Treehouse: It Was Never About Fame
I’m clocking out, headset still ringing in my ears, hands smelling like fries and cheap soap. Another long shift at the drive-thru, same routine, same fake smiles. I finally get in my car, start driving home, thinking I can just decompress for a minute—and then my phone lights up.
It’s you.
I already know it’s not going to be normal. I open it anyway. And yeah, there it is—paragraphs, accusations, you saying I’m jealous of your fame, like that’s the reason everything fell apart between us.
That’s not just wrong—it’s completely missing the point.
When I met you, yeah, I knew you had a name online. I’m not gonna lie about that. But I didn’t treat you any different because of it. You were just a person to me. Someone I thought I could actually respect, someone I thought was genuine outside of whatever image you put out there.
But what you did had nothing to do with your social media, and that’s what you keep trying to hide behind.
You called my professor.
You tried to interfere with my grades. You even went as far as trying to pay him off to sabotage me. That’s not “fame.” That’s not influence. That’s crossing a real line in the real world. That’s messing with someone’s future over something that didn’t need to go there.
So don’t sit there and tell me this is about me being jealous of your fame.
It’s not.
It’s about the fact that you took something personal and turned it into something harmful. It’s about the fact that when things didn’t go your way, you didn’t handle it like a normal person—you tried to control the outcome by going behind my back.
I’m 18, working a drive-thru job, going to school, doing things the right way even if it’s not flashy. I don’t have fame, and honestly, I don’t need it to feel solid about who I am. At least when I lay my head down at night, I know I didn’t try to tear someone else down to get ahead.
And now you’re at home, texting me, trying to spin this into something it’s not.
We’re not friends anymore because of what you did—not because of your fame, not because of anything online.