From what she's disclosed about her family and what's been put together here, it appears to have been a very dysfunctional home. Now to what extent exactly I can't say, but from glancing over
@Nigga Bullshit's post I noticed a few key details that paint a less than ideal picture:
- Her mother had her young, at 20 if my 2 second maths are correct
- I saw no mention of her father being active in her life
- She described her late grandfather as the man who raised her
- Her mother suffered from both crippling mental and physical health conditions leading to attempts on her own life that eventually proved successful
To me this all points to a broken home situation where her dad wasn't in the picture while her mother was crippled by physical and mental health problems, leaving the grandparents to try their best to help raise the kids. Having only a boomer grandparent to look out for you, while they're also having to worry about their own adult child killing themselves, is a perfect environment for a damaged and impressionable young girl to get lost in the darker corners of the Internet with very little adult oversight.
I think this, or something close enough to it, would explain a lot about how Ellie ended up doing what she does with seemingly little to no intervention from those around her.