During a ranked match, I flamed an enemy Support player named "Jade." That very same day, a mega-popular actress with millions of followers publicly called me out on X (formerly Twitter), directing her fans to cyberbully me. [Who does this trash think she is, flaming our precious Jade?] [If you don't want to get doxxed, you better hurry up and apologize.] Looking at my 99+ DMs filled with death threats and insults, I let out a cold laugh. I immediately called my family's executive secretary and had him permanently ban Jade's gaming and social media accounts. After all, who doesn't have a few burner accounts? 01 I was playing my promotion series in League of Legends. As soon as the match started, the enemy Support (a Yuumi player) named "Jade" typed in all-chat: [Anyone want to kiss up to me a little?] No one on my team replied. She typed again: [OK, ignored. Babe, wipe them out.] For the rest of that game, our team got absolutely massacred by their Jungler. He went 20-0. When the game ended, I instinctively checked the Jungler's profile. He had a top-tier Challenger badge—clearly a professional booster. Outskilled. I sighed, used a rank protection card, and queued up for my next match. Who knew I would match against the exact same Jungler and Jade duo again? Jade seemed to recognize me too. As soon as we loaded in, she specifically called out my champion: [You were the mid-laner last game, right? How about you beg me this time, and maybe I'll tell my Jungler to spare you?] I replied with a string of ellipses: [...] I assumed she was just an edgy, attention-seeking teenager and didn't want to engage. But she took my silence as a provocation. For the entire match, her Support character rode on the Jungler's shoulders, specifically hunting me down. No matter where I went, the second I showed on the map, my screen went gray. To make matters worse, she intentionally stood over my corpse to spam taunts in the chat. [Hey little mid-laner, say something nice and we'll let you go.] [Still not begging?] [Don't push the nexus yet, let's fountain dive her a few more times.] I tolerated it for a long time. Looking at my 0-16 KDA, I finally typed: [Can you just push and end? I'm in a hurry to queue up again.] Jade instantly replied: [Aww, she's mad.] [I won't push. I just want to kill you, what are you gonna do about it?] [...] 02 Eventually, my teammates couldn't take it anymore and voted to surrender. I was incredibly annoyed and wanted to log off immediately. Suddenly, a game invite popped up on my screen. Before I could even read it, I accidentally clicked accept. The moment I entered the lobby, the host started the game. It was a 5v5 custom match. I blindly picked a champion. Once the loading screen appeared, I was horrified to see "Jade" and her booster Jungler on the enemy team. Me: "..." This is never going to end, is it?! Sure enough, as soon as the game started, they stuck together like glue and tortured me in every corner of the jungle. Every time I died, Jade would type insults in the chat. Finally, I snapped. I went AFK in the fountain and started typing furiously in all-chat: [Bark all you want. You're getting carried by a booster, do you actually think you have skills?] [You had to drag your booster into a custom lobby just to fight me? 1v1 me if you actually have the guts.] [We're both girls, what's with this toxic pick-me attitude? You need people to worship you? Are you even a legal adult, little girl?] After hitting send, I immediately voted to surrender, closed the client, and uninstalled the game. I thought that was the end of it. But the next day, my college roommate forwarded me a video on iMessage: [Elena, is this game ID yours? I remember you using this name?] A heavy sense of dread settled in my stomach. I frowned and clicked the video. It was a screen recording of a TikTok gaming livestream. A pretty, innocent-looking girl with flawless "no-makeup" makeup was sitting in front of her PC, holding her phone with a pitiful, teary expression: "I was just joking around with her. Why did she get so mad? Even if I went a little overboard, she didn't have to curse me out with such awful words, right?" As she spoke, she pointed her stream camera at her monitor. There, glaringly obvious, was my game ID. "She probably already blocked me. Can you guys go ask her to apologize to me? I really wasn't doing it on purpose, it was just for the stream's entertainment." The video went viral instantly. The views skyrocketed into the tens of millions. Countless netizens were aggressively commenting: [Is this girl that sensitive? A simple internet joke triggered her that badly?] [Women who spew trash like that are garbage. Why should our Jade apologize?] [She actually dared to curse at our Jade Montgomery? She kicked the wrong steel plate today!] [Guys, her friend requests are turned off, I can't flame her in-game.] [Don't worry babies, I already found her Instagram and X accounts. Let's get her!] 03 I closed the video with a deadpan expression. My roommate sent another text: [Elena, did you really flame Jade Montgomery?] I frowned: [Who is Jade Montgomery? Some streamer?] Roommate: [Oh my god, you don't know her?! She's the actress who plays the beloved supporting lead in that hit teen drama "Whispers in the Woods"! The show broke viewership records yesterday, so she promised her fans a gaming livestream and invited the male lead to play with her. She targeted you just to create some funny content for her stream. I can't believe the person who flamed her was you... I gotta say, you've got guts.] I fell silent for a moment: [So the internet thinks it's my fault? Did they even bother to look into the context?] [Context doesn't matter! Jade has nearly twenty million followers across all platforms. Plus, her entire brand is the "pure, innocent sweetheart." Who would ever believe she intentionally provoked you?] My roommate's texts were full of helpless pity: [Sigh. You're just going to have to take the hit and lay low.] Her advice was clear: play dead, ignore the hate, and wait for it to blow over. But when I got back to my dorm that afternoon and opened my laptop to write a paper, my notification tab looked like a war zone. [Bully bitch, go die!] [Who do you think you are, talking to our Jade like that?] [Did you think the whole world was going to baby you, you toxic freak?] [Post a public apology to Jade right now, or don't blame us when we doxx your entire life!] Endless waves of vile, hateful messages flooded my screen like toxic waste. I read a few of them, my frown deepening. These fans weren't just leaving hate comments; they were threatening to doxx my real identity. This was severely impacting my real life. I opened X (Twitter), drafted a post, and hit send: [I will not apologize. Since Jade Montgomery is a public figure, she should be even more mindful of her actions. She provoked me in-game first. After I quit, she dragged me into a custom room just to humiliate me. Me flaming her was entirely justified. If we're assigning blame, hers is far greater than mine. Furthermore, she weaponized her platform to direct her fans to cyberbully and personally attack me, causing severe distress to my life. I expect her to clarify the truth and act like a responsible adult.] 04 I thought posting that tweet would at least make some of the more rational fans reconsider. I didn't expect an apology, but I hoped they would at least back off. Instead, the comments under my post were a unified wall of vitriol: [Everyone knows Jade was just doing it for the stream! It's obviously your fault you can't take a joke and have a trash mouth. You almost made our Jade cry!] [Exactly. Jade might be soft-spoken, but that doesn't mean her fans are easy targets.] [Why should we take the high road with a bully like you? We're fighting fire with fire!] [Stop making excuses and get on your knees and apologize!] Shortly after, Jade Montgomery—whom I had tagged in my post—made a new tweet, acting incredibly wronged: [I'm so sorry for causing you trouble! I had no idea my fans would cyberbully you. But I really don't want to fight about this anymore. Let's just pretend this whole thing never happened.] My eyelid twitched violently. Pretend it never happened? So I just got publicly crucified for nothing? I immediately replied to her post: [You don't get to decide it never happened. I am the one being doxxed and cyberbullied! My life has been severely disrupted. Are you seriously not going to tell your fans to stop?] Jade replied to me publicly: [But I didn't tell them to do anything! They're just worried about me getting hurt. You can't blame them for caring.] Seeing Jade validate and defend their actions, her fans went into an absolute frenzy. In a single afternoon, my social media accounts were paralyzed by hate spam. Worse, someone actually managed to dig up which university I attended. They swarmed our university's Reddit page and Discord servers, publicly cursing me out, wishing death upon me, and demanding that I apologize to Jade. 05 Apologizing was out of the question. And Jade had already blocked me anyway. Since logic wasn't working, I decided to just log off for a few days and ignore the noise. However, I underestimated the madness of stan culture. During evening study hall, I had just sat down at my desk when two girls marched up to me, glaring menacingly: "Elena Vance, are you really going to be this stubborn and not apologize to Jade?" "You making a fool of yourself online is one thing, but you're dragging our university's reputation through the mud." "Before the whole campus finds out it's you, you better go post an apology on X right now. Otherwise, don't blame us for exposing you to the school." I slowly organized my textbooks, then looked up at them. "Did you not read my explanation on Twitter?" "So what? Jade livestreamed the whole thing! We know what kind of person she is. Who's going to believe your side of the story?" "Since you don't believe me, then get out of my face." I scoffed coldly. "Careful, or I'll flame you too." The two girls: "..." They clearly hadn't expected me to bite back so hard. They walked away with dark expressions, immediately pulling out their phones. I figured they were probably going to the campus forum to complain about how ungrateful I was. Other students in the room who had been thinking about confronting me saw how vicious I was and quietly backed off. Just as I thought I could finally get some peace and quiet— A basketball smashed violently onto my desk. My custom crystal water bottle shattered instantly. Scalding hot water splashed all over my notebooks and onto my arm, burning me so badly I gasped in pain. I looked up, furious. Joey Sterling, the captain of the varsity basketball team, was striding toward me with a face like thunder. "Elena, post an apology to Jade right now." 06 Joey Sterling was kind of a big deal on campus. During my freshman year, I helped my roommate drop off a water bottle for him during practice. Since I was famously known as the "Ice Queen" on campus and had never given a guy water before, a rumor started that I had a massive crush on Joey. But when Joey heard the rumor, he publicly frowned and said: "Elena Vance? I barely notice her. I'm not interested in her." After I found out, I never helped my roommate deliver water again. But the rumor that I was a pathetic, rejected "simp" for Joey spread like wildfire. I suppressed the throbbing pain on my arm and glared at him. "Are you insane?!" Joey scoffed, looking at me with pure disgust. "Anyone at this school who has my Snapchat knows I'm a massive Jade Montgomery fan. You probably got jealous, purposely stream-sniped her to get her attention, and then cursed her out." I was absolutely mind-blown by his delusional leap in logic. "Joey, do you have brain damage? Getting matched with her twice was bad luck enough, you think I was stream-sniping her? Besides, I don't even have your Snapchat! How would I know which celebrity you obsess over? And why the hell would I care?!" Joey crossed his arms, looking like he saw right through my "lies." "You just admitted you matched with her twice. If you weren't stream-sniping, how could it be such a coincidence? And you don't have my Snapchat because I refused to add you. That doesn't mean you aren't stalking my other socials." He took two steps closer, towering over me aggressively. "If Jade hadn't been wronged, you would never have gotten an excuse to talk to me in your entire life. I'm not wasting my breath on you. Apologize to her. Now." I let out a cold laugh. "Since you have such a strong sense of justice, how are we settling the fact that you smashed my bottle and burned my arm?" Joey furrowed his brows in contempt. "I can pay for your bottle, and I can pay your medical bills. As long as you apologize, money isn't an issue." "Is that so? Then pay for the bottle first. Four thousand, five hundred dollars." Joey glanced at the shattered glass on the floor and laughed out loud. "You? Leaving aside whether that cheap piece of glass is actually worth four thousand, even if it is, do you look like someone who can afford a $4,500 bottle? You're dead broke and trying to scam me." 07 I rolled my eyes, reached down, and picked up a shard of glass that had the brand's logo and an authenticity QR code etched into it. "Whether it's authentic or not, you can scan this and find out. Once you scan it, remember to contact a luxury personal shopper to buy me a new one. If you don't know where to find one, I can forward you a contact." Seeing how brutally confident I was, Joey's smug expression cracked for a split second. After a moment, he decided to pivot. "Elena, you're just trying to get my attention, aren't you? This is pathetic. If you refuse to apologize to Jade, don't blame me when I expose your real identity on the campus forum." I kept my face deadpan. "Then go expose me. I'm not the one in the wrong here. When your 'goddess' is forced to personally step up and clear my name, I'll be holding you legally responsible." Joey glared at me, furious, and turned to leave. "Wait." "What?" He sneered, thinking I had changed my mind. I shoved the shard of glass with the QR code into his hoodie pocket. "You think you can act tough and just walk away? Don't forget to pay for my bottle. I'm going to the campus clinic to get my arm bandaged. I'll send you the medical bill tomorrow." Joey looked at me in disbelief, like he was looking at an absolute psychopath. He clearly hadn't expected me to actually demand the money. But honestly, I also hadn't expected Joey to be that stupid. He actually went to the campus Reddit and made a massive post, confirming that I was the "Bully Girl" who cursed out Jade. Instantly, the forum was swarmed by Jade's rabid fans. They dug up my student ID photo, photoshopped it into hideous memes and funeral portraits, and spammed them everywhere. The entire forum was flooded with threads demanding: "Elena Vance Must Apologize to Jade." The rumors and outrage grew so severe that the university administration was forced to call me in, demanding I resolve the issue immediately.
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