An interesting corollary to this is that the response by the offensive crowd (the anti-vic crowd, in this case) has been especially weak. During previous outrage-fests, like GG or CG or MTGG, they had the full support of the press, a massive pool of activists to get their collective backs, and the guaranteed assistance of other groups to help prop up the narrative. Faking incidents, for them, was easy, the press would report on all of them like they were legit (see also: USU bomb threat, Jace in general, Dan Olson's little sting operation, etc), no one would ever even look into their insane claims when they were false, and even when they lost, they'd usually do quite a large bit of damage in the process.
That's not the case for this incident.
After the initial accusations, Vic went radio silent, admitted to nothing, and backed off while the opposition shit themselves. When the inevitable phase of faked shit to shore up the objective happened, Vic never admitting to anything in the first place made them look unbelievably desperate and suspect. As time has gone on and the Justice Boner™ has charged up, they've only gotten more desperate, which is especially fun as they've lost pretty much everything one of these offensives needs to be successful: the support of the press (which have had mass layoffs and aren't going to cover this considering it reeks of the Autistic lovechild of the Kavanaugh and Smollet allegations), their own follower-base (who think they're liars), and the usual crowd that would otherwise back them up (who are, to say the least, divided).
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