The main problem is that the focus should be on Sia, but thanks to her gaslighting it successfully shifted to Paris instead (unfortunately I fell for this trap too).
It started like any other case where the fanbase tries to balance the narrative by spreading information, promoting Square One etc, using the huge platform given to blue ticks. I think that’s a good and proactive step, but even if someone thinks it’s useless, hopefully we can agree that it doesn’t do any harm. This would be the end of this story, being just one case among many similar others.
It weren’t the fans who dragged Paris into this. Sia baited her with kindness and then immediately started acting in a condescending manner, as some kind of a savior for poor victim Paris. When fans tried to warn her about it, Sia gaslighted like they were bullying Paris, and she, again, the savior in a drama she instigated herself. Now, it can be argued whether fans should have interfered at all (lesson learnt from this situation: no), but those warning her definitely weren’t bullying (I know there are “fans” harassing her unfortunately, but that’s a different case).
Someone genuinely concerned about others would never publicly treat them as victims or insinuate things about them, even if truly believing that’s the case. Not to mention they would give them time to come to terms with their situation in their own pace, not persuading them into something. She could at best reach out to Paris privately (and without innuendos) with her concerns, but even that’s questionable as she’s basically just a stranger. That’s a legitimate criticism towards fans, but when Sia does the same it goes unnoticed, like it made a difference that she’s a famous person, not just MJ’s stupid fans.
And how could you support something you know basically nothing about, it’s just pretending then. It’s very cheap nowadays to “support cases” thanks to social media, all you have to do is just drop a tweet siding with a popular case/opinion, and you’ll be celebrated as woke and an activist and a good person - without doing anything, basically.
If Sia genuinely cared for R&S’s case as she pretended last year, she would have looked into it further (as that’s what someone does when truly interested in/touched by something). The fact that she obviously didn’t do that (then she would have found out by now that R&S aren’t necessarily telling the truth, and perhaps it would be better to support another, provably credible case) questions her intention and honesty to begin with.
