Someone was DMing people pictures of a woman with a typical "Hi I'm Nicole, lets chat" type of message. At first people were sharing the dm's to laugh at the obvious scam, and it was an achievement if you a) got a message at all and b) got a new photo. However we soon realized there were many too many different similar "webcam" style pictures to be some random lady a scammer/troll pulled of facebook or something.

Supposeldy, people started digging and found a live stream, and that led to other issues with a flood of random people asking her about Lemmy (not sure if that part is true).

Anyway, we started to suspect it was some disgruntled ex or crazy viewer sending the messages who was either screenshoting a live stream or a hacked webcam.

Admins decided clear out all posts about her to stop the attention so people would leave the actual lady alone and discourge anything similar.