## Colophon tags:: url:: https://spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told %% title:: The Blake Lively story that isn't being told type:: [[clipped-note]] author:: [[@spitfirenews.com]] %% ## Notes > Kat Tenbarge — [view in context](https://hyp.is/G1WrdPZGEe-0FsOzdadQeA/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) > The Blake Lively story that isn't being told — [view in context](https://hyp.is/HLWKFvZGEe-8mD_i3U3kNQ/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) ⬆️ date:: [[2025-03-01]] > If it sounds like a redux of the smear campaign against Amber Heard that peaked during her 2022 defamation trial against Johnny Depp, that’s because this is a new chapter in the same playbook. Baldoni’s crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, who Lively is also suing, worked for Depp during the trial. Some of the same YouTubers who covered the trial through a strictly anti-Heard and pro-Depp lens have been churning out hate videos about Lively, earning millions of views and thousands of dollars. And anti-Lively sentiment has dominated the comment sections on platforms like Reddit and TikTok. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/UnfDMvZxEe-luBsvY8NPSQ/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) > It is yet another example of the misogynistic response to women reporting sexual harassment and retaliation, which further harms victims and emboldens perpetrators. Today, this cycle of abuse is broadcast to the world as a modern witch trial. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/wo5URvZyEe-Pgy87BAkvFQ/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) > Lively’s lawsuit also offers a peek behind the curtain in the business of social manipulation, a little-understood but widely influential industry that can sway a vocal majority on topics ranging from politics to business to entertainment and beyond. Social manipulation is weaponized by Trump and his allies in their path to destroy the American system of government, only to be received with thunderous applause. These tactics are tested on victims of harassment and abuse. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/IUI7LvZzEe-ast9UIAUmlw/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) ⬆️ hmmm...> Fast forward to the end of 2024. In the days following the New York Times piece, I began searching for information about Wallace on Reddit and noticed some of the comments containing his name and business, Street Relations, were being downvoted into oblivion. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/JR0-svZ2Ee-ocpfXf9CRjg/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) > The practice of using multiple accounts to upvote or downvote Reddit posts and comments to manipulate their visibility is referred to as vote manipulation or brigading. Users who volunteer as moderators for the various Reddit communities (subreddits) encounter it frequently. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/ROap9PZ2Ee-K0hs-3O36nw/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) > Between the premiere of It Ends With Us in August and the New York Times story in December, the biggest subreddits for discussing pop culture turned on Lively. They included r/Fauxmoi, one of the only subreddits that was largely supportive of Heard. Lively’s lawsuit noted that in August, comments on r/Fauxmoi pushed the narrative that Lively and Reynolds “steamrolled” Baldoni during production. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/T4WgQPZ2Ee-XZv9CiVz96Q/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told) > At one point, Reddit intervened on their reports related to a pro-Baldoni subreddit that was created last August, soon after Wallace said they were “crushing it” on Reddit. The pro-Baldoni subreddit had been directing attacks on the pro-Lively subreddit, against Reddit’s sitewide rules. The Reddit spokesperson said the company sent a warning to the pro-Baldoni subreddit for “community interference.” — [view in context](https://hyp.is/l1E-XPZ2Ee-Y1UfwY3wOTw/spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-lively-story-that-isnt-being-told)