Meaning of Celebgate | Babel Free

Definitions

A 2014 controversy in which almost 500 private photographs of various celebrities, many containing nudity, were leaked and disseminated through social media.

informal

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level