Look ma I warosu'd my own post.
Ame doesnt speak Japanese, she watched hololive through clips. However, she made sure to watch everyone in hololive, holostars, ID or CN.
This is when she realized Flare was always "Noel's girlfriend", most of the clips at the time were filtered through her being Noel's girlfriend and most of the clipped parts were about their keyfabe ship. To a lesser extent, okakoro and kanata+coco had the same "problem".
Maybe you dont remember but she specifically asked not to be shipped with Gura, on stream. She doesnt want to be the Flare to Gura's Noel, she knows she has a much smaller channel and viewerbase and if she lets her character be pigeonholed into "gura's maybe girlfriend" she'll never be able to do anything again.
She sees Gurame as a threat to her career, and she is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CORRECT.
Literally just look at this thread. gurame if she does gurame if she doesnt, you can barely start talking about ame without gura, another streamer entirely, getting in the way. She was right to nip it in the bud months ago, even if it did nothing to contain it.
