Previously: How to prevent your nude photos from being stored on iCloud
It's been a full day since the celebrity nude apocalypse blew up the internet. JLaw, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Kirsten Dunst all copped to the photos being authentic, although Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice have denied them. While creepy, self-styled internet sleuths attempt to line up freckles and eye makeup to determine who's telling the truth, The Fappening, as it's been unofficially termed by Reddit, continues to spiral. And aside from the celebrities themselves, perhaps no group has felt the impact of the hacks more than Reddit's NoFap community.
In 2011, a group of Redditors created the /r/NoFap subreddit, a place for mostly male users to help each other abstain from masturbating. The health benefits were touted as being increased focus, ambition, confidence, and social comfort. It's a community, at its best, for dudes trying to get a handle on porn addiction and its related issues of impulse control. Seems okay, right?
But then everyone's favourite female celebrities had explicit photos plastered all over the web by some vile assholes and the Fapstronauts, as they call themselves, were challenged. Dozens of posts appeared in which Redditors likened the struggle of not jerking off to naked celebrities to storming the beaches of Normandy and watching their fellow soldiers shredded by enemy fire.
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