I'm not defending him. This is just how it goes with "influencer" careers on the internet. Step away for awhile, then apologise and show contrition, then continue what you were doing and it all sorta just gets left behind in internet history.

I don't really think it should be that way, but it is that way. The only people that actually get cancelled are probably the people that learned the most from it and feel real shame enough to not come back to any kind of content-creating or "influencer" role in society anymore.