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Reddit user made famous off celeb nude photos wants his privacy back

08
Sep
2014

There was a sense of irony when the strongly anti-NSA, pro-privacy users of the social network Reddit began gloating over the privacy-destroying leak of celebrity nude photos. Privacy, it seemed, only applied to Reddit users — for celebrities, no such luck. Reddit user Johnsmcjohn started TheFappening, a (now closed) forum that became the go-to repository for viewing photos leaked from celebrities phones. Johnsmcjohn, an active user of Reddits cocaine forum who the Post noted had difficulty paying bills, also had this to say: I dont like it, but so be it.

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