• ItsAFake@lemmus.org
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    2 年前

    Nah keep it Streisand effect, as that’s where the term originated, if we changed phrases every single time a company did this, we’d be changing it every hour.

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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      2 年前

      True, but nobody born after 9/11 knows who the fuck Barbra Streisand even is, so they definitely don’t know the story.

      • fishos@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        Which adds to the point: even though no one knows who she is anymore or about her giant beachfront mansion she tried to have removed from the Internet, her name lives on in infamy

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          2 年前

          Damn. Nevermind, you just appealed to my petty side. I can clearly see now that I was wrong haha.

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            2 年前

            Historians will look back one day and be like “this woman was so renowned for her terribleness, we can trace the entymology of this modern word back to her name”.