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On August 31, 2014, a collection of nearly five hundred private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, with many containing nudity, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and swiftly disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit.
Beginning on 31 Aug 2014 and lasting a few weeks, the internet was hit with an event that became known as the Fappening, a portmanteau of happening and fap, internet slang for masturbate. Ignition was triggered when these two posts of naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were submitted to their respective subreddits.
Sep 1, 2014 · Posts on the websites 4chan and Reddit said the celebrities were exposed when a hacker broke into their cloud-based storage. Online posts claim more than 100 celebrities are part of the illicit...
Aug 31, 2014 · Beginning Sunday night, a massive quantity of nude and risqué photos that appeared to be of huge stars such as Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, and Kate Upton leaked online, first appearing on the /b/ thread on 4chan (NSFW link).
- Buzzfeed News Reporter
In short: The remarkable part isnt the nudity or the celebrities its the amount of different people all being leaked at once by what would appear to be one person. Its like if the Pentagon White House, CIA, NSA, 10 Downing Street and Mossad in Israel were all hacked at the same time.
The Fappening is the nickname now given to the 2014 celebrity photos leak scandal that has lots of female celebrities undressed in photos posted on 4Chan message boards and on Reddit. Who's on that list?
Sep 1, 2014 · J ennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez and Kirsten Dunst were among an estimated 100 celebrities alleged to have private and explicit photos leaked online Sunday, after hackers apparently accessed...
