![]() ![]() The website title of both subreddits is "They should know better." "When you follow them it sends an e-mail to them notifying them they're being followed") and the tone is one of general disregard. As with r/photobucketplunder, the emphasis is on secrecy ("Do not follow the usernames of the girls submitted to this subreddit," reads one of the rules. Many of the community members, apparently collectors, have generously republished dozens of albums of photos taken from the previous subreddit - republished on Imgur, of course, in case the women get wise to the fact that a couple thousand Redditors have access to their nudes and remove them from Photobucket. The community already has 1,800 subscribers and a full page of links. R/photobucketplunder may have gone dark, but a new subreddit made up of the same core community has already sprung up, using the name r/photoplunder in an effort to scrub all references to Photobucket from the site.Įven with a new name, it's business as usual. Have you ever uploaded a nudie shot to Photobucket - one of the web's largest, and oldest,… It was a good run." Ladies: 8,000 Creeps on Reddit Are Sharing the Nude Photos You Posted to Photobucket Due to a legal request from photobucket, we have gone dark. Moreover, the name and graphics used for your subreddit infringe PBI's registered trademarks." The r/photobucketplunder mods posted a final message: "Gone dark. If we find a violation, we take down the content and, when appropriate, take other measures such as banning the content and/or reporting to law enforcement.R/photobucketplunder has "gone dark." After a Gawker article about the Reddit subsection's practice of finding and sharing inadvertently-published, sexually explicit photos on Photobucket, the image-hosting site served a takedown notice: "It has come to PBI's attention that you are violating PBI's Terms of Use. "As always, we investigate reports of content that violate our Acceptable Use Policy. "This link has been taken down and banned so it cannot be recirculated on Dropbox," the spokesperson said. Finally, some photos are crude collages showing a fully clothed service member in uniform on one side and a nude photo of the same woman on the other.įacebook has since shut down the closed (and exclusively male) group in which the link to the Dropbox folder first appeared - called "Blame Marines United (Non-Butthurt Edition)," and a Dropbox spokesperson told the Cut that the link has been removed. A few are of service members fully clothed, in apparent attempt to shame or discredit them. Some of the photos are selfies, others are clearly taken by another person. military members, called "Hoes Hoin," has been making the rounds. Vice reports that a Dropbox folder containing hundreds of explicit photos of female U.S. It seems though that neither official threat of punishment nor sincere requests for the end of mistreatment could stop some military men from sharing nude photos of their female fellow service members. Marine and Navy laws being updated to specifically ban revenge porn, and to nearly 100 female Marine Corps veterans signing an open letter calling for the end of misogyny in the Corps. Last year, the Defense Department had to investigate members of a now-closed Facebook group (called "Marines United") for sharing nude photos of active female military members (the nude image sharers reportedly started a new group once the first one was discovered, as harassing their female counterparts seemed a temptation too great to resist). Revenge porn has been a pervasive issue in the U.S. ![]()
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