ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Schön scandal

Okay, imagine you're playing with your toys and you accidentally knock over a tower you built. You feel bad and worried that someone might be mad at you. That feeling is like what happened with the schön scandal.

There are some people who make things that look beautiful, like furniture and houses. And there are some people who write about them and take pictures of them to show others how beautiful they are. But sometimes, the people who write about and take pictures of these beautiful things can make things up or change things to make them look even better than they really are.

That's what happened with the schön scandal. Some people who wrote about and took pictures of beautiful homes and furniture were caught lying and making things up to make them look even better. This made a lot of people angry and they felt like they couldn't trust those people anymore.

So, just like when you accidentally knock over your tower, those people who were caught lying and making things up felt bad for what they had done. And the people who trusted them felt disappointed and angry that they were deceived.