[uWu: Meanwhile, Alice hasn’t even made it past the quarter-finals, and her fans are already out here throwing mud and picking fights—even though Hera hasn’t done a single thing to provoke them.]
[uWu: The difference in fan quality is <i>wild</i>. One side is full of intellectuals and high achievers who know what real talent looks like, while the other... well, let’s just say it’s a crowd of loud, clueless couch potatoes. What a gap.]
[AliceIsHeart: What the heck, @uWu?! Why are you looking down on us? Are you one of Hera’s brainwashed fans?!]
[uWu: LOL, see what I mean, everyone? ˉ\_(?╭╮?)_/ˉ]
[uWu: Anyway, I’m just a casual bystander who enjoys a little inte drama. But I’m not the type to believe everything I read—I like doing my own digging. I don’t want to get pped with the truthter, y’know?]
[uWu: And guess what? After seeing all the hate, I actually looked into Hera... and wow, turns out she’s not just some pretty face. She’s a legit celebrity—or maybe more like a media-savvy powerhouse. Either way, her life is fascinating, and now I’m officially intrigued. So shoutout to the haters for doing a <i>ster</i> job promoting her for free! ]
[uWu: ? л??a?a?a]
[AuntieNextDoor: ? л??a?a?a]
[HeraIsMySister: ? л??a?a?a]
[AuntieNextDoor: @uWu You really gave us a fresh perspective. We used to get so mad whenever those annoying anti-fans targeted Hera and name-dropped her to ride her coattails.]
[AuntieNextDoor: But now that you put it that way, we never realized this could actually be <i>free advertising</i>! Alright then, anti-fans—keep tagging our girl in yourments and help her trend without even lifting a finger! ? ?(????)]
[HeraIsMySister: I’m dying over here. I never imagined we’d be getting blessings from haters without doing a thing. Seriously, they really are brain-dead. Keep it up, folks—we’re thriving! ]
...
After the two camps shed, it quickly became clear that Alice’s side was losing—outwitted by the sharp tongues and smarts of Hera’s fans. As somementers had pointed out earlier, Hera’s fanbase wasn’t justrge—it was ’<i>intellectually stacked</i>.’
Schrs, artists, musicians, professional racers, financial investors, even business executives followed her. Add to that billiards enthusiasts,nguage students, fashionistas, and photographers—the more Hera revealed her talents, the more diverse and powerful her fandom became.
Inparison, Alice’s fans mostly consisted of idleizens, teenagers, and a smattering of others. While passionate, they couldn’t match the force of Hera’s solid and influential supporters. And when Hera’s fans spoke? Their words hit like a spitfire, it burns.
Alice’s fans were thoroughly scolded—so much so that they couldn’t evene up with aeback. They stopped tagging Hera in theirments and retreated to Alice’s page, where they flooded thement section with the same line over and over: <i>"You are young, beautiful, and talented"</i>—along with a flood of heart emojis.
Hera’s fans, of course, had a field day watching the spectacle unfold. And thanks to all the noise stirred up by Alice’s camp, Hera’s name ended up trending again—without her lifting a finger. The irony made Alice’s fans practically cough up blood in frustration.
Alice, however, after posting her entry and reading through a few positivements, turned her attention back to the screen—only to feel her teeth clench in frustration. She watched as the panel of judges, without a moment of hesitation, awarded Liz’s presented jewelry set a perfect score of 10.
To make matters worse, Liz confidently announced that once the designer came back from her emergency, she would personally present the rest of her designs. She even boldly promised that the designer would appear in person at the championship. Liz was clearly certain that ’<i>Andarta Aria’</i> would win this round—and with good reason.
After all, ’<i>Andarta Aria’</i> was the only contestant to receive a perfect score from the notoriously strict panel of judges, whose standards were nearly impossible to meet. As a result, the name ’<i>Andarta Aria’</i> quickly began trending online, right alongside Hera’s—fueling spection that they were one and the same.
While ’<i>Andarta Aria’</i> soared as the top contender for the championship, Alice managed to secure one trending topic for herself, clinging to the #4 spot. It wasn’t aplete defeat, but it certainly wasn’t the victory she had hoped for.
And that alone was enough to make Alice ecstatic—after all, this was her first time trending for something positive, for her talent, not for scandal or controversy. But her joy was short-lived.
Because of Hera’s overwhelming poprity, it wasn’t Alice who gotpared to ’<i>Andarta Aria’</i>, but Hera. Even though Hera wasn’t present, her name kept popping up in the discussions, riding the wave of buzz surrounding ’<i>Andarta Aria’s’</i> wless masterpiece.
Ironically, it was Alice’s own fans—who had relentlessly belittled Hera earlier—that unintentionally helped spotlight Hera’s hidden talents.
As more people started looking into ’<i>Andarta Aria</i>,’ they couldn’t help but be reminded of Hera. With every new rising star, people were specting whether Hera also has talent in jewelry design or other hidden talents?
To fuel the spection further, a photo taken at the IGI Expression Competition venue identally captured Hera in the background. That single candid shot sparked a new wave of gossip, with fans andizens buzzing with theories, making her name trend once again—right alongside ’<i>Andarta Aria</i>.’
Alice was so furious, she felt like spitting blood. Meanwhile, the very person who was dominating the trending charts—Hera—had no idea about the online chaos.
She was too busy sprinting through a dense forest, dodging bullets and rolling across the grass while caught in the middle of a full-blown firefight between two opposing forces.
"Have you found Leo?!" Hera barked into her earpiece, her voice barely audible over the deafening cracks of gunfire echoing through the trees.
"Iing!"
<i>Boom!</i>