part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted
Oh boy that's horrible, if true I hope she has reported it to police, and they can help her.
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part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted
Oh boy that's horrible, if true I hope she has reported it to police, and they can help her.
WTF is a Nicole image
Edit: After seeing responsesβ¦. I got it weeks ago but just ignored it as spam and didnβt even read it. The pic jogs my memory
How long have you been here? I've only been here a few weeks and got no fewer than ten of these messages.
Nicole AKA the fediverse girl/chick
Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but are you able to confirm whether admins have reported this to the police?
Even if violence hasn't been perpetrated, the harassment is still a crime surely.
What kind of a loser does this to someone?
I'm just guessing here, but maybe a rejected suitor? Or a person they're beefing with? A mentally ill person who found these pictures and decided to direct their hate at them? People do all sorts of weird stuff for all sorts of weird reasons.
My hypothesis is, someone's trying to run a "Hey statistically lonely men on the internet, I'm allegedly a girl. Send me money in hopes of getting attention" scam, and they're using the pictures of "Nicole" because that's what they have at hand. I'm picturing a college classmate capturing college Zoom classes so they have several different pictures of the same girl. What others are attributing to sick malice I'm attributing to callous disregard.
Glad to see there's effort being taken to stop this, as someone who's been harassed in a similar way on here it really kind of bugs me that people are making light of this or assume that the original person is the one doing this. Impersonation is frighteningly easy on the Fediverse and I really wish they'd add some kind of verification in Lemmy like they do in Mastodon to try and minimize the impact of it.
Thankfully I haven't received one of the gore ones I've seen people talking about, but yeah I'll stop participating in the meme, it's not as a fun anymore.