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\n<\/span>t was supposed to be a sweet moment between a basketball star and her young fan. And it was, it absolutely was \u2014 that is, until certain men on the internet saw it, and ruined everything.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhat happened next was a chain reaction: an internet cesspool of hateful comments, a Midwestern T-shirt store coming to the rescue, a $1,000 reward, a Boston-based reporter flying into town, a troll unmasked, and finally, a meeting between the little girl and her online bully.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Jan. 22, 2025, Emily and Priscilla Rebollozo brought their six-year-old daughter Kamdyn, their three-year-old son, and their toddler twin boys to Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa, to watch the Iowa State women\u2019s basketball team take on BYU. In a state that has no pro teams in any sport, Iowa\u2019s college teams \u2014 in particular, women\u2019s basketball \u2014 have become the epicenter of local sports fandom. It began with Caitlin Clark\u2019s dominance during her tenure at the University of Iowa, which saw the school\u2019s arena go from empty seats to sold-out crowds. That elevated a new class of rising basketball stars in the state \u2014 among them, Audi Crooks. Crooks is a powerful center who averages 25 points a game for Iowa State. She\u2019s also a hometown girl who gives back to her community and is beloved by locals, including the Rebollozos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Rebollozos got to the game early that day so Kamdyn could show Crooks her new T-shirt. Yellow with maroon lettering, Iowa State colors, it read: \u201cSmile like Audi.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKamdyn had been going through a tough time the year prior, getting bullied at school for her weight. But standing in front of Crooks, she beamed with pride. It was such a lovely moment that Tommy Birch, a sports reporter for the Des Moines Register<\/em>, took a picture and posted it on X. In the photo, Crooks, her back to the court, is talking to Kamdyn, taking her seriously as a fan and, most importantly, a human being.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe family settled in to watch the game. Iowa won over BYU, 82-59. Crooks scored 24 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the game, a friend texted Emily to say, \u201cKam is famous!\u201d Emily, who had deleted X from her phone long ago, had to re-download the app to see that the picture had gone viral.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Rebollozos don\u2019t live their lives online. Their world is diapers and snack time, work and family. That\u2019s why Emily didn\u2019t think twice before handing her daughter the phone so Kamdyn could see how many people loved her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Kamdyn scrolled through the replies, she asked Emily, \u201cWhat\u2019s a diet?\u201d mispronouncing the word di-eet<\/em>. She was only six, after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEmily grabbed the phone and looked at the replies. The first one she saw was a picture of a mother cow and a baby cow, posted by someone using the name \u201cHoward Stevens, CPA.\u201d It got worse. A lot worse.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c2 fat bitches\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd this is why Iowa State fans who promote Audi\u2019s lifestyle should be deported. Little kids think it\u2019s cool to be overweight since Audi is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTell that \u2018fan\u2019 to lay off the happy meals\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m surprised Audi didn\u2019t try to eat her.\u201d (Howard Stevens.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWho weighs more, her or Audi Crooks?\u201d (Howard, again.)<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen they got home, Emily went into her room and shut the door so Kamdyn couldn\u2019t see her crying. She tried to defend her daughter online, and others did, too, but that just made the trolling worse. Birch, the Register<\/em> reporter, did eventually reach out and offer to take the photo down, but Emily knew it wouldn\u2019t help. This was an internet pile-on. Like flies on carrion, you couldn\u2019t make them go away.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat night, after the kids were in bed, Emily opened the app again. There is a kind of morbid curiosity to watching the internet spiral into hatred. It feels like hearing people talk about you in a restroom when they think you aren\u2019t there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCrooks is often the target of racist and fatphobic comments, has been ever since she was an 8th-grade basketball star at her small high school. Once, an Iowa State Cyclones fan account posted a picture of Crooks at the state fair with a steer, and the onslaught of hateful comments that followed was too much; the picture disappeared. One of the trolls screenshotted it and bragged about getting it deleted. He was proud of his work.<\/p>\n

\n\tCommon advice is to just ignore it. To walk away. Don\u2019t let it get to you.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut it does get to you, eventually.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTHE REBOLLOZOS AND Crooks were already friends before the trolling incident, bonded by another cruel fan encounter. The family had met Crooks at the Ames farmers market in July of 2024, when the couple\u2019s twins were just two weeks old. They\u2019d brought Kamdyn to get her shirt signed by Crooks, who was there with Mackenzie Hare, another Iowa State basketball player. The Rebollozos struck up a conversation with Hare and Crooks, who asked to hold the babies. Hare is also a twin; they had a lot to talk about.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile they were chatting, Emily recalls that an older man walked up to them. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be derogatory,\u201d he began. The Rebollozos are a two-mom family, and Iowa is a deep-red state, with anti-LGBTQ book bans in schools. Emily braced herself. Then the man looked at the baby in Crooks\u2019 arm and said, \u201cYour baby\u2019s ugly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEmily was shocked. Everyone stared in silence at the man\u2019s rudeness. When he walked away, Crooks and Hare apologized as if they were to blame. Emily recalls them saying, \u201cWe\u2019re really sorry. We couldn\u2019t really say what we wanted to say. We have to act a certain way.\u201d Meaning that as Iowa State basketball players, they are representatives of the team in public and held to a higher standard of conduct. They couldn\u2019t tell that man exactly what they thought of him. Instead, they told the Rebollozos that they would babysit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the past two years, Emily and Priscilla have had members of the Cyclones team over for food and family time, with Crooks babysitting in return. The couple don\u2019t consider themselves mother figures to the college girls, who are roughly just a decade younger than them. But maybe they\u2019re like aunts or older sisters. Either way, they are family. And the Rebollozos try never to miss a game.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Kamdyn, Crooks isn\u2019t just her hero; she\u2019s her friend. And that friendship has meant a lot to her because of the bullying she\u2019s suffered at school. One girl told Kamdyn she was adopted since she has two moms. (Kamdyn is not adopted.) Another called her fat in the lunch line. Eventually, she stopped wanting to go to dance class and put on a leotard because she was afraid of the comments that kids might make.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, Emily could see not just the hatred toward her own child, but a glimpse of what Crooks deals with every day. A 2024 NCAA study found that female basketball players receive three times as many threats as their male counterparts \u2014 many of them sexualized, racist, or both. Add to that Crooks\u2019 physical presence: In a country that wants women to be lily-white and Ozempic-tiny, she is big, strong, and powerful, unafraid of taking up space. And she is Black. In America, that can be a recipe for punishment, online or otherwise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCrooks takes the bullying in stride, but even she was shocked by the way commenters attacked Kamdyn, too. \u201cThe harassment that I get is disgusting, but I know that I signed up to be in the public eye,\u201d Crooks said in a text message. \u201cKam is an innocent little girl standing next to her idol who was caught in the line of fire. I have never been more disgusted in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs Emily scrolled through each post, some telling her daughter to lay off the McDonald\u2019s and calling her a horrible parent, she surmised the harassment was not just from anonymous bots, but from men who lived in the community. She guessed this because of the way they talked about women\u2019s bodies, sexualizing and degrading them. She also noted, by going through their posting history, that they posted a lot about Hawkeye sports, often negging Iowa State fans in a way only locals know how to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEmily wanted accountability. If they were going to taunt her daughter\u2019s face, she wanted to see theirs. That night, Emily slid down the internet\u2019s black hole. She clicked on the profiles, all seemingly fake, of the trolls who had commented the most on the image of Kamdyn and Crooks. She identified a cohort of accounts that seemed to coordinate their attacks: Howard Stevens, Tony Jacobson, Hawkeye Harry, Dale Edwards, Coardelle Doyle, Cody Schrader, and Hawkeye Enjoyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHere is what she noticed:<\/p>\n

\n\tThey posted about going to class at the University of Iowa, whose mascot is the Hawkeyes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey loved to harass Iowa State players and fans.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey bragged about being banned for violating X\u2019s terms and conditions, those that restrict advocating for self-harm and threatening violence.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen they expressed political opinions, those opinions were all right-wing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey loved to post POV pictures of streams of urine going onto bathroom floors and walls, anywhere but the toilet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn one video posted by Hawkeye Enjoyer, a stream of pee hits a bathroom wall at Hickory Park restaurant in Ames, not far from the Rebollozo home. These were not bots, Emily concluded. They weren\u2019t accounts based in China. These were human beings in her state, in her own town. Emily decided she needed help.<\/p>\n

\n\tTHE NEXT DAY, EMILY reached out to a local T-shirt company called Raygun. It may seem random. But if you live in Iowa, you understand.<\/p>\n

\n\tRaygun is more than a T-shirt shop; it\u2019s a blue stronghold in a red state. It brands itself as the \u201cgreatest store on earth\u201d \u2014 a cheeky slogan for a cheeky place that trades in cheeky shirts that spoof Midwestern culture, politics, geography, and more. They have a shirt that reads: \u201cDear America, sorry about Charles Grassley.\u201d When Donald Trump called supermodel Chrissy Teigen a \u201cfilthy-mouthed wife,\u201d they made a T-shirt with those words on it.<\/p>\n

\n\tRaygun was founded by Iowa native Mike Draper. He started selling shirts when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and grew the business into a mini T-shirt empire with 11 stores across the Midwest. A lot of Raygun\u2019s merchandise traffics in shitposting internet culture, but from a liberal point of view. For example, they sell a shirt that reads, \u201cIs he dead yet?\u201d \u2014 seemingly a reference to the president. (For legal purposes, who can really say?) Another shirt featured Elon Musk in a hot dog bun and the phrase \u201cElon Musk is a weiner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a shitposting world, Draper isn\u2019t afraid to shitpost in response. He\u2019s defended criticism of his business, saying people just need to \u201chave a sense of humor\u201d about it. And not all of his merchandise is provocative. Raygun had also made that \u201cSmile like Audi\u201d shirt \u2014 the one Kamdyn was sporting in her photo with Crooks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, it makes sense that when Emily was spiraling about online bullies, she would reach out to a brand that she saw as fighting for her side. She sent the shop a DM, asking for help. Mike Draper replied personally to set up a call.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat came next was a plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIf these Iowa fans were going to troll this young girl, with burner accounts, Draper would troll them right back. Using the Raygun account, he challenged them to show their faces: If \u201cHoward Stevens\u201d came into a Raygun store and outed himself, Draper would give him a check for $1,000. It\u2019s a stunt he\u2019d tried many times before, when people trolled the Raygun account, though no one had ever taken him up on the offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEmily says the plan made her feel like there was a community willing to stand up for her. Maybe, she admitted to me, Draper could be a little over the top. \u201cBut he kept saying, \u2018If this was my kid, I\u2019d want someone to do something.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Jan. 23, the Raygun account posted a picture of the check and began calling out Howard Stevens and his swarm. An hour after the post went live, Stevens replied, \u201cThe tampon who runs their twitter account is beyond retarded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat came next was a back-and-forth between the troll group and the Raygun account. At one point, Stevens appeared to waver, asking Draper for the address to the store. But when another account commented, threatening to show up to Stevens\u2019 business class at the University of Iowa, it seems he got scared. After all, this implied that someone knew Stevens\u2019 real name and was close to outing him. Stevens briefly deleted the account. But it came back online hours later, with Stevens back to calling Draper a \u201cpussy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIN THE WEEKS THAT followed, no one showed up to claim the money.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Emily kept watching the trolls online. Not just their replies to the Raygun post, but everything they were posting, even the inane things about college life and drinking beer on patios. Emily does some part-time work for a private investigator, so she knows how to comb through social media meticulously. She dug through the replies, screenshotting and saving.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs she watched, she saw Stevens and his friends participate in an internet troll campaign focused on a student at the University of Mississippi, Mary Kate Cornett. After sports commentator Pat McAfee, who had never met Cornett, amplified a false rumor that she had slept with her boyfriend\u2019s father, the story traveled far and wide. Cornett was soon lost in an onslaught of harassment. Notes were slipped under her dorm door, and people left her nasty voicemails, text messages, and emails. (McAfee later apologized, both publicly and to Cornett and her family, for his role in perpetuating the rumor, saying he \u201cdeeply regrets the pain that was caused.\u201d) Stevens joined in briefly, screenshotting a DM he\u2019d sent Cornett on Instagram and posting it online. The DM appeared to be supportive, but he also mocked her in posts to his friends: \u201cPlease help, I\u2019m being cyberbullied because I fucked my boyfriend\u2019s dad.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEmily watched as the same accounts that had harassed Kamdyn made racist comments about immigrants, called women \u201cwhores,\u201d and told people to \u201ckill themselves.\u201d Stevens and his friends commented with a wood emoji under pictures of girls. Not women, girls. The emoji meant \u201cwould,\u201d as in, they would fuck her if given the chance. Also, it\u2019s a double entendre for a boner. Get it?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEmily noticed something else, too. Stevens and his friends, although they remained anonymous, posted pictures of college professors and students \u2014 creeper shots of real people, seemingly taken and posted without consent. Sometimes they\u2019d call the people in the photos \u201cretarded\u201d or \u201cgay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAt least when someone comes up to you at a farmers market and insults your baby, you see their face. You can avoid them if you see them again. You can say to your friends, \u201cThat\u2019s the asshole who insulted my baby.\u201d But when it\u2019s done anonymously, it could be anyone. Your neighbor. A student. The guy following you a little too closely in the aisle at the grocery store.<\/p>\n

\n\tON FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025, a man walked into the Des Moines Raygun store with a cameraman (really, just a friend toting video equipment). The man had the same face as the guy in Stevens\u2019 profile picture. He said he was there for his $1,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt had been two and a half months since Draper had posted the picture of the check. Stevens\u2019 picture was still on a bulletin board next to a sign that read \u201cRaygun\u2019s \u2018Too Scared to Take Our Money Hall of Fame.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe man\u2019s name was Billy Baker, and no, he wasn\u2019t Howard Stevens. He is a features writer for The Boston Globe<\/em>. And he was there to figure out why his face was all over the internet. A month prior, he\u2019d gotten an email alerting him that his likeness was being used by an account that had harassed a little girl, and some T-shirt store in Iowa had put a $1,000 bounty on the true identity behind the account. It was a weird email for anyone to receive.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBaker got online to confirm. Sure enough, it was his face right next to Howard Stevens\u2019 bio, which read: \u201cFather, divorced \ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udc8d, self made man who enjoys talking ball, 134 connections on Linkedin, Hawkeyes \ud83d\udc25, Vikings, #skol\u201d. And sure enough, that account had been harassing a six-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe picture was an author photo taken for the jacket of the book Baker wrote about male loneliness. Some online sleuths had discovered it and assumed, incorrectly, that he\u2019d been the guy trolling Kamdyn. Baker did a little internet sleuthing of his own to determine Howard Stevens\u2019 identity, and then he set off to Iowa to set the record straight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI flew across the country to confront Mike Draper,\u201d Baker tells me. \u201cI assumed he would apologize [for escalating things], and then we would go grab a beer.\u201d He adds of Stevens, \u201cFinding the kid was a last-minute bonus that literally came together the night before our flight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBaker and his friend arrived in Iowa on April 2. The next morning, they walked into a class at the University of Iowa\u2019s Tippie School of Business that Stevens had posted pictures from. When Stevens saw Baker, he panicked and fled the room.<\/p>\n

\n\tStevens did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story. But one of his friends, another troll, who went by the screenname \u201cTony \u2018Real Steel\u2019 Jacobsen,\u201d wrote a Notes app story that he tweeted on April 4 and later deleted. In that note, screenshots of which were shared with Rolling Stone<\/em>, he explained that Stevens had created the X account in 2023 to \u201ccause havoc on the internet at both the high school and collegiate level.\u201d When making the account, he Googled \u201crandom guy,\u201d saw Baker\u2019s picture, and used it for his fake profile.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the Notes app post, when Stevens left class that day, he ran back to his house and started Googling Iowa\u2019s media laws to see if he could be sued for anything. But Baker reached Stevens by phone and assured him that he wasn\u2019t interested in punishment or revenge; he just wanted to understand what was going on.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe two men met face-to-face at Stevens\u2019 college house. Baker says, \u201cThe kid was very apologetic.\u201d He accepted the apology, but says he told Stevens, \u201cIf that little girl were my kid, I\u2019d hold your head under water until the bubbles stopped.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBaker says he also told Stevens that he owed Kamdyn and the Rebellozos an apology. And Stevens agreed.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter they talked, Stevens and his friends took Baker out to a bar. In a picture from that day that Stevens posted online, he covers his face with a photoshopped cutout of Baker\u2019s face; Baker is next to him, face uncovered, throwing up two peace signs. Another man, apparently one of the trolls, covers his face with his anonymous account\u2019s profile picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe next day, Baker and his friend drove to Des Moines to speak with Draper. But when they got to the store, Draper wasn\u2019t in. Baker explained to the store manager how he\u2019d found out about the $1,000, about how his face had been used without his knowledge. How he\u2019d been an innocent bystander caught up in this whole mess. How he <\/em>was owed an apology. The employees apologized, and one wrote him a check for $1,000. Baker took the check and left, leaving behind his contact information.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe following day, Baker was back home in Boston when he received an email from Draper asking him to collaborate on a podcast about cyberbullying. (Baker notes, \u201cThe email did not contain an apology.\u201d) In the meantime, the swarm of online trolls in the Raygun thread got bolder and meaner. They claimed that Baker had found them \u201chilarious\u201d and that he\u2019d given them the $1,000. Baker says, \u201cThat is simply not true. I used it to pay for the trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDraper was furious. He started sending Baker emails demanding to know what he did with the money, accusing Baker of misrepresenting himself. Draper threatened to get lawyers involved and talk to Baker\u2019s editors at the Globe<\/em>. Draper doesn\u2019t deny any of this. He showed me an email he sent to Baker on April 8, where he wrote, \u201cMy rage is that these dudes seem to think that you are their buddy and that we are the standard \u2018libtards\u2019 mad at Twitter trolls for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEventually, the two men talked on the phone. It didn\u2019t go well. Draper accused Baker of downplaying troll behavior. Baker accused Draper of being another troll himself.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the end, Baker says, he told Draper he\u2019d urge Stevens again to apologize to Kamdyn and the Rebollozos.<\/p>\n

\n\tONE NIGHT A COUPLE of days later, Draper got a call from a blocked phone number, which went straight to voicemail. He sent the voicemail to Emily, who later posted it online.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cHey Mike, this is, I guess, Howard Stevens. I just talked to Billy or whatever. He told me to call you. If you\u2019re willing to call me back, I\u2019m at work. You can call me back late tonight or pretty much anytime tomorrow. But yeah, I kind of wanna talk and own up to, I guess, like, my, like Twitter account or whatever. And see if there\u2019s anything me or anybody else can hopefully do to smooth things over. I guess, as you probably know, that we all, like, all deactivated our accounts. So, yeah, I guess. Just call me back probably tomorrow. I\u2019ll probably call you again tomorrow since I think I blocked my number.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tBut Stevens never called back.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Draper texted Baker in a second attempt to coordinate a conversation between Stevens and the Rebollozos, Baker said he was done being involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA few days later, the trolls deleted their accounts. But it wasn\u2019t enough. Because in the middle of all of this was a little girl who had been bullied by a group of men, and her mother wanted an apology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIf Baker could find Stevens, then Emily and Draper decided they could, too. She combed through Stevens\u2019 posts and sent them to Draper on a jump drive. Iowa is a small state. And someone always knows someone. Stevens had posted a picture of his laptop on a porch, and just beyond the porch was a street. One of the people helping Draper recognized the street. Draper hired a P.I. who went to the street and found a house with a matching porch. He then ran the plates on the cars in the driveway and found Stevens, who did, in fact, appear to be a 21-year-old male business student at the University of Iowa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDraper emailed. He sent a letter. Stevens didn\u2019t reply. On April 22, he sent a letter to Stevens\u2019 parents. And then, on April 29, he sent Stevens a letter, a copy of which has been reviewed by Rolling Stone<\/em>, listing precise steps he could take to make things right:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    \n\tIf Stevens checked off all the items on the list, Draper wrote, he would remove him from his \u201cPeople to Destroy or Dwell on for the Next 10 Years List.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \n\tDraper also lectured Stevens on how to apologize (\u201cI know apologizing sounds like a cry-baby thing. But it is actually pretty empowering when done correctly. Here is what I mean: Before you write these apologies put yourself in the headspace of a father who sees his little girl being bullied by 20-somethings in college\u201d) and threatened to make a video of all of Stevens\u2019 worst tweets and send it to everyone at the business school where Stevens was a student, maybe post it online, if the steps he\u2019d outlined were not taken.<\/p>\n

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    \n\tSure, maybe it was a little over the top. But so were Stevens\u2019 posts.<\/p>\n

    \n\tAt first, Stevens and his friends complied with Draper\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

    \n\tStevens called Emily and apologized. He agreed to meet with Kamdyn and promised to bring two of the other young men who had also participated in the harassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tBut as soon as Stevens and his friends began posting their apologies, their online friends turned on them. \u201cWorse than 9\/11\u201d replied one account to a video of a toilet being cleaned. \u201cI\u2019d rather kill myself than do what Howard Stevens CPA is doing RN\u201d wrote another. Others accused Stevens of being censored by the \u201cwoke mob.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tOne day into the apology tour, Stevens and his friends deleted their accounts again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tAnd then, Draper got a letter from a lawyer.<\/p>\n

    \n\tThe letter, dated May 1, 2025, sent from Angela Campbell at Dickey, Campbell, & Sahag Law Firm in Des Moines, accused Draper of extortion and demanded that he cease and desist all contact with Stevens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tThat letter was sent just days before the Rebollozos were supposed to meet with Stevens.<\/p>\n

    \n\tOn Sunday, May 4, Emily and Kamdyn went to a coffee shop near their home to meet Stevens. Kamdyn brought a pink teddy bear, the bear\u2019s tiny beach bag, and a little box of kinetic sand. Small treasures that a child holds onto for safety and comfort.<\/p>\n

    \n\tStevens had brought reinforcements, too: his parents and his lawyer.<\/p>\n

    \n\tEmily was flustered and scared. She called Priscilla, who had stayed home with the other kids; she wanted help. Priscilla changed plans and began making her way to the shop. Meanwhile, Emily and Kamdyn sat down with Stevens. Emily doesn\u2019t recall much of the apology. It was generic and bland. But she does recall how Kamdyn stood up for herself. She told Stevens how much he hurt her. She asked him why he did it.<\/p>\n

    \n\tHe stumbled through his apology, Emily recalls. He\u2019d made the account in high school; he didn\u2019t think about how it might hurt others. He regrets and regrets and regrets.<\/p>\n

    \n\tAs the apology was wrapping up, Priscilla finally walked in, and then, as a family, Emily, Priscilla, and Kamdyn left.<\/p>\n

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    \n\tI AM NOT NAMING Stevens, even though I know who he is. I reached out multiple times to offer him a chance to tell his side of the story and didn\u2019t hear back. I don\u2019t want another mob. Another swarm of people seeking some sort of justice for whatever crime they feel was committed against whoever they feel is the victim in this situation.<\/p>\n

    \n\tIn a story this complicated, where everyone from a little girl to a grown man from Boston is begging for their humanity, even Howard Stevens deserves some, too.<\/p>\n

    \n\tSo, here is what I know:<\/p>\n

    \n\tI know Stevens created the account in high school so he and his friends could say things without being observed or judged.<\/p>\n

    \n\tI know a lot of his posts were about sports. This happens often: A boy loves a sports team. He bonds with other boys through sports, through jokes, through teasing and taunting, seeking approval from one another, a cheap laugh at the expense of a player, another fan, or someone online. Then, sometimes, it gets out of control.<\/p>\n

    \n\tI know Howard Stevens is just a guy who wants to belong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tI know he is not the only one doing this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tHere is what I don\u2019t know:<\/p>\n

    \n\tI don\u2019t know at what point performing for friends and rooting for your team falls over the edge into something darker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tI don\u2019t know at what point we forget that the person on the other end of our comments is a human being.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tI don\u2019t know at what point our rage becomes more important than the object of our fury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tI don\u2019t know when comments turn into a swarm, turn into a mob, turn into a cancellation.<\/p>\n

    \n\tI don\u2019t know if you fight a mob with a mob. And is the mob you agree with a good mob? Or is it still bad because it\u2019s a mob?<\/p>\n

    \n\tI don\u2019t know how to raise a child so he doesn\u2019t do this. I wish I did.<\/p>\n

    \n\tMORE THAN A YEAR later, the Rebollozos still show up for Iowa State women\u2019s basketball. At a January game against Oklahoma State, they had to move sections because the fans shouting abuse at Crooks got so bad, their son, now four, was shouting back, \u201cNo, hers not. Hers a nice person!\u201d He wanted to protect his friend.<\/p>\n

    \n\tWhen they went to a game against the University of Iowa, Emily felt uncomfortable, looking around, wondering if any of the men around her were the ones who had harassed her daughter. Reflecting on everything that happened, Emily wrote on her blog: \u201cWhen it comes to aggression, we are raising men; when it comes to accountability, we are raising little boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \n\tEmily knows Kamdyn still thinks about the bullying, too. Still deals with it at school. Writing on her blog, Emily said, \u201cKamdyn shows flashes of aggression and explains it with \u2018if people are mean to me, I can be mean to them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Read more Ball State University Employee Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk Receives $225,000 in Settlement<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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