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Elsagate
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English
Etymology
en :af Elsa -gate 1
From en Elsa gate, after the protagonist of Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen (2013 film) Frozen whose likeness often appears in the videos.
Proper noun
en internet neologism The controversy surrounding supposedly child-friendly videos posted on the Internet that contain themes inappropriate for children, such as violence and sexual situations.
en 2017 Russell Brandom Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy YouTube kids videos The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/8/16751206/elsagate-youtube-kids-creepy-conspiracy-theory https://web.archive.org/web/20171208201841/https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/8/16751206/elsagate-youtube-kids-creepy-conspiracy-theory Just a few months after the Pizzagate debacle, Elsagate was formed with a very similar playbook: a group of amateur sleuths using open-source intelligence to fight a hazily defined evil threatening helpless children. December 8
en August 02, 2019 Sherri Gordon Keeping Your Child Safe on YouTube After Elsagate Verywell Family https://www.verywellfamily.com/keeping-children-safe-from-elsagate-4582441 https://web.archive.org/web/20200322004931/https://www.verywellfamily.com/keeping-children-safe-from-elsagate-4582441 Videos that are in the Elsagate category are not hard to identify. Typically, they feature Spiderman and Elsa together and are extremely low-budget videos without much structure or plot.
Translations
Internet controversy
Armenian: hy Էլզագեյթ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 艾莎門 Àishāmén
Indonesian: id Elsagate
Japanese: ja エルサゲート Erusagēto
Korean: ko ^엘사게이트
Malay: ms Elsagate
Portuguese: pt Elsagate m
Russian: ru Элсагейт m
Spanish: es Elsagate m
en eponyms
en Disney YouTube