That one we can tell because she was quantifiably making her life more difficult while saying she was doing so in boycott. You can pretty much infer she would not be making her life more difficult for any other purpose but to protest the injustice without her even saying so.
Maybe. Maybe she just happened to save up enough money that week and bought a car or something.
If I had gone on a forum and said "I'm not buying Street Fighter X Tekken," I doubt people would have assumed I was boycotting. It's not like I'm suffering from having not bought the game, so most people would assume I just didn't want it.
What if you were well known on that particular forum to be a fighting game enthusiast, had expressed excitement about the game in its early stages, and then only revealed your lack of desire to purchase after an announcement of DRM or microtransactions or whatever. People could probably figure it out.
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