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Celebgate
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English
Etymology
From en celeb gate.
Proper noun
en informal A 2014 controversy in which almost 500 private photographs of various celebrities, many containing nudity, were leaked and disseminated through social media.
en 2021 Lisa Nakamura; Hanah Stiverson; Kyle Lindsey Racist Zoombombing Routledge 9781000388350 https://books.google.com/books?id=gfwgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT47&dq=%22Celebgate%22&hl=&cd=31&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Celebgate%22&f=false Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.
Synonyms
Fappening