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Oh well, this turned dark very quickly. Let's hope it is not the girl itself.
Btw does this mean the spammer is not going to spam any further or will they now start sending such images now. If yes, it might be a good idea to disable image embedding in the code for PMs for the time being.
The accounts spamming the new image did not follow the typical pattern of previous spammers, at least in terms of origin instance. Instead of DMing from obscure small instances, this new spam came from 2-year old accounts from .world and .ml. This leads me to believe it is a second actor.
It is also not certain that the person in the most recent image is the same as "Nicole". To me it looked like a different person, but there was some damage so it's not possible to say for sure, at least for me.
So they most likely were set up beforehand, huh. I wonder what the motive behind this nicole spam even is.
The spammer is watching the threads here and is changing stuff accordingly. If we assume there are two spammers, the first one is doing it for attention? And the second one is now trying to scare us? To make people leave the Fediverse, perhaps? Interesting stuff. Though as OP said, the second one is most likely a troll. It just doesn't feel that "serious".
Unfortunately a consequence of the Nicole sub being locked down is we won't be able to track a very important detail: will the spam continue as before, change or stop? That would tell us a lot about whether it is one or multiple actors.
The most plausible explanation to me is some edgy user who had unused accounts left over on .world and .ml since the API exodus found a photo on a liveleak type site bearing a passing resemblance to "Nicole" and decided to troll/and or shock people. 4chan type behaviour.
Do you find it suspicious that the mod of !nicoled@lemmy.world is downvoting us? Their account was made an hour ago, and they made it just for that community.
In fact, their account just got banned.
Edit: oh, look at that, another fresh account, 4 mins ago. @extension@lemmings.world, you're free to explain us why
you really want a nicoled community huh, are you perhaps the one behind the nicole spam?
I noticed that too - this is really odd.
Definitely curious if nothing else. I don't have access to voter logs so I hadn't noticed.
the community is now empty
They left the comments on the pinned post on. We can track stuff there.
I kinda speculate that it's an unrelated troll as well. No reason why it wouldn't be tbh.
So I will mention I got a few of the standard Nicole spams (picture of girl alive and well, the familiar text) originating from days old accounts on sh.itjust.works. At least two accounts, each sent the message more than once before I blocked them, each were a couple days old with no other activity. Easy to believe the original actor opened a couple accounts to spam from.
Didn't see this move coming.
So wait just to clarify, you got some new "regular Nicole" spam today, sent after the whole dead body spam occurred?
no not today. a few days ago.
I mentioned it in our main community, and I think they ratcheted up the security about it to the point that it'll throw a "not found" error if I even click on links to the Nicoled community.