Knowing Chris Rocks hosting style of taking jabs, Part of me thinks they went into the show thinking "okay, if Chris says anything at all, it's on"
Also the thing is like Dave or Pryor or Hart....part of Chris jokes is self deprecating and that is also one of the reasons he is beloved as a comic. So hitting him actually gives him the power (long as he kept his mouth closed...which he did).
Not to mention he is also smaller than Will physically and Will is a bigger star. Then the optics of everyone running to Will's defense at the awards show, Will never being escorted out, Will getting a standing ovation and Will crazy speech).
You just keep seeing Ls all around and is why the Academy is scrambling to clean this up.
Also like in corporate America your peers can love you but that don't mean upper management ain't got an issue with your behavior and can possibly reprimand you.
Like I said I could care less about the sides in this. I am a professional and a business owner at the end of the day this shyt about dollars and cents. If you fukking up these big wigs money and they getting blow back its gonna be hell to pay.
This ain't just about the Oscars this about the network and their advertisers (these multi-national companies). If you think they ain't called up ABC and said what the fukk is that shyt that happened and I want an explanation then folks must have been blind and deaf when that Janet shyt happened back at the super bowl years ago.