14 DAY TRIAL // People are extremely annoyed with the marketing company Rantic that orchestrated the whole Emma Watson nude pictures threat and they’re taking it out on the company.
Rantic’s contact form on their site is currently down due to high mail volume, while their social media accounts are getting flooded with annoyed people.
“So Rantic threatened to leak Emma Watson’s nudes in order to frame 4chan in a coordinated effort to shut the website down and limit freedom on the Internet, and you do this under the guise that you’re doing a good thing? Are you kidding me? Do you not understand how ethically bankrupt that is?” said one annoyed Internet user on Facebook.
Others have called the marketing firm employees as soulless and wondered if they’re not ashamed of themselves for doing something like this to Emma Watson or any other girl.
Rantic sees nothing wrong with the campaign
Rantic Marketing is defending itself over on Twitter, saying that they fully support Emma Watson and her campaign He for She which was launched during the UN meeting last week. “Hopefully 4chan users will convert to feminism right before it goes down,” they write.
They go a step further, making things a bit awkward. “Dear human, in the digital age we have a new kind of terror going on and it is called 4chan. Help us take down the terrorist group 4chan,” they write.
While it’s true that 4chan has been the perfect environment for people trying to leak nude celebrity pictures, it’s not the only site where this can happen and it will not be the last even if they do manage to shut down 4chan.
Rantic Marketing claims that they had been hired by celebrity publicists who are trying to bring down 4chan and who are also saying that the Internet needs to be censored for such photo leaks to stop happening.
They claim that the EmmaYouAreNext.com site that they set up the other day displaying a countdown until private pictures of the Harry Potter star are shared had received some 48 million visitors, 7 million Facebook shares and likes, as well as 3 million Twitter mentions.
The marketing company is asking US president Barack Obama to take a stand against 4chan and what’s been happening on the site in the past couple of months, referring, of course, to the leaked pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Selena Gomez and so on.