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on the thirty first of august twenty fourteen two photographs appeared on the front page of reddit one was of kate upton and the other one was of jennifer lawrence and both of these pictures showed these women naked i forgot about kate upton i remember jennifer lawrence yeah both were originally posted to the celebrities respective subreddits which have fan pages dedicated to sharing gossip and quote unquote hot pictures of two of hollywood's most popular stars and reddit is a scary place i would recommend staying away at all costs i certainly do but these particular subreddits are rife with suggestive photo shoots screenshots from topless movie scenes and even photoshopped fake nude images what made these new photos unusual was that they were not from a film and they weren't photoshopped either these photos were amateur pictures clearly taken on someone's phone and they were of these two women in explicit positions not together separate these photos were leaked nudes private private private oh god
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so obviously over the next few hours more explicit photos of more celebrities started raining down on reddit's front page until by the end of the day literally every a list female celebrity you could think of was featured naked for everyone to see can you imagine the b list stars making frantic calls to their agents about why their nudes haven't been leaked you'd be raging wouldn't you that's a really good and who were these a list stars it was everybody from scarlett johansson to rihanna and brie larson and even members of the us women's national football as in soccer team it was absolute chaos but how did this happen how did over a hundred celebrities have their most intimate pictures leaked how did they spread so quickly and how did they disappear from the internet to be more crude how did a picture of one of the most famous actors in the world naked with ejaculate on her face make it onto twitter's most trending well the answers to all of those questions are in fact far grosser than you probably originally thought they take us all the way to the real forgotten corners of the internet areas dedicated entirely to to finding and exposing people's most private moments but finally and most importantly in this episode we're also going to talk about what you can do to protect yourself and your private images from being spread for all to see
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this is the shorthand unsurprisingly this whole debacle didn't start on mainstream sites like twitter it didn't even start on the hellhole that's reddit if you do a preliminary google of this incident a lot of outlets will say that as usual it all started on four chan but even that isn't really true four chan might be seen as the deep dark scary hole of the internet which it is but in truth it's quite mainstream which you would never say to anyone who is on four chan hundreds of thousands of people visit four chan every single day and in order to pull off something this shocking and this invasive users need somewhere a lot more private and this whole shitshow actually developed on an image board that is much less frequented called a non ib for all intents and purposes a non ib is basically a one to one copy of four chan they look the same they're both split into small sub communities called boards and most importantly they're both completely anonymous as anonymous as you can get on the internet
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but while four chan is dedicated to hosting all kinds of different anonymous conversations from art to politics to doxxing youtubers anon ib is dedicated to one thing and one thing porn the community on a non ib refer to themselves as collectors and they spend every waking hour sourcing and cataloguing porn god's sake so fucking lame you fucking nerd just like get a life start knitting or something anything anything but they don't care what we have to say fifty percent of what they're sourcing and cataloguing is like normalish mainstream porn half of it is like your standard stuff with users asking for recommendations and trading files of their chosen niche of adult entertainment however the other fifty percent of content on a non ibm is basically just leaked nudes and by that we
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mean naked images of random unsuspecting women posted and shared online yeah because i
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think that's one of the key things to say about this this hit headlines and everybody was talking about it after it happened to celebrities this has been happening to and is continuing to happen to ordinary women on the regular and it was just when it happened to jennifer lawrence it was headline news do
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you remember that tumblr that was called women eating on the tube yes that terrified me oh no for years oh
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my god you should just eat on the tube but always be doing this and you can't see what i'm doing listeners just stick your middle finger in the air and just keep eating so if it does get taken a picture of and they put it on there you kind of win yeah i was
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actually speaking to a friend of mine who's a doctor about this and she was saying she was like to be honest i wouldn't eat on the tube
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anyway it's fucking gross there's also that don't eat on the tube i didn't want to say it the thing that disgusts me more than anything is when people eat bananas and they take all of the skin off the banana and then hold the banana in their hand i'm like it comes with a holder why have you de gloved that banana and then put it in your filthy little hand oh my god disgusting i once saw a doctor do it and
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i was like i'm leaving oh no medical degree revoked jaw sacked so when these absolute bottom feeders manage to get hold of nudes of women they call the images they post wins ugh losers and so called collectors pride themselves on having an enormous database of images of wins from specific areas around the world they trade these images for bitcoin and or other pictures and show off by occasionally posting a massive dump of leaked nudes from a specific town or city for everyone to see oh that's horrible sometimes if they're really showing off they'll post links to a specific woman's social media maybe including where she works or who she's married to and then they'll post a whole bunch of explicit images of that woman and all have a very good laugh and this is all clearly utterly disgusting but there is one question that is probably at the forefront of your mind where do they get
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these images from well the vast majority of them are taken from an endless swill of explicit images that constantly circulate the internet perhaps some were originally sent in confidence to a boyfriend or a secret lover and then that person sent that picture around a bunch of lads whatsapp groups until those photos find themselves online users at anon ib then spend their time tracking down the women in the images like they work for fucking task force argos or something working out their names and where they live and then putting their nudes into a collection with other women in the same area this is what we meant about sourcing cataloguing and other images that are on this website are from things like onlyfans creators or similar who posted content online which has then been stolen from their like behind a paywall accounts and circulated
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online speaking of onlyfans i was speaking to a friend of mine the other night who i know from korea and she quite briefly but did teach english in prisons and we were talking about the wandsworth incident and she was like i think she leaked it because she's got an onlyfans now yeah and the other thing she said was so she was on a sex offender wing right and she was speaking to this guy that she was teaching english to and you know you're not allowed to divulge any personal information but she had dog hair on her and he was like oh do you have a dog and she was like okay i think this is okay uh huh she was like yeah like i have a dog and blah blah blah blah blah and like sometimes it can be tricky and she just you know you just can't tell her no sometimes and this sex offender said bit like me then ew disgusting
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however a small percentage of these images were stolen directly from the women themselves and this took place in a small sub community within on ib called stol short for of course stolen these users within this sub community prided themselves on being able to access anyone's most intimate images or wins and they did this via basic hacking or by straight up catfishing and a majority of their victims mostly women weren't just picked at random they would often be people within the user's own life like a friend or even a family member other victims would be requested by another user who would post the personal details of someone in their own life and beg for a collector to hack them users would then post something along the lines of here's my slutty sister in law accompanied by a bunch of intimate images that they had gotten via the most despicable means in early
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august users on and on ib started talking about a major win now before we told you what a win on anon ib was most of you would probably be thinking that if chronically online basement dwellers have something to celebrate it's probably because they found some kind of never before seen version of pokemon or a new way to perhaps combine doritos and monster energy drinks i keep thinking
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wine i think about it all the time and i wonder how there is still no work that's been done in two weeks but now that we're all in the same boat we understand exactly what these people mean by a major win sadly a major win is exactly what it sounds like for the next few weeks anon ib quietly rumbled with anticipation of what the stol community had gotten their hands on there were rumors of people paying huge amounts of money in bitcoin for a collection of almost unbelievably explicit images of some of the world's most famous celebrities names were being thrown around that seemed unthinkable jennifer lawrence scarlett johansson and rihanna were stars that seemed untouchable the idea that someone could have a picture of them naked was beyond belief and yet on the thirty
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first of august an enormous folder was posted on four chan for the majority of internet users who had never heard of a non ib it was especially out of the blue and utterly mind blowing a carefully organised catalogue of over one hundred female celebrities and their most intimate pictures it's not quite clear who posted them on four chan it almost certainly wasn't one of the original hackers they were worth a huge amount of money when they were private and they lost all of their value when they became public that's interesting i'd never thought about that before once those pictures were out there was absolutely no getting that genie back into the money bottle from four chan these images trickled their way onto reddit and at that point it was open season like we said earlier the first two images to hit the front page were kate upton and jennifer lawrence but within minutes most of the image dump that had hit four chan was was on reddit too and within hours the event had been dubbed the fappening i hate that so much disgusting a skeezy portmanteau of fapping which is yank for wanking and the happening just in case you needed that spelling out
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page of reddit was literally covered in the most unimaginably intimate pictures of everyone's favourite celebrities that day over one hundred fifty million people visited reddit's front page to see the leaks in order to keep track of all of the images a new subreddit dedicated to the fappening was set up and within twenty four hours it had one hundred thousand subscribers making it the fastest growing subreddit in the site's history it was all snowballing
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out of control as the leaks spread from reddit and then onto the likes of twitter now x and facebook celebrities started to come forward and make statements due to the incredibly explicit nature of the images plus the fact that they had all clearly been taken by the individuals themselves it was difficult to deny their validity jennifer lawrence kate upton kaylee cucco mary elizabeth winstead and kirsten dunst all made statements confirming that the leaks were real it is crazy to me that in this day and age when photoshopped images i guess this is like pre generative ai in the way that everybody's obsessed with it now but like it was so obvious that they had to come out and say they were real like i don't know that i wouldn't have just been able to be like no let's just keep saying they're fake they photoshopped my face on like that's crazy and some people did follow my tactic others including ariana grande denied the authenticity of these photos and lots more just said nothing at all the biggest controversy came when olympic gymnast michaela maroney initially denied the images were real before then explaining that they were legitimate but that she had taken them when she was underage fucking hell oh god naturally this sent the whole situation into total meltdown as hundreds if not thousands of people had now viewed and shared naked images of a child reddit moderators
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first began banning anyone who posted the images of maroney on the fappening subreddit before eventually shutting down the subreddit entirely and from there the excitement fizzled away as quickly as it had started with the knowledge that maroney's images were stored within most of the image dumps it became impossible to download them without committing a serious crime and shortly afterwards when a court case was launched against google for hosting the images in their search results they became significantly harder to find a few weeks later several more leaks were posted on anonib and four chan but with the fear of serious prosecution looming large these images didn't have anywhere near the same impact but while the
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images themselves might have been a relative flash in the pan it still left a lot of unanswered questions for a start how the fuck did these photos come into the public domain at first in a pretty major pr disaster the leaks were blamed on apple's icloud service however both the fbi and apple launched massive investigations into the source of the images and found that neither apple nor android phones were the issue it turned out the problem had been much more low tech we've said before hacking is a lot less hacking into the mainframe than people expect and it's true the majority of day to day hacks come from people freely giving up their usernames and passwords and then having their personal information stolen and that's exactly what happened
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here in a practice known as phishing with a ph users on a non ib sent emails and text messages purporting to be from apple or android to the celebrities in question in these messages they told their victims that there was an issue with their account and they needed to send over their username and password so that it could be fixed never ever do that stop it right
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this second it is terrifying that anybody has done that i feel like even
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every single bank now will be like
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don't do it we won't call you we won't ask for this yeah we
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will never ask you for et cetera yeah naturally celebrities are nervous of having their personal information leaked so they were prime targets to give over their details in a moment of panic imagine if you're fucking kate upton's pa and you replied to that email no once the hackers had the details they logged into the apple or the android accounts of the celebrities and either backed up their phone to another device or downloaded images which their victims had stored on the cloud the reality is the hackers from a non ib probably just got lucky once they found some random celebrities details online perhaps via an old facebook post or something and from there it was just a case of sending the right email to trick them into giving their login details and then they not only had access to the photos but also the celebrity's contacts which were full of other celebrities and then they were off
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to the races fucking hell i just watched the three part netflix documentary on the ashley madison scandal it's well worth everybody's time to watch it it's actually really really good it's very interesting and yeah that hack it is there's something else that's for sure so given the low tech hacking that are taking place here the fbi didn't actually find it that hard to track down the perpetrators of these leaks the majority of the phishing emails could be traced back to five individuals ryan collins of lancaster pennsylvania edward majusick of chicago george garofano of north branford connecticut emilio herrera also of chicago and christopher brannan of virginia all five were taken to court by unnamed celebrity clients and all five were charged in trials that took place very much behind closed doors
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the longest sentence was given to christopher brannan brannon is an ex teacher who not only hacked the celebrities but but also other teachers and students at his school as well as his own underage sister in law sounds like a nice guy brannan was given a sentence however of just thirty four months in prison for aggravated identity theft i've never heard of that before and also for unauthorized access to a protected computer and this all happened in march twenty nineteen edward majicek received the shortest sentence just nine months behind bars and a five thousand dollars restitution payment
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so where does that leave us with the bad guys locked up and a non ib sleazy community exposed to the world has this grotesque culture of sharing women's most private images like trading cards come to an end no a non ib is very much still alive and kicking the site is still dedicated to porn and still has a thriving community of collectors from all around the world there are now individual message boards for specific states around the us and even boards for the uk and australia too and on these boards users still trade and share explicit images of women in their area asking for women from a certain town or city and even requesting certain women by their names oh my
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god so yeah it's all pretty fucking rough but what can we do about it well for a start if you know that explicit material of you or someone you know has been shared online report it to the police despite some government's best efforts revenge porn is illegal and will often be taken seriously by the police if you're not sure whether an image you've sent or that you've taken has ended up online you can use google's reverse image search to see if it pops up and take action if you find it though i'd be really scared to take an image like that and then put it into google reverse image search i'm like is it now on the internet but if you do do this if the images are hosted on an actual porn site rather than a chat room or image board contact the site and ask for it to be taken down immediately while mainstream porn sites might like to have you believe that they're untouchable they are all absolutely terrified of litigation and will bend over backwards to make sure you don't take legal action if the images however are on a chat room or image board do not engage or post asking for them to be taken down as this is likely to lead to trolling and can make the situation worse just go to the police and let them take it from there if you don't
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think that images of you are online but want to make sure they don't end up there here's what you can do the very boring answer is don't take or send explicit material to people but like get real everyone does it the most efficient way to make sure that a naked picture of you can't end up online is to not take it in the first place obviously but that's just not going to happen the reality is sexy pictures are a part of a modern relationship and we are not here to stop you normalise nudes i've said it before the most important advice we can give is don't send intimate pictures to anyone you don't deeply trust if you think there's a chance that the lad you've been chirpsing on snapchat might take a screenshot and send it to his mates then just don't send it it's not worth it and once it's out there it ain't coming back like we said earlier the majority of nudes on and on ib and everywhere else on the internet were sent consensually and then they got spread around without their knowledge or consent that said
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that's not the case for all of them some of these images were stolen and if j law can get stung so can you my friend so let's quickly talk about how you can avoid getting hacked again like we said before the majority of hacks come from people giving their login information to hackers without much fuss the golden rule is that no site whether it be a bank or social media will ask you to send them your login information no one will ever do that if you ever get an email saying that your account has been compromised and that you need to change your login information do not click the link that is in that email advanced hackers can replicate web pages to look like they're official and when you go ahead and reset your password you're actually just sending it straight to them so if you think someone's trying to get in go directly to the site in question via a new browser tab and reset your password from there and lastly just enable two factor authentication it's a pain in the ass it's a total ball ache typing in a shitty little code every time you want to log into your icloud but it's a lot less stress and a lot less of a ball ache than having your tits plastered across the internet yeah be careful especially if you're a teenager listen when we're like do what you want it's part of it it's part of an adult relationship yes yeah yeah yeah if you are a teenager do not send anybody nudes of yourself just don't do it don't do it wait until you're like twenty six and your brain's fully developed have a big think and then do it but don't ever give anyone your password
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Date: April 17, 2026
Hosts: RedHanded
In this Shorthand episode, the RedHanded hosts revisit the infamous 2014 “Celebrity iCloud Leaks,” known online as “The Fappening,” where hundreds of explicit private images of A-list female celebrities were stolen and posted online. The episode delves into how the leaks really happened, the grim culture that sustains these invasions of privacy, and what practical steps anyone can take to protect their personal digital content. The hosts maintain their signature blend of dark humor, empathy, and no-nonsense advice throughout.
First Appearance (01:13):
The Avalanche (02:22):
Myth-Busting the Origin (03:57):
AnonIB and Collector Culture (05:04):
Terminology and Behavior (06:10):
Impact on Ordinary Women (06:10):
Sourcing Images (08:19, 09:14):
Direct Hacks & The “Stol” Community (12:57):
Going Public (15:14):
Internet Frenzy (16:28, 16:56):
Validation & Controversy (16:56):
Law Enforcement & Suppression (18:26):
The Real Mechanism: Phishing (19:58):
Chain Reaction (20:31):
The Perpetrators Caught (21:29):
Reporting (25:55):
Takedowns (25:55):
Best Practices (27:09):
Quote on Prevention (28:03):
Throughout, the hosts blend dark humor, sarcasm, and genuine outrage:
RedHanded’s episode pulls the curtain back on one of the most high-profile digital privacy violations in history, revealing the grim reality of persistent online subcultures dedicated to violating women’s privacy—celebrity or not. They call for vigilance, the normalization of sexual agency, and practical steps everyone can take to secure their own data, while highlighting the inadequacy (and shortness) of justice for the perpetrators. Their advice is equal parts pragmatic and refreshingly honest, offering concrete steps for the digital age.
For further information, sensitive support, and reporting resources, check your local authorities and specialized online safety organizations.