This prominence deems as reference to fame influence to target the foes or nemeses for sake of self-approval or to decrease their number as in advertising and sabotage terms.
In this scenario you are flagged as foe or nemeses to play the role of punch bag so you pretty much can’t defend yourself nor use any kind of power terms to help yourself due to their advantage over fame and influence so they bring you down straight forward without any kind of announcement or warning if you are somehow have triggered their intent and thirst of sabotage they won’t be convoyed by any alternatives and they will keep humiliating you or spreading rumor about you whether you beg for it or not unless you have offered what satisfy their interest in you.
This kind of situation leads to complete frustration to your mentality and total mess for reputation which doesn’t help you to make any good contacts even your reputation won’t have the same quality any longer if you show any kind of counters you will be exposed and rumored to be a complete sinister even further than before and they may use your disadvantage of power gap to dominate your lifeline.
Torturing methods:
1) Bully with social layers, numbers and influence. 2) Complete seal of countering them back and assuming false truth for delusion and conspiracy to prevent you from self-defense. 3) Personal and related information complete will leak under your title of popularity. 4) Blackmailing you to the point of their self-satisfaction and joy over torturing you that may include their incoherent laughter and spring a total humiliation.
Conclusion:
You will need to prevent yourself from using any social layers or reputation you have ever been known with as early as possible and only temporarily so you won’t give them a chance to increase their exposure of your information and don’t share any of your personal information to your known contacts they may be in communication with them and they may be the source of leakage so you will need to report all authorities on all boarders without exception even unrelated ones and show what evidences you have collected about them firmly and truthfully even if it takes to involve government via cybercrime sections for it as long as you are pure victim without single involvement then government will reside with you.