After hanging up, Felix Preston immediately called the police.
He detailed all of Ethan Lockwood's various illegal and disorderly activities to the police over the phone, while Charlotte Shaw sat beside him, endlessly scrolling through the news.
Evan Yates had compiled all the dirt on Ethan Lockwood and sent it to several of Aethelburg's more prominent news outlets. Then, using a burner account, he broke the compilation into smaller pieces and leaked them individually to various gossip accounts.
Every gossip account thought they had an exclusive scoop. Without taking the time to properly edit the material, they rushed to turn it into short videos and uploaded them to a popular video-sharing app and Spudster.
By the time Charlotte Shaw started scrolling, "Ethan Lockwood" was already at the top of the trending list with a popularity index of over eighty million.
