The reporter, therefore, hadn't been aware of its significance.

Half a day later, the video of the interview began to spread to major news outlets and multiple websites around the country.

The video was soon seen by the people who'd been paying attention to the rumors about Maria.

“Oh my god! The previous news was fake! Who would have thought that the reason Maria got zeroes in all her exams was that she was the supervisor and marker of the exams?”

“Wow! Maria is so excellent! When I was in high school, I hated studying. But when Maria was in high school, she was a teacher!"

“I always said that Maria was innocent, and I was right. Hmm... But I didn't expect her to be so outstanding that the teacher would need to use her work as learning materials."

“Some of you don't understand how difficult Maria's exercise books and examination papers were. As a former student of the No. 1 High School of Broome, I've done some of the same questions as Maria. Our teacher only made us answer a small selection of questions because they were so difficult. It's unimaginable that Maria finished all the questions!"

“Hello, everyone. I'm a high school teacher myself. I'm ashamed to admit to you all that the exercise books and examination papers used by Maria are far beyond my usual teaching scope. The questions are too difficult. I admire Maria very much!"

On Twitter, many celebrities had reposted the fake news about Maria and criticized her publicly. After watching the interview, however, they deleted the original content and reposted the interview instead.

The netizens didn't care about the fickle cyber celebrities, but they weren't about to let the Bowles Group and the production team of Taste of Childhood get away with it.

Undoubtedly, it was the official Twitter account of the Bowles Group that was left with the most scolding comments.

The Bowles Group had only recently begun to take off in their home country and didn't have many domestic fans yet.

Besides, the most recent post on the Bowles Group's official Twitter account was still the announcement that Maria was to be removed from the show. "In Light of Maria's poor behavior of deceiving the audience, the Bowles Group has officially issued a notice to the production team to remove her from the show Taste of Childhood!"

At first, the comments left on the Bowles Group's official Twitter account numbered only in the thousands, but in just ten minutes, it had multiplied to hundreds of thousands!

"You were in a hurry to remove Maria from the show before the news was even confirmed. Don't you feel ashamed now?"

“why don't you apologize to Maria? You should invite her back to the show."

“Let's be honest, without Maria, the show is too boring to watch!"

"It's so obvious that the Bowles Group only produced Taste of Childhood to make Jacqueline popular.”

"I don't think Jacqueline is fit to participate in reality shows. She's so boring. Invite Maria back and kick out Jacqueline instead, okay?"

As the criticism of the public mounted, there was a swift but unexpected response from the Bowles Group- they deleted the Twitter post, and turned off the comments for all their other Twitter posts.

But it was said that the voice of the people could never be silenced. By some unspoken decision, everyone turned to the official Twitter account of Taste of Childhood instead to Leave their comments.

“The production team owes us an explanation! You should issue a public apology to Maria."

"Mr. Brooks is such a famous director, but this matter will definitely smear his reputation for good.”

“My suggestion is that Taste of Childhood should be pulled off air. You're all just embarrassing yourselves at this point."