I feel like if she did try to "change" her style it'd be pretty easy to figure out it was her. She's got these idiosyncrasies that are just so fucking trademarked to her way of drawing.
Yeah, she really shot herself in the foot. As time goes on, the internet will only become more lucrative for careers, especially ones involving visual art. She's severely damaged her career prospects by dragging her own name through the mud. She's young enough to have grown up entirely with the internet, so its entirely possible that she never learned the importance of anonymity like people who were introduced to the internet as teenagers or adults.
The concept of "no powerleveling" should honestly become a thing in more internet communities.
Her best bet now would be to lay off the internet for a few years, do a complete overhaul of her art style (which desperately needed one anyway), and work under a pseudonym. And for those of you saying it isn't possible, it certainly is; it's just really uncommon because most artcows are stubborn and lazy. Snapesnogger managed to turn her art around:
It's worth noting, however, that
her drama was associated with her pseudonym and not her actual name, which she didn't reveal to the internet until years later. She had the luxury of being able to recover simply by using her real name. Conveniently, nothing pertaining to her old snake yaoi comes up if you google "Gemma Wilson".
Rory's only option at this point would be to change her actual name, though she might have already changed it once- as I said before, "Rory" isn't her given name. If she hasn't legally changed it to Rory already, she could probably go back to her given name and drop one of her last names.