Elsagate
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 The controversy surrounding supposedly child-friendly videos posted on the Internet that contain themes inappropriate for children, such as violence and sexual situations. Internet, neologism
"Just a few months after the Pizzagate debacle, Elsagate was formed with a very similar playbook: a group of amateur sleuths using open-source intelligence to fight a hazily defined evil threatening helpless children."
Example
More examples"Just a few months after the Pizzagate debacle, Elsagate was formed with a very similar playbook: a group of amateur sleuths using open-source intelligence to fight a hazily defined evil threatening helpless children."
Etymology
From Elsa + -gate, after the protagonist of Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen whose likeness often appears in the videos.
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