I can’t believe I was finally chosen
Be careful. I think that Nicole girl might be a drug user.
You mean Stand user.
It’s too late; we’re already addicted to her.
I think you can call her the Fediverse Chick
Pipe down, not sure what gave you that idea
There’s no basis, OP’s just blowing smoke.
I got it from the same user around the same time. She must’ve sent it to you by mistake.
Yeah same, OP’s was definitely a mistake. I think she’s just here for us two.
*the three of us.
Four*
FIVE!
Okay this is officially to many people, i propose we all meet in the parkinglot in an hour and have a fight to the death, winner takes all, sounds good?
Ah yes, ‘the’ parking lot. I’ll definitely be there and if you don’t see me you’re at the wrong one.
You fool!
While you were waiting in the parking lot, I was courting her!
Once the bitcoin transfer completes she’ll get on a plane to come and visit me
You lose 😎There’s only one the parking lot. All the others are just a parking lot.
Rare pose!
New Nichole just dropped
I got it 4 or 5 times, last time it was a new pic though.
Is she like a pokemon now? Got to catch all of her evolutions.
Wtf is this. I’m so confused.
Nicole in shambles
Damn it, this hoe wants every dick on Lemmy!
Okay rude
Damn, she’s about to enter the matrix!
I got that spamessage today as well
I don’t understand why whoever this is doesn’t use better photos?
These always look like they were taking on a potato.
I’ve never been to Toronto, but I’m gonna go ahead and assume the pics were taken using poutine.
This one made me think it might be screenshots taken during a video call
Every picture of “Nicole” I’ve seen has that feel to it.
Someone actually worked out where they came from, it was a livestream from memory.
But yeah, screen grabs from a crummy webcam.
What?? I saw theories about this but no proof. Do you have the post talking about this?
Pretty sure it was in this community.
https://lemm.ee/comment/19153078
Found the comment. Basically a bunch of still photos from a livestream.
Why on earth would you do a livestream with drug paraphernalia in the shot?
If she is in Toronto then smoking weed from a bong is no more illegal than drinking a beer from a glass - if that was your worry about the visible paraphernalia.
Oh, I’m not worried about legal consequences, I’m thinking more along the lines of future employers etc. I’m not sure how pot smokers are viewed where she is though.
It’s less stigmatized for sure, but in terms of caring about future employers it’s still something people wouldn’t want them to know. But not everyone is worried about how all their actions would look to future employers, and some career paths it really wouldn’t matter.
I perfere this Nicole:
Dude, that’s my bong.
I got this one, and it disappeared. I’m a bit annoyed actually.
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.
Could you share the community? I’m interested
Edit: nevermind, easy to find
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 just asking for crypto. Simple “Look at girl. Think with dick. Send bitcoin.” plot
- It’s a pig butchering scam. A long-term confidence trick where the scammer actually befriends you for months at a time, then convinces you to “invest” in legit looking shady shit. Designed to get around defenses that were built up against the Nigerian Prince scam.
- It’s a harassment campaign against the girl in the photos. Which…this is the most diabolical and circuitous way I can think of achieving that. "We have several screenshots of this girl on Zoom calls. We’ll spam Lemmy, not Reddit or Twitter or Instagram, Lemmy, as if she’s inviting people to join a Matrix chat to socialize, and then these nerds will pull a Cicada 3301 job of following the breadcrumbs to finding the actual girl and annoying/attacking her. This is the most G-rated revenge porn campaign I’ve ever seen.
- It’s for de-anonymizing Lemmy accounts. I’m not enough of a nerd to know how the nuts and bolts of this one works but I think they send you a DM that links to a jpeg stored on another server, they send a slightly different jpeg to each account they’re targeting, and which IP address requests which jpeg can pin an IP address to a Lemmy account. A lot of the mainstream web falling to fascism you can see why Big They might want to see who’s who on the platform that still allows subversive ideas like “genocide is bad”.
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, 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. [email protected] [email protected]
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?
I think they eventually try to get you onto a crypto trading platform or something.
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.
