff and dissuades young girls from wanting to be like her.
Thanks for reading.
