I ain't caught up on the thread. Clock me if you gotta.
But a little rrat squeaked in my ear today about the recent Lumi kerfuffle. "Our star thief is a cunning tard," squeaked the rrat, "Suppose that Lumi, knowing her old pals from Cyberlive, knew how they would react to her using their old models? Suppose that she expected - or at least hoped - that they would make asses of themselves trying to cancel her if she did that? Suppose that it was bait, a 4D chess move, a clever stratagem from the Star that Glows?"
Now I have no idea, and I make no accusations. I just happen to find the idea of Lumi as a shadowy manipulator appealing.