Grimes claims responsibility for Hipster Runoff hack
25.03.2022 - 14:53
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Grimes has claimed that it was she who hacked music blog Hipster Runoff in 2012 and then “basically blackmailed” its owner. Specifically, she says, she wanted a photograph of her kissing another woman on a night out taken down.The revelation comes in a new video posted by Vanity Fair, as a bit of bonus content attached to its recent magazine interview with the musician.
In it, she is asked to comment on a series of images from throughout her career, of which the offending picture is one.“This one’s funny, I’ve always wanted to tell the story about this one”, she says. “Back in the day, before the ‘woke’ era, I actually got cancelled for this, which is so crazy.
I was just at a party with my friends, someone took this photo, and it got leaked to this website called Hipster Runoff. And he ran this story”.“I was trying to be all integrity, and you know, start my career, and it was like ‘Grimes Gone Wild’ or something, and it was just this super wack mean story, and it was this meme which was going all over the internet”, she adds.If you don’t remember Hipster Runoff, it was a blog that satirised indie music culture, which operated from 2007 to 2013.
Run by anonymous writer ‘Carles’, it had a very specific tone of voice and – depending on your view – was either “funny” or “mean spirited”. It is credited with coining the genre name ‘chillwave’ and often claimed to be fighting the “Corrupt Indie Machine”.As she came to prominence, Grimes became a particular target for HRO’s gossip blog style content, and – it seems – eventually she’d had enough of it.She now admits that she got a friend to help her with hacking the website by launching a DDoS – or distributed denial of service – attack to take the website offline in order to
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