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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This situation reminds me of the "Bad Art Friend" story by Robert Kolker in the NYT  a few years ago.

One side is a neophyte and less talented person swimming in a pond with successful professionals. They are weird, cringe worthy and have inflated egos about their purpose in life.

The more successful people see them as losers yet use them for their own interests. They are pompous and arrogant and seem to hold the upper hand in the dispute. A not small part of this is because their opponent is in no way any kind of threat, not having their professional or social standing.

The more successful people involve their nasty friends in a takedown at some point and everything they wrote cones out in evidence. They look like a!sholes. They think that because the cringy person is a loser that they won't fight back. But they do and all it does is tarnish the more successful people's reputations.

You never know who is going to acquiesce or fight back. I think Baldoni is a weirdo but I think ultimately Lively and Reynolds come off worse.

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I think it's really different. Justin isn't a "neophyte". He was on a hit TV show. Also his friends are both powerful and, IMO, nasty. Sarowitz is a billionaire who threatened Blake on multiple occasions. Melissa Nathan is a known bottom dweller known for helping such swell, upstanding people as Johnny Depp and the Alexander brothers. Jed Wallace is a shady creep.

Blake and Ryan are definitely powerful, and yes they used their connections in this battle. But I think portraying Justin as some newbie who got swallowed up by a machine when some big and powerful giant stomped on him is incorrect. He had and continues to have plenty of power and friends, as well as lots of money and other resources. This is very, very different from Bad Art Friend where one woman was a more successful writer with friends who were on bestseller lists, and the other woman was a total nobody who'd paid to participate in some workshops with the more successful one. Also, that story involved flat out IP theft. The more successful writer lifted a letter the less successful writer had posted on a private Facebook group and included it as her own work in a short story she published and was celebrated for. There's really no comparable situation here. I know Justin accuses Blake of "stealing" the movie, but he still owns it (it actually made him a lot of money). Movies are collaborative art and there was a power struggle on the set of this movie. But it's functionally very different than one writer taking another writer's words and passing them off as her own.[/quote]

Not OP but you don’t have to take our word for it. Blake perceived herself to be more powerful because she was. You can look at what Blake and Taylor have said.

Taylor: “welcome to Hollywood Justin”.

Taylor: “bring a tiny violin to a knife fight”. We know the tiny violin refers to Justin b/c she said it in a text to Blake. So in this lyric she’s saying he’s outgunned.

Blake: “I’m khaleesi and I happen to have a few dragons”
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