Roka announcement happened one day before 100 episodes. You can check fans reactions over virat pakhi scenes by checking old posts till 99 episodes in IF by going back to initial episode pages. There was a scene where virat applies ice on pakhi hand which made whole fandom so furious. This is when fans don't know about real life equations. Not everyone will feel same about offscreen equations. But pakhi virat scenes will definitely get hate for all obvious reasons whatever the offscreen equations must be.
And antics of ph & actors makes it hard to not held them accountable. Even today there was a trio segment but interview was taken with only real couple ignoring fl. How would fans supposed to feel? Even before roka aishwarya got hate because she used to defame sai character in segments & called pakhi dignified woman. U can check all those posts in IF itself if u want. Infact now people actually stopped reacting to real couple interviews for show, parallel lead badmouthing lead characters or fans. Did you saw anyone making a issue why fl interview not taken and only real couple interview taken when the scenes was about trio for today segment. You won't find any because people are fed up with it. They got used to it so they stopped ranting about such actors & ph who can't keep reel & real separate. Ghum fans always been so patience with offscreen dynamics. They don't get leads bytes, promotions from ml, leads segments ( got very few), gets real couple segments for show more than lead couple,gets real couple in centre stage in show celebrations & pics. Still they maintained sanity(majority) & try to concentrate on only onscreen. But onscreen what we got. Virakhi having parallel scenes with sairat that too creative one's which are not in original. Pakhi bashing from original gets cut but new scenes of virat pakhi was added so how should fans feel about this?
How everytime fans get blamed despite them tolerating so much because of someone's personal equation.