What Blake Lively doesn't understand about the internet

Grab your friends and your florals, it's time for some online backlash

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Blake Likely with her It Ends With Us co-star Brandon Sklenar during a cringe-inducing interview

When the actress Blake Lively first started getting dragged online for how she went about promoting her new film It Ends With Us, I did not engage. At first glance it felt like the sort of snark women in the public eye endure all day every day.

Some were unimpressed by Lively’s commitment to floral dresses on the press tour, there were reports of a fallout amongst the cast, while others bitched that Lively had the audacity to release a hair care range considering she was ‘known for having dry hair’. As I hadn’t given the Gossip Girl star’s split ends a second thought I scrolled on by.

But the noise got louder and louder and by the middle of the week Lively …