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The Behavioral Arts

- I enjoy watching Spidey or The Behavioral Panel break down patterns of behavior and what that communicates. I've seen them look at multiple interviews/interrogations/etc and while they don't claim to be mind readers, their experience with analyzing tone and body language is amazing!

I know we've all seen the "little bump" video that sparked a wild fire. While I saw that interview, I didn't see Spidey's analysis of it until this past weekend. He has no skin in the game, doesn't know any of the parties personally, and gave his professional opinion of the dynamic occurring in the interview.

A few things he covers-

Dismissive Dynamics: As the interview progresses Lively and Posey engage in behavior to shut out the interview.

What I found most interesting about this is that Posey at first tries to engage with Flaa, but by the time the interview concludes she is fully within the "mean girl dynamics" with Blake leading. He compares this to how this term was popularized with the movie and how Regina George dictates the group behavior. Most importantly, how the girls on their own don't behave badly but when they're around Regina they conform to the mean girl dynamics driven by Regina setting the tone. He says that he observed Blake to be playing this role in the interview.

I had seen aspects of this in the text messages between Slate and Lively where Slate defers to Lively's interpretation of events and starts to villainize Justin. Seeing how this shift happens in real time in the Flaa interview made sense of how that shift occurs.

Signs of Stress: Spidey highlights the increasing stress signals from Flaa including her self-soothing methods.

I didn't doubt that she found this interview stressful but Blake supporters who supposedly "support women" bashed Flaa for saying that this was a terrible experience for her and seemed to accuse of her of lying.

The "expert" on the Lively side mentioned that the smear campaign was in part accomplished by boosting a top comment that was negative towards Lively so that it influenced people. However, plenty of people (including Spidey) found her behavior to be objectively disrespectful without being told what opinion to have. Lively's expert seems to be explaining how we all were manipulated into disliking her and seems to overlook that we can independently see her behavior and react.

Anyways, I HIGHLY recommend watching Spidey and The Behavioral Panel and you may find this video interesting 😄

Just sharing what the new narrative/talking points/bullshit story from the media is.

Link

The narrative: Ryan played a key role in bringing this to a close and knew early on that this wouldn’t work out. The settlement happened to save their marriage.

PLEASE IGNORE:

- the fact that Ryan was involved in the beginning and every step of the way.
- it was Ryan that said “the gloves will come off” if Wayfarer didn’t take ownership of their terrible marketing
- it was Ryan who was rumored to be “storyboarding” this lawsuit to determine what narrative to sell the public including the move to shut up the CCs who contradicted them
- Ryan’s past with Richard Fedyck that shows that he enjoys stepping on people and abusing the system and gets away with it by controlling the narrative

PLEASE ACCEPT:

- the stories about their marriage being in trouble in the weeks leading up to the settlement weren’t part of a pre-planned exit.
- Ryan is the reasonable one who didn’t want the lawsuit and is doing his best to calm an unhinged wife
- Ryan only lost his temper with Sony and WFP because he was a good husband, not because he assisted with the takeover (rewriting the script, reaching out to Matt Damon). He was ensuring Blake’s safety by making sure their edit was used
- Ryan “listens in silence to Blake” (😂)

This has been a public service announcement

Honestly I didn’t realize that letting off a little steam with this video would feel good 😊

Summary (credit u/Humble_Network_7653)

Blake Lively just exposed herself—and not in the way she thinks.

She spent months framing this lawsuit as some big stand for women, like she was leading a new wave of accountability. “Mountains of evidence,” ready to testify, all of it. And then what happens? She drops the case right before it actually gets tested in court.

Let’s be real:
If you have mountains of evidence, you don’t walk away days before trial. You walk away when you know it’s not going to hold up.

So what does that tell us?
This was never about justice—it was about optics. Reputation management. Controlling the narrative.

And the timing makes it worse. She exits the lawsuit and then shows up at the Met Gala, fully glammed, smiling for cameras like nothing happened. You don’t get to claim you’re fighting for something serious and then immediately pivot to red carpet mode like it was all just PR.

She dragged multiple people into this, framed it as something bigger than herself, and then bailed the second it got risky.

At this point, she didn’t prove she’s a victim—she proved exactly what people have been saying: tone-deaf, performative, and willing to weaponize a cause when it benefits her.

That’s the real takeaway.

Edit: added summary

This popped up for me today. I haven’t listened to this CC so far but I like her. I can’t wait to dive into more of the unsealed docs when I’m done hosting out of towners but I got a chance to listen to her examine some of the stuff that came out and it’s juicy.

• Social Media Analytics (5:30 - 11:15): Lively submitted data analytics for platforms including Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, and TikTok. The findings indicate that the spikes in engagement were tied to the movie premiere (It Ends With Us) rather than a coordinated "smear campaign," with consistent, organic activity patterns across platforms.
• The Hollywood Reporter Article (17:04 - 20:09): The video discusses Lively's attempt to impeach the credibility of Melissa Nathan (of TAG) by focusing on an article regarding Justin Baldoni hiring crisis PR. The creator notes Lively's selective focus on this issue while ignoring other allegations.
• Internal Communications and Edits (52:00 - 1:04:12): The video reveals internal texts from Sony executives, including Sanford Panich and Andrea Gianati. Key revelations include:
• Sony executives expressing frustration with Lively's process and behavior (55:28).
• Evidence that Justin Baldoni’s cut of the film scored higher than Lively’s across all key metrics with book readers (56:38).
• Discussion regarding Lively’s request to delete "dailies" from the production (1:03:16).

• Damages and Expert Witnesses: A significant portion of the hearing focused on the reliability of Blake Lively's damages experts (Kenrich and MarkX). The defense argued their projections were highly speculative, inconsistent, and lacked independent analysis (0:21 - 2:48).

• Social Media and AI Manipulation: The parties debated the validity of expert reports concerning AI-driven negative sentiment and manipulation on social media. The judge noted that the evidence appears "confounded" and ordered a live evidentiary hearing for the experts to test their methodologies (4:53 - 8:49).

• Retaliation and Countersuit Admissibility: Arguments arose over whether Wayfarer Studios' $400 million countersuit could be introduced as evidence of retaliation. The judge challenged the legal logic presented by both sides regarding litigation privilege and Rule 11 (9:59 - 18:28).

• Bifurcation: The court discussed whether the trial should be bifurcated, specifically concerning the introduction of sensitive financial and punitive damages evidence (18:29 - 22:45).

Court Instructions and Logistics:

• Transparency: The judge emphasized that the public has a right to access court proceedings and set strict rules for unsealing documents, excluding only specific items like a private birth video (29:12 - 30:08).

• Trial Management: The court requested a streamlined exhibit list, required lead counsel to participate in meetings to narrow down issues, and warned attorneys about private conversations being picked up by microphones in the courtroom (31:08 - 34:00).

• Jury Selection (Voir Dire): There was a debate over including specific social media questions in the jury questionnaire to prevent potential bias or "infection" of the jury pool by pre-existing public views of the case (36:40 - 41:59).

Overall Vibe:

The creator observed that the Wayfarer legal team appeared well-prepared and concise, while the Lively team seemed to struggle with the judge's direct questioning and complex procedural challenges (42:14 - 44:38).

I’m fairly neutral on Theresa but I do find her take here interesting - Lively may be scared that she’ll lose retaliation

I was watching Flaas video today when she mentioned that Ryan’s IG doesn’t have photos of him and Blake recently. And that if you scroll through his recent photos you’ll see photos of him with everyone from Rob Mac to Hugh Jackman but not with his wife. First off, if my spouse was going through the wringer for speaking up about real SH I’d be supportive. (In this case she had such a ridiculous amount of control and ridiculous claims it’s probably hard to pretend)

There’s one pinned photo of Blake from 2021.

Then I saw a promo video that he did with Brandon probably in 2024 for IEWU. Most surprising to me was that his comments section was open (maybe close to the last time he could do that?) The comments are mixed but leaning towards critical. Where was the support of his 50M very real followers?