Mary Kate Cornett

So I initially found out about the Burnerverse in February 2025, a, a few months, about nine months before Maddie went viral.

And I found out about it because I saw this young woman's name trending on X, and her name was Mary Kate Cornett.

And I was really curious.

I was like, "Who is this person?" And it turned out to be an Ole Miss college student who there was a campus rumor, a salacious defamatory rumor about her sex life that had gone viral on campus that had been elevated to the mainstream and was going viral on X nationally because a bunch of prominent people had picked it up.

No, it's not.

So perhaps the most well-known case is this girl named Mary Kate Cornett.

[gentle music] Who, uh, was a student at Ole Miss in February 2025 when this salacious campus rumor about her sex life started going viral, and the rumor was false, and it was clearly defamatory, um, but it went so viral that it kind of escaped containment from Ole Miss and went viral among SEC schools and then went viral nationally, like, to the point where her name was trending nationally on X.

Having the entire internet, half of the country hating you and calling you disgusting things, telling you to kill yourself, telling you that you're a horrible person, that you deserve to die, that's, that's a really hard thing for a girl to go through.

All right.

You see, Pat McAfee was spotted with Mary-Kate Cornett.

on the Ole Miss sidelines just a year after she threatened to sue him and he made a public apology I don't know if you remember the controversy of when he did some reporting on the rumor that she was in a sexual relationship with the father of her boyfriend at Ole Miss.

It was some crazy-ass story, and I remember we even reported on it, but Pat McAfee was the one who took the bullet for getting the story wrong.

So pregame on the sideline of Ole Miss and LSU is Pat McAfee standing next to a very attractive young woman.

So upon investigation who this person was, it's the girl Mary Kate Cornett, who sued ESPN, and Barstool, and everybody about that horrible rumor that was out there about her.

And she's there, I believe she was an Ole Miss student, so she's there on the sideline, and Pat McAfee was at the, like, the brunt of that lawsuit 'cause of the stuff that he had said that wasn't true about her.

So they're standing on the sidelines just talking to one another.