• ItsAFake@lemmus.org
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

        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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          4 months ago

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

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            4 months ago

            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”.

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            4 months ago

            Fair, but they still could have heard it on the radio while their parents were driving them to hockey practice or welding seminars or whatever 9yos did back then 🤷