I think it was ruined pretty quickly after her urban legend started getting traction on the internet. RE8 isn't that old, and I can't imagine it would take long for a bunch of teens and young adult men to think, "hey wait a second, I wanna get absconded by a really tall woman and raped* to ambiguous death in an alternate dimension!"Lady Dimitrescu really ruined her reputation so bad in recent years.
Urban legend? The story is was from 2008 and was set in 1998. Unless there is something older she is a creepy pasta. A very popular one with far more staying power than the ones that came before. Seriously when was the last time anyone talked about Jeff the killer.I think it was ruined pretty quickly after her urban legend started getting traction on the internet. RE8 isn't that old, and I can't imagine it would take long for a bunch of teens and young adult men to think, "hey wait a second, I wanna get absconded by a really tall woman and raped* to ambiguous death in an alternate dimension!"
*[Ninjas] be fake freaks for real-- I'm sure most of these types don't actually want to be violently sexually assaulted, but rather, they want to have sex so much that the "rape" part of the fantasy is an expression of the intensity of their desire.