A copycat spammer started sending gore pictures to people using the same Nicole copypasta text. A lot of people got upset and there was a flurry of discussion over like a 24h period. Some people seemed to think it was a serial killer and Nicole had been doxxed and killed. In reality if I recall right the picture was from a morgue somewhere in China.

Anyway the whole thing led to a general "okay maybe the joke has run its course and we shouldn't encourage this" type of moment and the sub was shut down. Presumably the spammer stopped spamming once they no longer received attention, but maybe the admins found and IP banned them or something. I have no idea.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"The" admins? All that spam was coming from new accounts made at instances with little oversight.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 19 points 2 days ago

It was probably poorly phrased but I feel like I remember there was a group of various instance admins at the time discussing ways to deal with it, so it was more of a reference to maybe they figured something out.

You're right that they used tiny instances with no oversight and open registrations to ban evade for a long time even before this debacle when it was just normal Nicole spam.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She and I started dating, and she's had a lot less time for making Fediverse friends since starting her new job.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Damn, homie really putting her to work, huh? Sheeeeeeesh

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago

Dozens of those accounts got banned. Whoever was behind them seems to have given up.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Started pondering an orb while wearing ~~jeans~~ jorts and eating beans… and just never stopped.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

JORB!

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nicole content was banned on LW. At first it was just the usual spam, but then multiple users received PMs of extremely violent NSFW content with what appeared to be Nicole.

Won’t post what it was here, but you can go to the below link and find a comment from another user that marked it as a Spoiler. Note, it’s a trigger warning if you are sensitive to extreme violence/gore (no picture, just a text description).

https://lemmy.world/post/28077771

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 11 points 2 days ago

It wasn't the actual person. It was some lunatic who had harassed the person used to spam.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

Perhaps the spammer got tired and many admins stepped up their game. As an instance admin I remember having to remove helluva many posts featuring Nicole. Hopefully anything like that will not happen again for a long time.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gone. Reduced to atoms.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

And her wife? To shreds you say?

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Maybe it was a phishing scheme to identify people's IP addresses based on where they loaded the image from. In that case, each person would only receive one message. Fortunately I use a proxy, so they got nothing.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Dunno, i blocked everything and they never appeared again

[–] LemUrun@pawb.social -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The gore picture was on external server lol imgdrop.io was shut down