She called it cruelty, that no religion condones it and asked her audience to stop normalising it. She was responding to what the video showed, and she was not wrong to feel it. On Sunday (2 August), before the noise could build further, Mekyun went on Threads herself — deleted the video, and posted an apology that was direct and without deflection. In the chaos, Rocky was strangled by the rope; that is not the story the first video told. Getting something wrong and owning it, cleanly and quickly, is exactly the kind of realness that built it.