>>86731108(Alright, fuck the spoilers at this point since I'm not trying to write a wall inside one)
My key disagreement is that I DO think this is about her. I don't think there's anything that happens here that isn't ultimately reflective of her.
When she announced and was visibly shaken: you've never seen this place so fucking distraught. When she was confused about what the fuck an "affiliate" is: we were confused too. When she was hopeful with the last couple collabs and the final stream: you've never seen so many smiling Goslings. And now that she's in a waiting period: we are too. It's like if Christ said "Hey, I'm coming back in 16 days" and his followers just started bouncing off the walls in the meanwhile.
Don't get me wrong - we're only human and I think bouncing off the walls is fine. People get anxious. But I think everything done in that time is effectively meaningless. Whether the waiters win in the meanwhile, or the changers win, or the splitters or the schizos or whoever the fuck else is out there... doesn't matter. On the 20th (maybe plus a couple days because of the woman in particular) she's going to show up and literally everything she says become law. If she shows up and says "I'm okay/not okay with you guys talking about X" then those are the rules.
People are of course also free to break the rules, but then they'll be damned. We've all seen what happens to places like this when their person is AWOL, and it's not great.
