What kind of a loser does this to someone?
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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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.
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I can't believe I managed to never get one of these spam messages. I didn't even know what a Nicole was until the week or two ago.
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I've been thinking this since it started and saying it for a bit. I don't understand at all how there were memes of this on the front page all the time and it took this long to do even this. Has there been any attempt at an effort to notify whoever is in the picture that this is happening? I would like to help if possible.
I think "notify her" feeds the harassment they're referring to, even if contacting her is well intended
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WTF is a Nicole image
Edit: After seeing responsesβ¦. I got it weeks ago but just ignored it as spam and didnβt even read it. The pic jogs my memory
How long have you been here? I've only been here a few weeks and got no fewer than ten of these messages.
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I assumed it was something like a pig butchering crypto scam.
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.
Glad to see there's effort being taken to stop this, as someone who's been harassed in a similar way on here it really kind of bugs me that people are making light of this or assume that the original person is the one doing this. Impersonation is frighteningly easy on the Fediverse and I really wish they'd add some kind of verification in Lemmy like they do in Mastodon to try and minimize the impact of it.
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.
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.
Understandable.
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 :/
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This is some small internet bullshit i'm here for