I get a little fascinated thinking about how stuff jumps around the internet, and Naomi Wu's photos are a clear example of that messy, fascinating spread. At first
they lived on Twitter as original posts, retweets, quote tweets, and replies — that native sharing is where the chain often starts. From there people took screenshots and reuploaded them to image hosts like Imgur or to forums where embedding is easier, which makes content travel fast even if the original tweet gets deleted.
Beyond simple reposting, there were mirror accounts and group chats doing the heavy lifting: Discord servers, Telegram channels, and private Facebook groups would stash collections or forwards. On more public channels, Reddit threads and imageboards would archive and tag images for wider discovery, while automated bots and scrapers cached copies for later retrieval. That combination of manual reposts, screenshots (which strip some metadata), and automated archiving is how images migrate across platforms.
I always feel a tug of conflicting emotions seeing that: part admiration for how communities keep content alive and part discomfort about consent and control. It’s a reminder that once something’s online, witnesses and archivists can make it very hard to truly take it down.