Excellent piece, Daria! To answer your question, I lean toward the latter, as cancel culture depends on an echo chamber. The degree of polarization in society has removed nuisance from even light-hearted discussions. Most gravitate toward negativity, so this may be a natural degradation of digital social systems.

It is interesting to observe how memes permeate so well through negativity. I wonder why there is not a 'creation' culture. 🤔