Pick your poison.
Maybe they lied so much they believe their own hype?
Maybe they think that they've sunk this much into sinking Vic and turning back now is wasting all that effort?
Maybe they think their careers are mostly over because very few companies are willing to hire such brand poison and their den of snakes is under threat of getting burned out by Toei, so their only hope is becoming martyrs and victors in a social justice battle, thus letting them get bank off it Zoe-style?
Maybe they're just malicious, stupid, angry and refuse to listen to any voices of reason, and thus really do want Vic's balls, and think that just because the judge didn't rule entirely out of their favor, they can win?
Maybe they exist in an echo chamber and don't comprehend how fucked they are, no matter the outcome of the lawsuit?
Maybe all of above?
There's a lot of possibilities.
Gotchas are bread and butter of twitter arguments. Get enough gotchas and you don't have to anyhow refute someone's point, you can just remind the world that X person once said Y wrong thing or did Z stupid thing.