I agree with everything you said and that’s how I’m reconciling it too. This case had made me so disappointed in many people, in real life and people/celebs whose work I like.

You’re correct Luke N isn’t being called out as much - very unsurprising. He followed JD in the past few weeks as the trial was ongoing. With Charithra, she followed JD yesterday evening. I saw him under her most recent follows myself. Of course, some Kanthony stan DM her on Insta calling her out and then posted part of Charithra’s (admittedly kinda yikes) response on Twitter. And now she’s holding the rest of the exchange hostage for a “gotcha” moment it seems? … It very much seems stans are less sincerely upset about the JD support than they are eager to finally have “ammunition” against Charithra.

Yeah, of course they are. Let's be real, a lot of people don't give a fuck about Depp or Amber on both sides. They're symbolic. They're part of a stan war. It's fucking sad, because Amber was horribly abused by this man and he's exploiting the system in a way that will affect male and female DV survivors, and in particular survivors who want to speak out. It's not a stan issue. When official GOP accounts are posting Captain Jack gifs? We are FUCKED.

I don't think any of this should be used as ammo. This is also alienating DV survivors who've supported Amber on a very like... Idk what the world would be. Meta? Pop-cultural? Level. You can't even watch a Florence Pugh movie without being reminded of how she liked that post, and wondering if she thinks DV survivors are just full of shit. I imagine it's more likely that Florence is a dumbass and doesn't take her platform seriously, but still. And of course, many celebrities have made themselves unwatchable for people before, but I think the volume of people involved in such a short amount of time is what makes this case interesting (and sad). It's also very VISIBLE. There are plenty of celebs who've worked with Polanski or defended him, but you may not have known that unless you were browsing their wikipedia pages randomly.

And look. Elliot Page worked with Woody Allen, and he shouldn't have, and it's not my place to accept his apology regarding that. But it did seem like a thoughtful apology; and it'll be interesting to see if any of these people issue those types of apologies in the future. However, it really would be on Amber to accept those apologies, wouldn't it?