yes they are! josh has a hard time saying anything negative no matter how deserving and remains adamant about how grateful he is for gossip girl and all the opportunities it gave him despite all the questionable subject matter and overwhelming whiteness, so he probably tried to distance himself from any comments she made and learned to deflect any questions he got about those subjects with some mild and extremely deep-seated annoyance, but he'd essentially remain supportive of her and definitely tweeted up a storm about how much he loved crazy rich asians and how it should revitalize the romcom genre