Beyoncé v. The Internet

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

_{If you liked it then you should've made a meme of it.}

On Feb. 4, Buzzfeed published an article called "The 33 Fiercest Moments From Beyoncé's Halftime Show" with pictures and animated GIFs of her singing and dancing. Some of these were deemed inappropriate and, indeed, "unflattering" by Beyoncé's publicist who sent Buzzfeed an email requesting specific "unflattering" images be taken down. (The publicist had already gotten to Getty Images.) It was at this point that the Streisand Effect--defined as a phenomena whereby an attempt to conceal an image or information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing it--kicked in. Folks on the Internet began Photoshopping like mad, and with some (in my opinion) pretty funny results:















Just to reiterate, don't mess with the Internet. Srsly.

[Søren]

If i was her,  I would have just laughed. The streisand effect is easy to manipulate that way

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

If i was her,  I would have just laughed. The streisand effect is easy to manipulate that way

And get a new publicist

[Art Vandelay]

That publicist really doesn't understand the internet, if he thought that was a good idea.

[davedan]

Those are hilarious. Although truth be told I would still kill all of you and 50% 99% of the people I know in real life to spend one night with Beyonce and her arse.

[ironbite]

Yeah trying to tell the internet to stop is just...not a good idea.

Ironbite-it will coalesce into a solid mass, steam roll you, then go back to being the blob of....goo that it is.

[Dakota Bob]

Streisand tried to defeat us, but it only made us stronger. This is a war you cannot win Beyonce.