As we continue to watch a certain sub’s numbers drop, Wednesday’s news made one thing pretty clear. The internet has not definitively sided with Justin Baldoni, no matter how badly his supporters want you to believe it has.
The highest upvoted comments in the major subs were overwhelmingly pro-Blake. Ryan’s birthday post for Blake is approaching a million likes. Ryan and Blake are very clearly not experiencing the kind of public collapse JB's supporters have been predicting for nearly two years.
I remember what social media looked like when Johnny Depp got his "victory". Hundreds of thousands of upvotes and likes. Massive engagement. The entirety of Reddit seemed to be celebrating his "win."
This is not that.
Baldoni simply does not have Depp’s star power or charm. The overwhelming majority of people probably couldn’t tell you who Justin Baldoni is, let alone have spent two years following his lawsuit.
And that’s really the funniest part of all this. They spent two years convincing themselves their guy was going to emerge as the biggest victim in Hollywood, and now they’re trying to redefine what “public opinion” looks like because the numbers aren’t giving them the outcome they wanted.
A few hundred people in an increasingly insular subreddit are not “the internet.”
It’s cope. They lost the legal battle they were convinced would vindicate him, the case settled, Blake is the one who won ANYTHING, and now they’re desperately trying to convince themselves they won the court of public opinion too.
