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Beyonce requesting that this image be removed from the internet.

Joel Michael Singer, an entitled rich asshole, was filmed belligerently headbutting a restaurant staff member, and then filled a bunch of DMCA demands to remove the video where it was posted, resulting only in it getting posted more and more.

Here's an article about it: https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/joel-michael-singer/

The video itself, with sound, can still be seen on The Bad Place whose name we don't mention.

Folks around here probably know about The Air Traffic site, but a couple of my friends who are 'Swifties' didn't know about it until Taylor Swift decided to go the Musk route and sue the guy.

This one is a future Streisand Effect hopefully.

The criminals in New South Wales that had this YouTube journalist’s house firebombed:

https://youtu.be/PF1-1CNggQA

https://youtu.be/E46DmpLq4XI

Pimmelgate

Hamburg Senator Andy Grote sent the police after being called 1Pimmel on Twitter. This lead to the fact that he will be known by this Name for the rest of his life

Wikipedia article translated for you:

In September 2021, Grote again got into public discussion. After he accused "ignorance" and a "stupid action" on the online platform Twitter in May 2021, celebrating masses in the Schanzenviertel who had violated corona distance rules,[17] another user commented on this with the tweet "You are so 1 dick". 18][19]

Due to a criminal complaint filed by Grote, an investigation was initiated for insult. This in turn led to the Hamburg police at the alleged author of the tweet in the St. Pauli district on the 8th. September 2021 carried out a house search. The photo of the search order was published by the person concerned on Twitter. 20][19] In public, the proportionality of these police measures was also questioned because of Grote's own violations of corona rules and his refusal to admit them publicly despite the fine notice, especially since the accused had already admitted to operate the Twitter account in question in a police subpoena and, according to his own statement, he had been promised to stop the proceedings for insignificance.[ 19] The entire incident became known as "Pimmelgate." 18][21][22][23] The media echo was remarkably large, the New York Times and the Washington Post also reported on it.[ 24][25][26]

As a result, allusions to the tweet developed to a viral trend on the net (Streisand effect) as well as to stickers and graffiti in Hamburg, which were removed or painted over several times by the police. The use of numerous police forces for these measures was criticized. 27]

The Hamburg CDU accused Grote of unsovere handling of the matter and called on him to resign as interior senator in order to avert further damage from the police and the office. 28]

In March 2022, the investigation was closed for lack of public interest in law enforcement. 29] In August 2022, the District Court of Hamburg also ruled that the house search was illegal and inappropriate.[ 30] However, there was neither a compensation payment by the state apparatus nor an apology from Andy Grote himself.[ 31]

Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop

The initial wave of attention probably would have happened anyway, but when it was later revealed that the school had paid a bunch of money in an attempt to get the images removed from the Internet that just brought a second wave of attention to the incident.

Timely. A petty occurrence happens to have just taken place on the Discord server for Helldivers 2.

The game has been struggling with player capacity in the face of unexpected popularity, leading to many server issues and player inability to play the game. Due to modern shitty info siloing, Discord is the place to be for the best updates, so players flock there for news.

On Tuesday, Steam had server issues that affected things just like the normal games issues, so players poured in to the server to see what was up. When people realized it was steam and not the game, a handful (let’s say 100 to be overly generous) users started spamming F in the chat for Steam servers.

The Streisand incident: a discord mod then proceeds to ping mention everyone, all 170,000 users, to stop spamming F or get a timeout and a ban.

What netizen in their right mind sees that going any other way but exponentially increasing the F spam? Internet going to internet. Especially when they can’t play damn games.

So this lead to a total server lockdown, even for innocents just trying to play and talk about the game. All because some, presumably young and objectively inexperienced mod decided to pour gasoline on a campfire.

I know this against my will and now you do too.

The Emperor telling Luke that he has fallen to the dark side and should finish off Vader. If only he had kept his mouth shut.

Bill Ackman, a billionaire who took active part in ousting Harward president Claudine Gay for plagiarism and then lost his shit when it transpired shortly afterwards that his wife plagiarized her dissertation.

I think Mr. "20 minutes of action" belongs here.

Just recently a vtuber company called nijisanji tried doing a character assassination of a beloved talent named Selena Tatsuki that was fired after trying to kill herself; a talent still there also said that people shouldn't bother trying to find out the culprits.

So now people are digging all kinds of stuff on them trying to figure out who bullied her.

Mike Lindell (my pillow), why ruin your business with politics?

This guy decided to sacrifice his business to jump on the trump train and completely wrecked his business, oh and also a vaccine denier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lindell