I can't necessarily speak for others' feelings about the girl, but Shirenu quoted my explanation of the impression I got from her tweet.
That this girl was dismissing her golden ticket to the third round with such seeming disrespect made me livid for a good few minutes.
But then I took a step back and thought about it.
I was honestly surprised at how negatively even I was reacting, and I have to say, I didn't feel too good about it afterwards.
As a result of the 2ch fallout, she was scared enough to erase that tweet, post an apology, then make her account protected.
Imagine you tweeted something ironic or sarcastic, thinking the only people who will ever see it are your friends, who are your only followers.
Then you find a thread on a discussion board with hundreds of negative replies calling your character into question, just for the content of that tweet.
The only way I can describe such a situation is "disturbing".
I'm sure there's lots of girls who don't really care about Morning Musume but just audition for the hell of it, unaware of how seriously the hardcore fans take the audition process.
In our world of social media, it's just a bad decision that led to this whole thing coming to light and spiraling out of control.
The internet can be a scary and brutal place, and in hindsight I wouldn't be surprised if this girl was a little traumatized by this incident.
A girl makes a decision to post something that she thought would be a semi-private thing just shared with her friends.
That so many latched onto it and reacted as they did makes me feel kind of sick, as this judgmental attitude only shows the worst of our fandom.
Even more upsetting is that I was guilty myself of this knee-jerk reaction.
At this point, I'm not upset at this girl anymore -- I just feel sorry for her.
And yes, I kind of want to forget the whole thing happened.