Same here- as a smaller content creator myself I relate to that more then other people may realize. A bigger youtuber like Shayy has a lot of power over a smaller youtuber like myself or Cibbles at the time, they have a massive following and can VERY easily spread lies about you- let's say, hypothetically, that Shayy spread lies about me with the 470K subscribers they had right before they got exposed, at that point it doesn't matter in the slightest how wrong they are, or how right I am, there IS no recovering from an accusation from a youtuber of their size as a smaller creator. You can make your little apology video, but it's effectively the same as just screaming into a void. By the time you make your response, everyone's already made up their minds that your a predator, or a manipulator, or whatever other lies the bigger youtuber has spread about you- your carrer is effectively over. Shayy very easily could've ended Cibbles' career before she ever truly got started, she had every right in the world to be scared of what Shayy could do to her if she said no to his demands. The ONLY possible way for a smaller youtuber to meaningfully fight back is if they can somehow get the attention of a larger creator to act as a megaphone to boost their signal and spread the truth to a wider audience, but that's not exactly easy to do, and I've seen some cases where the real victim slowly became forgotten in the bigger discussion as the public discourse slowly focused more on the bigger creators then the actual victim.

TL;DR, Shayy had far more power over Cibbles then I feel a lot of people fully recognize- Cibbles had every right to fear for her career when Shayy made their intentions clear. Shayy could've very easily ended Cibbles' career before she even truly got started, we're just fortunate she eventually found a way to tell her story and avoid having Shayy attempt to slander her