The leak appears to have originated on 4chan’s /b/ board. This post is SFW. Update : The personal invasion of celebrities’ pictures has continued as a kind of festival on online spaces into Monday night.
A leak that started as the latest round of personal pictures hacked from celebrities' phones turned Monday into a vast invasion of the privacy of actress Jennifer Lawrence and a handful of others — and a kind of festival on Reddit, 4chan, and other online spaces — with continued release of pictures and videotape purporting to be taken from stars including Lawrence and Kate Upton.
The extent of the leak — with dozens of incredibly personal photos — was unanticipated even by some of the people at its center, hitting all corners of fame from athletes to American Idol contestants. One publicist told BuzzFeed Sunday she was hoping the leak would stop with one photograph of her client, only to see a half dozen more make the rounds the next night.
The group of posters sharing, speculating on, and celebrating the invasion of the women's privacy began gathering on 4chan but coalesced Monday on a subreddit called The Fappening, where thousands of Redditors have taken to posting and commenting on all of the pictures, gifs, video screengrabs, and intel they've collected.
Yet despite some of the pictures being authenticated, others still tried to slip in fake content, like in the case with a quickly debunked sex tape starring a Jennifer Lawrence lookalike.
Not all of the pictures' authenticity have been confirmed.
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