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Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:26 PM Jan 2019

Motherboard/Vice: A Fake Nude of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was Debunked By Foot Fetishists

A Fake Nude of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was Debunked By Foot Fetishists
An image that’s being passed off as a nude of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was debunked as being fake by a foot fetishist on Reddit—because that’s the future we’re living in now.

On Sunday, someone posted a photo of a woman’s legs and feet in a bathtub on one of Reddit’s most popular forums, r/Drama. The post is titled “MOMMY'S TITTIES ON THE FAUCET,” with a photo of feet in a tub from the photographer’s point of view, holding a vape pen. Overlaid on the photo is the text “alexandria ocasio-cortez.instagram.post.9-3-2016.”

The image and text aren’t new—they’ve been around in this combination since at least last month, posted to Twitter and 4chan’s /pol/ political forums, as well as a handful of other subreddits and forums, including some dedicated to revenge porn and creepshots. The conceit here is that if you zoom in to the faucet reflection, you can see the photographer’s breasts, and if you’re to believe the text on the image, that’s Ocasio-Cortez.

But the person in the photo isn’t her.

We don’t know how many people actually believed it was her in the first place, and in some of the forums where the image was posted, people were already comparing feet and questioning whether it’s really her. But we know for sure thanks to a user on a site called Wikifeet, a site devoted to foot fetish photos of celebrities and public figures. There’s a small collection of Ocasio-Cortez’s feet on the site, from photos of public appearances where she’s wearing sandals or open-toed shoes. That user cross-referenced the r/drama photo with known images of Ocasio-Cortez’s feet posted on Wikifeet and determined that they are from a different person.


I just want tRump and his cronies in prison and this nonsense to stop.
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Motherboard/Vice: A Fake Nude of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was Debunked By Foot Fetishists (Original Post) Julian Englis Jan 2019 OP
No one needs phony nude porn photos of Melania... There are plenty of real ones. keithbvadu2 Jan 2019 #1
+1 area51 Jan 2019 #3
it's going to get worse, via deep fakes... and disproportionally effect Democratic politicians RockRaven Jan 2019 #2
Deep down, they're 8th grade boys who don't know how to appeal to a woman, so they hurt them instead TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 #4
+1000. bullwinkle428 Jan 2019 #8
Does Anyone Else Think Things are Getting Bizarre? dlk Jan 2019 #5
It's creep as hell backtoblue Jan 2019 #6
What I love is that she wouldn't give many shits about this. David__77 Jan 2019 #7
This is disturbing shanti Jan 2019 #9
incel trash JI7 Jan 2019 #10

RockRaven

(15,003 posts)
2. it's going to get worse, via deep fakes... and disproportionally effect Democratic politicians
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:36 PM
Jan 2019

if for no other reason that the GOP has far fewer women politicians on the ballot and in office to target...

even though there are plenty other reasons to expect this to be disproportionally directed at Democrats, for reasons which parallel the reason why the GOP has fewer women in office...

TheBlackAdder

(28,216 posts)
4. Deep down, they're 8th grade boys who don't know how to appeal to a woman, so they hurt them instead
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:45 PM
Jan 2019

.

This type of shit just keeps affirming that these anti-AOC people are just a bunch of tweenage boys who don't know how to act in front of a lady. Instead of being cool, they do negative acts of attention, such as attacking her, or her looks, or do things to get her upset.

We see this with the MRA types too.

They are not fully developed in their brains, forever young if you will, trapped in adult bodies.

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David__77

(23,511 posts)
7. What I love is that she wouldn't give many shits about this.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:57 PM
Jan 2019

She doesn’t strike me as someone to love in a hot house of amoral technocrats and pollster/data analysts.

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