I can’t believe I was finally chosen
Rare pose!
Submitted 1 week ago by Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I can’t believe I was finally chosen
Rare pose!
New Nichole just dropped
Is she like a pokemon now? Got to catch all of her evolutions.
Be careful. I think that Nicole girl might be a drug user.
I think you can call her the Fediverse Chick
Polish girl from Toronto.
It’s too late; we’re already addicted to her.
Pipe down, not sure what gave you that idea
There’s no basis, OP’s just blowing smoke.
You mean Stand user.
Ok, this is a shitpost community. I should not expect a real answer here. But I’m gonna float this question and see what people say.
This person has (of course) spammed me multiple times from apparently (just?) 2 different accounts now. nicole9@l.henlo.fi bogymanstout@quokk.au
Ok. So its spam. I block it. But what on earth is going on? This doesn’t seem to make sense. I assume somebody has actually tried to talk to this Nicole person. How did that go?
There’s a community for pondering this question.
The consensus is that Nicole is actually being harassed.
If you follow the links there’s no one to talk to but in the topic for the matrix room or something it says where she works.
So it’s something like creepy weirdo is spamming everyone with her photo in the hope that creeps from lemmy go hit on her at her work.
Ok. More internet. Now I just hope Nicole is ok. Fuk. Thx.
I think they eventually try to get you onto a crypto trading platform or something.
I don’t understand why whoever this is doesn’t use better photos?
These always look like they were taking on a potato.
Someone actually worked out where they came from, it was a livestream from memory.
But yeah, screen grabs from a crummy webcam.
Every picture of “Nicole” I’ve seen has that feel to it.
I’ve never been to Toronto, but I’m gonna go ahead and assume the pics were taken using poutine.
Wtf is this. I’m so confused.
!nicole@feddit.org
Of course there’s one!
Nicole in shambles
Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole Nicole
Damn, she’s about to enter the matrix!
I got that spamessage today as well
Trinity Nicole looking for her chosen Neo
Dude, that’s my bong.
Damn it, this hoe wants every dick on Lemmy!
Okay rude
❝Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Fediverse is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You toke from the blue bong, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You toke the red bong, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes… Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more… Follow me… on Friendica❞
OK, I’m late to the joke.
Is this a AI, bot chick? Is that the joke?
Most likely, no one knows for sure. Random accounts will spam this message, and the picture keeps changing. No one knows who this girl is, or if she knows her image is being used. There’s speculation about where the photos are originating from
Just copying my other comment…
There’s a community for pondering this question.
The consensus is that Nicole is actually being harassed.
If you follow the links there’s no one to talk to but in the topic for the matrix room or something it says where she works.
So it’s something like creepy weirdo is spamming everyone with her photo in the hope that creeps from lemmy go hit on her at her work.
Thanks, appreciate it.
I don’t think anyone has gotten to the bottom of it. It’s a scam that has been sweeping Lemmy, Mbin and Mastodon (possibly others) for awhile now. It features a picture of that girl, we’ve seen several different pictures, it’s the same girl and they’re just about always posed as if it’s a frame from a Skype call or Zoom meeting like that. At first, the picture would show up with the text as plaintext, it has mutated and now the text is baked into the image to get around spam filters. At some point the message started asking for crypto.
It’s pretty obviously a spam/scam/spcam, so it’s become a little bit of an in-joke, receiving one is something of a rite of passage, and referring to the almost certainly fictional character of Nicole as “our” girlfriend.
Exactly what scam it’s pulling isn’t clear. I’ve seen several hypotheses put forward:
It’s come from accounts made on several instances, I think at least one instance specifically for the purpose but a few random accounts with no post history started blasting it out on several instances including sh.itjust.works. So whoever’s behind it is pretty persistent.
Ok. Thanks for the extended perspective.
Just today I tried to get some info from graphics stored on a lemmy server and found them to be highly anonymized. I’m gonna guess you have to engage with a potential scammer in order for them to extract data, and just viewing the message gives them nothing. Lemmy probly has security flaws, but seems well designed as far as I’ve looked.
Ya, I getcha that if its harassment, its really weird harassment. But if its harassment of a real person out there, I certainly don’t want to be part of it. I haven’t been on lemmy very long. I’ve already tangled with one batshit crazy person. I’m fully willing to believe that more exist.
I got it 4 or 5 times, last time it was a new pic though.
I just got my first one recently as well lol
What is this? I got it too
Some weird spam. It’s going around so much that someone made a whole community to post updates nicoles in.
Finally I’ve got chosen yesterday.
This thing is so early 2000s; I kinda love it for that
I got this one, and it disappeared. I’m a bit annoyed actually.
Nichole lemmy BONGGGG
This made me laugh. Welcome to the club.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I got it from the same user around the same time. She must’ve sent it to you by mistake.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah same, OP’s was definitely a mistake. I think she’s just here for us two.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
*the three of us.