It was America, unsurprisingly, who let the secret slip.

It was a little surprising that he let it slip on .

Prussia, who was the only Nation who spent… an embarrassingly large proportion of his time on Tumblr was the first to see the shitshow happen.

"Ah Icharus," he said in the private discord (it was called the Cool Kids Club, and contained America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and… Prussia and Liechtenstein for some reason) "You have flown too close to the sun."
"FUCK" America replied. Canada responded with "?"

"Go check tumblr," Prussia said.

The tumblr thing on its own wouldn't have been too bad, probably, except that there was a (US) government leak at the same time that revealed the existence of Nations and several of their human names and identities.

Nations all over the world scrambled to make some sort of PR response. Tumblr, of course, went insane with memes.

America changed his tumblr url to yeahimtheusa and tried to ride out the chaos.

On the Cool Kids Club discord:

Murica!:
I think it's one of those things, you know?
like when you drop your wallet in the river
and then you think, Wow that was really stupid
but then later you find out that the stock market crashed
so you're like, Oh, that's why and you feel a little less dumb
but also you could really use that twenty bucks you just lost.

Sugar and Spice and Shotguns:
you still did accidentally reveal your secret to all of tumblr tho
I mean, no one made you do that

Murica!:
Liechtenstein I thought you were supposed to be the Nice One!

Sugar and Spice and Shotguns:
No. That was canada
We voted

MrMapleMan:
bro
i can't believe you forgot about me…

Murica!:
IT'S BEEN A STRESSFUL WEEK OKAY

"Prussia, get off the computer, you need to take this seriously!" Germany said.

"No I don't!" Prussia said gleefully, "I'm dead! I don't exist! I don't have to do anything but point at the whole thing and laugh."

" Prussia."

"Hey, hey," Prussia said, "It'll be okay. You'll be fine. Just go down there and do your press conference, and if anyone calls you a nazi bastard or something just come home and, I don't know, cry on my shoulder for a bit. You'll get through this, promise. You don't need me for this, just go do your thing and everyone will be so in awe of your awesome professionalism they'll love you."

Germany smiled a little, "Okay," he said, "I'll do my best."

"Go make me proud."

Later, Prussia opened up tumblr to find that it was fuller than it'd ever been in his life. It felt like God was laughing at him.