should i cancel?

In March 2021, somebody on twitter came forward with some unpleasant accusations towards an internet personality that I really admire and look up to. This person wasn’t the accuser themselves, they were just pushing an account of the events posted on another forum, but that account sounded damning. Everyone hopped on it, and I was really upset, since this person has always portrayed this character of being a nerdy, friendly, wholesome guy, and a calming, familiar voice that we like to have playing in our living room. But I accepted that not everyone is what they seem. Less than a week later, somebody else that I really look up to experienced the same kind of treatment, but worse, and stranger. A suspicious group had made a whole dossier on this second guy, including a number of “recorded phone calls” that anyone with even a little critical thought could recognize as being frankensteined together out of various audio clips. The suspicious group included people who had a vested and obvious interest in bringing the second guy down. Said dossier was quickly debunked.

This made me go back to the first guy- if everything on the second guy was falsified, then why was I believing anything about the first one without even looking in to it? So I did, and to no one’s surprise, it was all just fluff. There was nothing substantial, no evidence, and no reliable names or sources. Worse yet, they were being collected by an anonymous group that is gathered together simply because they don’t like this person. If you had told me groups like that existed in 2019, I would have rolled my eyes, but here we are in 2021, in very strange times. So I made these, because I while I am 100% all about accountability for one’s actions, and there are many people out there who need to be held responsible, I am not a fan of tricking the public at the expense of someone who has done nothing wrong.