The highly anticipated video of LeBron James getting dunked on leaked Wednesday, despite Nike and LeBron’s attempts to keep it under wraps. In other weekly pop culture news, the Erin Andrews “peeping tom” video also leaked, gaining major exposure thanks to ESPN’s legal team. In both cases, the corporate push for surpression had the opposite effect, giving the videos the extra publicity they needed to go fully viral. This unintended effect happens so often on the Internet that it has an official name:
The Streisand Effect refers to “an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires… [and] instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks (Wikipedia).”
See you learn a new term everyday. Hit the jump for the Complex’s history of the Streisand Effect, when censorship failed, and everyone got a look, listen, and feel of the supposedly “banned” content…
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Katie Holmes can be wifed, as long as Xenu is present to watch over the ceremony.
High Priestess of the Church of Scientology Katie Holmes is shedding pounds, and sadly they’re not the 115 pounds that are her tiny lunatic husband, Tom Cruise. Holmes has appeared gaunt recently, as noted by the highly respected physician gossipmongers at Fox News here. The exact cause of her dramatic weight loss is not known. Is she crying out for help, having realized she’s trapped in a cult and married to a cult leader? Is she attempting to flush evil thetans out of her bodily temple? Is she getting set to star in The Machinist II: The Regurgitation?
Holmes is one half of the craziest couple in Hollywood but that doesn’t necessarily mean her coconut is cracked. Perhaps Cruise is just so crazy he makes her look 7:30 too? Maybe there’s still a workable wifey underneath all the insanity? Read the arguments as Complex puts Holmes to the wifey/trifey test and vote to decide if she’s a lost cause or a prize find…
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Ayo! Scott laughed so hard at Ben Stiller’s new comedy Tropic Thunder that it could well have been a retarded person. That’s no knock on retards or the champions of retardation who’ve been protesting the film’s apparently excessive usage of the word “retard.” Ayo’s just saying: Retards are funny. They were funny in the Stiller classic There’s Something About Mary and they’re funny in this movie'y’know, in what limited capacity they flex their limited capacities…
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It’s only a matter of time until we hear a rap song called “I’m On That Tom Cruise.” Apparently the actor is pissed off about a strain of weed stocked in California’s legal cannabis clubs called “Tom Cruise Purple.” His lawyers are considering taking action because the medicine is sold with a label that shows a picture of Cruise’s crazy ass laughing hysterically. According to one “enthusiast,” “I heard it’s the kind of pot that makes you hallucinate.”
If they end up having to change the name, we would like to suggest “Scientology Sticky.” We hear the shit is so good you’ll feel like you’re talking to Xenu!
[Rush & Malloy]
