by anthony » Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:40 am
Shamelessly stealing this thread's OP from a /v/ post because the thought is wasted on that place.
DEFINITION OF STREISAND EFFECT:
>"A phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet."
I want to see if there were other Streisand Effects in video games aside from picrel. Be it a developer DMCA'ing (and unintentionally confirming) leaks or even a developer trying to shut down fan-made games/mods only for them to explode in popularity, I'm genuinely curious as to other instances of people unintentionally signal boosting a game, leaks of a certain game or even just fan content in general.
Before you ask, yes; I only chose "Elizabeth Comstock's bimbification by SFM porn animators being caused by Ken Levine" as the picrel for this thread about vidya-related Streisand Effects just to get it out of the way right out of the gate so we can actually have discussion that isn't horny. Also, that time Blizzard tried and failed to DMCA all Overwatch hentai, which is now the only thing kind of keeping it afloat in a roundabout way.
Even though Ken Levine didn't go out of his way to DMCA hentai featuring his "sister", BioShock hentai is among greatest examples of the Streisand Effect because of its impact on SFM hentai, porn animation and the Internet in general all starting with an anti-horny tweet from BioShock's creator.
Shamelessly stealing this thread's OP from a /v/ post because the thought is wasted on that place.
DEFINITION OF STREISAND EFFECT:
>"A phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet."
I want to see if there were other Streisand Effects in video games aside from picrel. Be it a developer DMCA'ing (and unintentionally confirming) leaks or even a developer trying to shut down fan-made games/mods only for them to explode in popularity, I'm genuinely curious as to other instances of people unintentionally signal boosting a game, leaks of a certain game or even just fan content in general.
Before you ask, yes; I only chose "Elizabeth Comstock's bimbification by SFM porn animators being caused by Ken Levine" as the picrel for this thread about vidya-related Streisand Effects just to get it out of the way right out of the gate so we can actually have discussion that isn't horny. Also, that time Blizzard tried and failed to DMCA all Overwatch hentai, which is now the only thing kind of keeping it afloat in a roundabout way.
Even though Ken Levine didn't go out of his way to DMCA hentai featuring his "sister", BioShock hentai is among greatest examples of the Streisand Effect because of its impact on SFM hentai, porn animation and the Internet in general all starting with an anti-horny tweet from BioShock's creator.
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