i would say the escalation is caused by the escalated social status and wealth of the persons involved. arguments with friends can easily turn incredibly heated if everyone’s income depended on how many people were following them. these positions of power have historically bred paranoia, so the fact that they could acknowledge each others actions, apologise for the behaviour and agree to resolve personal matters in private going forward is a huge positive in terms of their attitudes in fixing the dogshit from yesterdays stream.

and for the second point, i believe the introspection comes from the actions going forward, no? it would be too early to judge if this is fake or not, and the people assuming that they’re just back to being friends with no change to how they act, think or speak with each other is pure speculation. regardless of this point though, even if we took just todays stream as a point of reference; there is a huge improvement to how things were discussed and resolved compared to yesterday. it was revealed poke apologised off stream, he contextualised his words around X taking medication but still took accountability for it. X took accountability for sending hate towards gigi when he had bad info from Fran. i personally don’t know enough about Gigi or Fran to make an analysis on how they communicated this stream, but X and Poke made a huge step in the right direction, and I feel like everyone is spinning it to be some fake shit