How Internet stalkers made an Olympics volunteer an unwitting sex object [View all]
Not my favorite blog, but this goes in the "saw this coming" file. Good for this tweeter not to play. The comments are typical.
In multiple places on Reddit, youll find a photo gallery of a random Sochi Olympics volunteer, including beach photos, glamour shots, and pictures taken with friends. It's gotten thousands of views over the past week.
But we're not linking to it. Heres why.
Last Thursday an Associated Press photographer snapped a photo of a female Olympics volunteer. Shes leaning against a railing before a backdrop of fresh snow, casually sporting bright, loose cargo pants, colorful socks, and a midriff-revealing top. The photo appeared in Washington Post and Atlantic galleries about athletes and workers at Sochi enjoying unexpectedly warm weather.
Some people on the Internet saw something different. When they read that the volunteer was standing next to a sign that read Sochi 2014Hot. Cool. Yours, they assumed more than just the banner was on display.
The photograph landed on the Reddit forums r/randomsexiness and r/Ohlympics, a forum for Anything that makes you go Oh or is sexually invigorating from the Olympic games.
http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/sochi-volunteer-reddit-online-stalking/