Definition of "Celebgate"

Celebgate

proper noun
1. (informal) A 2014 controversy in which almost 500 private photographs of various celebrities, many containing nudity, were leaked and disseminated through social media.
  Quotations
  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.
  2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing‎, Routledge