Big part of the blame belongs to those who are too eager to apologize. So many celebrities do nothing wrong and yet express profuse remorse after their tweets or whatever have been intensely scrutinized and subtle mistakes perhaps found. This is like backing down before a troll. Fear makes them stronger, like the new Stephen King IT movie. They, or the movement, see all those celebrities—otherwise untouchable, belonging to a different realm—backing down before accusations made online, and they feel they've now discovered a way to match them in status: "I can tell a celebrity they're wrong and have them fall on my feet and beg for forgiveness!" If celebrities instead told them to screw off like someone like Ricky Gervais does, there'd much less force to the movement.
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