Celeb Jihad
celebrity gossip, satire | |
| Available in | English, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish, German, Chinese, Macedonian |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Revenue | Advertisements |
| URL | www |
| Registration | none |
| Launched | 18 March 2008 |
| Current status | Online |
Celeb Jihad is a website known for sharing leaked private (often sexual) videos and photos as well as faked ones of celebrities as a form of jihad satire.[1][2][3][4][5] The Daily Beast describes it as a "satirical celebrity gossip website."[3]
The website describes itself as "a satirical website containing published rumors, speculation, assumptions, opinions, fiction as well as factual information".[6] The site lists its owner as "Durka Durka Mohammad" a fictitious terrorist whose goal is "destroying the poisonous celebrity culture" of America.[7]
The website has participated in a series of releases of images and video, generally believed to have been stolen from hacked cell phones, dubbed "
In August 2017 it released nude pictures of Lindsey Vonn, Tiger Woods, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, and Katharine McPhee. The image of Woods and Vonn, posted August 21, was suppressed in apparent reaction to legal threats on August 23; images of Carly Booth were deleted August 23 or 24.[8]
In November 2017 Celeb Jihad released naked images of
See also
- Celebrity sex tape
- Imagery of nude celebrities
- iCloud leaks of celebrity photos
References
- ^ Husain, Taneem. "Can Islam Be Satirized? Celeb Jihad's "Explosive Celebrity Gossip" and the Divide between Islam and Mainstream American Culture." American Studies, vol. 56 no. 3, 2018, pp. 69-82. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/ams.2018.0003
- ^ Diana Falzone (August 24, 2017). "How does Celeb Jihad continue to share hacked celebrity nude pics?". Fox News. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ Daily Beast Newsweek. Archivedfrom the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Suman Varandani (March 6, 2017). "Fappening 2.0 Nude Photo Leak Update: Celeb Jihad Reacts To Amanda Seyfried's Legal Threat". International Business Times. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ "Emma Watson's legal team gets website Celeb Jihad to take down her racy photos". New York Daily News. September 20, 2016. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ "Disclaimer". Celeb Jihad. Archived from the original on September 4, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ^ "About". Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
- ^ "Paige Spiranac, Carly Booth leaked nude photos published to, removed from Celeb Jihad". Golf News Net. 2017-08-24. Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- ^ Carolina (November 6, 2017). "Hackers Leak Nude Photos of WWE Diva Maria Kanellis AGAIN". HackRead. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
- ^ Carolina (November 5, 2017). "Hackers leak WhatsApp chat and fappening photos". HackRead. Archived from the original on January 13, 2024. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
- ^ Ross, Martha (March 16, 2018). "Meghan Markle, the latest female celebrity to deal with real or fake nude photos posted online". The Mercury News. Archived from the original on July 24, 2022. Retrieved July 23, 2022.