Three pages before
this post, that user wanting to creste multiple subscriptions just to "tell MEN" who is the moneymaker, people not directly blaming Malik even when the trailer shows it's going to be a disappointment and opt to not believing in Dom as a top even though he has better track record regardless of how you want to see him as person/performer, redundant posts of trailer's snippets and images before the release, multiple pages before the announcement of this scene wanting him to bottom, that's enough for me to prove people were/are excited for the idea of him bottoming.
Malik has been going through the motion in his performances. MEN has historically been doing the same shit for decades but people kept getting roped in because of models like Malik and William Seed whom people worship despite doing very little because they're muscular and conventionally attractive. The studio knows very well who they're dealing with. MEN has gotten away with stupid scenarios since the salad incident and keep releasing myriads attempt at going viral yet people keep forgiving them. This thead is an embodiment of that.
Also to me MEN scenes being distributed as soon as they're released means nothing. I'll even claim that the loss from having their scenes pirated was negligible compared to the profit they earned. Much as I despise MEN and hate Malik's performance, I'm self-aware enough to understand I'm kind of in the minority.