Your group chat will judge you for the side you picked long after they forget what the fight was about.

A conflict ends and everybody moves on, but the record of who stood where does not move on with it. Long after the details have dissolved, people remember whether you went quiet, took the easy side, or said something when it was awkward. That memory is not really about the argument. It is about what you are like when there is pressure and a crowd.

When the next one starts, decide on the basis of what happened rather than who is more popular. You are allowed to say you need a day to think about it.