Celebgate
English
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[edit]Celebgate
- (informal) A 2014 controversy in which almost 500 private photographs of various celebrities, many containing nudity, were leaked and disseminated through social media.
- 2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing[1], Routledge, →ISBN:
- Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.