History Main / StreisandEffect

* In the spring of 2016, Creator/AmberHeard filed for divorce from Creator/JohnnyDepp and was granted a domestic violence restraining order in California, where they both resided at the time. [[note]] Heard now lives in Spain. [[/note]] Heard never had publicly accused him of anything at that point but "The Sun", a UK tabloid, referred to him as a "wife beater" which caused him to sue them for defamation. However, the lawsuit ended up blowing up in his face. Not only did it come back with a ruling that the judge believed it had been proven to the civil standard that he'd physically abused her at least twelve times and sexually assaulted her at least once (his attempt to appeal was denied), it also revealed damning information about his personal conduct while working that in all likelihood made him uninsurable for any studio work. [[note]]For starters, Disney believed he had lied both to them and their insurers when his contract was renewed for ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' about being sober. While filming in Australia, he was doing drugs heavily and was often late to set. His staff admitted during the trial that they had been procuring illegal drugs for him. During one particularly brutal incident against Heard, he took roughly eight MDMA pills and severed the tip of his finger during the rampage. After this he had to be flown back home to the US to see a specialist which caused production to halt for two weeks and cost Disney tons of money. After this, they decided to part ways with him for good. [[/note]] The judgement came down while he was filming ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' and he was fired within days and replaced by Creator/MadsMikkelsen. Being let go from that series (which allegedly had been a long time coming) [[note]] There are reports that Creator/WarnerBrothers had done its own investigation into the Depp/Heard matter that came to roughly the same conclusion as the court case and had decided to fire him based on that but were just waiting on a legally binding ruling to pull the trigger. [[https://www.mugglenet.com/2020/11/exclusive-crew-members-inside-production-confirm-that-mads-mikkelsen-is-replacing-johnny-depp-as-grindelwald/ Mugglenet talked]] to people within the production who claimed that talks of his leaving had been going on for quite some time.[[/note]] almost certainly marked his last time working on a studio film. Depp's decision to sue for defamation instead of letting the story go is often considered to be the modern version of Creator/OscarWilde's ill-fated defamation case against his boyfriend's dad that ended with him being convicted on sodomy charges.

* [[Recap/EurovisionSongContest2024 2024 edition of]] Series/EurovisionSongContest was surrounded by controversies regarding heavily disputed participation of Israel in light of occurring [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict War in Gaza]] with multiple protests against Israel involvement in the contest. While Eden Golan, representative of Israel, was booed at and received dead threats over her appearance in Malmö people of EBU zone has clearly picked her side and so [[CriticalDissonance after getting weak 52 points from juries, Israel received 323 points from televotes]] (second just after Croatia an almost hundred points more than victorious Switzerland) and moving from 12th to 5th position.

* ''Series/FawltyTowers'' and its main character Basil Fawlty was based on Donald Sinclair[[note]]Do NOT confuse with the Donald Sinclair who was the basis for the Creator/JamesHerriot character Siegfried Farnon. The veterinary Donald Sinclair was, albeit eccentric, by all accounts a very nice person, unlike the hotel operator of the same name.[[/note]], an eccentric and irascible Torquay hotelier whom Creator/JohnCleese had observed during a stay in his hotel during a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' shoot. Years after the success of the show, Sinclair's widow contacted the newspapers to complain about the depiction of the character based on her husband, claiming that Cleese had unfairly exaggerated Sinclair's eccentricity, incompetence, and foul temper. Far from salvaging her husband's reputation, all it did was provoke a lot of independent witnesses to ''also'' contact the papers with a lot of anecdotes about Sinclair. All of these accounts suggested that Cleese was not too far off the mark; if anything, Cleese had actually downplayed how irritable Sinclair was. His widow kept silent after that.
** Also, Cleese reluctantly conceded that some aspects of the humour in [=FT=] that were acceptable in TheSeventies do not fly with modern sensibilities, and that for re-runs on TV some jokes with a racial or ethnic component had to be censored out for rebroadcast. To a certain British mindset faced with what it sees as politically correct censorship, this is a red rag to a bull, and the hive mind of the Internet, in a bloody-minded British sort of a way, is seeing to it that the original uncensored episodes remain out there[[note]]With, for instance, the Major's opinions on Indians and West Indians left untouched[[/note]] forever.

* Creator/{{ABC}} faced heavy pressure from right-wing organizations and advertisers over airing "The Puppy Episode" of ''Series/{{Ellen}}'', which Creator/EllenDeGeneres used to publicly come out, and said organizations ordered boycotts of the episode. This only helped the episode become the show's highest-rated and most-awarded, and it helped pave the way for greater gay representation in popular media. Though this ended up backfiring as the show went on, with even Chaz Bono criticizing the show for now going too heavily into {{Anvilicious}} material

* Sweet Baby Inc., a narrative consulting firm for video game developers, ran afoul of this in early 2024 when a curator group on Platform/{{Steam}} was created called "Sweet Baby Inc. Detected", which provided a list of every game they were involved with available on Steam so gamers could avoid them (with every game listed given a "Not Recommended" rating), due to the belief that their goal of promoting inclusivity and representation is being done at the expense of a game's overall quality. Chris Kindred, a Sweet Baby Inc. employee, tried to rally their followers on Twitter to not only report the group and get it removed, but to also report the user who created it to get them banned as well, actions that would result in Kindred's Twitter account [[https://thatparkplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Chris-Kindred.png being put on read-only for a week for TOS violations]]. Because Kindred's attempt to get rid of this group was interpreted as censorship and a corporate harassment campaign against criticism, news of the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator spread like wildfire with countless videos being made about it, as well as comics, memes, a Website/KnowYourMeme entry, the works. The curator group went from [[https://archive.is/YAL0m only a few hundred followers on February 26th]], to [[https://archive.ph/8E5So over 250k followers in just a couple weeks.]]

* Sweet Baby Inc., a narrative consulting firm for video game developers, ran afoul of this in early 2024 when a curator group on Platform/{{Steam}} was created called "Sweet Baby Inc. Detected", which provided a list of every game they were involved with available on Steam so gamers could avoid them (with every game listed given a "Not Recommended" rating), due to the belief that their goal of promoting inclusivity and representation is being done at the expense of a game's overall quality. Chris Kindred, a Sweet Baby Inc. employee, tried to rally their followers on Twitter to not only report the group and get it removed, but to also report the user who created it to get them banned as well. Because Kindred's attempt to get rid of this group was interpreted as censorship and a corporate harassment campaign against criticism, news of the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator spread like wildfire with countless videos being made about it, as well as comics, memes, a Website/KnowYourMeme entry, the works. The curator group went from [[https://archive.is/YAL0m only a few hundred followers on February 26th]], to [[https://archive.ph/8E5So over 250k followers in just a couple weeks.]]

** Nijisanji English liver Pomu Rainpuff graduated from the company in January 2024. This wouldn't on its own be particularly notable despite Pomu's popularity, except that in the run-up to her departure she unprivated several members-only streams, including one where she broke down in tears recalling a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity she'd been offered that had been denied by Nijisanji management with no possibility of negotiation, responding to chat's attempt at comforting her by saying "more opportunities will come" with a sad, "Not here." Shortly after, Nijisanji management proceeded to once again private the aforementioned members-only stream (and '''only''' that particular stream). This resulted in the story spreading wider than it otherwise would have, as the clumsy attempt at suppressing the story simply made people suspect the story was '''true''' and did more damage to Nijisanji's reputation than would have been done had the stream been left up, or if ''all'' the members-only streams had been privated rather than just that one particular stream.
** After Selen Tatsuki had the cover of "A Last Cup Of Coffee" that she'd been working on for months meant for release on Christmas Day 2023 taken down by Nijisanji management (allegedly for not getting the proper permissions for posting it), she went missing for over a month with no contact. The lack of news and the fact she neither showed for Pomu's graduation nor sent a video message wishing her well despite their closeness caused both online and IRL acquaintances to become alarmed enough to get the hashtag "Where's Selen" trending on Twitter. Her contract was later terminated, not long after it came out she'd been hospitalised [[note]] As her old identity of WebVideo/{{Dokibird}}, she would reveal that she'd been DrivenToSuicide as the affair with "A Last Cup Of Coffee" had just been the latest in a long line of projects she'd been trying to do that was undercut by Nijisanji management itself[[/note]]. In response to fan outcry, ANYCOLOR (the company behind Nijisanji) posted a press release that assured investors that the effects of Selen's termination would be "negligible". This set off a cascading series of PR blunders that led to the story not just spreading to people outside the [=VTuber=] community (for example, a number of legal and PR experts chimed in on just how incompetent Nijisanji's response to the whole affair was) but also Nijisanji's Japanese fanbase (which was normally completely isolated from the English-speaking fanbase). [[note]] So severe was the backlash that the term [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Selen Shock]] came about, and fans from other countries (especially Indonesia, where fans were still bitter towards Nijisanji for shuttering the well-loved Nijisanji Indonesia branch and caused many of the livers to graduate in disillusionment) renewed their anger towards the agency. As a result, Nijisanji developed a reputation as a UsefulNotes/BlackCompany and even commenters on places like Yahoo Finance Japan observed that this black eye would cripple any further attempt at overseas expansion. [[/note]]
** On a related note, in February 2023 ANYCOLOR filed over 10 DMCA copyright takedown notices on a number of Youtube channels that specialised in [=VTuber=]-related content (generally things like official announcements but also lesser known details like financial filings or behind-the-scenes issues). Most damningly, the takedown notices were only filed on videos that included stories that depicted Nijisanji in a negative light, making it an obvious attempt by a corporation to silence critics. As a result, those same channels (and those supporting them) focused even more on Nijisanji and ANYCOLOR, and so when the Pomu and Selen controversies erupted they were more than ready to spread the word.

* In the spring of 2016, Creator/AmberHeard filed from divorce from Creator/JohnnyDepp and was granted a domestic violence restraining order in California, where they both resided at the time. [[note]] Heard now lives in Spain. [[/note]] Heard never had publicly accused him of anything at that point but "The Sun", a UK tabloid, referred to him as a "wife beater" which caused him to sue them for defamation. However, the lawsuit ended up blowing up in his face. Not only did it come back with a ruling that the judge believed it had been proven to the civil standard that he'd physically abused her at least twelve times and sexually assaulted her at least once (his attempt to appeal was denied), it also revealed damning information about his personal conduct while working that in all likelihood made him uninsurable for any studio work. [[note]]For starters, Disney believed he had lied both to them and their insurers when his contract was renewed for ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' about being sober. While filming in Australia, he was doing drugs heavily and was often late to set. His staff admitted during the trial that they had been procuring illegal drugs for him. During one particularly brutal incident against Heard, he took roughly eight MDMA pills and severed the tip of his finger during the rampage. After this he had to be flown back home to the US to see a specialist which caused production to halt for two weeks and cost Disney tons of money. After this, they decided to part ways with him for good. [[/note]] The judgement came down while he was filming ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' and he was fired within days and replaced by Creator/MadsMikkelsen. Being let go from that series (which allegedly had been a long time coming) [[note]] There are reports that Creator/WarnerBrothers had done its own investigation into the Depp/Heard matter that came to roughly the same conclusion as the court case and had decided to fire him based on that but were just waiting on a legally binding ruling to pull the trigger. [[https://www.mugglenet.com/2020/11/exclusive-crew-members-inside-production-confirm-that-mads-mikkelsen-is-replacing-johnny-depp-as-grindelwald/ Mugglenet talked]] to people within the production who claimed that talks of his leaving had been going on for quite some time.[[/note]] almost certainly marked his last time working on a studio film. Depp's decision to sue for defamation instead of letting the story go is often considered to be the modern version of Creator/OscarWilde's ill-fated defamation case against his boyfriend's dad that ended with him being convicted on sodomy charges.

** When the ''Eye'' loses a libel action ands is forced to retract an allegation, it will invariably run the retraction in a highly visible location in the magazine, point out it is happy to stress there is no truth ''whatsoever'' in the content it wrongly published, and then go into great detail concerning what exactly they said that was proven indefensible in a court of libel, just so nobody reading it is in any doubt whatsoever. The Eye will also adamntly deny it seeks to find creative ways to get around superinjunctions, using cleverly ambiguous and cryptic hints and clues. Such associations are in the mind of the reader...