Well then nothing to worry about then. Surely no one will take such a poorly written persecution fan fiction article seriously. You have nothing to worry about! :)

Yeah, I have heard of that scam. And I think it's a real thing, but not in this case--at least for that scam. Because my vid shows her walking up and walking away alone.

But I think I've finally relaxed and am not as worried for her as I was. Lots of houses here. Lots of stores down the street less than a block away. And she didn't run to or from my door. So whatever it was, it def didn't appear life threatening as in she was in immediate danger.

I have two cars in my driveway as well. Truck and a jeep. So I don't think anyone was scouting my house thinking I'm little old lady. I've watched the video over and over. No torn clothes. Hair was up in a neat bun. Wasn't crying.

But the out of breath part and the saying she needed help because something terrible happened is what sorta is sticking with me. Even tho, since I wrote the post and cleared my thoughts a bit, who actually says that outloud when talking to themselves?! And the lack of urgency in the walking to and from my door is strange. But also, I know that people under stress react differently, so..

What does disappoint me tho, is how little the police seemed to worry about it. They just didn't see it as a big deal. I played the vid. They agreed it was strange. But no one asked for copy of my vid or screen shot the vid or anything. I checked missing persons site for my area. Checked police blotter. No missing people that match this. So I guess I'll just have to accept I did what I did. And if something does happen, then I have a time stamp, so I'm saving the vid.

Desktop computers are way better and more fun than using phone for browsing, wikipedia, news, and Lemmy

I rarely use my phone for anything other than texting. I like using my desktop computer to browse and post.

Most people on Lemmy aren’t as kind or open-minded as they like to appear. There’s plenty of hate here on this side of the aisle, but it gets excused because they believe they’re “on the correct side.”

tl;dr: You’re just as hateful and close-minded as the people you claim to be fighting. Same behavior, different colored hat.

So I may have a distant and weird connection to the originator of the Nicole spam. No proof, but here's my case.

I had this weird stalker on Lemmy—[email protected] (account’s deleted now, so I think it’s fine to name him). Someone else did some digging and found out he was using a bot army to follow me around and downvote my posts.

While people were investigating that, they noticed something strange: the domains used by his bots matched the original Nicole spam domains.

Then, right after that investigation thread dropped, PapaSkwat suddenly deleted his profile. The same profile that had been active since around the time the Nicole spam started. And he’d been trolling and stalking me for months. One of his comments even admitted he was deliberately poking me to make me "snap.”

There’s this theory that the whole Nicole spam thing might’ve started as revenge. Like, maybe some guy got dumped or rejected, got obsessed, and started blasting her pics everywhere because he couldn’t let it go.

That kinda lines up with my stalker’s behavior. He’d get mad, obsessive, and go out of his way to tell people how awful I was. He even bragged about using alt accounts just to mess with me.

It was bizarre.

So here’s the chain: weird stalker gets outed for running downvote bots → bots are tied to Nicole spam domains → stalker suddenly vanishes → and now Nicole is “dead” (not for real, but metaphorically, like the spam just ends).

Maybe the guy realized the jig was up and decided to kill off the whole Nicole thing too?

I have no clue, no proof other that people's assumptions. It just seems a strange coincidence that my weird stalker guy disappears right after rumblings come up of him being involved in Nicole spam. Then right after he disappears, this dead nicole spam comes up.

Here’s the bot investigation post (2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club): https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

And here's a screenshot where he brags to someone about trying to make me "snap" and another where he brags to me directly about having alt names to stalk me too:

So seeing this just dissolve under natural circumstances seems like a game changer.

Agreed! I def hope this becomes a common thing now.

Because for all the big talk and anti-rich/anti-corporate talk that many Dem politicians preach--they aren't really willing to do anything other than talk about it in order to get votes.

Republicans aren't out to help you. Democrats aren't either. And most of Lemmy is too busy playing PokemonGO, to actually do anything close to a revolution that would change anything. They'll talk about it, upvote it, but they won't actually do it. lol

Yep. I'm amazed at how many Lemmy people don't realize this.

Advice? Don’t panic sell. Odds are pretty good the market will be back up eventually.

100 percent this. You only lose money in a down market if you sell while it's down. That's why rich people see everything as being on sale, and they always profit in market dips like this. It's because they laugh when people panic, and then buy everything at the super low prices.

I'm not even rich, and I'm following this strategy! lol

Exactly. Great comment!

If you would have said that before the election, you would have been burned at the stake in this community. Attitudes have changed real quick. lol

No, I put soap on my hands and rub the glasses, then rinse under the shower and put them on the ledge.

What the actual fuck?!

First I was horrified. Now I'm going to try this in a few minutes!