Is The Internet Still Recovering From Thefappening? The Answer Might Surprise You.

In his post, harvey noted that reddit had surpassed traffic milestones. When kim kardashian tried to break the internet in november, it was still still recovering from being broken a few months prior. Beginning 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.

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Over the next couple of weeks, by the end of the summer, more batches of spicy material appear. To this date, the event is most commonly known in internet culture as the fappening. all the. Now we have fappening 2. 0, a new trove of stolen photos posted to 4chan, reddit and anywhere else youd expect to find hacked naked images being shared. Thefappening raised critical legal and ethical questions about privacy and the internets darker side.

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Authorities quickly launched investigations, leading to the identification and prosecution of several individuals responsible for the hacks. The latest breaking news, comment and features from the independent. At this time last year, creeps of the internet were scrambling to save every last jennifer lawrence, kate upton, and riri nude before they were inevitably taken down from reddit and 4chan.

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