The Fappening

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From August 31, 2014 to October 27, 2014, a collection of nearly five hundred sexually explicit private photos and videos were posted online by an anonymous group that called themselves "collectors". The majority of these photos and videos were illegally obtained sexts from over a hundred female celebrities that showed the women topless, naked, and/or performing sexual acts. They were first posted on the imageboard 4chan, and then swiftly disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit. Internet users and media respondents termed the phenomenon "Celebgate" or, more popularly, "The Fappening".