Online social practice of publicly denouncing people for problematic behavior that evolved into 'friend policing' where maintaining contact with accused individuals became itself a cancellable offense
"This behavior has always been a part of social conflict, but after being reinforced by online callout culture I've seen it unnecessarily destroy a lot of peoples' social lives. I remember seeing someone get cancelled in an Instagram story around 2021 and one of the charges was that they had 'conserv"