An endless labyrinth.
That is my impression after yesterday. Right now, I have over 20 tabs open on my browser, all of them waiting for updates. Chatrooms, message boards, IMs, IRC clients, Tor pages, pastebins, download clients, reddit threads, email accounts… and others. It just doesn’t end.
Thus far, only one of the communications I’ve had with the big name leakers has borne fruit. I spent three hours persuading one of them to give me an unleaked full set of C-lister Ashley Blankenship, which I thought I would be able to use to leverage myself into a better position with the other traders… only to have the set leaked by someone else a few hours later.
So now I’m back to square one.
It’s a good thing that I’ve kept a store of good, unleaked amateur galleries. They make good currency in these situations. I had to trade a couple of these and lie a ton to get the Ashley set… but I guess it was worth it for the experience.
I think.
Thus far, I’ve yet to even get an accounting of names for the rare, high value sets. I’ve heard rumors, but only rumors, of Dianna Agron and Taylor Swift. And even Emma Stone and JLH. I’ve offered up much only for names, and not even pictures, but have been shot down every time.
Damn.
The message boards change their rules every day as the situation changes. Email addresses change every other day. Onion pages come and go. Chatrooms will open and close literally every hour, even when I’m at work.
The picture sets themselves are riddled with fakes, misdirections and unknowables. I’ve still yet to inspect a number of supposed “Jennifer Lawrence” and “McKayla Maroney” pictures. I’ll get to those later. And who are those other girls in the Kate Upton set? I’ve never seen any of them before.
Complicating things is the fortunate reality that many things are being leaked that the media is not revealing, and that even the major traders and leakers seem to have no idea of the existence of. I’m convinced that some of the “fake” images are not really fake. I’ve talked about this a bit before, but for now, I’ll keep my current knowledge of these “hidden” leaks to myself.
It’s a labyrinth. There’s too much to keep track of but I hope it doesn’t end. I MUST see this to the end. I’ve come so far and what’s been started must be finished. Everything will be different, but maybe that’s a good thing.
As an aside, I downloaded all of the pics and vids from the snapchat leaks too. That’s some interesting stuff. I’ll need time to go through it but a brief browsing of the leak’s contents has made clear that the media was being too alarmist in it’s prognostications of mass disseminations of illegal images. Everything I’ve seen thus far has been 100% legal.
Which brings me to the last topic on my mind. I’ve thus far been able to avoid 99.99% of the illegal porn on the darknet. Well done, self. But of course I stumble upon some, accidentally, once in a while. That stuff is really frightening, isn’t it?
Where does it even come from? It’s baffling. I consider myself to be a jaded, desensitized person, but some of the images I’ve seen over the past month have shocked even me. Wow. What in the world? There must be studios set up somewhere for it… but how? Where do they find… participants?
To be honest, the most shocking and unsettling parts of the images are the enthusiastic smiles of those “participating”. The ropes and blindfolds, the graphic penetrations and abuse- that stuff is sick and disturbing but is information I can process. Some people are just nuts. Some are extremely nuts. But the innocent, carefree smiles from the victims… that I don’t get. It runs counter to every notion I’ve ever had of what is normal behavior for people. Stockholm syndrome, perhaps? Or do they just not understand?
I am too curious for my own good, I think.
I’ll never know the answers to these questions as this is one of the few dark alleys I will never walk through.
I’ll stick to celebs, thank you very much.