Cancel culture is just the stupid name given to the eternal "kids these days" complaint. Old people get pissed off when young kids discover and begin leveraging their political capabilities. This really isn't very different from complaints about rock & roll, hippies, or any other previous instances of young people using their economic influence to shape the views of society. Elvis shaking his hips on TV seems so quaint today, but lots of middle-aged and older people of the era found that highly offensive.
I'm getting to the age where I'm about to flip into the old man category here. But for now, I'm happy to see that young people aren't going to let assholes push them around and are fighting back with the tools they have available to them. There are loads of teenage girls out there who are half my size with twice the courage.