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.
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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.
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.
Thank you, as someone who looked into this I am glad to see this being taken seriously. The real Nicole is for sure a victim and does not deserve to be doxxed and made into a meme.
Echoing everyone else in that it seemed kind of funny at first but that it has just turned weirder.
I think it's a good call. I will report if I receive any messages.
Oh right I remembering reporting someone for DMβing me the Nicole picture last week after learning the account wasnβt even a day old. Good to know things like this are being taken seriously.
The real fediverse chick was that newly hatched chicken someone posted pics of.
Often imitated, never duplicated.
I just got a new one this morning from another person calling themself Jessica. I'm also not sure if the report button works for anything but posts in a comm with Jerboa :/