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2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

It befuddles me that you are this invested in this. 

I view this story the same way I now view GamerGate. As a preview of how higher stakes sociopolitical debates will play out in the future.

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This story is actually pretty interesting. It's looking more and more like Lively was in the wrong here and tried to fuck over Baldoni (the director). 

Lively is much, much more powerful in Hollywood than Baldoni. And she tried to use that power (with help from Ryan Reynolds and even Taylor Swift) to destroy him. A little gender role reversal from the typical Hollywood bullshit. 

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Posted
10 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

This story is actually pretty interesting. It's looking more and more like Lively was in the wrong here and tried to fuck over Baldoni (the director). 

Lively is much, much more powerful in Hollywood than Baldoni. And she tried to use that power (with help from Ryan Reynolds and even Taylor Swift) to destroy him. A little gender role reversal from the typical Hollywood bullshit. 

The only guarantee here is that two narcissist egomaniacal cunts clashed.  The specifics will be impossible to sort out.

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Just now, Brisketexan said:

The only guarantee here is that two narcissist egomaniacal cunts clashed.  The specifics will be impossible to sort out.

I guess, but right now based on evidence/texts being released, Baldoni doesn't look like a bad person...yet . If this drama keeps getting a lot of attention, it will not be good for Ryan Reynolds either. 

 

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41 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The only guarantee here is that two narcissist egomaniacal cunts clashed.  The specifics will be impossible to sort out. their lawyers are gonna make some fucking bank.

 

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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

This story is actually pretty interesting. It's looking more and more like Lively was in the wrong here and tried to fuck over Baldoni (the director). 

 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I guess, but right now based on evidence/texts being released, Baldoni doesn't look like a bad person...yet . If this drama keeps getting a lot of attention, it will not be good for Ryan Reynolds either. 

 

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Posted (edited)

If this case goes to trial, my guess is: 

1. Blake Lively's career is over. It might be over already. 

2. Ryan Reynolds's popularity and therefore his movie career will take a significant hit. 

3. Taylor Swift's involvement will lose her some fans. Not anything noticeable, but her public persona will get dinged a bit. Some Swifties are already vocally disappointed. 

 

Not a good look when you (with collaboration from your husband) publicly accuse someone of abuse and harassment, and the receipts end up showing you are the actual abuser, manipulator, and bully. Women, understandably, are fucking pissed with Lively as the evidence mounts against her. The gaslighting from the Lively camp is PR suicide. 

 

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On 1/18/2025 at 5:05 PM, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

Her half sister is hotter IMO.
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I care less than zero about the rest of this stuff. I like Wrexham and Deadpool and Van Wilder.

 

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3 hours ago, 'stache said:

I care less than zero about the rest of this stuff. I like Wrexham and Deadpool and Van Wilder.

 

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I must be in a Hazy Shade of Winter following that Cruel Summer but I still think Teen Witch Tops That.  

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Posted
10 hours ago, MrBig said:

Here’s some footage to go along with Blake Lively’s claims of sexual harassment.

 

I found it amusing that the Today Show people are so terrified of Lively that they refused to state the obvious (Lively's allegations don't match up with the video, at all)

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The cast (including Jenny Slate) and author (Colleen Hoover) also took Lively's side from the start, and they will all feel the blowback as well. Hoover deleted her IG yesterday. She had 2 million followers. All her young female readers are furious with her. 

This is a ridiculously long deep dive in to the case, but these two young women are intelligent and easy on the eyes if you want to get into the details. They initially backed Lively when she made the accusations, and have now done a 180. This is a powder keg situation and will create long lasting ramifications in Hollywood IMO. 

 

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10 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Not a good look when you (with collaboration from your husband) publicly accuse someone of abuse and harassment, and the receipts end up showing you are the actual abuser, manipulator, and bully. Women, understandably, are fucking pissed with Lively as the evidence mounts against her. The gaslighting from the Lively camp is PR suicide. 

And now Lively and Reynolds are trying to prevent more receipts from coming out: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/01/22/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-gag-order-justin-baldoni/77888098007/

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Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

The cast (including Jenny Slate) and author (Colleen Hoover) also took Lively's side from the start, and they will all feel the blowback as well. Hoover deleted her IG yesterday. She had 2 million followers. All her young female readers are furious with her. 

This is a ridiculously long deep dive in to the case, but these two young women are intelligent and easy on the eyes if you want to get into the details. They initially backed Lively when she made the accusations, and have now done a 180. This is a powder keg situation and will create long lasting ramifications in Hollywood IMO. 

 

The easiest explanation is that the no-name author and the non-A-listers received some kind of veiled threat and terrified them into submission.

Posted
1 minute ago, Cap33 said:

They know they are fucked. I've seen some people say Lively's PR and legal team should back off of everything, say she had PPD (she had a kid shortly before filming), and that it affected her mindset through this ordeal. Won't happen, but that's how bad this is for her. 

 

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5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

The cast (including Jenny Slate) and author (Colleen Hoover) also took Lively's side from the start, and they will all feel the blowback as well. Hoover deleted her IG yesterday. She had 2 million followers. All her young female readers are furious with her. 

This is a ridiculously long deep dive in to the case, but these two young women are intelligent and easy on the eyes if you want to get into the details. They initially backed Lively when she made the accusations, and have now done a 180. This is a powder keg situation and will create long lasting ramifications in Hollywood IMO. 

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

That's rich considering they got a hold of private messages after seizing his PR girl's device without his knowledge

Exactly. Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

The easiest explanation is that the no-name author and the non-A-listers received some kind of veiled threat and terrified them into submission.

I think it's one of 2 scenarios: 

1. Lively told all of them during filming that Baldoni was harassing her, and they believed her.  Even if they didn't see anything. 

2. They know this is a total power play, that a prequel (and more money) was going to be made, and they chose to get behind Lively/Reynolds as they are much more powerful in the business. Classic Hollywood bullshit to people to turn a blind eye for their own survival. 

 

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4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

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The Today Show seems to think it's worthy of coverage. This is America dude

1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I think it's one of 2 scenarios: 

1. Lively told all of them during filming that Baldoni was harassing her, and they believed her.  Even if they didn't see anything. 

2. They know this is a total power play, that a prequel (and more money) was going to be made, and they chose to get behind Lively/Reynolds as they are much more powerful in the business. Classic Hollywood bullshit to people to turn a blind eye for their own survival. 

 

It's probably both, plus they have made an example of Baldoni.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

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I like to see narcissistic abusers, whether male or female, get their comeuppance.  We live in a world that is increasingly accepting of this abhorrent behavior, and any case that exposes these pieces of shit is good thing. 

 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

The easiest explanation is that the no-name author and the non-A-listers received some kind of veiled threat and terrified them into submission.

Characterizing Hoover (largely considered the Godmother of BookTok and one of the best selling writers--albeit shlock) as a no-name is a choice. I think David Baldacci and all the mass-produced spy/action/legal thrillers are all schlocky but they are well-known, popular and sell tons as well.

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17 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Characterizing Hoover (largely considered the Godmother of BookTok and one of the best selling writers--albeit shlock) as a no-name is a choice. I think David Baldacci and all the mass-produced spy/action/legal thrillers are all schlocky but they are well-known, popular and sell tons as well.

Compared to Ryan Reynolds she's a nobody.

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24 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Characterizing Hoover (largely considered the Godmother of BookTok and one of the best selling writers--albeit shlock) as a no-name is a choice. I think David Baldacci and all the mass-produced spy/action/legal thrillers are all schlocky but they are well-known, popular and sell tons as well.

Yeah, and it's the right choice

Posted
15 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

That's a very strange standard to meet, but okay. 

Meaning she's nowhere close to being an A-list actress and seems to be an overly inflated sense of self worth just because her husband is famous.  

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20 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

That's a very strange standard to meet, but okay. 

Go to the Football board and use Colleen Hoover's name. Let's see how many people there have ever heard of her or care enough to Google it. I doubt it's more than ten percent.

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4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Meaning she's nowhere close to being an A-list actress and seems to be an overly inflated sense of self worth just because her husband is famous.  

Except he was referring to Coleen Hoover

Posted
1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

Go to the Football board and use Colleen Hoover's name. Let's see how many people there have ever heard of her or care enough to Google it. I doubt it's more than ten percent.

Such a stupid argument. It’s like me saying “Go to a romantic fiction forum and mention Steve Sarkesian and see how many have heard of him”

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Posted
2 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Such a stupid argument. It’s like me saying “Go to a romantic fiction forum and mention Steve Sarkesian and see how many have heard of him”

I bet his numbers there would be better than her numbers in a football forum. Do you actually believe Hoover was famous enough to withstand a PR attack from Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively?

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1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

I bet his numbers there would be better than her numbers in a football forum. Do you actually believe Hoover was famous enough to withstand a PR attack from Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively?

You’re just talking out of your ass. Hoover was not the subject of any PR attack. She actually has sided with Lively. 

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On 1/4/2025 at 11:06 AM, SquishMitten said:

Something about Ryan Reynolds’s personality makes it hard for me to believe he’d be married to someone that’s a super bitch. 

Why? He seems like a pretty laid back, funny guy. Opposites attract. 

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Posted (edited)
20 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Go to the Football board and use Colleen Hoover's name. Let's see how many people there have ever heard of her or care enough to Google it. I doubt it's more than ten percent.

I doubt 10% could name 5 books that don't have pictures; nonetheless, the author's demographic is teen girls and twentysomething women as well as their moms. I bet 90% of them know who she is

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Posted
11 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

the author's demographic is teen girls and twentysomething women as well as their moms

Most Surly dudes think this is their target demographic as well.

Narrator: It's not.

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Posted
I doubt 10% could name 5 books that don't have pictures; nonetheless, the author's demographic is teen girls and twentysomething women as well as their moms. I bet 90% of them know who she is

I’ll have you know Hank the Cowdog is 81 finely written masterpieces complete with illustrations, not pictures.
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Posted
4 hours ago, Cap33 said:

Exactly. Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. 

Anyone that says what you posted should immediately be hit with a misdemeanor fine.  You would get a warning for typing it out, but a stern warning.

Posted
1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

She actually has sided with Lively. 

If you read more than teen fiction you'd understand the power dynamic that led Hoover to bend the knee to the clearly more powerful celebrity. Remember not that long ago you were trying to argue that Hoover was somehow on equal footing with Lively?

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Man, I read the last coupla days worth of posts on this thread.  And I tried to give a shit.

And I just can't.

Some attractive rich people are attacking each other for reasons I don't really understand.  But in that dispute, one of them must be an angel and the other must be a devil.  I could try to expend some energy to figure out which is which....but I just can't seem to give a single fraction of a fuck.

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