I'm not sure if this is a byproduct of her social retardation, her narcissim, her desperation or a mix of it all but it's pretty sad to see the behavior she'll excuse (like cheating or publicly humiliating her) because a guy texts her a heart emoji after she transfers him money.
My own personal read on Gunt is that her whole life after high school is one big cope and an attempt to prove to the cool girls that she's also cool, and that they lost their chance to acknowledge her back then (aside from endless eaiting of slop). But instead of working hard on bettering herself and moving up the social ladder via a great career, she, of course, did it the Gunt way - fatly, lazily, slovenly.
Instead of an OMG glow-up, she did a blow-up instead. She's so much fatter than her old teen pics, so much so that young Chantal probably would have cried if she knew then she'd become this fake-ass muslima with bad skin and heavily reliant on filters and the hijab to hide the gunt and chins.
Instead of working the corporate ladder and gain respect as she moved up it, she thought being an influencer is a quick shortcut and just as good, giving up what was already a lazy girl job out of, well, sheer laziness. For the few who make it, it is, but in her case, she became a cult laughingstock for Gorlworld.
She thought paying for dudes to act like they love her would shut those mean bitches up, but it only served to highlight how much she's unwanted, much like how she was so many years ago in school. Her clumsy attempts to make it seem like she's a hot vixen getting plowed daily only ended up with the public knowing how little to no sex she actually gets.
A life of chasing vindication, revenge, and admiration from people who wronged her is now seeing her stuck in an active war zone, unable to make enough to live in her home country, so she has to tough it out and make her Canadian dollaridoos stretch in a stranger's shithole country, and let's be clear, Salad is still someone Gunt doesn't truly know.
Love that for her? Of course. It would be sad if she wasn't such a gargantuan bitch to everyone else including animals.