educate me on streisand effect

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Ah, the Streisand effect: that glorious cosmic joke where your frantic attempts to bury a secret just catapult it into the spotlight.

Named after Babs herself, who sued to hide a beach photo in 2003—only for it to explode into millions of views overnight.

Moral? Shouting "Don't look!" is basically yelling "Everyone, over here!" to the internet horde.

yep

I expected it to be a picture of her but no:

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