The thing is, she had plenty of warning that something like this tweet was going to happen. We and countless others have been telling her how she’s been coming across for over a year, but any time she’s been called out, she not only blocks the person, but anyone that interacts positively with their comment, and hides or deletes it so nobody else can see it. She filters her comments so certain topics don’t come up. Where she’s platformed elsewhere, either by her design or Gleam’s, those comments are censored, too. And if she does engage, it’s usually just to defend herself, with this “you can disagree if you want, I’d just rather you didn’t do it in my time/space
” stuck at the end.
Pre-emptively removing anyone that shows any sign of agreeing with criticism of her from her platforms is the opposite of being open about and comfortable with her privilege and background, and she’s paying for it hard now that she’s the subject of a viral meme that will have been seen by millions of people, certainly more people than she has followers.
Her saying she finds the meme “funny” is code for her saying she understands and accepts her privilege, but going by her housemates’ comments, I don’t think she does. Although it’s not out of character for her to accept logically unsound and/or problematic support, I don’t think she would have let them comment that stuff without her greenlighting it, and that alone suggests she doesn’t really understand how she is advantaged and what she has done wrong.
I get the impression she is very insecure, but insecurity isn’t a good enough excuse for her behaviour, and if she can’t conduct herself properly due to her mental ill health, she needs to take a break (which she has the luxury to be able to do!) instead of expecting other people to be okay with suffering as a result of her actions just because she’s mentally ill. These aren’t people she had personal relationships with (that wouldn’t make it OK, just a bit less cut and dry), they are her employees and her customers and she has exploited them. If she has been going to therapy since that video nearly three years ago, she either isn’t speaking to her therapist about her career, just whatever it was that caused her PTSD, or is presenting the information dishonestly. Or she’s just ignoring her therapist? There is no way her therapist would hear her say anything that boils down to “I set my friends on critics and insult fans” or “I got teenagers to work for me for a few quid” or “I responded to a huge controversy by winging it on live-posted Instagram stories” (all things that would stress Grace out and be candidates to bring to therapy) and not try to talk to her about it or recommend alternate ways of dealing with it, unless she’s got a
tit therapist or is doing something less conversational, like CBT.