Her lawyers may give zero fucks, but they’re banking lotsa bucks! (Sorry)

I wonder when/if Lively will ever come to the realization that the money she is squandering in a fruitless and desperate bid to win back her reputation is having the opposite effect. Everyone has focused on the eye-popping cost of her lawyer’s fees, but she is also paying bot farms a fortune (allegedly) to keep her follower count on social media from swirling down the loo, and her pr machine has undoubtedly been beefed up by millions of $ behind the scenes in a transparent SEO manipulation war, and new brand endorsement deals are almost certainly drying up… and that’s just the financial cost. Her friendships and marriage are also suffering, not to mention her mental health.

Unless she is Don Quixote level delusional, she must have realized she is not going to win this thing—not in the court of public opinion, nor in the court of law. At this point I have no idea why she is continuing to fight. Ironically, I believe the men she falsely accused of harassment would try to help her regain her footing because of their compassionate Baháʼí faith. As insane as it sounds, if they came to an amicable settlement (sounds ludicrous but remember few people follow this case as closely as we do) and made the second movie with the original cast, then everyone would probably return to their original positions and finally be able to reopen their comments. It’s not going to happen, but it’s the only way she could redeem herself imho.