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"The Fappening" is a jocular portmanteau coined by combining the words "fap", an internet slang term for masturbation, and the title of the 2008 film The Happening.Though the term is a vulgarism originating either with the imageboards where the pictures were initially posted or Reddit, mainstream media outlets soon adopted the term themselves, such as the BBC.
A Reddit admin said: "We will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don't take action". [88] Following the ban, Reddit users flooded the site with pictures of overweight people, as well as photos of Reddit's interim CEO Ellen Pao. [91]
The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at the age of 18 in a high-speed car crash in Lake Forest, California, after losing control of her father's Porsche 911 Carrera and colliding with a tollbooth. Photographs of Catsouras's badly ...
A spoiler is an element of a disseminated summary or description of a media narrative that reveals significant plot elements, with the implication that the experience of discovering the plot naturally, as the creator intended it, has been robbed ("spoiled") of its full effect.
"On September 20, nearly a month after the initial distribution of the leaked photos, previously unreleased photographs appeared via 4chan, which were quickly disseminated onto reddit [1] [2]. Threads and images containing the content were quickly removed off 4chan and reddit [ 3 ] ."
John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, it has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, which allows any user to edit its encyclopedic pages, has led to ...
The Almost Naked party was a party held by Russian blogger and TV presenter Nastya Ivleeva in Moscow on 20–21 December 2023, attended by many Russian celebrities. The event sparked a public scandal after photos were published on the Russian Internet. [1]
However, Best called Twitter's actions "heavy-handed", as they suspended users who tweeted links to archived copies of the leaked material or who merely mentioned the leak. [53] On July 9, Reddit banned /r/BlueLeaks, a community created to discuss BlueLeaks, claiming they had posted personal information.