Last year, multiple celebrities became the target of enraged fans, including British ones, like "Harry Potter" author Joanne Rowling.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media British comic actor Rowan Atkinson has slammed cancel culture, calling it "the digital equivalent of the medieval mob, roaming the streets looking for someone to burn".

"The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society", he told the Radio Times. "It becomes a case of either you're with us or against us. And if you're against us, you deserve to be 'canceled'. So it is scary for anyone who's a victim of that mob and it fills me with fear about the future".