Shorthand: The 2014 Celebrity ‘iCloud Leaks’
4/17/202625 min
Intimate and explicit images of A-list celebrities – that’s what the world woke up to on the 31st of August 2014. “The Fappening” saw thousands of leaked celebrity nudes dumped onto 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter. It gave unprecedented access to the most overtly private images anyone could imagine – but how on earth did it happen?
This week on ShortHand we’re taking a deep dive into the grubby world of AnonIB and leaked-nude “collectors”: users who hoard and circulate explicit images without the subject’s consent – celebrity or not. So how do these images come to be online? And how do we stop it from happening?
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[rock music] On the thirty-first of August, twenty fourteen, two photographs appeared on the front page of Reddit. One was of Kate Upton, and the other one was of Jennifer Lawrence. And both of these pictures showed these women naked.
Speaker 1· Host1:28
I forgot about Kate Upton.