Streisand didn't want aerial images of her house to be available on the internet. The subsequent outrage made it so those pictures got on newspapers nationwide.
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Well, that actually doesn't seem unreasonable.
"Please stop photographing my private property."
Pictures of property go in newspapers instead
I mean......she has a point.....
Thing is, it wasn’t labeled as HER house; I don’t even think the photographer knew. They just took a picture of a large house on a beachside cliff.
Once she began making a big deal out of it though, every newspaper and website had it published. She made it worse by making it a thing. It was the original celebrity self-own of the internet era.
And it was inside a huge (10k+) batch of pictures documenting the entire California coastline. Basically nobody had even seen it at the time she, or at least her lawyer, threw a fit about it.
Victim blaming and gaslighting
??? How am I blaming her? Am I misunderstanding you?
The Streisand effect itself is victim blaming
It was about Barbara Streisand trying to keep her house(?) out of the media or something. I can't remember what it was she was trying to hide, but I am 70% certain it had something to do with a property.
Some photographer took a picture of a random cliff that looked amazing in the sunlight and that picture just happened to include her home at the time. Except no one knew that and her subsequent blow up in trying to get the photo removed led to everyone knowing that her home was in the picture, and if she hadn't made a fuss, it would have continued being a secret.
I have a pretty bad memory and I still knew what caused the name. But I was aware of it when it happened, not learning about it much later. That probably helps.
🙋 Language evolves in weird tangential ways. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra isn't too far off from reality tbh.
It was really the south park episode that did it.
I do. I've been reading Techdirt for over 25 years, so I'm sure I read the original post where the term was coined at the time it was first published.
Somebody took shots from the air of her home. She tried to get them removed from the public sphere. That caused headlines and as a result more people saw them attached to these news stories than ever would have if she hadn't made an issue out of it.
Didn't google, didn't read the other comments.