Celebgate

English

Etymology

From celeb +‎ -gate.

Proper noun

Celebgate

1. (informal) A 2014 controversy in which almost 500 private photographs of various celebrities, many containing nudity, were leaked and disseminated through social media.
   • 2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.

Synonyms

• Fappening