...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Streisand Effect

726 statements
132 feature instances
60 referencing feature instances

Streisand Effect	type	FeatureClass
Streisand Effect	label	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect	page	StreisandEffect
Streisand Effect	comment	If it becomes known that someone of power, fame, or influence is using strong measures to attempt to suppress a piece of information or a work, then many people will want to know what it is even if they never cared before. Something horribly embarrassing or personal about you has been released — anything from a sex tape, to an unflattering photograph, to the nickname you had when you were younger — and you want to keep it out of the public eye. So you do whatever it takes to make it go away: lawsuits, cease-and-desist orders, DMCA takedowns, whatever you have at hand. But it backfires: the efforts to censor the information become public, and people who would otherwise be uninterested are now dying to know what all the commotion is about. Whatever you were trying to remove from the Internet gets mirrored and copied to hundreds of other sites; the sex tape goes viral; the childhood nickname becomes national talk show fodder; the unflattering picture ends up in the newspaper. In other words, your fear that everyone would see the dirt on you is the very thing that caused everyone to look at it, and the harder you try to fight it, the more popular it becomes — and you learned the hard way that you probably should've ignored it and acted like it was no big deal. Blogger Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the phrase back in 2003 when American singer Barbra Streisand tried to suppress a photograph of her house, incidentally taken for a geological study on California's coastline, by unsuccessfully attempting to sue the photographer and force him to take the image off of his website. The public at large found out about this photo specifically because Streisand filed the lawsuit, leading to the photo becoming far more well-known than if she had done nothing at all, as the house was one of many in the study and in no way labelled as hers. Said image is the one at the top of this page. This trope existed before the Internet was even a gleam in DARPA's eye, but since the spread of information is much faster, easier, and more difficult to prevent across the Internet than through other means, it is far more widespread and effective now. Psychologists have done studies and found that the subjects' desire for any kind of material increased when they were told that it was censored — the old Forbidden Fruit principle in action. Perhaps any authority considering the use of censorship should worry that this move might be counterproductive if it just gets people interested in the censored material. "Banned in Boston" was once a badge of dubious honor for books, much like R-ratings on movies are for kids. There's a general principle here that almost everyone learns back in childhood: when someone looks like they're hiding something, they probably are, and it's probably something interesting. The only way to really keep something hidden is to have nobody look for it in the first place. Of course, acting too casually often sparks the same reaction. Not to be confused with No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, which is very similar, but occurs when Moral Guardians attack something and draw more attention to it. This is basically that but without the Moral Guardians. Legally speaking, it can be a tricky subject. On one hand, many attorneys will warn someone of the possibility of litigation kicking a hornet's nest and creating a PR nightmare, and you can't exactly prevent people from commenting on what appears to be clear bad faith litigation. On the other hand, if you're on the receiving end of litigation, most smart attorneys will advise you to keep your mouth shut for a variety of reasons: the media and the court of public opinion are unpredictable and you cannot predict how they will treat your position, anything you say has the potential to be seen as an admission of wrongdoing, you open yourself up to potential defamation claims (or worse kinds of liability, if someone takes something you say as a "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest" and does something to harass or harm the other party), and most importantly, judges take a very dim view of undue attempts to influence the court of public opinion and it's never a good idea to piss off a judge or provide the appearance that you're trying to work around the judicial system. A form of Revealing Cover-Up; also a specific form of Hoist by His Own Petard. Usually a Hydra Problem as well. Sometimes related to Clumsy Copyright Censorship and, more rarely, Fanwork Ban. Will lead to an Open Secret and Suspiciously Specific Denial as another side effect. See also Internet Counterattack. Compare to Thought-Aversion Failure (telling someone to not think about something will lead to them thinking about it). Basically opposite to Forced Meme, where the individual or company tries to make something as popular as possible and fails in much the same way for much the same reasons. Totally Radical can be seen as an inversion: a figure of authority attempts to embrace something, in extreme cases causing people to lose interest in it because the "official" endorsement is seen as proof that it has lost whatever originally made it interesting. People who avert this Just Ignore It. This page alone is a meta-example since its entire purpose is to catalog the instances of the effect.
Streisand Effect	fetched	2024-04-15T11:02:01Z
Streisand Effect	parsed	2024-04-15T11:02:01Z
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to AFoolForAClient: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to AliceCooper: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to AwesomeButImpractical: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to BackhandedApology: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to BannedInChina: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to Beckmusician: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to Beyonce: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to BillBailey: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to BillyJoel: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to CantTakeCriticism: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to ChildishGambino: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to ContentLeak: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to DavidBowie: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to DisproportionateRetribution: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to DoubleSubversion: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to Drake: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to FrivolousLawsuit: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to GenreSavvy: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to IKEAErotica: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to ImAHumanitarian: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to JournalRoleplay: Not an Item - CAT
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to KingCrimson: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to LaserGuidedKarma: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to LinkinPark: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to Madonna: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to MemeticMutation: Not an Item - CAT
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to MoralGuardians: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to NoBudget: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to NostalgiaFilter: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to OlderThanFeudalism: Not an Item - CAT
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to OneDirection: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to OpenSecret: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to PottyFailure: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to Queen: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to Radiohead: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to ReadTheFinePrint: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to RealPersonFic: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to RefugeInAudacity: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to SexPistols: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to ShortRunInPeru: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to SocialistRealism: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to TaylorSwift: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBarnum: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to TheClash: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to TheSeventies: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to TotallyRadical: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to TropeNamer: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to Unperson: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to UrExample: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to VideoNasties: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to WeirdAlYankovic: Not an Item - IGNORE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to YouKeepUsingThatWord: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to invoked: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingComment	Dropped link to invokedtrope: Not an Item - FEATURE
Streisand Effect	processingUnknown	TropeNamer
Streisand Effect	processingUnknown	Beckmusician
Streisand Effect	isPartOf	DBTropes
Streisand Effect / int_10133283	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_10133283	comment	He did a first impression video for a game titled Day One: Garry's Incident. Midway through the video, he stated that the game had a lot of potential, but was poorly executed. By the end of the video, however, he'd seen and experienced so many bad things about the game that he ended up heavily panning it. The developer, Wild Games Studio, didn't like his criticism. As a result, they used YouTube's infamous copyright takedown feature to remove the video, later claiming that "TotalBiscuit has no right to make advertising revenues with our license". This caused the Brit to post a follow-up video calling them out for the abuse and gave hard evidence that debunked their claims. He also took the opportunity to point out instances of other, smaller channels being trampled on via the Copyright system (e.g. the Sega incident). The original video is back up on the Brit's channel, and all the developer did was further increase their infamy, as people now not only know that their game sucks, but also that they're Sore Losers about it. The view counts on these videos: The first impression (before removal): 150 thousand. The first impression (after its restoration): over 1 million. The video about the removal: over 5 million and counting.
Streisand Effect / int_10133283	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_10133283	featureConfidence	1.0
Day One: Garry's Incident (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_10133283
Streisand Effect / int_1367cea0	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm, on the Parahumans Online forum where people are noticing that the word "Cauldron" is hidden unless censored, such as with an asterisk.
Streisand Effect / int_1367cea0	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_1367cea0	featureConfidence	1.0
Worm	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_1367cea0
Streisand Effect / int_1520dbc2	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_1520dbc2	comment	Disney's Song of the South probably would not be as notorious as it is were it not for Disney refusing to give the film a home video released in the United States due to its racial controversy.
Streisand Effect / int_1520dbc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_1520dbc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the South	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_1520dbc2
Streisand Effect / int_160c1407	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_160c1407	comment	Metallica's hardline stance on peer-to-peer downloading resulted only in their songs becoming even more widely pirated. Other bands were hit by this to a lesser degree.
Streisand Effect / int_160c1407	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_160c1407	featureConfidence	1.0
Metallica (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_160c1407
Streisand Effect / int_1727901c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_1727901c	comment	As depicted in Pam & Tommy, Pam and Tommy sue Bob Guccione after hearing that he has a copy of their sex tape, even though they don't know if he plans to do anything with it. Pam worries that suing him will just put more attention on it and provoke him into publishing, but her concerns are steamrolled by Tommy and their lawyers; her worst fears are quickly confirmed.
Streisand Effect / int_1727901c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_1727901c	featureConfidence	1.0
Pam & Tommy	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_1727901c
Streisand Effect / int_1a933ed9	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_1a933ed9	comment	The manga act-age succumbed to Demand Overload after it was cancelled by the manga's writer's arrest for sexual misconduct with middle school girls and the writing was on the wall that Shueisha would condemn it to Keep Circulating the Tapes purgatory and unperson it in response within the month.
Streisand Effect / int_1a933ed9	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_1a933ed9	featureConfidence	1.0
act-age (Manga)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_1a933ed9
Streisand Effect / int_1d792986	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_1d792986	comment	Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go: When the teaser trailer was accidentally leaked to the public in January 2021, months before it was scheduled to air that fall, many fans jumped at the chance to spread it around. Even after Mattel issued DMCA takedowns to discourage piracy, the trailer had already been seen by hundreds of people both in and out of the fandom. This also happened to the first few episodes, which aired on Mexico's Canal 5 less than a month before they were scheduled to air in the US. Mattel has also issued DMCA takedowns to reuploads on Youtube, but that hasn't stopped many fans from seeing the series early.
Streisand Effect / int_1d792986	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_1d792986	featureConfidence	1.0
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_1d792986
Streisand Effect / int_1f818da5	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_1f818da5	comment	Channel Awesome: When The Nostalgia Critic reviewed Tommy Wiseau's magnum opus The Room (2003), one of many, many films he has torn to shreds on his site. (Ironically, the Critic was far nicer to the film than many of his other reviews and many of his contemporaries. The Critic actually encouraged his viewers to see it for themselves, albeit in a Bile Fascination kind of way. But it was better than many other reviewers telling people to avoid the film at all costs.) Then, Critic got hit with a threat of a lawsuit by theroommovie.com stating that his review constituted a copyright violation, despite the fact that fair use policy covers reviews of original material. In response, he pulled the review, but put up in its place an "episode" of "The Tommy Wiseau Show" which mocked the stuffing out of Wiseau himself and the person who runs theroommovie.comnote (Who is most likely Wiseau). This brought way more negative publicity to the movie, the website, and the names behind it than any review ever could have. After a short while, the review was allowed to be put back up. The "Tommy Wiseau Show" sketch is also still up. For a time, Channel Awesome deflected blame with backhanded apologies and trying to sweep allegations against them under the rug rather than address the individual grievances of the site's contributors. This caused nearly all of said contributors to turn on the website, consolidate their complaints in a document tiled "Not So Awesome", and release it to the public, which got Channel Awesome eaten alive on social media. Many of the contributors said that all they really wanted was a sincere apology and acknowledgment of wrongdoing — had Channel Awesome done that instead of trying to bury the allegations to save face, "Not So Awesome" likely never would have been made and most of the public would have remained unaware. If you want the not-so-short version, this video goes into more detail.
Streisand Effect / int_1f818da5	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_1f818da5	featureConfidence	1.0
Channel Awesome (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_1f818da5
Streisand Effect / int_22d87fc9	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_22d87fc9	comment	That '70s Show: Jackie buys some pot to prove to Hyde she can be a bad girl. Then a cop shows up and Jackie immediately blurts out "Don't look in the bag." Obviously the cop looks, and Hyde (who's taking the fall) winds up arrested for possession.
Streisand Effect / int_22d87fc9	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_22d87fc9	featureConfidence	1.0
That '70s Show	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_22d87fc9
Streisand Effect / int_261c8d3f	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons, when Homer and others are about to tour the Duff Brewery:
Streisand Effect / int_261c8d3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_261c8d3f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_261c8d3f
Streisand Effect / int_27a2d60a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_27a2d60a	comment	In 2016, after the German Satire program Extra 3 released a satirical song mocking Turkish president Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, the Turkish Government summoned the German ambassador and requested that the video be taken down. This directly led to the BÃ¶hmermann affair, where Jan Boehmermann made an insulting poem about ErdoÄŸan to show the latter the difference between what is and isn't allowed under German law note Namely, he insinuated that ErdoÄŸan enjoyed himself with goats and sheep and also accused him of watching child porn. This almost got Boehmermann jailed under Â§103 of the German Criminal Code, but the case against him was later dropped, and Â§103 was repealed effective January 1, 2018.
Streisand Effect / int_27a2d60a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_27a2d60a	featureConfidence	1.0
Extra 3	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_27a2d60a
Streisand Effect / int_2b1a53fb	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_2b1a53fb	comment	The Tranby Croft Affair, which was used as inspiration for Moonraker by Ian Fleming, was a card-cheating scandal in 1890. Arthur Wilson, friend of Prince Albert Edward (the future King Edward VII), held a dinner party for Edward's friends and retainers. One of them, Sir William Gordon-Cumming of the Scots Guard, was caught cheating during an illegal game of baccarat. He signed an agreement never to play cards again in exchange for everyone's silence, but word quickly got out. Gordon-Cumming attempted to sue for slander, which led to all of the witness accounts of his cheating being publicized across the United Kingdom and the first time an heir to the throne had been called to the witness stand since 1411. The scandal caused Gordon-Cumming to be dismissed from the army and kicked out of all of his clubs.
Streisand Effect / int_2b1a53fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_2b1a53fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Moonraker	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_2b1a53fb
Streisand Effect / int_2b727723	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_2b727723	comment	In September 2018, ApostleO, a user on reddit, criticized the performance and user interface of the digital tabletop site Roll20, and was then banned by the moderator NolanT from the Roll20 subreddit under assumed sock-puppetry, since they had a name similar to another banned user, ApostleOfTruth. Since ApostleO knew they weren't the same person as ApostleOfTruth, they dug deeper into the issue. ApostleO found that not only were the two users' writing styles not similar at all, the other banned user was banned for criticizing the Roll20 staff's moderation as well. When ApostleO confronted Roll20 about it, they were told by NolanT that even though the two banned users' IPs didn't match, the ban would not be lifted. ApostleO reported what happened on reddit, which reached Reddit's front page. It revealed that Roll20 not only censored any form of criticism towards them, they also violated Reddit's policy of people modding subreddits of a company they are employed by, as NolanT was not just an affiliated mod, but one of Roll20's co-founders. This led to other users declaring that they would also cancel their subscription and/or bad-mouth Roll20 from now on. NolanT's response only made things worse; in fact, disregarding people who specifically asked to be downvoted, NolanT's response is the second-most downvoted comment in the entire history of Reddit, second only to EA's response in Star Wars: Battlefront II.
Streisand Effect / int_2b727723	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_2b727723	featureConfidence	1.0
Reddit (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_2b727723
Streisand Effect / int_2ba48a26	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle: In one episode, the murderer has an accomplice steal his victim's mail so that the police don't find the incriminating evidence against him in the mailbox: a DNA test the victim had done proving that her and the killer's sons were Switched at Birth. Beckett lampshades the irony; the police don't typically look into a victim's mail in the first place, so if he'd just left well enough alone, they never would have been the wiser.
Streisand Effect / int_2ba48a26	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_2ba48a26	featureConfidence	1.0
Castle (2009)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_2ba48a26
Streisand Effect / int_2c430670	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_2c430670	comment	A campaign to ban Housos from Australian TV backfired when two big TV networks, Nine and Seven, slammed the show as reality TV filth. When it was pointed out that Housos is actually a satire with paid actors — and had never pretended to be anything else — they ended up promoting it instead to cover their embarrassment. Its creator, Paul Fenech, credited this with bringing the show to a wider audience.
Streisand Effect / int_2c430670	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_2c430670	featureConfidence	1.0
Housos	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_2c430670
Streisand Effect / int_36d59a47	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_36d59a47	comment	Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was selling a few hundred copies a week until the fatwa against Rushdie. Afterwards, it became so popular that it sold five times more copies than the #2 best-seller. It's still the publisher's best-selling book of all time.
Streisand Effect / int_36d59a47	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_36d59a47	featureConfidence	1.0
The Satanic Verses	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_36d59a47
Streisand Effect / int_36ee2abe	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_36ee2abe	comment	The post-apocalyptic game Paranoia takes place in a city called Alpha Complex ruled by an all-powerful, tyrannical Computer. The Computer uses Communists as its go-to scapegoat, blaming them for a nuclear war. There was no war, Communism died out long before the apocalypse, and the Computer only blames Communism because of old civil-defense files left over from the 1950s. There is, however, a brand-new sect of Communists in Alpha Complex â€” a lot of citizens figure that, if the Computer is evil and the Computer hates Communists, then Communists have to be the good guys. Most records of actual Communism didn't survive, though, so they gladly follow the teachings of Groucho Marx and John Lennon. There's also the line of thought that, if you're told to find the Communists, and there are no Communists, but failure means that you'll be killed...well, if you're a Communist, you've found them!
Streisand Effect / int_36ee2abe	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_36ee2abe	featureConfidence	1.0
Paranoia (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_36ee2abe
Streisand Effect / int_3cbb13f7	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_3cbb13f7	comment	Nijisanji fell afoul of this twice in early 2024. Nijisanji English liver Pomu Rainpuff graduated from the company in January 2024. This wouldn't on its own be particularly notable despite Pomu's popularity, except that in the run-up to her departure she unprivated several members-only streams, including one where she broke down in tears recalling a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity she'd been offered that had been denied by Nijisanji management with no possibility of negotiation, responding to chat's attempt at comforting her by saying "more opportunities will come" with a sad, "Not here." Shortly after, Nijisanji management proceeded to once again private the aforementioned members-only stream (and only that particular stream). This resulted in the story spreading wider than it otherwise would have, as the clumsy attempt at suppressing the story simply made people suspect the story was true and did more damage to Nijisanji's reputation than would have been done had the stream been left up, or if all the members-only streams had been privated rather than just that one particular stream. After Selen Tatsuki had the cover of "A Last Cup Of Coffee" that she'd been working on for months meant for release on Christmas Day 2023 taken down by Nijisanji management (allegedly for not getting the proper permissions for posting it), she went missing for over a month with no contact. The lack of news and the fact she neither showed for Pomu's graduation nor sent a video message wishing her well despite their closeness caused both online and IRL acquaintances to become alarmed enough to get the hashtag "Where's Selen" trending on Twitter. Her contract was later terminated, not long after it came out she'd been hospitalised note As her old identity of Dokibird, she would reveal that she'd been Driven to Suicide as the affair with "A Last Cup Of Coffee" had just been the latest in a long line of projects she'd been trying to do that was undercut by Nijisanji management itself. In response to fan outcry, ANYCOLOR (the company behind Nijisanji) posted a press release that assured investors that the effects of Selen's termination would be "negligible". This set off a cascading series of PR blunders that led to the story not just spreading to people outside the VTuber community (for example, a number of legal and PR experts chimed in on just how incompetent Nijisanji's response to the whole affair was) but also Nijisanji's Japanese fanbase (which was normally completely isolated from the English-speaking fanbase). note So severe was the backlash that the term Selen Shock came about, and fans from other countries (especially Indonesia, where fans were still bitter towards Nijisanji for shuttering the well-loved Nijisanji Indonesia branch and caused many of the livers to graduate in disillusionment) renewed their anger towards the agency. As a result, Nijisanji developed a reputation as a Black Company and even commenters on places like Yahoo Finance Japan observed that this black eye would cripple any further attempt at overseas expansion. On a related note, in February 2023 ANYCOLOR filed over 10 DMCA copyright takedown notices on a number of Youtube channels that specialised in VTuber-related content (generally things like official announcements but also lesser known details like financial filings or behind-the-scenes issues). Most damningly, the takedown notices were only filed on videos that included stories that depicted Nijisanji in a negative light, making it an obvious attempt by a corporation to silence critics. As a result, those same channels (and those supporting them) focused even more on Nijisanji and ANYCOLOR, and so when the Pomu and Selen controversies erupted they were more than ready to spread the word.
Streisand Effect / int_3cbb13f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_3cbb13f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Nijisanji (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_3cbb13f7
Streisand Effect / int_3cd90f30	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_3cd90f30	comment	In the second season finale of Arrested Development, Maeby is tasked with producing an American remake of a French film about cousins who are in love with each other (mirroring George-Michael's feelings for her). Ann organizes a protest which ends up making the film a hit.
Streisand Effect / int_3cd90f30	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_3cd90f30	featureConfidence	1.0
Arrested Development	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_3cd90f30
Streisand Effect / int_3d513f8	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_3d513f8	comment	Jimquisition: In a Jimquisition episode covering Earth: Year 2066, Jim Sterling posted evidence of the game developer that tried to remove anything negative that was posted about the game, including his own replies to criticisms, in the Steam community hub. Sterling pointed out that such actions would only cause people to post their impressions of the early access game elsewhere for all to see. Not surprisingly, this sort of thing happens quite often for many games. Taken to another level when Sterling did a cold/blind/first playthrough of The Slaughtering Grounds. They weren't impressed by the game's bugs, bad design, and lack of direction. The developer behind the game, Digital Homicide, took the impressions as a massive attack towards his work, retaliating by reposting Sterling's video with a bunch of text on top of it that mocked them. Sterling found the entire thing hilarious, and responded by reposting the video containing the developer's response with their own commentary. The developer then posted another video of the re-repost where he just blatantly attacks Sterling. People got wind of the tantrum and started to criticize the developer on the Steam forums, which got them swiftly banned by the developer. To top it all off, the developers issued a copyright strike against Sterling, which got their first impressions video taken down. While Sterling's original video was down for a few weeks, they were successful in their counterclaim and their video was restored. To rub salt in the wound, Sterling dedicated their victory to playing the game for 2 hours to show everyone just how bad it was, and to stick it to the developer who said Sterling wasn't allowed to critique the game unless they played longer. Digital Homicide, the same developers behind The Slaughtering Grounds, made another game called Deadly Profits, which was naturally full of bugs and was once on Steam's early access for $25. Sterling did a squirty play of it and wasn't impressed by the game. Knowing that people would warn others on the Steam forums about the game's shoddiness, Digital Homicide purged the forums of any "negative" threads and swiftly banned anyone that had anything bad to say about the game or if they even mentioned Sterling at all. Obviously, this only helped spread the word about the game's shoddiness and damaged the company's reputation faster.Furthermore, Digital Homicide then tried to sue Sterling and one hundred anonymous Steam users over the matter. When they tried to get a subpoena from Valve to get the identities of those Steam users, Digital Homicide had all their games removed from Steam and got blacklisted for acting aggressive and hostile towards their customers. Despite losing so much money that they had to file for bankruptcy, Digital Homicide still tried to drag out the lawsuit against Sterling. Eventually, Sterling's lawyer gave an ultimatum; drop the case and everyone would pay their own legal fees, or Digital Homicide would get their asses handed to them in court. Digital Homicide agreed and the case was officially dismissed, ending the year-long drama caused by two men who couldn't handle criticism from one guy. Digpex Games, the sole developer behind Skate Man: Intense Rescue, issued a copyright strike against Sterling after they had posted their impressions of the developer's trailer for the game that consisted of horrible ideas, laughable execution, and a frame rate that was in the single digits. Unlike Digital Homicide, Digpex Games seemingly made the greenlight trailer to bait Sterling out just so the developer could "teach them a lesson" because it saw how Sterling treated other indie developers in the past and couldn't stand it. Naturally, this tactic didn't work and it created the opposite effect; Sterling got even more famous while Digpex Games were now known for being sour grapes over how they critique things. The takedowns got so out of hand that at one point, a developer tried to claim a trademark infringement on Sterling's impressions with a bad airport simulator game. Naturally, Sterling points out how the developer does not know what a trademark is. This happens to Sterling so often that they wrote an article called Another Monday, Another Copyright Claim, pointing out that developers abusing ContentID in an attempt to stifle criticism has become practically normal. In April 2017, Sterling made a video criticizing Atlus for their heavy-handed warning against streaming Persona 5, arguing that their attempts to suppress footage of the game, ostensibly for the purpose of avoiding spoilers, had just encouraged fans to leak footage and major spoilers all over the Internet in retaliation.
Streisand Effect / int_3d513f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_3d513f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Jimquisition (Web Video)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_3d513f8
Streisand Effect / int_3defe34c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed by the Internet Historian a few times, since he covers the history of Internet trends: Shia LaBeouf's "He Will Not Divide Us" project both benefited but also suffered from this trope: he and his supportersâ€™ attempts to keep 4chan trolls from interfering with it only attracted the trolls more, but which in turn, at least at first, also attracted more attention than it probably would have gotten on its own (to the point the Historian referred to its first incarnation, the 24/7 broadcast from a wall in Queens, New York, as the "greatest reality TV show of the last decade"). LaBeouf's escalating attempts to stop his livestreamed work from getting defaced or mocked saw him move it from a public New York area to an undisclosed location in North America (found by 4chan within two days to be in Greeneville, Tennessee), to a blank white room somewhere in the world (found to be London, England within four hours). The effect eventually petered out once the project left the United States, and continued degrading to the point there was barely any difference between watching the livestream and looking at a .jpg of the phrase, when it became too boring for 4chan to further mess with it, with only a few dedicated trolls keeping an eye on it. CNN threatening to reveal the personal information of the guy who made the Trump wrestling CNN meme unless he deleted everything only angered the internet. They decided to make more anti-CNN memes than CNN could ever hope to take down. Then they started to rate the CNN app one star, and turn public TVs off CNN with universal remotes (making ratings go down) when CNN tried anyway. The Historian even describes the events as CNN "smashing one bee and angering the hive". Planking, which was already on its way to dying off, caught a second wind and spread like wildfire after the media, governments, police, and places of work started to discourage it. Appropriately, the trend died for real to what is essentially the opposite effect: the Prime Minister of New Zealand posted a picture of his son planking, thus signifying official approval, which immediately discredited it. Bethesda trying to quiet negative reviews of Fallout 76 on its forum caused dissatisfied customers to hijack any part of the internet they could to decry the game. And to bring it full circle, some people try to stop the IH's digging... which only results in him telling the internet promptly and invites more investigation. And he always keeps pressing on anyway.
Streisand Effect / int_3defe34c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_3defe34c	featureConfidence	1.0
Discussed Trope	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_3defe34c
Streisand Effect / int_3df10170	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_3df10170	comment	On the April 10, 2024 edition of All Elite Wrestling's flagship show Dynamite, the company aired the backstage footage of CM Punk's scuffle with "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry at All In 2023 live on TV as part of a segment involving The Young Bucks and FTR. For those uninitiated, Punk and the Young Bucks had their fair share of issues during the former's time in the company that led to backstage fights at the All Out 2022 and All In 2023 PPVs, the latter of which prompted AEW owner Tony Khan to fire Punk for cause. Punk, who returned back to WWE starting from the 2023 Survivor Series PLE, had kept quiet about his time in AEW until he spoke about both it and the backstage incident involving Perry on Ariel Helwani's podcast MMA Hour a few days before WrestleMania XL. AEW then announced the decision to air the footage hours after WrestleMania XL's Night 1 had ended, leading to speculation that AEW was doing it specifically in an attempt to tarnish Punk's reputation further. Unfortunately for AEW, a lot of people were both underwhelmed that the backstage fight was relatively innocuous and found it ridiculous that Khan, who was stationed nearby behind the monitors, was so scared that he not only fired Punk afterwards, he said that it put his life on danger. Mere hours after it was aired live on TV, AEW backtracked on their decision by copyright striking anyone who posted the video of the backstage fight and removing said footage from their official YouTube video of the segment. This not only brought awareness of the incident again after several months, it generated more support for Punk.
Streisand Effect / int_3df10170	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_3df10170	featureConfidence	1.0
All Elite Wrestling (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_3df10170
Streisand Effect / int_3e847cb0	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_3e847cb0	comment	While Basic Instinct was being filmed in San Francisco, a group of lesbian activists tried their best to impede progress and protest the film before release, as they did not like the depiction of lesbians in the movie. Their protest actually helped give the production free media coverage before it was even complete.
Streisand Effect / int_3e847cb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_3e847cb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Basic Instinct	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_3e847cb0
Streisand Effect / int_3fbd173e	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Sam Starfall has apparently had previous practical demonstrations of this, according to this strip.
Streisand Effect / int_3fbd173e	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_3fbd173e	featureConfidence	1.0
Freefall (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_3fbd173e
Streisand Effect / int_41128922	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_41128922	comment	This is a driving reason why Billy Mitchell (of The King of Kong fame) and his alleged cheating and collusion with Walter Day and Twin Galaxies arcade has become so well-known. Mitchell developed a nasty habit of filing Frivolous Lawsuits towards anyone who so much as suggests he cheated at the world record for Donkey Kong or lied about receiving his title of "Video Game Player Of The Century" in an attempt to cover it up, which backfired and caused it to become such common knowledge that even Regular Show once made fun of him. He sued them for that too, lost, and they retalatiated by mocking him even further. Worse still, old photos have resurfaced that prove conclusively that Mitchell cheatednote This◊ old photo shows that the cabinet he played on was modified to have a red joystick capable of registering eight directions, rather than the stock black joystick that only registered four, letting him climb ladders to dismount them faster than normal, and he escalated things to the point that he even attempted to fake court evidence by having a new "Video Game Player Of The Century" plaque made which was quickly debunked as fakenote this article goes into ludicrous detail. Note that was originally Mitchell's own site; when he let the domain expire someone bought it and made a site devoted to his exposing him as a cheater and fraud, also likely in retaliation for his trigger-happy lawsuits because of all the attention he's brought onto himself. Mitchell even once tried to sue YouTuber Karl Jobst for mentioning Mitchell one time in one video, and then again for featuring this clip in one video, causing Jobst to retaliate by making over a dozen more videos devoted entirely to Mitchell that offer play-by-play coverage of the whole ordeal, spreading word about Mitchell being a cheater even further. More than likely, none of this would have ever been seen by anyone aside from a handful of Speed Runners had Mitchell not been so trigger-happy with lawsuits that tried to sue people into silence.
Streisand Effect / int_41128922	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_41128922	featureConfidence	1.0
The King of Kong	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_41128922
Streisand Effect / int_411f49aa	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_411f49aa	comment	In Fifth Business, the Cool Old Guy priest Father Blazon amuses himself in his old age by acquiring and reading books that the Church had banned, to the consternation of his nurses.
Streisand Effect / int_411f49aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_411f49aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Fifth Business	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_411f49aa
Streisand Effect / int_44cbfcea	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_44cbfcea	comment	Attempted with Escape from Tomorrow, an independent Sanity Slippage horror film shot guerilla-style in Disney Theme Parks without permission; however, Disney recognized what they were doing and that the filmmakers lacked the money to market it beyond Disney coming after it, so they simply ignored it completely and the movie made all of $171,000 on the way to Netflix obscurity.
Streisand Effect / int_44cbfcea	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_44cbfcea	featureConfidence	1.0
Escape from Tomorrow	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_44cbfcea
Streisand Effect / int_4617a9f2	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children was an extreme case with the famous Rakolta Boycott. The ire of one Terry Rakolta was drawn by the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over," where Al buys a bra for his wife Peggy and ogles a mannequin (though the mannequin's back was to the camera, so the audience never saw anything). Rakolta wrote letters to the show's sponsors, getting a few of them to pull support for Married... with Children. However, the boycott utterly failed. A few sponsors did withdraw support for the show, but the stocks for Bounty, the show's biggest sponsor, skyrocketed. The show's ratings dramatically increased, despite Fox moving it to a later timeslot and toning down the sexual content. And ultimately, the few advertisers who did pull their ads from the show all came back within a year. The boycott thus had the opposite effect than intended, when curiosity about the boycott and the show itself created a ratings boost for the series, potentially being the cause of it lasting for several more years. The show itself made a reference to it in one episode featuring a television show made about the Bundys' lives, which got immediately cancelled because "Some woman in Michigan didn't like it".
Streisand Effect / int_4617a9f2	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_4617a9f2	featureConfidence	1.0
Married... with Children	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_4617a9f2
Streisand Effect / int_469771d2	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_469771d2	comment	The script for a live-action pilot of The Powerpuff Girls on The CW got uploaded in its entirety onto Twitter in May 2021. There was some speculation as to the validity of the script, since it was full of very outdated and misused Gen-Z slang, and some people thought it had to be a troll. However, a DMCA claim from the CW proved that the script was real, thus increasing interest and traction in mocking the CW for the script's contents.
Streisand Effect / int_469771d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_469771d2	featureConfidence	1.0
ThePowerpuffGirls	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_469771d2
Streisand Effect / int_47a464c8	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_47a464c8	comment	A Silent Voice is a work of fiction about the hardships of living in Japan as a deaf person, namely that they're encouraged to be invisible and stay out of public society, and this is done through relentless bullying. A watchdog group attempted to stop the manga's publication; after that failed, the Japanese government attempted to ban its screening outside of Japan. In both cases, it's because they feared it would make the country look bad — but word of that got out, and now more people know about Japanese culture's treatment of deaf people and the cruel extent of Japanese bullying than they know about A Silent Voice itself.
Streisand Effect / int_47a464c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_47a464c8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Silent Voice	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_47a464c8
Streisand Effect / int_49a88442	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_49a88442	comment	A group of players in Final Fantasy XIV spent several thousand dollars on real life billboards in multiple American states to advertise an event in July 2022 for their player-run, in-game nightclub. The inherent absurdity of the situation made headlines, and several details about the billboards and the event hosts caused backlash from the player base. This includes the billboards showing off ToS-breaking content (such as datamined outfits and poses which needed third-party tools), the existence of the billboards potentially being illegal due to showing Square-Enix-owned assets without permission, the group running the event being associated with erotic roleplay, and an immature response from the event hosts after their Discord server was flooded with mockery. The latter also drew a "You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!" response from players when the billboards' creators made it clear that they legitimately didn't think they did anything wrong, and threatened spurious legal action against anyone who mocked them. In particular, the event drew ire from the modding and roleplaying communities, who felt the debacle reflected badly on them and could potentially cause Square-Enix to crack down on their scenes, all because one club had to do something stupid. All in all, much mockery ensued before the billboards were taken down, with images of the whole sordid affair having spread much further than if the group had just let it go. To put the icing on the cake, the above actions were done by the Free Company leaders while the rest of the group had no idea that the group would be advertised on billboards until it happened.
Streisand Effect / int_49a88442	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_49a88442	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_49a88442
Streisand Effect / int_4a510504	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_4a510504	comment	In 2016, Axl Rose filed quite a few DCMA copyright notices with Google, asking that "unflattering" photos (taken of him at a 2010 concert by Winnipeg Free Press photographer Boris Minkevich) be removed from circulation on the Internet, as it had inspired the so-called "Fat Axl" meme. Predictably, this news has caused the "Fat Axl" meme (which has existed quietly since at least 2011) to explode. Welcome to the jungle, indeed.
Streisand Effect / int_4a510504	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_4a510504	featureConfidence	1.0
Guns N' Roses (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_4a510504
Streisand Effect / int_4ba5452e	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_4ba5452e	comment	Feminist Frequency: People complaining about the videos caused the comments section to be turned off. As a result, this led to people creating their own videos which criticized the inaccuracies of numerous Feminist Frequency videos.
Streisand Effect / int_4ba5452e	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_4ba5452e	featureConfidence	1.0
Feminist Frequency (Web Video)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_4ba5452e
Streisand Effect / int_4d088ed7	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_4d088ed7	comment	When Tipper Gore announced that she was trying to censor 2 Live Crew's music in the late '80s, their music became even more popular. Tipper Gore and the PMRC, in general, were the Streisand Effect of the '80s; almost every band they went after for inappropriate lyrics and whatnot ended up becoming even more popular due to the publicity. In particular, one of the PMRC's biggest targets, WASP, saw their record sales double and vocalist Blackie Lawless was all too happy to use them as a vehicle to promote the band. Finally, like the Eminem example below, during one awards speech, Steven Tyler thanked Tipper Gore for ensuring that if an album had a few dirty words on it, it would sell an extra million copies.
Streisand Effect / int_4d088ed7	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_4d088ed7	featureConfidence	1.0
W.A.S.P. (Band) (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_4d088ed7
Streisand Effect / int_4d49c6a1	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_4d49c6a1	comment	In Evil, Kristen and the gang discover that an influencer's seemingly innocuous makeup video actually includes a hidden message urging teenagers to kill themselves. Confronted with this, the influencer pulls the video and tells her millions of followers to definitely not share the video with anyone—thus practically guaranteeing it will be everywhere.
Streisand Effect / int_4d49c6a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_4d49c6a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Evil (2019)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_4d49c6a1
Streisand Effect / int_4dbadabb	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_4dbadabb	comment	Review embargoes tend to become this whenever a game studio knows their product isn't up to snuff and enforce an embargo on reviewers so the studio can cash in on consumers swayed by the hype without them knowing about the issues. In practice, it hardly ever works out that way. For example, Assassin's Creed: Unity had an unprecedented review embargo that ended twelve hours after the game's release. All in all, a) the game was a buggy mess, and b) the primary topic of conversation was not the game itself but the absurd and abusive embargo.
Streisand Effect / int_4dbadabb	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_4dbadabb	featureConfidence	1.0
Assassin's Creed: Unity (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_4dbadabb
Streisand Effect / int_4fd9904a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_4fd9904a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry is being defamed by both the Wizard government and its only major newspaper, so he tries to set the record straight by giving an interview in The Quibbler, a tabloid published by the highly eccentric Lovegood family. Umbridge is furious and immediately passes a rule that anyone found with The Quibbler will be expelled from Hogwarts. Hermione is delighted, explicitly pointing out that this guarantees everyone will find a way to read it. Sure enough, by the end of the day, everyone is talking about the interview even though Umbridge can't actually catch anyone with a copy.
Streisand Effect / int_4fd9904a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_4fd9904a	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_4fd9904a
Streisand Effect / int_51507cf2	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_51507cf2	comment	Back in 2006, former Something Awful moderator Grover made a thread chronicling the construction of an addition to his house, built without the help of any professionals. As Grover already had a reputation on the forum as an annoying Know-Nothing Know-It-All, goons flocked to the thread to laugh at all the rookie mistakes and baffling decisions he made, with professional construction workers also chiming in to offer more constructive criticism. Grover, in turn, used his position as moderator to ban anyone who criticised his house. This just led everyone to double down on their mockery, along with taking it off-site where he had no power over them. As a result, the internet at large took an interest in the "Groverhaus", and over a decade later, long after Grover had disappeared off the face of the internet, his house was still being discussed, with Well There's Your Problem covering it in a bonus episode at the end of 2019, while Fredrik Knudsen and Jabroni Mike made an episode of The Warrens about it in mid-2020.
Streisand Effect / int_51507cf2	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_51507cf2	featureConfidence	1.0
Something Awful (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_51507cf2
Streisand Effect / int_522ff155	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_522ff155	comment	In the novel Cat's Cradle, the entire religion of Bokononism is outlawed in The Republic of San Lorenzo, and its practice is punishable by death. Naturally, every single citizen, including the President who issued the law, is a devout follower. This is actually by arrangement, and part of the point of Bokononism: to create an entertaining drama (the tyrant in the city and the mad prophet in the jungle) that engages the people and helps distract them from how poor and miserable their lives are.
Streisand Effect / int_522ff155	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_522ff155	featureConfidence	1.0
Cat's Cradle	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_522ff155
Streisand Effect / int_52d222db	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_52d222db	comment	The Harder They Come: When Ivan, an unknown in the music industry, goes on the run from the police after shooting three officers, his song skyrockets in popularity. When the police tell his producer they're going to ban the song for glorifying criminality, the producer warns them that banning it will generate even more public interest.
Streisand Effect / int_52d222db	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_52d222db	featureConfidence	1.0
The Harder They Come	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_52d222db
Streisand Effect / int_5307b01d	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_5307b01d	comment	Penny Arcade: Their legal run-in with American Greetings over a Strawberry Shortcake parody image resulted in the image being spread across the Internet on such a wide basis that it's very easy to find the image nowadays, even though it's no longer on the Penny Arcade site. To this day, Archive Bingers are taking note of AG's overly-protective legal department. Given the near-universal demographic and high fungibility of the greeting card industry, it's safe to say that they're still losing the occasional sale to it. The Ocean Marketing debacle: Paul Christoforo, the president of a PR and distribution firm named Ocean Marketing, sent unkind, unprofessional, and terribly written emails out to several customers of N-Control, a company that manufactures and sells the Avenger Controller, a modified PS3 controller designed with folks with fine motor impairment in mind. Paul made unsubstantiated claims of how soon the controllers would ship out, lowered the price to attract new customers while not even offering the customers who would be waiting for several more weeks a ten percent compensatory discount, eventually started addressing disgruntled customers by telling them their business in a condescending tone, threatened to cancel an order placed by at least one customer and sell the controllers on eBay himself, and went around claiming to know head editors at gaming news blogs like IGN and Kotaku, to try to deflect complaints by making himself seem like an important figure. Dave, one customer unlucky enough to have dealt with him, shared the series of email correspondence with Gabe himself, who stepped in to tell Paul that Ocean Marketing would not be welcome at PAX any longer — something Paul was initially disbelieving of, since he had no idea who he was talking to, at first. He made an about-face when he realized just how tremendous his mistake was, but by the time he connected the dots, it was already too late. That one series of emails set off a chain reaction that effectively killed Ocean Marketing and, with it, Paul's career. As the dust began settling, it became obvious Paul wasn't genuinely sorry for how he behaved — he was just sorry he got caught lying to, verbally abusing, and cheating N-Control's customers.
Streisand Effect / int_5307b01d	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_5307b01d	featureConfidence	1.0
Penny Arcade (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_5307b01d
Streisand Effect / int_585e7a59	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_585e7a59	comment	Ted debuted at #2 in Brazil. Then a deputy tried to upgrade the film's rating on the grounds it is morally offensive (after bringing his 11-year-old son to watch it, despite the "inappropriate for under 16" rating). Result: Ted topped the box office charts in the following week, repeating the gross of its debut!
Streisand Effect / int_585e7a59	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_585e7a59	featureConfidence	1.0
Ted	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_585e7a59
Streisand Effect / int_58794dba	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_58794dba	comment	The 1996 film adaptation of Crash (not to be confused with the 2004 film of the same name) came under fire from Northern Irish critic Alexander Walker, who had just seen it in Cannes. While he didn't call for it to be banned personally, the usual so-called Moral Guardians took to the streets again, with outright Narmish articles from The Daily Mail and the like demanding that the film be banned. This only drummed up British interest in going, with some surveyed audiences complaining that the uproar was disproportionate for what was an okay film, but wasn't enough for the film to make back its budget of nine million dollars.
Streisand Effect / int_58794dba	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_58794dba	featureConfidence	1.0
Crash	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_58794dba
Streisand Effect / int_5921531c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_5921531c	comment	As aforementioned, when Persona 5 was released in North America, Atlus disabled the screen capture and sharing feature on the PlayStation 4. They also released a set of strict guidelines that warned YouTubers not to show any content past the in-game date of July 7th. Failure to heed the guidelines would have Atlus claim the offending videos via content ID or issue copyright takedowns to suspend or even terminate the offending channel. According to Atlus, all of this was done in the name of avoiding spoilers. Predictably, many fans began posting spoilers out of spite, including using bots on Twitter to post spoilers en masse, and the majority of them used actual cameras and capture devices to create their own screenshots, which defeated Atlus' purpose. What makes the event even stranger is that the Japanese version of the game had been released several months prior, which gave fans plenty of time to see anything they wanted to about the game. Finally, Atlus stating not to post anything beyond certain in-game dates spoiled the fact that something big would happen on those dates. Eventually, the massive backlash to their move caused them to relent, pushing back the streaming ban up until November 19 in-game. Additionally, Atlus attempted to DMCA the Patreon page of a PS3 emulator that claimed to be able to run the game prior to its official Western release. This only succeeded in giving the emulator more public attention, and the dispute was settled simply by the emulator's Patreon page removing any references of the game.
Streisand Effect / int_5921531c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_5921531c	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 5 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_5921531c
Streisand Effect / int_5bfa9c98	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_5bfa9c98	comment	The in-game chat moderators in Warframe vehemently ban users for talking about the feminine physique of male playable character Nezha in any way that could be perceived as transphobic. This has lead to the widespread fanon that Nezha is actually a trans woman, and chat channels that moderators are not present in are absolutely rife with jokes about the character.
Streisand Effect / int_5bfa9c98	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_5bfa9c98	featureConfidence	1.0
Warframe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_5bfa9c98
Streisand Effect / int_61052082	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_61052082	comment	In The Pentagon Wars, it becomes clear to Lt. Colonel Burton during joint testing that the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which at this point has now spent decades in development, is a deathtrap waiting to happen, and writes a damning report listing every single thing wrong with it. In response, the Army official in charge of the project, General Partridge, has Burton's original report classified, and then has the report edited to make it seem like it's actually praising the Bradley so that Partridge can get the thing finally out the door. The next day, Burton comes into work ecstatic; as it turns out, the fact that Partridge had had the report edited now means that, according to Armed Forces Regulations, Burton is free to send a memo regarding its edits (essentially his entire original report) out to anyone and everyone who has worked on or has been associated with the Bradley project, which, thanks to the Bradley's Development Hell, now numbers 198 people in the Armed Forces and US Government, far more than would have probably read his initial report. Partridge threatens to have Burton court-martialed, and is furious to find out he can't.
Streisand Effect / int_61052082	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_61052082	featureConfidence	1.0
The Pentagon Wars	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_61052082
Streisand Effect / int_6276800c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_6276800c	comment	When The Nostalgia Critic reviewed Tommy Wiseau's magnum opus The Room (2003), one of many, many films he has torn to shreds on his site. (Ironically, the Critic was far nicer to the film than many of his other reviews and many of his contemporaries. The Critic actually encouraged his viewers to see it for themselves, albeit in a Bile Fascination kind of way. But it was better than many other reviewers telling people to avoid the film at all costs.) Then, Critic got hit with a threat of a lawsuit by theroommovie.com stating that his review constituted a copyright violation, despite the fact that fair use policy covers reviews of original material. In response, he pulled the review, but put up in its place an "episode" of "The Tommy Wiseau Show" which mocked the stuffing out of Wiseau himself and the person who runs theroommovie.comnote (Who is most likely Wiseau). This brought way more negative publicity to the movie, the website, and the names behind it than any review ever could have. After a short while, the review was allowed to be put back up. The "Tommy Wiseau Show" sketch is also still up.
Streisand Effect / int_6276800c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_6276800c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_6276800c
Streisand Effect / int_64e03e4b	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_64e03e4b	comment	Frederick County, Maryland, Councilmember Kirby Delauter said on Facebook to a Frederick News-Post reporter, "Use my name again unauthorized and you'll be paying for an Attorney [sic]. Your rights stop where mine start." With how blatantly wrong that was, it's no surprise that several newspapers and associated sites mockingly corrected him. Perhaps most notable is an editorial titled "Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter" in (you guessed it) The Frederick News-Post. The memetic use of his name has received widespread coverage everywhere from NPR to The BBC.
Streisand Effect / int_64e03e4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_64e03e4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Facebook	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_64e03e4b
Streisand Effect / int_6739948a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_6739948a	comment	Before North Korea's protest against the film The Interview, the film was barely a blip on the public's radar: just another political comedy film with an absurd premise. The subsequent controversy and Sony cancelling the film's release caused news networks to dedicate hours of daily coverage to the film, giving it huge amounts of free publicity. Even its banning hadn't stopped public attention, as the issue of the film's cancelled premiere turned into a full-out matter of freedom of speech. A significant amount of analysts even predicted that at some point the whole film would get leaked, either by different hackers or those who worked on the film, just to see what all the fuss is about. Sony did it one better: they officially released the film on YouTube, who put it on the front page. Even further, North Korea particularly objected to one specific scene where Kim Jong-un, caught in an exploding helicopter, dies in slow-motion as his skin melts and his head explodes. Guess which particular scene quickly circulated throughout the Internet? This eventually led to the infamous Sony Pictures hack and leaked emails.
Streisand Effect / int_6739948a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_6739948a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Interview	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_6739948a
Streisand Effect / int_68a59532	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_68a59532	comment	Maddox, in one article about people banning his website for arbitrary reasons, pointed out that there was a group called "Mothers Against Maddox" that had been going on for over a year trying to get his website taken down. In a bout of intentional irony, he signed their petition, knowing fully well that it wouldn't change anything. Within 24 hours of him posting the article, their petition jumped from 80 signatures to 9,200. Given that his website is still up, it seems that they didn't accomplish anything even with the additional support.
Streisand Effect / int_68a59532	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_68a59532	featureConfidence	1.0
The Best Page in the Universe (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_68a59532
Streisand Effect / int_691be369	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_691be369	comment	In The X-Files, this is the initial reason the Conspiracy doesn't just kill Mulder and Scully, based on the advice of the Cigarette-Smoking Man. As he claimed, currently Mulder was just some eccentric FBI agent rambling about conspiracies, but if he was murdered, then the conspiracy theories would be given credibility. As CSM tells one of the Syndicate members, "kill Mulder and you turn one man's religion into a crusade".
Streisand Effect / int_691be369	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_691be369	featureConfidence	1.0
The X-Files	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_691be369
Streisand Effect / int_6ac55ec7	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_6ac55ec7	comment	A significant part of the re-ignition of the "duel" between Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder in 2023 involved this; in the first (and utterly disastrous) leaks of the intended changes to the Open Gaming License by Wizards of the Coast, the document specifically claimed that "[the] OGL wasnâ€™t intended to fund major competitors", with others noting that the changes felt targeted pointedly at Paizo and other larger third parties that used the OGL. This, of course, made people who had otherwise stayed purely in the D&D ecosystem, particularly the newer generation of players who had come in with 5e and all the media attention from Stranger Things and Critical Role, wonder what in the dickens was going on with these competitors to make Wizards of the Coast take such action. Sales of Pathfinder Second Edition products absolutely exploded as a result.
Streisand Effect / int_6ac55ec7	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_6ac55ec7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_6ac55ec7
Streisand Effect / int_6cb2d709	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_6cb2d709	comment	When Harry and Hermione ask the Weasley twins to advertise their book on tantric (sexual) rituals in Harry Potter and the Sword of Gryffindor, the twins deliberately invoke this by decrying it as completely shameless and obscene under a pseudonym in the Daily Prophet. The result is a line around the block to purchase this new book and see what it's about.
Streisand Effect / int_6cb2d709	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_6cb2d709	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter (Franchise)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_6cb2d709
Streisand Effect / int_7095216c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_7095216c	comment	Bryon "Psyguy" Beaubien from Fireball 20XL was subject to this effect in 2014 after many callout posts appeared on Tumblr. The stories accuse Beaubien of incredibly abusive behaviors toward many of his past associates and fans, including death threats, infidelity, sexual harassment, racism, and sexually predatory conduct towards minors. The accusations alone were bad for his reputation, but he made the matter far worse by responding with trying to threaten many of the people who shared their stories about him, use copyright claims to take down videos about the stories and delete as many of his posts that could confirm the stories told about him. The stories about Beaubien ended up spreading like wildfire throughout the internet as a result of his attempts to get them removed, which eventually led to Fireball 20XL and Beaubien himself both vanishing from the internet.
Streisand Effect / int_7095216c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_7095216c	featureConfidence	1.0
Fireball 20XL (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_7095216c
Streisand Effect / int_745711f9	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_745711f9	comment	In Look to the West Part #266, a New Spanish chef creates a version of boeuf bourguignon for the Paris WorldFest that uses his native wine rather than burgundy. The protests outside the pavilion by French chefs are considered to have attracted attention to an event that was pretty close to being called off for rain.
Streisand Effect / int_745711f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_745711f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_745711f9
Streisand Effect / int_752fb3f6	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_752fb3f6	comment	Baymax! got free advertising after a conservative commentator spewed outrage over an episode where Baymax went on a Tampon Run where a transgender man offered advice.
Streisand Effect / int_752fb3f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_752fb3f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Baymax!	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_752fb3f6
Streisand Effect / int_77184a72	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_77184a72	comment	The Victorious episode "Bad Roommate" has Jade discovering an awkward satellite photo of her online and asks the guys not to tell anyone it exists. The next day, Jade discovers that the whole school now knows about it thanks to Cat telling people where not to look.
Streisand Effect / int_77184a72	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_77184a72	featureConfidence	1.0
Victorious	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_77184a72
Streisand Effect / int_7d1c83da	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_7d1c83da	comment	In the Better Call Saul episode "Hero", after Jimmy McGill uses his billboard stunt to gain publicity. The stunt involves setting up a billboard that ripped off Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill's logo, then Jimmy getting a cease-and-desist order, then arranging for a freelance media team to record him when the guy taking down the billboard "accidentally" falls, prompting Jimmy to go up and save him. The HHM team see through the ruse when watching Jimmy on the afternoon news, but decide not to pursue further action against Jimmy since doing so would be this.
Streisand Effect / int_7d1c83da	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_7d1c83da	featureConfidence	1.0
Better Call Saul	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_7d1c83da
Streisand Effect / int_7e3cca6a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_7e3cca6a	comment	Coolio's anger over "Amish Paradise", Yankovic's parody of "Gangsta's Paradise", helped make the song a bigger hit. Yankovic thought he did have permission due to a miscommunication, and Coolio's anger over the whole situation made fans more attracted to the song.
Streisand Effect / int_7e3cca6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_7e3cca6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Coolio (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_7e3cca6a
Streisand Effect / int_81307221	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_81307221	comment	Sadly this meme resulted in the Taiwanese indie horror game Devotion losing its publishing license in China, and was pulled from both Steam and GOG after it was review bombed by more nationalistic Chinese gamers.
Streisand Effect / int_81307221	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_81307221	featureConfidence	1.0
Devotion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_81307221
Streisand Effect / int_820587af	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_820587af	comment	Dr. Jose Rizal's famous novel Noli Me Tangere, whose controversial content earned the ire of the Spanish Friars, caused the latter to declare that anyone reading it would be charged with heresy and be excommunicated. This only caused the local populace to become curious, causing sales to skyrocket.
Streisand Effect / int_820587af	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_820587af	featureConfidence	1.0
Noli Me Tangere	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_820587af
Streisand Effect / int_895280a9	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_895280a9	comment	The 1999 Japanese computer game Cookie's Bustle was hit with this in 2023 when an unidentified individual, presumed to be a copyright troll, managed to file copyright claims on the game and began filing takedown requests not just against downloads of the game on the Internet, but also against YouTube and Twitch videos documenting the game. Within weeks, this led to Cookie's Bustle becoming better-known through active investigation and documentation of this apparent attempt to erase the game from the Internet. It soon inspired a Vinesauce livestream of the game seen by thousands of people, far more than would otherwise have been interested in an old adventure game, difficult to get running on modern operating systems, that was so obscure even in its native country that no copies were available on the Internet until decades after its release.
Streisand Effect / int_895280a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_895280a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Cookie's Bustle (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_895280a9
Streisand Effect / int_8a08048e	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_8a08048e	comment	In the companion podcast to Taskmaster, Romesh Ranganathan complains at some length about the poor quality of a task he and his teammates Josh Widdicombe and Roisin Conaty completed where they had to create a "blooper" video. He goes into a lot of detail about how poor he thinks the task is, how he and his teammates pretend it never happened and how, had he enjoyed his current levels of career success and security at the time of filming, he might even have had his agents lean on the production team to make sure it was never aired. Once he's finished, host Ed Gamble notes in some amusement that his sheer passion and vitriol regarding the task was likely to inspire people to go back and check it out again, since it had originally aired in series 1 and had been mostly forgotten about by fans since then.
Streisand Effect / int_8a08048e	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_8a08048e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taskmaster	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_8a08048e
Streisand Effect / int_8d12a342	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_8d12a342	comment	In 2008, the other wiki's page of the Scorpions' Virgin Killer album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.
Streisand Effect / int_8d12a342	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_8d12a342	featureConfidence	1.0
Scorpions (Band) (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_8d12a342
Streisand Effect / int_8d814070	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_8d814070	comment	A later episode of MAS*H had the gang trying to get a copy of the film The Moon is Blue because it had been banned in Boston. Charles, a Boston native, cautions that Boston would have banned Pinocchio, but Hawkeye and BJ pay him no heed, thinking it must be steamy. The capper to all the troubles they had obtaining it was them watching it and finding it terribly inoffensive.
Streisand Effect / int_8d814070	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_8d814070	featureConfidence	1.0
MAS*H	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_8d814070
Streisand Effect / int_8e0312e6	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_8e0312e6	comment	RuPaul's Drag Race: The Season 12 reunion and finale episodes had to be filmed via Zoom from the cast members' homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. RuPaul, not having access to his team of stylists, wore what appeared to be a luchador mask and a hoodie with the hood up in both episodes. This just made it painfully clear that Ru hasn't done his own makeup and costuming in ages and that he might no longer trust his skills in that area. But even out of drag, most viewers would've been more accepting of a 60-year-old man with a few wrinkles than that ridiculous mask. In the season there was an even bigger problem that had to be addressed. Just prior to the season, contestant Sherry Pie was revealed to have posed as a casting director and tricked several men into sending her what were basically fetish videos. Although she made the final four, she was subsequently disqualified from the finale, and the season aired with Sherry's role heavily cut down, her vestigial presence creating a weird sense of anticipation and intrigue in the viewers â€” essentially "how the hell are they going to handle the Sherry situation this week?" In an example of the latter being handled slightly better, Season 5 of the UK version had a contestant removed for similar reasons during the filming of the show, apparently after the 2nd episode had filmed. Due to a lack of confession from the contestant, or chance of a legal case, they were just simply not mentioned at all in promotional material, and the show had enough cameras running that they could completely edit the shamed contestant out, barring several glimpses of an outfit or a wig peeking out from behind another Queen. Most of the minor attention the show got from it was praise for how they wouldn't have noticed if the news hadn't leaked, while most fansites agreed not to list the name of the contestant in question to not give them any more attention .
Streisand Effect / int_8e0312e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_8e0312e6	featureConfidence	1.0
RuPaul's Drag Race	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_8e0312e6
Streisand Effect / int_914ba844	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_914ba844	comment	The BBC expressed concern following the scurrilous and seditious popularity of a re-release of "Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead!" note from the soundtrack of The Wizard of Oz, which celebrates the passing of the Wicked Witch of the East as a result of the death of Margaret Thatcher. The song was subject to a campaign to get it to number one on the singles chart for the occasion; it made it to #2, but the BBC refused to play it, even in the relevant Radio One Chart Show.
Streisand Effect / int_914ba844	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_914ba844	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wizard of Oz	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_914ba844
Streisand Effect / int_93133ff6	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_93133ff6	comment	Just after the release of Beyond: Two Souls, a user who owned a debug PlayStation 3note which was typically only given to journalists and developers discovered a sequence involving the main character Jodie, played by Elliot Page, taking a shower with a fully nude and anatomically correct in-game model that appears in full view several times. The user uploaded pictures and videos of this to the Internet, which initially only got a modest number of views. It wasn't until Sony attempted to have the pictures scrubbed that interest in the material skyrocketed, and it was quickly mirrored on many websites. For a long time, "beyond two souls shower" was the second suggestion that would pop up if someone did a Google search on the title. It doesn't help that Page himself threatened legal action against Sony for producing the material of him for the game, and stated in leaked emails from the 2015 Sony hack that he had never participated in a full-body scan for the game.
Streisand Effect / int_93133ff6	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_93133ff6	featureConfidence	1.0
Beyond: Two Souls (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_93133ff6
Streisand Effect / int_969fb090	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_969fb090	comment	Invoked in Blindspot when FBI A/D Mayfair shoots down Carter's insistence on having Jane killed by pointing out that her tattoos had already been scanned, so the evidence was already preserved and killing her would just cause people to wonder what information in them was worth killing her over.
Streisand Effect / int_969fb090	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_969fb090	featureConfidence	1.0
Blindspot	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_969fb090
Streisand Effect / int_99e137c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_99e137c	comment	PewDiePie has done quite a few of these by accident and apologized about them, but the biggest one is the entire "YouTube Drama" fiasco in which he points out that drama needs to stop because it affects everybody by causing them to be on the edge of their seats. His main point, however, is about the people who use the mob mentality as a way to police a YouTuber to attack and ruin someone's life. Unfortunately, people kind of latched on the drama part and barely anybody briefly touched upon his main point. Felix has admitted that he kind of jumped the gun on this one as he didn't really explain his main point properly.
Streisand Effect / int_99e137c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_99e137c	featureConfidence	1.0
PewDiePie (Lets Play)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_99e137c
Streisand Effect / int_99f8c7fb	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_99f8c7fb	comment	Rupert Alleston MP sued Hat Trick Productions for libel when a Have I Got News for You tie-in diary called him a "conniving little shit". After he lost the case, the show itself took great delight in reporting to a much larger audience than the book had that it was not libellous to call Rupert Alleston a conniving little shit.
Streisand Effect / int_99f8c7fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_99f8c7fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Have I Got News for You	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_99f8c7fb
Streisand Effect / int_9d47a2a2	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Played with in A Song of Ice and Fire. When Stannis begins spreading rumors regarding the incestuous relationship between Cersei and Jamie, Cersei wants them crushed. When asked what he would do, Tyrion's response was "Nothing. If we leave it alone, everyone will forget the instant some other scandal comes out. If we crush it, it will only spread and convince people that it's true." Littlefinger adds a masterful variation; not only will they ignore it, but they'll spread equally lurid (although false) rumors about Stannis himself to impale Stannis on the same dilemma. Although their counter-rumor has had little effect in the following books and that incest rumor has become an Open Secret by the time of the fifth book (where Cersei is labelled brotherfucker in her Walk of Shame after publicly admitting to adultery, which, needless to say, gives weight to the rumors). Mushroom, once the Fool of the Targaryen court back in the days of the civil war called the Dance of the Dragons, wrote a lurid and outright libelous set of "chronicles" making the entire family of that time look awful after most of them had killed each other and the remaining ones in a too-precarious position to just kill him over it. Subsequent Targaryen kings repeatedly tried to ban it and destroy all the copies. It can be found everywhere in the Kingdom (and in a lot of places beyond) by the start of the series, both in physical hardcopy and in still quite popular songs based on the rudest bits, strangely enough. Oops.
Streisand Effect / int_9d47a2a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_9d47a2a2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_9d47a2a2
Streisand Effect / int_9e2f90f4	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: It is widely known across the globe that the World Government will strictly punish anyone who tries to decipher the Poneglyphs or uncover the Suppressed History of the Void Century. That hasn't stopped several parties from trying anyway, such as the scholars of Ohara and the Roger Pirates. The former paid for their audacity by having their entire island razed to the ground via Buster Call, and Robin, the sole survivor of Ohara, spent the next 20 years on the run from the World Government, determined to complete their research if only to ensure they did not die in vain. The Revolutionary Army, founded shortly after the Ohara incident, notes how obsessed the World Government is with keeping the true history a secret, and goes out of their way to ensure Robin's safety during the Time Skip so that she can reunite with the Straw Hats and fulfil her goal unimpeded.
Streisand Effect / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_9e2f90f4
Streisand Effect / int_9f48001f	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_9f48001f	comment	In the months leading up to Joker's wide release, a large number of American film critics, journalists, and bloggers endlessly attacked the film, claiming that its portrayal of the Joker would inspire "incel" violence and mass shootings, and it escalated to the point where they even tried to get the film's release cancelled. As a result of the outcry, many police forces and even the U.S. Army were put on alert on release day, and Warner Bros., tired of the endless attacks from the press, barred journalists from attending the red carpet premiere. The constant negative publicity and drama only served to increase interest among moviegoers to see what riled up the media so badly, and the movie smashed the opening weekend box office record for the month of October as a result, eventually becoming the first R-rated film to make over $1 billion worldwide. As for the violence predicted by various members of the media, there weren't any documented cases of such over the movie, so presumably there wasn't any at all.
Streisand Effect / int_9f48001f	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_9f48001f	featureConfidence	1.0
Joker (2019)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_9f48001f
Streisand Effect / int_a32b6a64	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_a32b6a64	comment	Discussed in The West Wing; in one episode, a photographer Sam once hired then fired has written a libelous tell-all book about the White House full of inaccurate but potentially scandalous and embarrassing half-truths and fabrications. After Sam spends the episode with a bee in his bonnet trying to do everything he can to get the book squashed and the White House to condemn every single falsehood within it, C.J and Toby sit him down and explain to him that making a huge deal out of it and using the full voice of the White House to condemn the photographer is just going to give him a bigger platform, whereas if they do nothing beyond curtly acknowledging his existence and a simple shrug of disinterest, they'll make it clear how insignificant he really is and his book will disappear before long.
Streisand Effect / int_a32b6a64	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_a32b6a64	featureConfidence	1.0
The West Wing	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_a32b6a64
Streisand Effect / int_a485ad0f	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_a485ad0f	comment	Mike Matei, co-producer of The Angry Video Game Nerd, has a habit of making sockpuppet accounts to defend himself, banning people from the AVGN subreddit who mention past incidents or call him out, and removing mods who don't agree with him. All Matei needed to do was leave well enough alone after these incidents, and they probably would have been downplayed or forgotten. With regard to the embarrassing videos, Matei released the joke video "Minecraft With Gadget" as a piece of filler while working on Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie. It got negative reviews, so much so that Matei deleted the video and consecutively took down re-uploads of it ever since its release, which only made people more interested in seeing it. This only spread further after the video became a meme thanks to OneyPlays and SiIvaGunner, resulting in more and more people reuploading it and making memes of it. While Matei is still clearly ashamed of the video, he eventually re-uploaded it himself in May 2020, long after its memetic status had died down a bit.
Streisand Effect / int_a485ad0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_a485ad0f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_a485ad0f
Streisand Effect / int_a70618b9	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_a70618b9	comment	After Selen Tatsuki had the cover of "A Last Cup Of Coffee" that she'd been working on for months meant for release on Christmas Day 2023 taken down by Nijisanji management (allegedly for not getting the proper permissions for posting it), she went missing for over a month with no contact. The lack of news and the fact she neither showed for Pomu's graduation nor sent a video message wishing her well despite their closeness caused both online and IRL acquaintances to become alarmed enough to get the hashtag "Where's Selen" trending on Twitter. Her contract was later terminated, not long after it came out she'd been hospitalised note As her old identity of Dokibird, she would reveal that she'd been Driven to Suicide as the affair with "A Last Cup Of Coffee" had just been the latest in a long line of projects she'd been trying to do that was undercut by Nijisanji management itself. In response to fan outcry, ANYCOLOR (the company behind Nijisanji) posted a press release that assured investors that the effects of Selen's termination would be "negligible". This set off a cascading series of PR blunders that led to the story not just spreading to people outside the VTuber community (for example, a number of legal and PR experts chimed in on just how incompetent Nijisanji's response to the whole affair was) but also Nijisanji's Japanese fanbase (which was normally completely isolated from the English-speaking fanbase). note So severe was the backlash that the term Selen Shock came about, and fans from other countries (especially Indonesia, where fans were still bitter towards Nijisanji for shuttering the well-loved Nijisanji Indonesia branch and caused many of the livers to graduate in disillusionment) renewed their anger towards the agency. As a result, Nijisanji developed a reputation as a Black Company and even commenters on places like Yahoo Finance Japan observed that this black eye would cripple any further attempt at overseas expansion.
Streisand Effect / int_a70618b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_a70618b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Dokibird (Web Video)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_a70618b9
Streisand Effect / int_a70ced0c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_a70ced0c	comment	In November 2015, the Iowa Republican party explicitly forbade The Daily Show with Trevor Noah from having their correspondents attend an event because "[they] were afraid they were going to make fun of Iowa." So, host Trevor Noah and correspondent Jordan Klepper proceeded to mock Iowa in a manner of wishing they could.
Streisand Effect / int_a70ced0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_a70ced0c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_a70ced0c
Streisand Effect / int_a95d664c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_a95d664c	comment	The Silkworm: Discussed Trope. Murder victim Owen Quine had just completed a scurrilous, libelous Roman Ã Clef novel in which he paints thinly veiled and extremely unflattering portraits of everyone he knows. Robin, when talking to Cormoran about the case, wonders why anybody angry about the manuscript would have killed Quine, and especially in such a gory and horrifying way as they did, when such an action would bring a ton of public attention to Quine's book. The solution eventually reveals that the killer actually wanted the book to be as public as possible, to settle scores.
Streisand Effect / int_a95d664c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_a95d664c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Silkworm	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_a95d664c
Streisand Effect / int_aa11d061	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_aa11d061	comment	By banning The Human Centipede 2 in the UK, the BBFC managed to give it large amounts of international publicity for free.
Streisand Effect / int_aa11d061	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_aa11d061	featureConfidence	1.0
The Human Centipede	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_aa11d061
Streisand Effect / int_aae1bea2	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_aae1bea2	comment	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Jimmy suspected this trope was being used when Warner Brothers announced that the Batgirl movie was being shelved.
Streisand Effect / int_aae1bea2	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_aae1bea2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_aae1bea2
Streisand Effect / int_ac64e9dc	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ac64e9dc	comment	In April 2020, The Last of Us Part II suffered a huge Content Leak when plot details were revealed on the internet, including cutscenes. Naughty Dog and Sony responded by quickly removing spoilers from YouTube and other websites. This was considered acceptable by most fans at first, but these fans changed their minds after Naughty Dog and Sony began going overboard with their censorship. Not only did the two companies begin sending DMCA to posts that were complaining about the leaked plot details,note even if the poster only talked vaguely about the game rather than specify story beats they also began targeting the multitude of memes that were created by said leaks. Needless to say Fans were immediately furious, arguing that the takedowns were becoming excessive. As a result, fans created even more posts, videos and memes talking about or even making fun of the game's spoilers out of protest, completely undoing what Naughty Dog and Sony were trying to achieve. invoked
Streisand Effect / int_ac64e9dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ac64e9dc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last of Us Part II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ac64e9dc
Streisand Effect / int_acb92fd0	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_acb92fd0	comment	In the Father Ted episode "The Passion of St. Tibulus", the Pope has condemned the eponymous film as "blasphemous", and it's been banned almost everywhere — but not on Craggy Island, because of an unknown loophole. Bishop Brennan orders Ted and Dougal to picket the cinema showing the film. They do so totally ineptly — they actually see the film (and because it's an unsubtitled, undubbed, French Le Film Artistique, they can't understand it), and their protest is, for the most part, utterly perfunctory and reluctant. But the sight of two priests standing in front of the cinema — even if they're clearly bored and the cinema doesn't open for several hours — is treated as an "official" condemnation from the Catholic Church, which makes the film the most popular in the island's history.
Streisand Effect / int_acb92fd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_acb92fd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Ted	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_acb92fd0
Streisand Effect / int_ad283518	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ad283518	comment	Suing Private Eye for libel never does anyone any good. All it does is draw out the Eye's story and attract the attention of other news sources. Even if you win, no one has enough faith in British libel law (or the Eye's ability to defend a case) to believe that this means it isn't true. When the Eye loses a libel action ands is forced to retract an allegation, it will invariably run the retraction in a highly visible location in the magazine, point out it is happy to stress there is no truth whatsoever in the content it wrongly published, and then go into great detail concerning what exactly they said that was proven indefensible in a court of libel, just so nobody reading it is in any doubt whatsoever. The Eye will also adamntly deny it seeks to find creative ways to get around superinjunctions, using cleverly ambiguous and cryptic hints and clues. Such associations are in the mind of the reader...
Streisand Effect / int_ad283518	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ad283518	featureConfidence	1.0
Private Eye (Magazine)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ad283518
Streisand Effect / int_ada547f3	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ada547f3	comment	The 2016 documentary Room Full of Spoons, which showcased the (exaggerated) lives of the majority of the cast of The Room (2003) as well as attempting to crack Tommy Wiseau's Mysterious Past. This of course angered Wiseau, who sued production in an effort to stop distribution of the film on the grounds of copyright infringement. Unfortunately for him, he ended up having to pay $700,000 to the filmmakers over lost earnings and much worse, his actual date of birth and country of origin were confirmed and his birth name was revealed, all things that he really wished to have never been made public.
Streisand Effect / int_ada547f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ada547f3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Room (2003)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ada547f3
Streisand Effect / int_aefebdec	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_aefebdec	comment	In Untraceable, a killer sets up his victims to be tortured to death in front of a livestreaming camera; the more people watch, the quicker the victim dies. Despite warnings from a Genre Savvy cybercrime special agent, the FBI crime director denounces the website and urges people to avoid it, which causes the site's traffic to explode.
Streisand Effect / int_aefebdec	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_aefebdec	featureConfidence	1.0
Untraceable	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_aefebdec
Streisand Effect / int_af7aead4	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_af7aead4	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Invoked and discussed in the "Right to be Forgotten" segment, where the man who petitioned for it to occur in regards to his personal debts from 1998: It happened again during their segment on coal. After receiving a Cease & Desist letter from Murray Energy â€” a series first â€” they focused far more on the company and their CEO, Bob Murray, than they initially intended to. Taken a step further in a later episode. Bob Murray sued them for slander over the episode, and the lawsuit was eventually dismissed. Last Week Tonight did a followup episode discussing the suit and the general problem of SLAPP suits, culminating in a song and dance routine in Times Square mocking Bob Murray. Moreover, since speech is generally not considered libelous if it's clearly intended to be sarcastic rather than factual, the "Suck My Balls Bob Dancers" routine declares that Murray has done all kinds of horrifying but obviously false things like shoot puppies into space and have sex with squirrels.
Streisand Effect / int_af7aead4	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_af7aead4	featureConfidence	1.0
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_af7aead4
Streisand Effect / int_b025cd07	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b025cd07	comment	In 2018, FariÃ±a, a book by journalist Nacho Carretero documenting drug dealing cases in Galicia in the '90s, was seized by court order after a former mayor mentioned in the book sued Carretero for damages. That very week, the book became a bestseller on Amazon Spain and the TV series based on it â€” which was not affected by the court order since the judge considered the script of the series was unknown and the airing date was uncertain â€” was released months ahead of schedule so that it could take full advantage of the publicity.
Streisand Effect / int_b025cd07	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b025cd07	featureConfidence	1.0
Cocaine Coast	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b025cd07
Streisand Effect / int_b0e1bc07	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b0e1bc07	comment	When Welsh footballer Ryan Giggs was caught having an affair with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas, his lawyers filed a super-injunction to keep Thomas from selling her story and the news media from revealing his name. Many news channels and magazines took offence to that, starting a debate on the nature of super-injunctions and using many Suspiciously Specific Denials to hint at his identity. When his name was revealed on Twitter, he had his lawyers try to sue Twitter for ignoring the injunction. Twitter, of course, is not bound by UK law and this action only caused many celebrities and ordinary users hitting back by revealing his name in their feeds. Congratulations, Giggs: You made an enemy of both the Old Media and the New Media and turned a one-shot story that would have grabbed the attention of a small portion of the public for a few days into a national debate that went on for weeks, while becoming the laughing stock of the foreign media, who are not bound by UK laws. The entire mess eventually reached Parliament, where questions were raised about how relevant the law was considering the rise of social media. You know you messed up when your attempt to conceal your affair ends up with the Prime Minister discussing it in the democratic forum of the nation.
Streisand Effect / int_b0e1bc07	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b0e1bc07	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Brother	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b0e1bc07
Streisand Effect / int_b0fba5f1	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b0fba5f1	comment	Kitchen Nightmares: The series has the infamous "Amy's Baking Company" episode, in which viewers watched in shock as they saw the restaurant's owners, Amy and Samy, berate customers, employees, and even Gordon Ramsay himself, their egos clouding even the most basic of criticism and interpreted it as attacks â€” in the end, for the first time in the series, Ramsay left the restaurant thanks to the two's behavior. When the episode was over, many of the viewers approached their Facebook page to express their displeasure, only to have the two blow up at them. Many people came to it on the basis of watching their meltdown. This also ironically benefited Amy's Baking Company, thanks to the Bile Fascination. People who went there were either a), people who don't believe anyone can really be that bad at owning a restaurant and still be in business, thinking it was all set up as fake "reality" TV for ratings, or b), people who go there specifically to provoke a response from Amy or Samy as some weird badge of honor. When the show went back to the restaurant as part of a special episode, nobody was surprised to see that nothing had changed at all. In 2015, the company finally shut down. The case with Dillon's Restaurant is another significant example. Being only the second episode produced for the series, it hadn't even aired yet before a significant controversy played out in the press. Dillon's floor manager, Martin Hyde, attempted to sue Ramsay and FOX Television for an alleged negative portrayal of himself in the episode, as well as trying to have the episode publicly banned from being aired on television again. Naturally, all this did was increase curiosity about the show when it began airing and resulted in a huge publicity/viewing spike, with people who watched the episode realizing that Hyde was just as bad in interviews about the lawsuit as he was portrayed in the episode itself. As a result, the lawsuit was thrown out of court, Hyde was left disgraced, and the show would go on to helm a highly-rated first season (and successful seven-season run) as a result.
Streisand Effect / int_b0fba5f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b0fba5f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Kitchen Nightmares	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b0fba5f1
Streisand Effect / int_b0fc9724	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: A Season 46 installment of Weekend Update had Colin Jost remark on Disney+'s decision to place a Content Warning before episodes of The Muppet Show regarding the presence of "offensive content." Jost says that the presence of offensive content in an episode of The Muppet Show only makes him more interested in the contents of the episode. "What, does Gonzo finally have sex with the chicken?"note The warning was actually referring to the presence of racial stereotypes, such as actors dressing up like Native Americans.
Streisand Effect / int_b0fc9724	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b0fc9724	featureConfidence	1.0
Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b0fc9724
Streisand Effect / int_b12e31c6	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b12e31c6	comment	Star Trek: Federation: Someone hacks a secure Starfleet database looking for information on the Warp Bomb, a long discreditednote it works, but is much more difficult to use and much less effective than standard weapons like photon torpedoes idea for weaponizing Warp Drive. This causes Starfleet Security to clamp down on any information pertaining to the Warp Bomb and it becomes a vicious cycle where the persistence of the hacker leads Starfleet to reevaluate whether there might be something to this Warp Bomb business, and the increasingly stringent security confirms the hacker's belief in the bomb as both sides continue to escalate without apparent end.
Streisand Effect / int_b12e31c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b12e31c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Federation	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b12e31c6
Streisand Effect / int_b61d8be6	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b61d8be6	comment	And Zedd ended up getting banned in China as a result of this tweet.
Streisand Effect / int_b61d8be6	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b61d8be6	featureConfidence	1.0
Zedd (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b61d8be6
Streisand Effect / int_b6fbc1e4	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b6fbc1e4	comment	In one story of Frog and Toad, the titular duo are going for a swim, with the latter wearing an Old-Timey Bathing Suit that he's embarrassed to be seen in because he thinks he looks funny in it. Then a turtle arrives at the pond and Toad asks Frog to shoo it away. When Frog attempts to do this and explains why, not only does the turtle decide to stick around with renewed interest, but all the other animals overhear the conversation and come down to the pond to see the funny-looking bathing suit Toad is wearing.
Streisand Effect / int_b6fbc1e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b6fbc1e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Frog and Toad	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b6fbc1e4
Streisand Effect / int_b7548b3d	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b7548b3d	comment	In the running for Spanish elections in June 2016, satirical webpage El Mundo Today (similar to The Onion) created several satirical pages about the main contending parties and candidates. The main conservative party (and current controller of the government), Partido Popular, threatened to initiate legal actions if the page referring to them was not taken down. El Mundo Today acquiesced... and promptly created another page that used Suspiciously Specific Denial to make even more fun of them and their attempts to censor free speech.
Streisand Effect / int_b7548b3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b7548b3d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Onion (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b7548b3d
Streisand Effect / int_b96564e6	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers and its main character Basil Fawlty was based on Donald Sinclairnote Do NOT confuse with the Donald Sinclair who was the basis for the James Herriot character Siegfried Farnon. The veterinary Donald Sinclair was, albeit eccentric, by all accounts a very nice person, unlike the hotel operator of the same name., an eccentric and irascible Torquay hotelier whom John Cleese had observed during a stay in his hotel during a Monty Python's Flying Circus shoot. Years after the success of the show, Sinclair's widow contacted the newspapers to complain about the depiction of the character based on her husband, claiming that Cleese had unfairly exaggerated Sinclair's eccentricity, incompetence, and foul temper. Far from salvaging her husband's reputation, all it did was provoke a lot of independent witnesses to also contact the papers with a lot of anecdotes about Sinclair. All of these accounts suggested that Cleese was not too far off the mark; if anything, Cleese had actually downplayed how irritable Sinclair was. His widow kept silent after that. Also, Cleese reluctantly conceded that some aspects of the humour in FT that were acceptable in The '70s do not fly with modern sensibilities, and that for re-runs on TV some jokes with a racial or ethnic component had to be censored out for rebroadcast. To a certain British mindset faced with what it sees as politically correct censorship, this is a red rag to a bull, and the hive mind of the Internet, in a bloody-minded British sort of a way, is seeing to it that the original uncensored episodes remain out therenote With, for instance, the Major's opinions on Indians and West Indians left untouched forever.
Streisand Effect / int_b96564e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b96564e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Fawlty Towers	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b96564e6
Streisand Effect / int_b9f6ecc7	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_b9f6ecc7	comment	The makers of Gotti failed miserably in their attempt to utilize it after the film was destroyed by the critics who saw it, branding the film as "the movie the critics don't want you to see." Just about everyone instantly saw through the ploy and continued to stay away from the film, especially since it was quickly made public that the movie actually wasn't screened in advance for critics, making any supposed conspiracy impossible in the first place.
Streisand Effect / int_b9f6ecc7	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_b9f6ecc7	featureConfidence	1.0
Gotti	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_b9f6ecc7
Streisand Effect / int_bac3ec65	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_bac3ec65	comment	Australia's Nine Network promoted the beans out of Underbelly, and Australians were certainly interested in this tale of the gangsters they heard about on the news. However, the legal battles the show faced with issues such as the concurrent court cases leading to it being banned in Victoria out of fear of influencing the jury made this something of a Forbidden Fruit for Victorians, and interest in the show exploded to the point where radio hosts would take calls about the series being offered bootleg at construction sites, then say where they got their own illegitimate copies from.
Streisand Effect / int_bac3ec65	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_bac3ec65	featureConfidence	1.0
Underbelly	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_bac3ec65
Streisand Effect / int_bc848d30	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_bc848d30	comment	In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squid on Strike", Squidward's protests against the Krusty Krab only brought more publicity and so more customers to the Krusty Krab. He actually helped drum up business by going on strike, and Mr. Krabs thanks him for it:
Streisand Effect / int_bc848d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_bc848d30	featureConfidence	1.0
SpongeBob SquarePants	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_bc848d30
Streisand Effect / int_bf949aad	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_bf949aad	comment	Superstore: In the Halloween Episode "Sal's Dead," Glenn announces over the loudspeaker for Cloud 9 customers to please stay away from the housewares section because of something horrifying and disturbing, referring to a real dead body that's stuck in the store's wall. Since it's Halloween, everybody thinks it's a cool display and goes right over to the dead body.
Streisand Effect / int_bf949aad	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_bf949aad	featureConfidence	1.0
Superstore	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_bf949aad
Streisand Effect / int_c19fab95	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c19fab95	comment	A protest led by William Monroe Trotter to get The Birth of a Nation (1915) banned in Boston ended up enhancing its popularity among the filmgoing public.
Streisand Effect / int_c19fab95	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c19fab95	featureConfidence	1.0
The Birth of a Nation (1915)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c19fab95
Streisand Effect / int_c23658de	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c23658de	comment	The original Silent Night, Deadly Night was the target of a massive amount of vitriol from outraged Moral Guardians who accused the director and distributors of the film of destroying the spirit of Christmas (which was just around the corner at the time, being released at the beginning of November) by having the killer, Billy, dressed up in a Santa Claus suit. There were large protests outside movie theaters showing the film, and it was utterly hated by the mainstream movie critics. The outrage and calls for the film to be pulled from theaters were so loud that in the end TriStar Pictures caved and did just that, ending the film's theatrical run only three weeks after its release. Unfortunately, all this negative attention and censorship only served to heighten awareness and appeal of the movie, leading to it having immense second-wind popularity on the emerging home video market, where it was gleefully advertised as "the movie they tried to stop you from seeing".
Streisand Effect / int_c23658de	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c23658de	featureConfidence	1.0
Silent Night, Deadly Night	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c23658de
Streisand Effect / int_c4282b71	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c4282b71	comment	One of the reasons why My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic had such a large Periphery Demographic was due to a couple of articles that were written during Season 1 of the series. One of the articles was filled with anger towards series director Lauren Faust for selling out, incensed that someone who worked on other series like The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends would make a Merchandise-Driven series like My Little Pony. The other article even went as far as accusing the series of being "homophobic, smarts-shaming and racist" over incredibly ridiculous things. For example, one of the claims in the article was that Lovable Jock Rainbow Dash was promoting the "butch lesbian" stereotype because the character had a rainbow-colored mane. The vitriolic tone of these articles made readers curious as to what it was about Friendship Is Magic that made the articles' writers so mad, who promptly tuned into the series, liked what they saw, and stuck around, helping to create the "brony" phenomenon.
Streisand Effect / int_c4282b71	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c4282b71	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c4282b71
Streisand Effect / int_c43df4d8	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c43df4d8	comment	More than one creator involved with Doctor Who in the seventies and eighties have said that, while they never intentionally sought the attention of the National Viewers and Listeners Association, they knew to expect a ratings spike whenever it happened.
Streisand Effect / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c43df4d8
Streisand Effect / int_c56c235a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c56c235a	comment	In Clear and Present Danger, faced with a discovery that a friend of the President was involved with the Escobedo drug cartel, the White House wants to hush it up and downplay their relationship. Jack Ryan suggests that they instead play up the relationship, "we were lifelong friends", which nullifies the potential scandal rather than amplifying it by looking like a Revealing Cover Up.
Streisand Effect / int_c56c235a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c56c235a	featureConfidence	1.0
Clear and Present Danger	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c56c235a
Streisand Effect / int_c6005d35	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c6005d35	comment	Starting November 15, 2019, Markiplier and Ethan Nestor of CrankGamePlays worked on a project called Unus Annus with one of the primary gimmicks being that every video created in the project would vanish one year after the launch of the channel. Both creators explicitly stated that they did not want archives of the video to be re-uploaded,note Though re-uploads of short clips from the channel are permitted, just not entire episodes. as that would go against the project's theme of nothing lasting forever. Suffice to say, a number of viewers went against Markiplier and Nestor's wishes and archived the videos anyway.
Streisand Effect / int_c6005d35	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c6005d35	featureConfidence	1.0
Markiplier (Web Video)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c6005d35
Streisand Effect / int_c6e8356c	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c6e8356c	comment	Actively defied with the Pakistani movie International Guerillas, which was banned in the UK out of concerns for inciting violence against Salman Rushdie (see the Literature entry below). Rushdie himself opposed this decision even though he disliked the movie because he felt banning it would have only made it popular. The government relented, allowing the movie to be aired and sure enough, it faded into obscurity.
Streisand Effect / int_c6e8356c	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c6e8356c	featureConfidence	1.0
International Guerillas	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c6e8356c
Streisand Effect / int_c9726108	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_c9726108	comment	Before Straight Outta Lynwood was released, "You're Pitiful", a parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful", was set to be the lead single. James Blunt approved of it, but at the last minute, Blunt's label, Atlantic Records, changed their mind, and "White and Nerdy" became the lead single instead. As a result, Yankovic released "You're Pitiful" for free and performs it on tour, mocking Atlantic in the process. Due to the backlash and the video for "White and Nerdy", the Other Wiki had to lock Atlantic's page to prevent Yankovic's angry fans from defacing it.
Streisand Effect / int_c9726108	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_c9726108	featureConfidence	1.0
Straight Outta Lynwood (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_c9726108
Streisand Effect / int_cbae024e	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_cbae024e	comment	Elon Musk, after taking ownership of Twitter, once changed the website's logo to that of the Doge meme. It's commonly accepted this was in an attempt to obscure discussion of a $258 Billion lawsuit about Musk's involvement with Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that used Doge as its symbol, by making it the first thing that came up when looking up Musk and Doge. What he failed to account for, however, was that many promptly realized this and drowned out the discussion of the logo change with discussion of how Musk was using it to avoid publicity on the lawsuit, drawing attention back to the lawsuit anyway.
Streisand Effect / int_cbae024e	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_cbae024e	featureConfidence	1.0
Twitter	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_cbae024e
Streisand Effect / int_cdbab1e9	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_cdbab1e9	comment	When Hatred first appeared on Steam Greenlight, it was taken down after a short period of time. At the time it was taken down, the game was ranked #7 on the Greenlight board. After Hatred was placed back on Greenlight, it was ranked #1 in only a few hours. More than a few people concluded from the get-go that the devs were banking on this and similar to drum up free publicity for a mediocre, cheaply made game that would have been ignored otherwise.
Streisand Effect / int_cdbab1e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_cdbab1e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Hatred (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_cdbab1e9
Streisand Effect / int_ce15336	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ce15336	comment	In "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs", the kids become enthusiastic about having to read The Catcher in the Rye after finding out it was banned in some schools and supposedly inspired people to kill celebrities. When they actually read the book, however, they're annoyed that it's a normal novel with the occasional curse word.
Streisand Effect / int_ce15336	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ce15336	featureConfidence	1.0
The Catcher in the Rye	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ce15336
Streisand Effect / int_ce16f4e	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ce16f4e	comment	In 1998, Momus was sued by Wendy Carlos over the song "Walter Carlos" from The Little Red Songbook, a semi-satirical tribute to her with Time Travel, forcing that song to be removed from- years later, that song was uploaded to Youtube, and while it didn't blow up into massive popularity, it still got a rather above-average amount of views, with most of the comments on the video admitting they only knew about the song because of the lawsuit, and some even namedropping the Streisand effect.
Streisand Effect / int_ce16f4e	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ce16f4e	featureConfidence	1.0
Momus (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ce16f4e
Streisand Effect / int_d060201d	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_d060201d	comment	Afroman used security footage of a police raid on his home in the music videos for "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?", "Lemon Pound Cake", and "Why You Disconnecting My Security Camera?". The officers involved in the raids then tried to sue Afroman, as they did not consent to having their persons in his videos, which caused these songs to go viral.
Streisand Effect / int_d060201d	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_d060201d	featureConfidence	1.0
Afroman (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_d060201d
Streisand Effect / int_d14c8c60	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_d14c8c60	comment	Ghostbusters (2016): An interesting case coming from a part of the audience, according to Rob Walker's opinion at least, as he thinks the backlash against the movie and the controversy it caused may have helped the movie gain free publicity. As it turned out, this trope was in full effect, but it didn't reach the desired result. They didn't count on people griping about the movie focusing on valid criticisms about the film rather than the casting choicesnote Most still mentioned the casting choices, but the overbearing threats of being labeled as sexists and racists pushed most of them to downplay said complaints in favor of legitimate criticisms. Even those who started out only hating the film for its casting choices instead looked for other things to complain about in order to make them seem less like the Strawmen the studio wanted to paint them as and more like legitimate critics, such as its Ad Libed tone, rather poor pacing, gross-out humour that didn't land, it's attempts at female empowerment being clunky and Anvilicious, and how poorly it compared to the original — they made it sound like an utterly horrible film and most people who were interested or on the fence about watching the film instead avoided it at all costs, leading to the film losing around $70 million and the studio canceling an intended sequel. Had they not pushed for the controversy, many people unaware of it would have shown up to watch the film. Before release, the first trailer for the film was the most disliked trailer on YouTube. Hoping to avoid a similar outcome, Sony decided not to release the second trailer on YouTube, opting for using Facebook instead. Cue the people uploading the trailer to YouTube on their own, followed by a stream of dislikes every time.
Streisand Effect / int_d14c8c60	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_d14c8c60	featureConfidence	1.0
Ghostbusters (2016)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_d14c8c60
Streisand Effect / int_d22a523	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_d22a523	comment	In February 2019, PETA, already infamous in their own rights for their numerous actions in the past, decided to publicly bash the memories of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin after Google posted a Google Doodle to commemorate his birthday, effectively blaming him for his own death and telling people to bury his memory. The internet exploded on them for this and caused a resurgence in Irwin's popularity that hadn't been seen since shortly after he passed away, while bringing the Irwin family back into the public eye with the show that his wife and children were recording and airing.
Streisand Effect / int_d22a523	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_d22a523	featureConfidence	1.0
Crocodile Hunter	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_d22a523
Streisand Effect / int_d494343b	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_d494343b	comment	Numerous movements against Iron Maiden were organised by the religious right in America to try and ban The Number of the Beast, with albums being destroyed and calls for a boycott. The band was also banned in Chile for allegedly being Satanic. Bruce credits these in hindsight for just giving the band free publicity, and indeed the band got a very warm welcome when they finally played in Chile.
Streisand Effect / int_d494343b	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_d494343b	featureConfidence	1.0
Iron Maiden (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_d494343b
Streisand Effect / int_d7765410	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_d7765410	comment	A minor example from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the author of the worst poetry in the universe is named in the original radio show as "Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, Essex" â€” a former schoolmate of Douglas Adams, who wrote deliberately terrible poetry and who respectfully asked that his name and location be removed from the book adaptations. Thus people now ask why the name changed from Paul to a 'Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings' in Sussex in subsequent versions and discover the story of where Adams got the idea from.
Streisand Effect / int_d7765410	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_d7765410	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_d7765410
Streisand Effect / int_d982aaf6	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_d982aaf6	comment	A Certain Sacrifice owes its release to this trope. The film was either a student arthouse film or a serious dramatic project that was filmed in fits and starts, eventually finished shooting due to running out of money, and never would have been released theatrically... were it not for the fact that its lead actress went on to become the biggest popstar in the world. Madonna was forewarned about the project, as the director, Stephen Jon Lewicki (having been convinced by a friend to finish editing and mixing the film), showed her a cut of the film a year before its release, leading her to storm out in response. When he attempted to theatrically release the film, Madonna's lawyers attempted to issue an injunction against its distribution — which had the intended effect of getting the project plastered on every entertainment trade and most major newspapers throughout the country for being "too racy for mainstream distribution". The lawsuit eventually fell through when Madonna's lawyers were unable to contest the contract she originally signed for the film, and Lewicki used the controversy to release the film and host a premiere in New York. The film would eventually go on to sell more than 50,000 copies in its first month.
Streisand Effect / int_d982aaf6	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_d982aaf6	featureConfidence	1.0
A Certain Sacrifice	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_d982aaf6
Streisand Effect / int_d9c602eb	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Many years earlier, Barbra Streisand herself publicly criticized her depiction as a kaiju in the Season 1 episode "Mecha-Streisand". This complaint helped South Park get the mainstream's attention, and in appreciation of her efforts to make South Park a more popular show, Streisand would subsequently appear, without her permission, in later episodes depicted in a harshly negative light, like "Spookyfish" (where images of Streisand lined the corners of the screen and is referred to as "Spookyvision") and The Movie (where her very name is the coup de grace of a swear string weaponized against Saddam Hussein by Cartman during the climax). And, like the above, Mecha-Streisand would be a central part of the "200" and "201" two-parter as the most physically powerful celebrity South Park has mocked, as well as one of the first. In a 2011 interview with The New York Times Magazine, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the co-creators of South Park, were asked if they ever found out whether or not Tom Cruise was responsible for pressuring Viacom into not rebroadcasting the episode "Trapped in the Closet" despite his denial. This was Stone's response:
Streisand Effect / int_d9c602eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_d9c602eb	featureConfidence	1.0
South Park	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_d9c602eb
Streisand Effect / int_dd3b837b	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_dd3b837b	comment	Lady Chatterley's Lover depicts an upper-class woman having an affair with a lower-class gardener, and also features crude language that was shocking for 1928. The novel had to be privately published and was banned for over thirty years in several countries, but really made headlines when it became the centre of a UK obscenity trial in 1960 when Penguin Books made a then-new edition. Not only did Penguin Books win, but the media attention the novel received lead to it getting sold out to curious readers who wondered what the hullabaloo was about, though its author D. H. Lawrence had died in 1930. While most literary critics cite Sons and Lovers as Lawrence's best novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover is still likely his most well-known work to the general public.
Streisand Effect / int_dd3b837b	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_dd3b837b	featureConfidence	1.0
Lady Chatterley's Lover	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_dd3b837b
Streisand Effect / int_de8f6b17	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_de8f6b17	comment	Critics have frequently noted that in Godzilla (1998), it is constantly raining in New York City in order to cover up the CGI model for Godzilla. The rain simply made it more obvious that the filmmakers were trying to hide the conspicuous CGI.
Streisand Effect / int_de8f6b17	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_de8f6b17	featureConfidence	1.0
Godzilla (1998)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_de8f6b17
Streisand Effect / int_dfb24eb9	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_dfb24eb9	comment	Their legal run-in with American Greetings over a Strawberry Shortcake parody image resulted in the image being spread across the Internet on such a wide basis that it's very easy to find the image nowadays, even though it's no longer on the Penny Arcade site. To this day, Archive Bingers are taking note of AG's overly-protective legal department. Given the near-universal demographic and high fungibility of the greeting card industry, it's safe to say that they're still losing the occasional sale to it.
Streisand Effect / int_dfb24eb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_dfb24eb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Strawberry Shortcake	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_dfb24eb9
Streisand Effect / int_e536c672	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_e536c672	comment	"Perform This Way", Yankovic's parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way", looked to be a case of this at first — he wasn't given permission to publish it, so he put it up on YouTube instead and it became an immediate sensation. It became such a sensation, in fact, that it eventually came to the notice of Lady Gaga herself, who hadn't actually been consulted on the original decision. She thought it was hilarious and gave Yankovic the go-ahead.
Streisand Effect / int_e536c672	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_e536c672	featureConfidence	1.0
Alpocalypse (Music)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_e536c672
Streisand Effect / int_ea9e0181	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ea9e0181	comment	Expelled, a documentary in support of Intelligent Design, landed interviews with atheist biologists PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins using false pretenses and used Quote Mining and Manipulative Editing to sabotage their statements. Myers tried to attend a screening of the film, but the filmmakers recognized Myers and would not allow him into the theater, apparently afraid that he would discover their tactics and expose them. All this did was make it clear that the filmmakers knew exactly how shady their tactics had been when Myers and Dawkins (who managed to get into the screening) blogged about the film.
Streisand Effect / int_ea9e0181	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ea9e0181	featureConfidence	1.0
Expelled	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ea9e0181
Streisand Effect / int_eb0aba59	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_eb0aba59	comment	After it was personally banned by one of its personalities (who interrupted a chart rundown to point out its Double Entendre-laden lyrics), "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood was banned by the BBC. Two weeks later, it was the number-one song in the UK.
Streisand Effect / int_eb0aba59	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_eb0aba59	featureConfidence	1.0
Double Entendre	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_eb0aba59
Streisand Effect / int_ebb9fb1a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ebb9fb1a	comment	Sky Williams offers a defied example. One of the playlists on Sky's channel is titled "BDSM Project." All of the videos in the playlist have been deleted, but Sky explained in another video that he kept the playlist on his channel because someone had already seen it and it would look worse to try to hide the playlist. Moreover, YouTube deleted the videos "for violating YouTube's policy on spam, deceptive practices, and scams." Because Sky left the playlist up, and because he explains it later, the playlist isn't all that noteworthy — thus defying the Streisand Effect.
Streisand Effect / int_ebb9fb1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ebb9fb1a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sky Williams (Web Video)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ebb9fb1a
Streisand Effect / int_ed422854	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_ed422854	comment	No Man's Sky suffered a massive bout of this. After months of publicity, interviews, and appearances by Hello Games founder Sean Murray talking about what players could expect from the game, a Reddit user was able to purchase an early copy of the game from eBay and posted his findings on the site. The ensuing topic caused a meltdown on Reddit and many other enthusiast forums due to claims that a number of features talked up pre-release were either crippled or non-existent, along with a No Ending that's followed by the chance to start a new galaxy. Many fans were upset over this, but Murray and other Hello Games reps stated that they should ignore the findings and that it wasn't the real deal.note Despite video footage claiming otherwise. Even more so, Sony ended up forcing YouTube to take down a video from Rooster Teeth's "The Know" news channel talking about the findings, which two of the many hosts called out the company for, when they found out how they did it. The resulting backlash from this duplicity caused scores of YouTubers to release rant videos criticizing the game and its developer in response. It got so bad that Steam reportedly took the near-unprecedented step of allowing its users to refund the game, regardless of playtime.note Batman: Arkham Knight was previously pulled off the service for being an unprecedented Porting Disaster. Sony also followed suit soon afterwards, and it is estimated that the PC version of the game lost 90% of its player base in only two weeks, and Steam at one point had only a 12% rating for the game. It appeared that the backlash eclipsed the game itself at the time. Patches and updates have subsequently increased this score, and by the end of 2017, however, the reviews of it on Steam were "Mostly Positive".
Streisand Effect / int_ed422854	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_ed422854	featureConfidence	1.0
No Man's Sky (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_ed422854
Streisand Effect / int_eded135a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_eded135a	comment	Eurogamer writer Robert Florence posted an article about how video game journalists seem to be indistinguishable from public relations, which included some tweets from Lauren Wainwright regarding her suspicious enthusiasm towards Tomb Raider (2013) and her defending a journalist's right to win a free PlayStation 3 by advertising on Twitter. Instead of writing a rebuttal or simply ignoring the article, Wainwright threatened legal action for libel against Eurogamer, causing Eurogamer to remove the tweets from Florence's article, and Florence to resign soon afterwards. The story spread like wildfire, and it also dug out more suspicious information, such as Wainwright's freelance employment with Square Enix, the publisher of Tomb Raider. Wainwright tried to do damage control by insisting that no legal threats were made and even removed Square Enix from her resume, but screencaps of her unaltered resume and Florence's original article are mirrored everywhere.
Streisand Effect / int_eded135a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_eded135a	featureConfidence	1.0
Tomb Raider (2013) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_eded135a
Streisand Effect / int_f5cf3f9a	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_f5cf3f9a	comment	In June 2020, in response to the racial protests that occurred following the death of George Floyd, Gone with the Wind was temporarily removed from HBO Max after filmmaker John Ridley made a tweet about the film being racist (a case of Fair for Its Day) in an attempt to be sensitive during the civil unrest and to show support for the protests. Once this was discovered, it ended up jumping up in home video sales on other websites like Amazon out of fear that the film was being permanently taken out of circulation, itself a misunderstanding of the original intent. note HBO Max said from the outset that they would add the film back later with a Content Warning, and true to their word, they did just that.
Streisand Effect / int_f5cf3f9a	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_f5cf3f9a	featureConfidence	1.0
Gone with the Wind	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_f5cf3f9a
Streisand Effect / int_f67012a7	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_f67012a7	comment	IMDb was sued for $1,000,000 by an actress named Junie Hoang for publishing her date of birth. She alleged that the site facilitated age discrimination but lost the case. So now the whole world knows she was born on July 16, 1971.
Streisand Effect / int_f67012a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_f67012a7	featureConfidence	1.0
IMDb (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_f67012a7
Streisand Effect / int_f99b4497	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_f99b4497	comment	The Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod: VS Sky, was deleted off of GameBanana due to not only people harassing the mod's creator (bbpanzu) over what bfswifeforever (the person who inspired the mod) was doing after it got popular, but also because people were harassing the account owner and some were also making Rule 34 fan art of Sky. Some were doing it out of spite and sent it to her, while others were just doing it because of Rule 34's sake. This deletion and bbpanzu trying everything in his power to try and keep the knowledge of its existence on the down-low ended up doing exact opposite of what he wanted. With countless mirror sites, recursive game mods and several YouTubers deliberately keeping the mod alive, due to both love for it and refusal to accept bbpanzu's reasoning for deleting such a popular mod. Along with the new deletion controversy, bbpanzu's actions has instead caused the harassment of bfswifeforever to get worse instead of just going away.
Streisand Effect / int_f99b4497	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_f99b4497	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday Night Funkin' (Video Game)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_f99b4497
Streisand Effect / int_fd8221d2	type	Streisand Effect
Streisand Effect / int_fd8221d2	comment	Wikileaks. The U.S. government felt huge concern when Wikileaks stated that it would leak something very big. Much to their fear, they leaked 250,000 cables, pissing them off enough that the Pentagon was reported to have been looking for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's location. More people have heard about it. And for a time, Google suggested it when you typed the very first letter of its name, suggesting it above even The Other Wiki. Assange himself fell afoul of the Streisand Effect when he tried to prevent the release of his autobiography out of fears that some of the passages might harm his efforts to avoid extradition to Sweden. Naturally, his efforts to stop people from reading the autobiography made more people aware of its existence.
Streisand Effect / int_fd8221d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Streisand Effect / int_fd8221d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Wikipedia (Website)	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_fd8221d2

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	Artistic License â€“ Law
Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	Index Backfire
Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	Index Failure
Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	Laws and Formulas
Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	Self-Demonstrating Article
Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	The Courtroom Index
Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	The Newest Ones in the Book
Streisand Effect	processingCategory2	Trivia
SheZow	seeAlso	Streisand Effect
Sakura Quest / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Batman Eternal (Comic Book) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Leave for Mendeleiev (Fanfic) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Conversations with a Cryptid (Fanfic) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Past Sins MST (Fanfic) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Chef (2014) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
No / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
The Titfield Thunderbolt / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Untraceable / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Abandoned by Disney / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Dungeon Crawler Carl Book One / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Frindle / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Frog and Toad / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Galley Slave / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Look to the West / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Now Blooms the Tudor Rose / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Star Trek: Federation / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
The Silkworm / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Worm / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
SuperSecretSpoiler	seeAlso	Streisand Effect
TwoLiveCrew	seeAlso	Streisand Effect
Underbelly	seeAlso	Streisand Effect
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Manga) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Sabagebu! (Manga) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Queen (Band) (Music) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Conan / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Evil (2019) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Father Ted / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Fawlty Towers / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
How I Met Your Mother / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Late Night with Conan O'Brien / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Magnificent Century / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Pam & Tommy / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Sherlock Holmes / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
The Chair (2014) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
The Good Fight / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
The Peter Serafinowicz Show / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Underbelly	seeAlso	Streisand Effect
Internet Historian (Web Video) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Jimquisition (Web Video) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Markiplier (Web Video) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Some Jerk with a Camera (Web Video) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
The Cynical Brit (Web Video) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Basic Instructions (Webcomic) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Nerf NOW!! (Webcomic) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Reaction & Review / Webvideo / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Pantheon / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
All Elite Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
streisandeffect	sameAs	Streisand Effect

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.