I've discovered a small Bluesky mystery. Just over a week ago I gained a new follower - a woman, I won't name her, who claims to be a "Mum / Wife / Friend of Jesus 😊 Vicar's Wife ✝️Parkrunner 🏃‍♀️". She's got a lovely profile with photos of the Dorset coast and homemade cookies. - ThreadSky

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social • 5 days ago

I've discovered a small Bluesky mystery.

Just over a week ago I gained a new follower - a woman, I won't name her, who claims to be a "Mum / Wife / Friend of Jesus 😊 Vicar's Wife ✝️Parkrunner 🏃‍♀️". She's got a lovely profile with photos of the Dorset coast and homemade cookies.

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thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thinking nothing of it, I followed back, and then discovered that every couple of days this woman shares a picture of herself naked - sometimes her bottom, sometimes her bare breasts - with a spiel about posing for a charity calendar to benefit foodbank workers. Odd, but more power to her, I guess.

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Except she leaves the post up for a few hours and then deletes it, only to then put exactly the same post - identical down to the typos - up again, maybe an hour later, maybe a day later. Confused about why someone would do this, I did some Googling... and discovered that she is entirely fake.

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Her profile pic is from a pin-up girl's website, the home-made cookies are stolen from Reddit, the beautiful photo of the Dorset coast is from iStock, the nudes are from a Turkish Twitter account. I even checked the National Register of Clergy and there are no vicars with her surname in her area.

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

All of which begs the question, why would someone set up a completely fake profile that follows hundreds of clergy and church organisations to get them to follow back, all to spam church Bluesky feeds with somebody else's nudes?!

I have no idea, but that's my low-stakes mystery for the day.

parkrunfun.bsky.social•5 days ago

Chaotic neutral?

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well I don't know, that's the mystery! @gerrarrdus.bsky.social thinks she might be trying to get clergy in trouble by putting nudes on their feeds, which would be mildly, almost cartoonishly Lawful Evil.

peternimmo.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm blocking left, right and centre anything that seems odd (and there's a lot)

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is the first really odd account I've come across - maybe I just have very low standards, or I live a very sheltered online life!

artsyhonker.bsky.social•5 days ago

I know the account you mean, and I blocked it. I suspect the nudes are to filter out followers who don't want to see that stuff, and then after a while it will probably escalate.

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

I've unfollowed but not blocked it, mainly out of morbid curiosity. Today's development is that 'she' also has a separate account for 'her' photographer, with other pictures of other women, all taken from websites online.

gerrarrdus.bsky.social•5 days ago

To make all the clergy that inadvertently follow the account look bad?

thatroebuckguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Or to make vicars' wives look bad? Maybe, but you'd think if that was 'her' aim, she'd choose a cover story more insalubrious than posing for a charity calendar to benefit foodbank workers.

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