I also thought Russian. Similar Russian Hit:

One that’s sort of similar, but less like our girl:

This reminds me of old 4Chan when they’d share rare photos of Chan girls. But like, a little different because these are being sent straight to our inboxes.

Well, not me. I haven’t been chosen. 😔

This latest one where she ‘S looking down looks like the background is removed poorly too—which tracks with zoom.

Same thought. This seems more likely. Especially with new photos being dropped in different clothes.

Let’s say you had something compromising on someone. There’s so much smut out there that that alone might not be “fun” enough to torture your target with. It’d probably get lost in all the noise of the internet.

If you instead, spread their image in an ARG style campaign, you’ve now got an entire forum of people who would identify the compromising material as “Nicole.”

There’s entire creators online that focus on internet oddities. If you really wanted to torture someone, you could make their face specifically known for a separate reason (here, cover is a romance scam that goes nowhere.)

I’m not saying this is happening here. But if you truly wanted to harass someone and gain coercive control over them, this would be a pretty effective way to do that without sharing the compromising payload.

Which, we might consider this might be a coercion tactic towards the victim in addition to a targeted harassment.

As in, “See look all these people know your face now. They’re all looking for you. Do what I want and I won’t share the compromising material.”

Blackmail.

This (new?) photo looks like it was taken when someone was unaware.

That would be horrible and makes this more creepy than anything. I almost hope it’s a scam instead of targeted harassment. But now that you’ve said this I feel very uneasy that you may be right

I’m from Reddit too. I started on Lemm.ee and I made accounts at like 4 other instances. It’s extremely easy to make accounts and switch in the app you’re using (I’m on Voyager).

Feddit.org, a German server, was down earlier for Maintenace and I switched to infosec. It’s really easy. Not a commitment to apply and jump between instances.

You don’t have to wait. You could apply for a few you like the description of and try them out. If you don’t like them, don’t use them. If you like them—stau! :)

Ok sick I’ll check those out thanks 👌

Seriously the stupid rehashing of old top comments. Posted by bots. Who are commenting on a repost posted by a bot.

Fuck me. It’s never a recycling of Reddit specific lore or history or inside jokes. Just the lowest hanging fruit. Over and over and over.

It’s like being forced to sit through a sitcom where the actors are all robots and there’s no live audience or laugh track.

Love witchesvpatriarchy in our family. I really hope a lot of the witches from there join in Lemmy. Tell your circles.

Dude for the last year on Reddit I could NOT get a normal feed. It was always sneaking in AITA threads. It was absurd. And then the comments were even more absurd.

Did you see the PR company/ PR person Melissa Nathan that was caught manipulating pop culture subreddits for actors?

Like I could tell it was off and not at all like Reddit used to work but all this makes it so apparent that the content is being driven so hard by factions and bots. It’s mostly not real people anymore doing or influencing anything.

So glad to be on Lemmy with you :)

The behavior from the paranoid self-culling of r/Conservative— sorta looks like it spread to the entire site. Kind of insane watching this go down.

I feel like we are in comfortable little life rafts watching big boat set itself on fire and sink.

You can change the settings I think in Voyager.

Im on voyager now and I replied to you using the “…” and tapping “reply.”

You can also allow change the settings to show normal upvote and downvote buttons. (If your instance allows downvotes you can downvote on the down arrow button too. )

I was warned on an upvote (plural and Reddit said it wasn’t a mistake because I “habitually upvote violence”) but not what or when I upvoted.

I upvote thousands of comments. Literally no idea what the criteria is so I stopped upvoting. Then I was like, whatever I’ll join Lemmy fuck this nonsense.

That’s how and why I joined over here. They implemented the upvote = ban policy. I got a warning. I have no idea what for because I pretty much upvote everything I read. I am pretty loose and will even upvote entire argument threads if I think the argument is worthwhile to read.

As soon as I was warned for upvoting the wrong thing, but not told which of my thousands of upvotes were wrong, I deleted Reddit.

Anyway, it’s nice here on Lemmy.

I’m very familiar with this community—they should migrate over here.

They’re witches. Of all different types of craft. A broom is something a witch rides or flies on in popular culture.

It’s saying that witches can survive against fascism if they band together in their covens and use their witchcraft.

Or, more simply, if they stand together in their faith then they will survive together.

Witches don’t actually fly on broomsticks or hit people with broomsticks. They’re just normal people. It’s slightly in jest.

I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.

The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.

I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad

does that mean you’re also @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com🫨

I kind of like that we have to choose to participate to make this work. Sharing something might actually be worthwhile. I’ve had my fair share of viral posts in my day, but posting hasn’t been a priority of mine since before the days of Lord Gallowboob.

It’s refreshing to be in an actual community.