Salon.com > Alice Lipowicz http://www.salon.com Mon, 28 May 2012 00:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Jenni’s in love http://www.salon.com/2000/08/04/jennicam/ http://www.salon.com/2000/08/04/jennicam/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2000 19:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/technology/log/2000/08/04/jennicam Pioneering Webcam exhibitionist Jennifer Ringley, the "Jenni" in JenniCam, is paying a price for stealing her best friend's boyfriend in full view of thousands of outraged fans. Her Peeping-Tom followers are elbowing each other aside to spew stinging Jenni insults on public message boards and, even worse, some are proclaiming the end of their relationships with the 23-year-old Web designer who has captured more eyeballs than most Web marketers can dream of.

"I watched this train wreck for over two years and enjoyed it," wrote Benji LeFevre, a JenniCam fan in Fitchburg, Mass., in a posting on the JenniCam Fan Forum section of the Peeping Moe site. And, he said, he's not renewing his $15 annual subscription. (JenniCam subscriptions are more like donations, buying access to the same content as nonmember visitors, just with the feeds refreshed more often.) "I will no longer support someone who is so evil as to humiliate a friend in such a public way."

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