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The Streisand Effect 

A social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet.
"The Streisand Effect is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drew further attention to it in 2003."
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Streisand Effect 

when someone decides to ban or censor something, and that attempt to make something go away, makes it even bigger than ever before, or ever planned.
dj danger mouse's gray album in which he remixed the vocals from jay-z's the black album and the beatles white album. when emi sent a cease and desist letter to danger mouse the internet community created an intense distribution campaign
Streisand Effect by bigposerhead February 7, 2005
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emil steilsson 

The cute Iceland personification from Hetalia. He has white-silver, curly hair and his eyes differ from purple to a blue. Emil wears a dark brown military jacket, a white dress shirt, brown straight-legged pants, and white half-laced boots. He also sports a pair of white gloves. He carries around with him a Puffin, a penguin-like bird, which sometimes wears a pink/red ribbon around his neck. Himaruya has reveled the puffin's name to be Mr. Puffin. Mr. Puffin may look cute, but he speaks and acts like a mafioso. Out of his four other brothers (Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden), he is the youngest. He appears to be calm and composed on the surface, but is warmer and more passionate deep down. Due to financial problems, Russia has been helping him out, although Emil can't help but act a bit suspicious. Iceland seems to be embarrassed and flustered when the other Nordics try to get him to call Norway "Big Brother". Iceland refuses most of the time, and states that he would have rather originated from a tribe of mysterious natives. People in the Hetalia fandom like to 'ship' or pair him most with 1.) Hong Kong 2.) Norway 3.) Turkey and 4.) Denmark.
"Emil Steilsson is my favorite character off of Hetalia!"

The Streisand Effect 

The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the opposite effect and instead drags attention
Urban Dictionary sucks - said on named site creates The Streisand Effect with lots of thumbs down dragging up the result
The Streisand Effect by barrust March 27, 2010
A game where people use balls that bounce off walls. The goal is to not let any of the balls go outside the red-lined area once it has bounced off the wall. If you let one by, you lose. This newly-found game has already earned the respect of many players, and is growing. You may only hit the balls with the palm of your hand, and it must be stretched back. You cannot touch the ball with any of your fingers.

The winner is determined by the number of bounces on the wall. Once the ball bounces the wall, the player must hit the ball so that it bounces off the wall again, and so on forth. There are 10 difficulties, Level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The level determines the number of balls. For example, level 4 is simultaneously bouncing 4 balls.

Tournaments are also taken place, but it is mostly player versus player. Other modes include team Strilea, Team deathmatch strilea (three or more teams), and free for all.
"I just completed level three of strilea!"
"Well I'm already on level 5."
"Cheater..."
Strilea by Striker1298 March 30, 2015
a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Scavenger

Trespasser

Adventurer

Loner

Killer

Explorer

Robber
Strelok is the main character in the game "stalker shadow of Chernobyl".
strelok by Nomad2000 February 28, 2014

Karl Streitel 

A man with this last name knows how to create fear.

Looks like agent 47, acts like agent 47.

He is mostly known to be a living meme among high school students.
We should have made Karl Streitel as the model of our t-shirts.

Karl Streitel is a living meme.
Karl Streitel by Gerrymeinster June 16, 2017