Elsagateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Elsagate

1. (Internet, neologism) The controversy surrounding supposedly child-friendly videos posted on the Internet that contain themes inappropriate for children, such as violence and sexual situations.
   • 2017 December 8, Russell Brandom, “Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy YouTube kids videos”, in The Verge‎, archived from the original on 8 December 2017:

     Just a few months after the Pizzagate debacle, Elsagate was formed with a very similar playbook: a group of amateur sleuths using open-source intelligence to fight a hazily defined evil threatening helpless children.

   • 2019 August 2, Sherri Gordon, “Keeping Your Child Safe on YouTube After Elsagate”, in Verywell Family‎, archived from the original on 22 March 2020:

     Videos that are in the Elsagate category are not hard to identify. Typically, they feature Spiderman and Elsa together and are extremely low-budget videos without much structure or plot.