Elsagate
English edit
Etymology edit
Elsa + -gate, after the protagonist of Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen whose likeness often appears in the videos.
Proper noun edit
Elsagate
- (Internet) 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[1], archived from the original on 2017-12-08:
- 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[2], archived from the original on 2020-03-22:
- Videos that are in the Elsagate category are not hard to identify. Typically, they feature Spiderman[sic] and Elsa together and are extremely low-budget videos without much structure or plot.