Cancelled! What It Means to be Hated Online
by Priyanka Sarkhel ('20) In the digital age, mob mentality has evolved to find a new platform for unifying people who hate a common thing or person: social media. The comfort of a masked identity behind the screen makes it easier to hate as explicitly as possible. Due to the acceleration of social issues taking to platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, a new epidemic of mob mentality flourished: cancel culture. The top definition of the term ‘cancelled’ as it is use