Dua Lipa has labelled cancel culture a ‘dangerous and toxic’ phenomenon while slamming social media for enabling users to be needlessly cruel.The award-winning pop star revealed online criticism had ‘messed’ with her mental health.
She told Attitude I think there is so much judgement and meanness…cancel culture is so dangerous and toxic. Being funny is the greatest currency, even if it’s at the expense of somebody else.
‘That tends to happen a lot with social media. Being funny and getting likes and retweets seems to be more important than actually caring about who is going to be on the other side of it and how they feel.
She added: ‘There should be a communal understanding that people make mistakes, and we should learn from each other’s mistakes and we should try to teach each other.
‘For a short period of time it messed with my mental health,’ she recalled. ‘I’d go out on stage and if somebody was filming me, in my head I was like They’re going to film it so they can laugh at me.
