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Re: Can you say The Streisand Effect?

mathewi — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:51:02 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Travis. You do good work, regardless of what radiotube thinks :-)

Re: Can you say The Streisand Effect?

travis pitts — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:06:44 -0000

ha ha ha! man this episode really made the rounds. i'm the bored illustrator who never got over his own turbulent science fair days, and came up with all the ones in question. they're all still there on my flickr except for the bowl cut kid (moniker- radiotube(sic)). and although he seemed to have blown it all out of proportion, i admit i don't know how i would have handled it if it were my 30 year old pic manipulated to make me look like someone who has sexual intercourse with a pegboard either..... so i think he handled it pretty well. after some hurt feelings on both sides, i decided to do the right thing and pull his pic. if anyone else asked me to, i would do the same. after pretty much everyone on boing boing told radiotube to relax, he did, and i think the situation is resolved. i learned a lesson that just because the pic is online, it is someone real..heh heh, and he learned that putting your pic online is pretty much releasing it into the parody wild.

sadder still is that those pics are the highest clicked images out of all my artwork ever...and i did them in 10 minutes at work.

Re: Can you say The Streisand Effect?

Scott — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:25:36 -0000

That's sort of the question I have to wonder myself. It's one thing if someone grabs a hold of your picture and manipulates it without your permission, but it's another entirely if you're the one who posted it yourself. I mean, they have public service message ads that say "Think Before You Post", maybe adults should be paying more attention to them.

It's also all in your attitude. Mr. Bowl could easily have turned it around -- something like dressing in a snappy suit, with a caption like "That was 30 years ago. I've since sold 783,000 12-volt sex robots, and am the leader in the sex robot industry". Reminds me of the Star Wars kid.