As the narrative flipped, the online cruelty toward Maeve and Jenny escalated fast.
Maeve was already infamous—there wasn't much left to dig up—so the crowd turned its appetite toward Jenny instead.
Someone claiming to be her high-school classmate posted gossip: back then Jenny had chased a rich, good-looking upperclassman. When he rejected her, she'd cornered him afterward demanding an explanation.
Old photos of Jenny surfaced—ordinary, forgettable. People scoffed that Ansel would have to be blind to be interested in her.
The more restrained commenters limited themselves to sarcastic digs, laughing at her "delusions."
The ones without restraint didn't bother pretending to be civilized. They hurled filthy slurs and sexual humiliation until Jenny was shredded to pieces in public.
Then a major influencer jumped in.
Elaine, a painter in her thirties with eight million followers on Twitter, had built a brand as an artsy, aspirational lifestyle blogger—someone who also played "big sister" to followers who needed advice.
The second Ansel's clarification video went up, Elaine reposted it and published a long, dramatic essay.
She started with Ansel's condition, claiming a friend had survived the same illness and that there was still hope if he fought and recovered properly.
Then she viciously condemned Ansel's sister Maeve as a cold-blooded monster—how could she refuse to save her own brother when he was dying?
Finally, she tore into Jenny, painting her as a shameless gold-digger who tried to ruin a man for rejecting her.
Elaine ended with a familiar line: God was fair; justice might arrive late, but it would arrive.
With Elaine setting the tone, more big accounts piled on in support of Ansel.
And just like that—less than a day later—Jenny went from "victim" to "villain."
With influencers and paid trolls driving the outrage, Jenny joined Maeve at the top of the trending list—getting cursed out in the same breath.
Watching the disgusting rumors multiply, Andres felt a deep, sudden hatred for mob harassment online.
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