10/02/11 05:09 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
You hear this a lot, that once a woman’s photos are
published online, they will be there forever. Nothing
ever disappears from cyberspace, so the thinking
goes. It sounds good and
seems true, but I’m
not sure it really is. Ever tried looking for photos
of a model who appeared on the net 5-10 years ago?
Unless they’ve experienced a sudden resurgence in
popularity, you are unlikely to find anything. That's
because while an image may have
the
potential to be around for years on the net,
that rarely winds up being the case. Call it digital
attrition, but somehow these photos seem to just
disappear. Take the case of Canadian fitness model
Jamie Keoppe. At one time,
message boards were flooded with photos of
Jamie. (Anyone who knows this model can attest
to this fact. ) Now, her image results on Google are
meager at best. The same can be said of Miss Cheeky,
whose ECM galleries used to be a regular staple on
message boards. But when I recently posted her, I
could scarcely gather up a dozen photos.
Mind you, a lot has changed in five years, most of it
in favor of the infinite preservation of digital
images in cyberspace. Just five years ago, Facebook
was in its infancy, as was Youtube. There was no
Tumblr, Twitter or Blogger. All of these tools aid in
pictures lingering around the net longer. But I still
have a difficult time finding images of models who
were hot just a year ago.
The internet is a very transient medium. Message
boards and blogs disappear all the time, and the
photos indexed on those sites with them. Photobucket
accounts are suspended or abandoned. Tinypics get
deleted, Facebook accounts terminated. Eventually, if
the factors line up, all of the breadcrumbs leading
to a model can vanish. It’s not as unusual as you
might think. Try finding the below image of
Bria Myles online. It was
posted about 2 years ago on her website as a
“Bonus Shot” for several weeks. During that
time, it circulated message boards heavily, but
now, “poof”, it’s gone.
Tags: Jaime Koeppe, Bria Myles