There's a line in a Jack Reacher novel I really like. It goes, "you can get off the separation list, because you'll never get off the s**t list".

I like it because if you change the first sentence, you can apply it to anything.

In the case of Hawk Tuah, she got off the FBI list, but she'll never get off the s**t list.

Some people may have missed the news but Hawk Tuah - real name Haliey Welch - was cleared of any wrongdoing by the FBI.

After the investigation, the Bureau concluded that Welch did not possess the technical knowledge to launch the crypto token on her own, and since she also apparently didn't personally possess any of the funds from the memecoin launch.

So the Bureau moved on, but the internet hasn't. And likely won't.

Welch, who's mostly silent on social media since the fracas, recently sat down for an interview with Channel 5.

“I got talked into doing something that I didn't know anything about, really, but you've got to be really careful what you put your name on,” Welsh told Andrew Callaghan of the Channel 5 YouTube.

“I was starting to get death threats. People telling me I owe them all this money, and I'm like, ‘I didn't do this'," she said.

According to the FBI, that's true, and that's what happened. But, predictably, a lot of people don't care.

The comments below the video on YouTube were mostly sarcastic and didn't really mention the crypto thing that often but things are different on X.

A lot of people are still blaming her what is known as 'strict liability' - if we wanted to use a legal term - which is ironic because, legally, she's been cleared.

"Being gullible isn't an excuse," someone commented.

But this is further proof that this how the internet works if you're famous.

There are two trials: there's the trial by law, and the trial by media.

And the trial by media never ends, even after you've been acquitted. That's how the internet works.