So like I said I don’t pay that much attention to the individual cast members, the most I pay attention to is Kat and that’s just because I want her to succeed out of spite due all the shit she went through on TVD and the fandom.

Nina, aside from a few interviews here and there that I’ve seen and I watched one Paley fest panel with all of the cast, I haven’t seen much of her irl persona. The one thing I only noticed us that she was almost as bland as her character, like there wasn’t much to her, nothing really about her personality to attach to. She was just there, you could have replaced her with any other pretty brunette and it would yield the same results (which is incidentally how I feel about Elena minus the hair color since that obviously didn’t matter in casting). Like Candice, who isn’t even all that interesting either, has more of a distinct personality that one can attach to.

So I get what you mean by manufactured because she seems like someone who’s just trying to be as neutral as possible and the few moments she “lights up” it seems fake. But I don’t think she liked TVD or the fandom, just liked the attention they brought because as you said, she doesn’t acknowledge them and when she does it’s just to promote something new she’s in. I honestly don’t understand why she still has such passionate fans, she clearly doesn’t care about them, and going by Bo Burnham’s philosophy, she’s not still entertaining them so why are they sticking to her through thick and thin?

Although I remember about a year ago I found a post on this forum that gave me a little more insight to her.

Nina was a heavy smoker. She would smoke a few packs a day and would always smell like an ash tray when she came back in. She is very tiny and the camera added weight onto her but she is stick thin.

So after reading that she sounded like she was stressed the fuck out about something. I don’t know if she’s still that stressed out but I do know that now she actually looks stick thin on camera so that does not bode well.