Taking a break from Christmas prep to comment on this before the topic gets stale but: I understand where Kelly is coming from and I even feel some sympathy for her. And a lot of the Max fan accounts are going after Kelly saying it was “clearly” a joke, but many people thought that clip was real–myself included.
A significant amount of the hate/”jokes” Kelly receives, especially from men, are thinly veiled misogyny and slut shaming. People will point out her problematic politics and hypocrisy, and they’re not wrong at all, but it’s often hypocritical coming from Max fan accounts. Their fave has a questionable history himself and I doubt his politics deviate much from Kelly’s. And I’m saying this as a big Max fan myself. F1 in general is rich and conservative.
If the internet constantly “joked” about how my long term partner actually hates me, they hope we break up, etc… I’d get tired of it too and might put my foot down at some point. And I do think that Kelly’s reaction could be partly or largely fuelled by her own insecurities around Max proposing and the many Instagram comments asking about it. I have mixed feelings on whether she should have commented on it, but I still think it was worth highlighting that the video was edited since many didn’t know that. These Max fan accounts on Twitter saying it’s just a joke when 1. Countless people didn’t know it was just a joke and 2. The feelings and sentiments behind it aren’t merely jokes is a cop out.
If people edited misleading videos about Max or their other faves to reinforce a negative narrative, they’d feel some sort of way about it. It’s easy to say that it’s just a joke that someone is taking too seriously when they’ve never been subjected to a fraction of the criticism, hate, mocking, and scrutiny that someone like Kelly has. It makes sense why she feels that way–and I'm saying this as someone who LOLed over the video. We've all at some point in our lives, felt hurt by a joke made about us. We found it funny–but it doesn't mean that Kelly has to find it funny or should've played along like some of these Twitter accounts suggested.
I'm a hypocrite who also gossips about the wags, but I'm trying to to retain a sense of empathy and perspective when it comes to them. I think a lot of the discourse on Instagrams, especially the ones sending in ridiculously nit picky and overly critical anonymous messages, fail to grapple with the complexity and nuance of humans, including themselves and their favourites. Like I recently saw a message criticizing Alex for holding her phone because she had a purse
but i want to wish you happy holidays , have a lovely time with family and friends 
cant wait for 24 so this chaos is over 
i needed to turn my brain so i knew some gossip and f1 world would help . and Carlos def helped 
