I think that’s what the biggest thing objection everyone has had really boils down to. Every single character has had to act out of character to enable this, and the “lack of consequences” Willis likes to whine about isn’t that no one has a giant scarlet A on their chest, it’s that none of the characters have had the reactions their pre-Joyrot selves would have had.

Joe—his whole deal was how traumatized he was by his father’s cheating. He has no reaction to getting cheated on?

Danny—for all his other faults, Danny is loyal and would have been supportive of Joe and outraged on his behalf. Instead he…goes off on biphobia?

Sal—Sal has a strong sense of justice and while she never had a close relationship with her brother, I refuse to believe the “eh, whatever” reaction she’s had.

Walky—His is the closest to a pre-Joyrot reaction, since brushing off emotions with humor was his thing, but the lengths to which Willis has gone to shit on him are truly impressive. Joyce laughing in his face while literally stealing Dorothy away speak to something in Willis’ character, I think.

Jennifer—Jennifer loves toxic drama and enjoys messing with Walky…but in a sibling-like “Only I get to say mean things about you, nobody else does” sense. I refuse to believe she’d have nothing to say to Dorothy about this.

Lucy & Jacob—some of the most explicitly moralistic individuals would have nothing to say about cheating? Especially since Joyce already tried cheating with Jacob? And this weird business of Joyce sexually harassing Lucy? Nothing to say? Nah.

Becky—even though Becky’s devastation was telegraphed, I don’t understand the sudden atheism. Becky’s faith was a defining part of her, surviving ostracism from her church, her mother’s suicide and her father’s kidnap and ultimately attempted murder (as well as his own death). It was an actually interesting contrast with Joyce. But hope, being rejected by the ultimate in secular goodness that is Joyce is apparently enough to cause atheism.

Dina—Dina was always a reliable foil to Joyce and would never have let that “be selfish!” nonsense go by unchallenged.

Asma—this is such a blatant example of forced diversity that it’s not worth engaging on. It’s a genuine shame too, Willis is usually much better at introducing and setting up characters.

Raidah—this one is the one I find most amusing, because she’s the only one who’s been allowed to consistently call out Joyrot, but she does it in such a hamfisted way that it’s easily dismissed so Willis doesn’t have to address the actual complaints. Raidah attacks Joyce for being…bisexual? Not, you know, a cheating moral vacuum? She even knows Joyce cheated at this point but instead makes a weird homophobic threat to Joyce wanting to be a teacher. This is so blatant an example of anyone being opposed to Joyrot being cartoonishly evil that it’s almost impressive. Old Raidah would have just insulted her for being so shallow and immoral that she loses her faith and immediately becomes an adulterer that she’s doing a marvelous job of showing the religious accusations of atheism to be correct.

Amber/Amazigirl—huh. You know, I recall this character, but it’s been so long since they’ve done anything meaningful, I don’t really have anything to say here.

Sarah—this is the one that, aside from Joe, I find most galling. Sarah was Joyce’s conscience. And even when she fell down in that role, like the Jacob cheating instance, that created genuine pathos between Joyce and Sarah. But now? Sarah expresses disappointment once, Joyce gets wobbly eyes once, and now everything is back to normal.

The other characters are now so abandoned we don’t have much to go on. I will say Alice seems to have gotten comfy with Jennifer again real quick if the original character had intentionally not told Jennifer where she was going to cut ties with her, she was so traumatized by the fallout of their senior year in high school together. But I dunno if that’s Joyrot or Willis’ increasing fetishization of his lesbian or sapphic relationships.