I wish reputation was a bit more nuanced. You do good socials, you get pristine reputation - you do mean stuff, you get the atrocious reputation. Sims that do both end up with nothing :/ it's like they're just not memorable enough? That doesn't make much sense to me. It's either devil or angel? What about our true neutrals?
Mean sims with the mischief/villain aspirations are going to have atrocious repuation rather easily, because they're actively directed to create a legion of enemies. But it doesn't really happen on its own, or because of more complex reasons.
Like If you want true evil, the villainous valentine is really shocking to play O: It was difficult to actively start breaking up couples.