>>3858696Sio got caught for supposedly shitposting and in particular shitting on Roboco's Apex skills. Being that she was frequently collabing with Roboco and Towa in Apex, this pretty much made subsequent streams pretty bad when people intentionally or not would ask about Sio. If you represent yourself as a friend, then it would be normal for people to ask you about your stance on the issue, whether you're defending her or condemning her - your opinion holds weight. Ignoring it is also an action you can take but it definitely makes you seem fake, as though all that previous buddy-buddy stuff was just an act. There's no winning.
Uto had shit with implicitly representing herself as an indie while actually being bankrolled by a Chinese company, and having meta tags on her videos linking them to hololive members when she had no relationship whatsoever beyond Nabi. She later claimed that it was a friend who managed her videos and placed those tags on it, and that she had severed ties with the company which no one had knew officially existed (though they suspected, since Nabi only takes commissions from corporations). Also a controversy with supposedly calling an artist who did stuff for her a beggar. Regardless, if Ame had associated more closely with her, she would likely have had to deal with people asking questions about Uto's absence and the rrats around her.
The point is that you don't casually tie yourself to personalities who you don't even know just to please the fairytale stories fans cook up, because if the other person turns out to not be on the up-and-up then you get sucked into the mess. Whether they actually did what they're accused of is fundamentally irrelevant, you end up having to respond to it without even sufficient information because you implied a closeness which you didn't actually possess, and any response you issue will be spun by either side for their own purposes.