I don't think JoJo truly sees an issue with what Colleen did. She was also technically a victim. She admitted it herself... She befriended Colleen at TWELVE.
Trisha is showing a lot of growth honestly, not "calling out" Todrick by name, not attacking Tana for having JoJo on, like Trisha has always been a very reactive person and it looks like she took her time to evaluate her emotions and her situation before filming this episode, I think she should get a little credit for that
Edit: I'm obviously not condoning or forgiving her past actions and the awful things she's done, I'm only pointing out that there's a difference between her reaction from then and this reaction now, and it is very difficult for some people to change behaviour that stems from a trauma response (feeling attacked and then retaliating)
I think Jojo doesn't see this as "that bad" because she's been around it her whole life. She has always been sorta used by adults so it's all she knows she doesn't have the perspective that it's not okay. And she turned out very successful so she only sees it as a positive when the large majority of people who go thru that do not end up successful like her. She doesn't see that there can be both negative actions that end when seemly positive (for her) outcomes m, she has very black and white perspectives
What reaction did Jojo think she was gonna get defending a predator...again... smh. Love watching Adam react to stuff though, they're handing him golden content lol
What really makes me mad about people infantilizing Jojo in order to excuse her apologist behavior is that a lot of those same people would go extra hard after you for literally any perceived misstep.
Edit: lol dang I should have waited until later in the video to comment.
this whole year has just kept showing me how rude Jojo was from the dating scandals she's had to her still publicly loving Shane and Jeffree, and now this whole Colleen drama
I feel like JoJo was told to defend these people. I refuse to believe that someone is this dumb to stand by Colleen, Shane, AND James Charles. They could be using her as a tool to get heat of of them.
my theory on why jojo is being babied so much is because in a sense a lot of people have seen her grow up. especially adults who’ve seen her since dance moms and around that age. so it is a bit of that parasocial dynamic. i think for gen z around jojo’s age a lot of people thought she was weird and childish then realized hating on her so intensely was cringe. but now that we see her behaviour we’re quicker to call it out because we know better. older ppl will look at 20 yr olds often and dismiss certain actions based on youth. but it’s a behavioral pattern from jojo at this point rather insidious
I think a big thing too is that Jojo is SURROUNDED by people who have been fine with exploiting her for basically her entire life. Like her mother has been actively exploiting her since she was a baby so there’s not a single rational adult around her