The Barbara Streisand-effect
"Detailed image of Barbra Streisand's Malibu house which she attempted to suppress The Streisand effect is a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet. It is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, their motivation to access and spread it is increased."
"It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drew further public attention to it. Similar attempts have been made, for example, in cease-and-desist letters to suppress files, websites, and even numbers. Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks."
Source: Wikipedia
This effect has been seen time and time again, a good example is the header image above. Beyonce asked to have the image removed, and it became bigger than it would have ever been if it was just ignored.
The same effect can be found in children. When you tell a child not to do something, they want to do it more than ever. My son is 11 years old and doesn't swear, this is because I never made a big deal of swear words. We never swear in front of him, and try to avoid movies that have a lot of them, but when they happen we just ignore it. As he is 11 now, more and more movies and online media have swears. By ignoring them rather than making a big deal of it, he hasn't really picked up on them. I'm sure it will happen eventually but it is a good example of the reverse of the Barbara Streisand-effect. I'm sure everyone thinks their kids don't swear, at least not in front of him, but I honestly believe he is oblivious to it as we never made a big deal about it.
Anyway, the point of this post is not to teach you the Barbara Streisand-effect but to make sure you are aware of it for the real point of this post.
There was are some rumors about Disney is making a new Obi-Wan movie starring Ewan McGregor (oh ya!) and there is a subreddit r/PrequelMemes where memes of him were starting to get out of hand, so the mods banned any images of him unless there is official from Disney. Of course, this worked swimmingly well.
You can check it out yourself, but I will post a few funny ones. Many of them use blacked out images of Ewan and some use funny replacement characters or props.
36.4K upvotes, this is pretty significant even on Reddit, many front page posts don't even break 10K upvotes
Pretty damn funny if you ask me. Stupid at the same time, but that's the formula for quality entertainment.
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It's sad that people still cant figure out that high paid actresses and performers like beyonce are transsexuals. Your pic clearly shows this though.
The only correct response.
right, so much easier to just ignore reality and live in a fairy tale than to figure out the truth.
I need that gif and a screen above my head that just plays whenever i have that reaction XD
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Never knew that there was a name for this kind of behaviour and never would have imagined that it is named after Barbara Streisand.
Ah well, live and learn.
Forbidden fruit is most tempting, so even if Beyoncé bans them, they will find the way to take more juicy shots.
interesting picture and story
After watchig the picture, I believe this is Zombie Vomiting Effect, no grace at all.
jaaaaaaa que risa
Yes strange people we are ;-)
If you have a child in a room and on the table are lot of sweets and you ask the child not to eat from the sweets while you are getting lemonade........
What you think will happen? :-)
Awesome content. Well done
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That is a pretty unflattering picture of Beyoncé, it's funny because I was just reading about Tommy Robinson and made this comment:
I guess that is the Streisand effect on steroids.
This actually answers a number of questions for me. I have noticed the phenomenon in myself and family members. Especially some of my younger family members who are raised in very shielding households. They seem the most driven to find trouble. I'll have to keep this in mind.
r/prequelmemes seems to be doing wonderful work XD
LMAO!!! This pic of B is all kinds of wrong hahah. Girl is buff though damn!
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