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I must ask you, are you around any of her fans very much? Their behavior online makes it hard to feel anything for them & that is on them. So many fans are finding ways to express their displeasure with these fans. It's a sorry sight & I cannot wait for it to die down. 

Their latest kick is since Sam died for Lulu that they are going to do the best they can to sabotage the return of Lulu. Gee, how uplifting.

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Thank you for the list of the many times Frank has been petty in public because he really and truly has. Which I believe is more on him than on Disney. Not that KM helped her case.

 

And I saw there was a video of KM's speech after her last scene I saw yesterday and felt it spoke volume. There she was being emotional, the cast was emotional, and there were tears and hugs. And as someone with a camera did a spin around the set, there was Frank front and center, looking annoyed and NOT clapping for her speech. Giving very much 'H@e why you here?' 

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To be fair, by the time they FINALLY got to Frank, most people were no longer clapping. He could've clapped his fool head off & we would not have seen it. That said, I have no investment in who clapped or didn't. To me that in itself is petty. Kelly's words were the important part, to me at least. 

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Judging all her fans and their support by the set of vocal people online that are almost always nasty about everything GH is a disservice. This is nothing like the volume and vitriol that happened during the JaSam and Liason wars of the 2000’s, because the audience has dwindled considerably.

Yes I am online, read the tags annd know the circle of nasty GH folks and I also recognize the difference between fan-trolls and actual sane people fans. Do you?

It was, for lack of a better word, tacky of him.

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Whether he clapped or not, he was fücked either way. If he did clap, he'd be called out for clapping. If he didn't, he'd be called out for not clapping. It was a no-win situation for him to be in. However, the narrative of him being the only one not clapping is false (not saying you are selling this, but I've seen it online).

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I don't judge all as one. That's why I say things like some fans or specifically fans who act a certain way. So I am lucky because I do not fall into that disservice gap. 

The differences are so obvious as to be glaring. There are crazies almost anywhere. No one person has a lock on telling idiots from more regular fans. Not sure why you would even put it that way. But, if it's meant as a challenge, that's one I mastered long ago.

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Yeah no. The clapping is still happening and one of his hands is behind his back when they pan to him. Though you say you have no investment you sure have spent some time lately spreading negative KeMo comments disguised as dish, and support for FV.

And as I have said many times, in this thread and others, I don’t like the character of Sam and think KeMo has been lackluster on GH since JFP days. Loved her as Livvie. I think her being gone is overdue. But I have eyes, and the video is pretty clear. His face alone says plenty.

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Or he could have had some sense of awareness and either hidden behind some people or at least faked it a little bit. But he had zero control over who was filming and sharing the video. And you are correct, damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The whole thing has been handled incredibly poorly.

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Which was not my goal so thank you.  

 

After the work weekend I just had, don't get me started on people and self-awareness. lol. But...agree. As a leader among the cast, I would at least had expected him to fake it a little bit. I've seen general managers give better face for a worker they clearly don't like than he gave. 

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I have sympathy for Kelly's recent hardships in life. But in terms of the show, Kelly has often phoned it in for at least half her run because she knew she was safe for many years. Then she played with fire tanking her one safe harbor (Jason) and thought she would be repositioned. She got a C-pairing for her efforts and we see where that's left her.

I think FV is petty and controlling, but I also think Kelly Monaco made herself vulnerable and irrelevant on the show. And I have no need to see Sam again.

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