Rome, by all accounts, was horrified. Her profile filled with comments from the pitying to the pitiful. Her facepage profile had only been a mild interest or curiousity for most people, but almost overnight it became a pastime. Her father was quick to swoop in and ban the comments board, red flag any message with her name in it, and have the video taken off the comedy group’s website. All of this, naturally, meant that people made their own comment boards, called her a different name than Rome on facepage (‘Emor’ was the one I used. Creative, I know), and claiming to take a video off the internet is almost an oxymoron. It was almost like Facepage making a big deal out of the video just fanned the flames of people’s interest even more, made the fantasy all the more alluring to know that there was a crazed beast keeping the princess locked away. During interviews Rome claimed that her first reaction was to lock herself away in her room. That she was scared to even check her e-mail in case there was yet another creepy solicitation or raving fan. She also hit a curious growth spurt after the sex scene became so incredibly popular. She attested to blooming in size a full four inches over what felt like mere days. When one of website’s many advertisers found out she was suddenly in need of new clothes, they offered to supply her with a full wardrobe and salary if she would appear in only their clothes in all future photos posted on her profile. She was, at the time, receiving 234,000 views per day on average on the open photo albums alone. At first she didn’t make any offer and still maintained lock down on her profile. And then one day everything on her profile, the comments, photos, and interests section were up and running again. Her entire collection of photos was deleted and new ones with her wearing the new wardrobe replaced them. Her new favorite band was the current best seller. And her favorite movie was coming out that Fall.
