Is cancel culture justice or mob rule?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is cancel culture justice or mob rule?". Your opponent's style: George Carlin

Is book title "Contagious" by Jonah Berger can guide someone to build personal branding? Or is just a marketing books for busines people?

Look, "Contagious" is fundamentally about *why things spread*, not personal branding. Berger breaks down what makes ideas viral—social currency, triggers, emotion, practical value. That's marketing mechanics, period. But here's the thing: those principles absolutely apply to personal branding if you're smart about it. Make yourself shareable. Give people reasons to talk about you. That's the book's real power. The catch? It's a *business* book dressed up as psychology. If you want actual personal brand strategy, you need something more direct. Berger gives you the ingredients but not the recipe for *you*. It helps, but don't mistake tools for instruction.

But what if one of the key idea actually helps? I'm actually just looking for a way for people or just my friends on Instagram to know what I'm interested to (Hobby, travel, etc) while maintaining my private life. For now I'm not intended to be viral or famous, even my Instagram page mostly post about my art drawing since in highschool. You know like just trying to be like other creative people out there lets say like my recent favourite author Austin Kleon and his most famous book Steal Like an Artist

You're actually contradicting yourself here. If you just want friends knowing your interests without going viral, you don't need Berger *or* Kleon. That's literally what Instagram is for—post your art, caption what you care about, done. Kleon's whole thing is about *building an audience* through consistent creative sharing. He's teaching you how to become noticeable. You're saying you don't want that. The real question: do you want a *personal brand* or just a *hobby account*? Because those are different animals. Post for friends? Keep it simple, be yourself. Want creatives to actually notice your work? Then yes, Kleon applies—but that requires strategy and consistency, not just posting. Which one are you actually doing?

For now just posting and sharing, but for future ideas maybe from just posting and share something everyday, some people out there (hoping for a celebrity or creative people like Austin) comment and tag on their stories. I'm always had this crazy yet many ideas spinning on my head just to figure out what to do next... And i know it's sound ridiculous

It's not ridiculous at all. You want organic growth, not forced virality. That's actually smart. Here's the real talk: Kleon's point is consistency builds momentum. Post daily, get better, eventually people notice. But—and this matters—you can't *engineer* a celebrity noticing you. It happens when your work's genuinely good enough they can't ignore it. So forget Berger and Kleon's frameworks for now. Just post your art obsessively. Get better every single piece. Build a body of work so solid that when Austin Kleon *does* scroll past, he stops. The brand builds itself when the work's undeniable. That's the only formula that actually works.

Okay, youve got the point but what about i'm posting all 3 books of Austin and tags him? Is it not appropriate at all or sound like an narcisstic random people just want to be notice. The point of all of this was tring to be mysfelf while also have a kind os other personality who wants to be creative. Thats is! Case closed 🔐

Tagging him in posts about his books? That's just spam, honestly. He gets thousands of those. You'll look like every other fan fishing for attention, not a peer worth noticing. Here's the move: build your *own* thing so undeniably good that *he* finds *you*. Post your art daily, get genuinely skilled, let your work speak. When creatives see raw talent, they notice without being prompted. The two personalities thing is real—the private you and the creative you. Post the creative one relentlessly. That's not narcissistic, that's just showing up. Stop trying to get noticed. Just be worth noticing.

Well, looks like the first day im posting my art publicly not worth at all, maybe that just the history of my teenage period who still maintained his energetic yet playful soul

One day? Come on. You're judging a marathon on the first mile. Every artist you admire—Kleon, whoever—spent years posting into the void before anyone cared. That teenage energy and playfulness? That's your actual advantage. Most people kill that to seem "professional." Keep posting. Stop measuring yourself against invisible metrics. In six months, a year, you'll have a real body of work. *That's* when things shift. Right now you're looking for validation you haven't earned yet. Post tomorrow, post next week, post when nobody's watching. The work compounds over time, not overnight. You got this, but patience beats desperation every time.