The Fappening And Gamer Gate — A Summary In Prose

Disclaimer: Nobody on this site, or hopefully any other site, advocates the exploitation of any human and respects their right to privacy.

Funny thing about privacy: It’s a philosophical concept enforced through social imperatives, and not necessarily something biological. See, biologically speaking, humans exist for one purpose and one purpose only, although I guess that depends on which religious establishment you ask.

But I digress.

It’s late on a Tuesday afternoon, nobody really wants to have any more srsbsns conversations about gaming after no doubt spending gruelling amounts of time on Twitter today fighting the good fight and standing up for what they believe in… not necessarily what others believe in. So rather than post more serious news and start talking about how a new kind of disgusting human has come to the fore, we thought we’d post something meant almost entirely for the purposes of humour, based on quite possibly 2014’s biggest scandal; the thing the internet is calling The Fappening.

If you’d like to know more then feel free to read on through, but if not then just skip ahead to the image below.

See what happened was this past week Apple’s iCould server was hacked and access was gained to images and other files stored on the server by iPhone users (and this is why I use a Galaxy). This included pictures from pretty much anyone who used it, but naturally the ones that caused the biggest fuss were those of celebrities, especially current internet love-interest, Jennifer Lawrence, although she’s not the only one. What followed was a massive internet leak of celebrity images, a lot of them nudes, of both popular males but predominately popular females.

A fair portion of internet folk (whom I’m sure will be labelled by some, by the time I finish this sentence) called it a sex crime, and indeed J Law’s attorneys are hunting down the leaked nudes with the intention of prosecuting those involved; others including myself saw this more as a security issue with Apple’s iCloud being the culprit and the thing that should be held accountable while celebrities (more notably) were victims of the hack. Oddly, perhaps because sex will always win, the security flaw in the iCloud seems to be almost entirely glossed over by everyone while they’re busy arguing the idea of whether or not celebrities “asked for it” by taking nudes of themselves.

I don’t advocate that belief, I must now say that loud and clear. I think it’s preposterous, frankly. Nobody “asked for it” by taking the pictures, although I would question the need for uploading any sensitive information (at all, ever) to a cloud server, because after all they (cloud servers) are not at a point when we can fully trust them. I wouldn’t, for example, put my personal information on a cloud server, and I don’t know anyone who admits that they would, so I think this point of argument is a unanimous one, regardless of the “asked for it” ridiculousness currently going on, online. I guess people just have to have something to fight about, regardless of their own beliefs regarding a simple concept as security.

In any case, all of that is just background filler for the image below. Once again we’re going to state that this is just for the purposes of humour and making light of an ugly situation. Because we at EGMR believe that it’s never too soon it’s folly to dwell on the negativity of a situation… *cough* Enjoy it in its full glory here:

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Oh, did we forget to talk about that Gamer Gate thing? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

Name: Caveshen Rajman
Location: Durban
Position: Former Managing Editor

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