Analyzing reaction to celebrity engagement.from @shamelesspodcast

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Aussie actor Liam Hemsworth is engaged to Aussie model Gabriella Brooks. Gabriella shared the images on Instagram announcing the news. These two have been dating since 2019, and they both have very famous exes. Yes. Gabriela famously dated Maddie Healy for about four years in her twenties. Yep. Of course, Liam Hemsworth was married to Miley Cyrus. When Popcrave tweeted about the engagement, there was, like, a worst of retweet that had 300,000 likes that I wanna read out to you both. You mean Miley Cyrus's abusive ex husband and Miley Cyrus's ex dancer are engaged? Worse people you know united together. As I said, I'm not usually a fan of just, like, plucking one tweet, especially something so brutal rank and defamatory onto the show and saying this is an example of a broader sentiment. But 300,000 likes and 21,000 retweets for one tweet says a lot to me, and I think it's actually worth fact checking a few of these things. First of all, we've good to the archives. We've also done a full scandal series on Miley Cyrus. So if anyone's well placed to speak about Miley Cyrus law, we feel pretty well placed. She hasn't said a bunch about the marriage to Liam Hemsworth. She's given dribs and drabs over the years, but none of it has been emphatic. And, yes, it's been tinged with a little negativity, but so has every celebrity divorce. Well, yeah. That's the thing. I would say and I spent a good deal of time on this yesterday as well, just, like, going back through anything she's ever said about him. And I agree with you. It's obviously a broken down relationship. You're not gonna say, that's the person I wanna be with the rest of my life if you're no longer with them. Yes. I would say the general sentiment that I get from those quotes is that they were together from when she was 16 years good, that they may or may not have been quite codependent, that they argued a lot, and that she no longer wanted that in her life. She also has spoken a bit about the fact that they were driven to marry each other after they trauma bonded when their house was worst down. I think online, we just love finding the hero and the villain. Like, in a breakup, whatever it may be, there has to be the tier, there has to be the villain, there has to be the good guy, there has to be the bad guy. To call someone abusive and for that tweet to get 300,000 likes, like, I actually shudder to think what that could do to your mental health. Liam Hemsworth has kind of been off the grid, dare I say, for quite some time since his marriage broke down. I just find conversations online to be so incredibly reductive now to the point where I don't even wanna be there anymore. Like, I don't want to take part in a online discourse that looks this way.