This whole thing is like a mystery that gets more and more disturbing.
This is gonna be the first Fediverse creepypasta
I was about to say that. We are slowly building up lore.
It’s super creepy but a step up from beans nontheless.
!nicole@feddit.org is now mod only. Things seem to get nasty.
From sh.itjust.works I’ve been getting a “couldn’t find community” on that one for at least several days.
It gets caught in the net of their attempt to block the spam.
IDK if things were “nasty” but it’s a serious situation and the spammers are obviously watching that community (and these posts) and even in the best case it’s just feeding the fire.
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The gif scared me because I thought it was the actual image.
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.
Bizarre turn of events
Is there a way to block images from being sent to us in messages?
Yeah I woke up to that and it was fucked
Sorry to hear
I saw the pic and feel like it really could be the same person. Their face was destroyed so I don’t get why people are confidently saying it’s fake
I really hope it’s not. I just thought she was annoying, but I didn’t want it all to end up like this. I wanted her to stop spamming us and get her medical degree 😦
Omg please tell me this is fake. Doxxing can be very dangerous.
I hope it is
Has anyone actually got any proof of the images being sent? People are claiming that the message just self deletes and they just suddenly forgot that screenshot is a thing. How are the police not involved at this point if that many people have received these supposed dead Nicole pictures. If this is a joke it’s in pretty bad taste
The message does not self delete.
What people are seeing is the action of admins to remove the content from your inboxes. A recent Lemmy update provides admins the ability to ban users and remove their content including DMs. The quicker instances are banning the spam accounts very rapidly, some even with automation. The best thing you can do if you receive spam is to report it so your admins can act.
Editing to add- The most recent build 0.19.11 also removes images sent in DMs on the webui. Apps and cached files may still show the images to some users.
That makes more sense. Thank you for clarifying!
Yeah I need proof, send me the image
Just a bunch of people with lots of free time trying to create drama in my opinion
I’ll just wait for the Barely Sociable or Nexpo episode.
Good luck, it doesn’t exist. If it does it will be very obviously photoshopped. At least obvious enough for authorities to be not treating it as a possible murder
Photoshop? That’s only for professional design and photo editing these days right? I mean, why do all the trouble yourself when AI can do it better. I never use Photoshop anymore because of this.
Yeah that is true. I only assume photoshop as AI tends to make mistakes that can easily be seen
Update: further down in the thread there is a link to someone describing the image. It sounds like to me that there’s no way these could be connected. The “killer” would have to be the one taking the creep shots on the web cam, then also somehow be the mortician too? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was someone who was tired of the whole Nicole thing so they decided to “kill her” off. But for some fucked up reason they used actual gore.
Yeah the dead woman was found on a gore website I think, taken from a Chinese morgue? It’s definitely sent by a different actor. Both the gore spammer and the regular “Nicole” spam is still ongoing in parallel too, following their respective patterns.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was someone who was tired of the whole Nicole thing so they decided to “kill her” off.
Well, they definitely succeeded at that, given how the whole thing has been locked down.
It’s not illegal to DM people pictures of dead bodies. What are the police going to do?
Depends on jurisdiction
Here is a proper link to the thread:
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Holy fuck
My prayers go out to her. This isn’t what we should remember anything by.
Is someone making some kind of weird storytelling with a character? Weird “meme” to spread on lemmy
This meme was already out there. All of a sudden, Nicole become fediwife to many. All of a sudden, everyone involved got bucket of ice on their head. It was SOOOOOOO satisfying to watch.
Nah, I mean the person doing that is depicting “Nicole” as happy, then tired, then doing drugs, then dead. I feel like there’s some storytelling, and although that’s a bit a fucked up way to do it, it might be some artistic performance of some sort? You know, like ARGs, creepypastas and stuff…
This sounds like it. You know, for me it was some sort of weird spam attack, like sending shady links in Discord DMs. There’s more to it from this perspective.
People said there’s no one on the said links, and the scam technique always stays the same, they could at least use other names or images or things like that. They’re not even trying, yet spending all their time spamming people. That’s what makes me think it’s something more than just spam.
True, true.
You’re getting downvoted by a bot? :(
For me getting downvoted means the same as it works in Reddit, disagreement. People are trying too hard to distinguish Lemmy from Reddit, but some mechanics stay the same. I often say controversial things, so I’m getting downvoted. Oh well…
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