Tuesday 28 July 2020

Yes, Mr. President, the Streisand Effect really is still a thing...

Since poetic justice is the only kind that Trump will face for at least another hundred days, I intend to enjoy every minute of this, as reported by Business Insider:
#ThePresidentIsACrybaby and #TrumpleThinSkin became top Twitter trends after Trump complained about mean Twitter trends
TrumpleThinSkin... I love it.
The hashtags #TrumpleThinSkin and #ThePresidentIsACrybaby appeared on the site after the president tweeted that negative trends about him were "really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!"
The full tweet [...] said: "So disgusting to watch Twitter's so-called 'Trending', where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one. They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend. Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!"
Since this tweet, the hashtag #TrumpleThinSkin has been used 121,000 times and #ThePresidentIsACrybaby 40,300 times, according to Twitter's trending list about 12 hours later. 
Both terms appeared in the top 10 US topics.
This is a perfect example of the Streisand Effect in action, with Trump's complaints about the negative nature of Trump-related trending topics having the effect of making this perceived problem much, much worse, almost immediately.

For the record, Mr. President, the reason that your trending topics were all bad is that you've been doing a terrible job, and are a horrible human being in the bargain. Complaining about the fact that people have finally figured this out is not going to reverse the trends, or help your plummeting poll numbers. Just saying.

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