• SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    3164 months ago

    I would have never seen this picture if she hadn’t done this.

        • @[email protected]
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          184 months ago

          No, you’re thinking of Kristen Bell who is the “let it go” lady. Streisand is the one who famously lost out on Worst Actress to Kristen Stewart for her role in The Guilt Trip, in which she played the unbelievably original role of “obnoxious Jewish mother.”

          She also released at least one musical album back in the 1900s and appeared in a few movies.

          One such movie included Streisand portraying the daughter of a disappointed rabbi who also questions her father’s ability to hear her.

          • @flubba86
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            114 months ago

            Kristen Bell played Anna in Frozen, did not sing “Let it go”. That was by Elsa, played by Idina Menzel.

          • @[email protected]
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            24 months ago

            She also released at least one musical album back in the 1900s and appeared in a few movies.

            Damn, Streisand is looking good for a 182-year-old

    • @AbouBenAdhem
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      And even those who saw it would have seen it in the context of a lot of other portraits in the same style, where it doesn’t stand out as anything personally directed at Rinehart.

    • @saddlebag
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      04 months ago

      It doesn’t really matter. She’ll wield her power, get her way and then go on living her toxic existence feeling like she won even though, quantitatively, more people think she’s a cunt.

      But we can all tell ourselves this somehow makes a difference

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        154 months ago

        The picture is still up, maybe there is justice in this world.

    • @Z3k3
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      Its really wierd to me that Streisand effect became the accepted name for this.

      For example the 1st child’s play is saw In the UK was 3. Purely because it was banned

      Attempt at clarification edit

      I had no interest in yhe child’s plat movie franchises until the 3rd movie because it was banned

      • @[email protected]
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        304 months ago

        It’s a catchy name and it was among the first examples of the effect in the internet era that amplified the effect many fold. There is no reason for me to know about Streisand’s house and there is no reason for me to know about this painting. I have only know about them because the internet exists.

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          I have only know about them because the internet exists.

          It’s even better than that, even with the internet existing I’d have never interacted with these bits whatsoever if it weren’t for the person in question throwing a hissy fit and trying to get something deleted off the internet. If they just laughed it off and let it slide it would have gotten about 1% of the attention currently being brought to it. We only know about this painting because she was so offended by it that she decreed no one must know about it. We only know about Barbara Streisand’s house because she decreed no one must know about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        194 months ago

        Can you repeat or clarify that second sentence? I’m pretty sure there was a typo or mistyped word somewhere, and usually I wouldn’t mention it, but in this case I actually can’t interpret the meaning.

        • The Octonaut
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          354 months ago

          The first movie in the Child’s Play movie franchise they saw was the third iteration, Child’s Play 3; they were motivated to see it because it was banned, an ironic backfire of the censorship decision.

          • @[email protected]
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            114 months ago

            Thanks! Knowing the meaning now, it was the “I” to “is” typo that threw me off, since “saw” is also the type of movie to get banned.

        • @Z3k3
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          24 months ago

          Better? Worse?

          • @[email protected]
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            44 months ago

            Perfectly clear now, thanks. :)

            I got thrown because “is” came before “saw”, which is also a scary movie, and I just couldn’t disambiguate.

      • @[email protected]
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        04 months ago

        The first child’s play movie wasn’t saw, the UK definitely wasn’t 3 when you had seen it, and saw was never banned in the UK although Grotesque and several Chainsaw Massacre films were. /s

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          I haven’t seen a single saw. Just not interested.

          Childs play 3 was absolutely banned in the UK I’d rather not link the reasons why its pretty grotesque though

          That said I just learned the ban was lifted in 2002

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            I was making fun of your spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. I never even said Child’s Play 3 wasn’t banned lmao.

            • @Z3k3
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              14 months ago

              I dunno what it is the last wee while I can’t type on my phone keyboard. Pretty suew my brain is melting

              • @ripcord
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                04 months ago

                Ah, the last wee. A bittersweet moment.

                • @Z3k3
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                  14 months ago

                  Not sure I follow wee is a legitimate word where I’m from

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    if she weren’t rich, i’d feel bad for her. her status and authority, unfortunately, make her an acceptable target for nonviolent criticism, such as really ugly portraits.

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      her status and authority, unfortunately, make her an acceptable target

      Agreed, but It’s really more that she’s a complete arsehole. As a nimby mining magnate, she is a sponsor of organised climate denialism and vocal about it herself, a race she clearly has a horse in. She’s also an active libertarian who wants to further dismantle the welfare system, and reduce taxation, and wants Australian workers to be cool like Africans and work for $2 a day. And a vocal Trump supporter.

      It’s not the painting that makes her ugly, it’s her behaviour and ideology.

      • Cyrus Draegur
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        194 months ago

        it’s her behavior and ideology that makes the painting accurate :3

      • @answersplease77
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        It’s crazy to me how most if not all billionares cheerish exploiting poor wages and keeping poor people poorer while hoarding unimaginable wealth that’s enough for lifetime for generations of their family. That’s because billionares are mentally sick.

      • @captainlezbian
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        14 months ago

        Yeah no famous artist has ever felt the need to pain me ugly. Hell the most artistic depiction of me is a charcoal drawing by a guy who didn’t know we’d gone out for hookah a few times a few years prior. But regardless artists are only depicting her poorly because of how poorly she behaves.

    • @[email protected]
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      334 months ago

      It’s not uglier than the other portraits in the set. Its really weird that she would object when she is sharing a wall with royalty.

    • @kaffiene
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      294 months ago

      Regardless of her money, she’s an ugly individual. And I don’t mean physically

      • @Baphomet_The_Blasphemer
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        94 months ago

        Yeah, I was going to say I’m not Australian, so I’m not super familiar with her, but from what I do know of her, this portrait seems fitting.

    • @Daft_ish
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      34 months ago

      Punching up is the only way to punch

  • @[email protected]
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    554 months ago

    Rinehart has an estimated net worth of $30.2 billion USD, according to Forbes.

    Piece of shit.

    • @kaffiene
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      314 months ago

      She is a piece of shit, and not just because she’s a billionaire

      • @buddascrayon
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        174 months ago

        Yeah, mining magnate basically means she’s rich cause her father’s company has raped the earth using labor they paid pennies for while those who actually did all the work are likely living in abject poverty.

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          “Magnate” even gives cuts her slack by making it sound like she did any of it. Heiress is the term that’s both polite and accurate.

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    She is basically the Koch brothers, but bigger, dumber, and more evil.

    The only reason why the Koch family is probably worse, is because their influence flows through the American state.

    All this is to say, it’s a good bet that after this story dies down, the gallery will quietly acquiesce and take down the painting. This will either be followed by a carrot, or a removal of whatever stick she used.

  • @cosmicrookie
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    524 months ago

    If there ever was an example of the Streisand effect, this is it!

    • @Treczoks
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      34 months ago

      Exactly the painting my wife and I thought about - simultaneously…

  • @lennybird
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    Man… You could just fucking own it and be far better off in every way. Just speaks to the crazy ego these people have.

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      I mean she could literally just own it and be done with it. She has 30B+. Just buy it and ruin it if you hate it so much, like Elon did with Xitter.

        • @WoahWoah
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          My bad, I forgot you can’t buy things from the government.

          Or, you know, just … The government.

          • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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            I mean, you literally can’t so, yeah.

            It’s part of the national gallery.

  • @Daft_ish
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    334 months ago

    I will never not appreciate the Streisand effect.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      Cristiano Ronaldo

      People hated how poorly the bust was made to the point that it was removed in a couple of weeks and replaced with a bust by an anonymous sculptor.

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        The weird thing is, it’s not terrible, except the eyes are way too close together. How do you make that mistake?

        • @ripcord
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          44 months ago

          It’s like 80% of the way to being good, which leaves it in the uncanny valley

  • @[email protected]
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    244 months ago

    Maybe she could buy the painting? I’m sure the artist would be willing to part with it for a donation of a few billion to charitable causes.