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4chan did not threaten to leak Emma Watson’s nudes. Like a lame Internet sequel to Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” the big Emma Watson Nude Leak of 2014 was basically … a hoax within a hoax within a hoax. (Where to begin?!) Essentially, a marketing company called Rantic posed as users of the infamous, oft-misunderstood message board 4chan, claiming they’d leak stolen photos of Watson at midnight on Sept. 24 in retaliation for a feminist speech she made at the United Nations.
When the appointed hour came, of course, Rantic revealed that there were no pictures and no 4chan conspiracy. In fact, there isn’t even a Rantic Marketing! The “company,” which swore it was hired by Hollywood publicists, is actually just another front for a group of Internet pranksters called Social VEVO. To quote the Guardian’s James Ball in an excellent essay on the debacle, “the Internet is eating itself.” Basically.