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The environment is completely different but she can't comprehend the real difference because she doesn't want to acknowledge that she isn't young anymore. The Internet I grew up with and spent a lot of time on is entirely different from the one my sister who is 10 years younger experiences now.

This. I remember being a teenager on AOL chat doing the a/s/l thing. There were predators online back then but I regarded the online space as much more of a fantasy realm/ abstraction. We didn't have cell phones and web cams and we had limited access in any case, so it was easier to create a mental barrier between the online space and real life. We don't have that barrier now with social media. If you're getting dogpiled on Twitter or Facebook it's hard to ignore it and walk away.

Hortense strikes me as someone who says and does a lot of inappropriate things on the internet, likely involving minors, and doesn't want to be accountable for it.