I have to confess, I have never actually been DMd by Nicole, the fediverse chick.
This is notable because I'm not.
Meaning, if the goal was the actual spam itself, you'd expect the targets to be selected randomly and evenly. Instead I primarily hear about Nicole from people with a high follower count.
Which would make sense if the goal was to create notoriety for Nicole, who may or may not be a fediverse chick. My guess is Nicole, if she exists, would be very surprised to learn she is the fediverse chick.
@virtulis I'm not sure how the targets are being selected, but I noticed that different people started receiving spam at different times. It had been singing around for at least days, for example, before I got the first one; but after that I got them regularly. Likewise the initial reports were distributed over time.
So it's definitely also not something as simple as "send to every user with >X followers"
