this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Nicole [LOCKED]

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Due to recent developments, we've had to lock down this community until further notice. For more information, please take a look at this post: https://feddit.org/post/10515288

Thank you for your understanding.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FQQD@feddit.org to c/nicole@feddit.org
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What happened?

Due to the recent developments, I have decided to make this community moderator-only. There has been a mass spam attack involving gore and nudity. This is now a very serious situation and it is clear that something has to be done to stop this from happening. The new messages might be from a different, psychopathic spammer.

What we decided to do about it

To have better control of this situation, we decided to lock down the community, except for the comment section on this very post. (Please let me know if I've missed a post)

Rules

  • Please refrain to further spread the newest spam image, especially uncensored versions of it.
  • The "It's my girlfriend!"-joke is long gone. Be respectful, stop using it.

Going forward

Our main goal now is to stop the spread of spam on Lemmy. This seems like a major problem in Lemmy's concept, so we need to work together to create a working solution to the spam and potential defacing of users.

Update: The source of the gore images has been identified, so it's safe to say it's not actually the same person as "Nicole". Still fucked up, though.

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think the following happened:

  1. The webcam of the laptop of some random girl got hacked and someone secretly took pictures
  2. Someone used those pictures for spam
  3. Someone made an edit with a dead body using a random image of the internet

I think the latest message is just from a random psycho that either wants attention or likes to see how people react.
I therefore suggest the following:

  1. Ruin their "fun" by locking the community, preventing people from making further comments and preventing any discussion about it (make sure to keep an informative post up that summarizes this to avoid discussion spilling to other communities)
  2. Contact instance admins to be on the lookout to ensure a swift removal, some might be able to help other admins with image filters.
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I also think this is what happened, at least until somebody convinces me the dead person is the same person as "Nicole". I know they bore a passing resemblance, but to my eye they were different people.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

It's not. It's from a gore website.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 13 points 4 days ago

I believe it was a streamer?

[–] Captain@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

Yes. This kind of things isn't new to the internet and it's always attention seeking