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Maybe I'm just too jaded at this point, but I don't think it's likely that he didn't realize that his fame got him some clout, especially since he was the one initiating the DM's, and being spergally aggressive about them. I don't think he was nearly as calculating as "I have power, this chick wants power/dick, I can leverage this for Cheese Pizza", but it doesn't have to be 4d chess to be fucking creepy.I'm mostly on board with the point you're trying to make. The power issue does typically appear in serious settings like the workplace, but it's just a social pattern that can show up in any group of people with a hierarchal structure, even communities of spergs. It's heavily dependent on how seriously the people involved take it.
It of course doesn't absolve the 'less powerful' person of responsibility; it's a two-way street, though I agree that in this case 'power play' is probably not what happened. That was my reason for giving a few hypotheticals about how Carson saw himself in the picture; he would need to know he had 'power' in another person's eyes in order to take advantage using it. If she thought he was powerful but he didn't, that's a misunderstanding. He probably saw himself as a nobody who got lucky, especially at 19. I just don't blame people for considering the other possibilities, which is mostly what I was getting at.
All the same, you are right that the chick was fucking retarded, and if she really didn't want it she would have fucked off with the block button. The """victim""" in a story doesn't have to be sympathetic, and the fact that she is milking it for twitter clout definitely makes her look like a shit head. Still, two pieces of shit a sparkling toilet bowl does not make.