As for David, a frown formed on his face as he processed Sarah's words defending the other streamer. His casual entertainment was being interrupted by what he perceived as unnecessary virtue signaling, and it forced him to recalculate his approach to the situation.
The fact that she was defending that girl meant one of two things in his mind. Either Sarah was genuinely such a principled person, which would mean that she would not easily yield to his manipulations and would prove very difficult to corrupt. Someone with authentic moral convictions would require a much slower, more careful approach that might take perhaps weeks of gradual boundary erosion.
Alternatively, she could be a two-faced woman who performed kindness for public approval while being privately willing to compromise her stated values for the right incentives. In his experience, people who made grand gestures of virtue often had hidden hypocrisies that could be exploited more easily than genuine moral consistency.
