Cindy: "What? Go home now? When I'm finally popular? I never got this in junior high! No way I'm going home now and leaving all this!"
you got it. She knows the cameras are running. She doesn't realize they will abondon her along with all her "so called" friends in the protest. She's a dupe and is being duped but...she is too ignorant to know it. So, press on cindeee...press on.