The article went live at 4:47 AM Pacific time, when the internet was quiet enough for a single spark to start a wildfire.
It wasn't even a front-page story. Just a column in the lifestyle section of an LA tabloid that specialized in thinly sourced gossip and heavily implied conclusions. The headline was restrained by their standards, which somehow made it more devastating:
*Inside Jason Dayo's Private World: The Singer, the Superstar, and the Secret That's Been Hiding in Plain Sight.*
