Hello world,
as many of you may already be aware, there is an ongoing spam attack by a person claiming to be Nicole.
It is very likely that these images are part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted in the images shared as part of this spam.
Although the spammer claims to be the person in the picture, we strongly believe that this is not the case and that they’re only trying to frame them.
Starting immediately, we will remove any images depicting “Nicole” and information that may lead to identifying the real person depicted in those images to prevent any possible harassment.
This includes older posts and comments once identified.
We also expect moderators to take action if such content is reported.
While we do not intend to punish people posting this once, not being aware of the context, we may take additional actions if they continue to post this content, as we consider this to be supporting the harassment campaign.
Discussion that does not include the images themselves or references that may lead to identifying the real person behind the image will continue to be allowed.
If you receive spam PMs please continue reporting them and we’ll continue working on our spam detections to attempt to identify them early before they reach many users.
So Nicole is false and we’ve all been lied to? 😱
Couldn’t be. You can’t lie on the internet.
I can’t wait for the future 4 hour video deep dive into Nicole history and lore.
Question is, is it going to be made by Whang or Nexpo?
Neither. Hopefully someone like wendigoon or oki’s weird stories. Someone a bit more investigative and less semsationalistic than nexpo.
Count Dankula’s madlasses
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.
I saw some disturbing pics of someone posing as Nicole. Reported it for gore, spam, Nicole.
oh damn, was that on Lemmy? I haven’t heard/seen anything other than it just being casual photos in a house
I assumed it was something like a pig butchering crypto scam.
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No one is immune. The feeling of invulnerability leads to complacency, complacency leads to sloppiness and sloppiness leads to the
darkeasy mark side.Not sure about that. I see a LOT of lemmy posters who seem to never have had a girlfriend or are too scared to talk to girls in real life. lol
I thought she loved me.
She loves us
If we remain faithful to nicole we will be delivered eternal life. Lisan al nicole.
🛠️ (my instance doesn’t have a hammer and sickle so this will do)
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You’re welcome
If I resize my view it works but otherwise… xd
720x1600 Master race?
what?
Appears correctly on Voyager, original commenter should’ve used a code block.
ah thank you.
just as in real life, communism doesn’t work here either lol
doesn’t work 100% on my Voyager
Google Pixel 8 btw
Thank you, comrade
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.
I figured it was a phishing scheme, but harassment campaign also makes sense. Good to know
Is this the person some folks around here were referring to as the “Fediverse chick?”
Yep. That’s the one
Yes, as that is how “she” initially introduced herself
Was that a real introduction or simply another person using a stolen identify?
It’s almost certainly someone using pictures they took from a live stream
That is the point of this post. It was always considered to be spam and folks were trying to figure out what the motivation was and now they are working on the theory they are trying to be a dick to someone.
Someome’s trying to be Chris Hansen or something.
Thank you for the heads up. This probably cleaned up the confusion about the “fediverse chick” issues. May the culprit behind this be found and dealt with, and may she regain the peace and dignity she deserves, then.
WTF is a Nicole image
Nicole AKA the fediverse girl/chick
How long have you been here? I’ve only been here a few weeks and got no fewer than ten of these messages.
I wonder how Nicole chooses? I just got one image.
It’s likely not Nicole herself. It’s spam trying to frame her.
One account over a year; this account about two months when I finally decided .world could fuck off
I finally decided .world could fuck off
Wise choice!
Hey look! It’s Universal Monk, showing up in a .world community. Pretty bold move dude.
It’s just a spam message. It starts “Hi, I’m Nicole, but you can call me the fediverse chick!” Probably just a romance scam or something.
Thx, I only knew that as fediverse chick
Oh right I remembering reporting someone for DM‘ing me the Nicole picture last week after learning the account wasn‘t even a day old. Good to know things like this are being taken seriously.
Yay, fediverse lore!
Remember that guy who wanted to know how not to poop for three days!?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230624223444/https://lemmy.world/post/440073
For posterity. I’m gonna make a post for this one for others to find. It’s too glorious.
I miss the wizard trend though.
Edit: https://mander.xyz/post/27989180?scrollToComments=true
Beans
What a ride! So proud for him
Would rather more positive lore, but I guess it is fediverse lore. Just checked from curiosity, all but 2 messages I have got are from Nicole bots, 1 was another spammer and the other an automated “welcome to this community” bot message.
Yeah. At least Colby and the Jolly Ranchers didn’t involve harassment of an innocent person.
Colby involved worse things than harassment.
Colby was a made-up story. The victim of this incident is a real, human person.
Do the Owl Of The Year tournies break into c/all?
Wait, there are people who genuinely believe she’s the one behind it?
I thought it was pretty obvious that she’s the target of harassment. Some people must be new to the Internet
Everyone is 1 of the 10000. Even the people who have to look up what being 1 of the 10000 means
I had to look it up, and after reading a lengthily Wikipedia page on Greek mercenaries, I tried the second result: an XKCD comic I’ve seen before but had forgotten. So today, I’m one of the lucky 10,000 again.
I’ve seen internet harassment campaigns, none have looked like this. She doesn’t feel like the target here. If you wanted to use the internet to harass a girl, is this how you would implement it?
Yeah. This is older than the internet. It’s like writing “For a good time call Nicole” and writing someone you don’t like’s number in a truck stop bathroom.
…actually…
Speaking of new to the internet, it’s clearly not a harassment campaign against her. This is waaaay too much effort. There’s only 3 things that would engender this level of effort. Money, government spying, or mental illness.
It’s a crypto scam. That’s all it ever was
This is waaaay too much effort.
If you are willing and able to do a bit of scripting, it’s not that hard to generate and send a bunch of messages on the Threadiverse.
And there are people who will go to pretty extreme lengths to harass people who they are really upset with. An ugly breakup or something and…
things can be multiple things and once
True.
mentally ill people can have plenty of time on their hands to invest this much effort in harassing others. people claiming that this can’t be harassment are effectively supporting the harassment, as that tries to further blame the likely victim of this. obviously this is just speculation, as we don’t know the full truth.
people claiming that this can’t be harassment are effectively supporting the harassment, as that tries to further blame the likely victim of this
I don’t think anyone seriously thinks the woman in the pictures is behind this.
I’m sorry, sometimes it’s hard to tell whether people actually mean it. I can totally see people commenting that and being serious.
Yeah, I’ve been targeted by enough romance spam that I just assume any photo of a woman I don’t know was probably stolen from some random Tumblr or Instagram.
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.