On the Internet, an unsuccessful picture of the pop stars is popular, often accompanied by the story of how her lawyer through the court achieved this photograph from the network. We decided to check the reliability of such publications.
“Today is Rivne N years, as we traditionally congratulate the lawyer Beyoncé on the won trial to withdraw this photo from the Internet” - such posts (which is noteworthy, on different dates) constantly appear on social networks (X, "VKontakte" Facebook*, Telegram) and on the blog-platforms (Livejournal, "Picabu") Since the mid-2010s. The mention of this story can also be found on entertainment Portals, forums, services questions and answers and in glossy publications.
Judging by the background and appearance of the singer, the resonant photo of Beyoncé was taken on February 3, 2013 on Super Bowl - the game for the title of the national football league champion in the United States. Pop star Spended on the show during the break of the game. The event was not only a video broadcast, but also photographers of numerous media, information and photographs worked. The next day, Buzzfeed released a selection Pictures and video clips of the singer’s performance with the heading “33 of the brightest moment from the Beyoncé show during the break of the match”. The article was quite complimentary, and although some photos are really difficult to call successful, they illustrated with what dedication and passion the singer performed.
Nevertheless, Beyoncé representatives did not appreciate the good intentions of Buzzfeed journalists: the PR agent of the singer wrote a polite letter to the editor with a request to remove some “unflattering” pictures and replace them with more successful ones. Instead of going to meet the artist, journalists Published The received letter and (again) the very photos that she asked to remove. However, this time they were quite benevolent to the singer - the authors of the article are asked by a rhetorical question: “In what world these photos can be considered unflattering?” No information that the singer’s lawyers against Buzzfeed followed this, the Getty Images agency, who belonged to the pictures, or to the Internet as a whole, could not be found in reliable sources. However, it is likely that Beyoncé's representatives asked to delete “unflattering” photos not only in BuzzFeed - from the Getty Images base, some of them are still the same Gone Soon after the publication.
However, the letter of the PR agent of the singer provoked the so-called Streisand effect: Pictures were not only not forgotten, but instantly became viral. Some publications arranged Competitions photojab with the image of Beyoncé and announced Personnel with the singer is the funniest meme of the year. In June 2013, Reddit appeared on the platform fast With the heading “Beyoncé's lawyers successfully removed this image. As you can see, he is no longer there. ” Of course, the same photograph was attached to the publication. The post collected almost 2000 comments, and some of them noted: the real situation is far from the author described by the author. From the context, it is clear that this is just a joke - it is not known whether the Reddit user himself or made it out of comments on other publications. Soon the context was forgotten, and users began distribute "Unflattering" picture of the singer, quite seriously affirmingthat her lawyer won a lawsuit demanding to delete a photo from the Internet.
It is worth noting that the resonant photo itself, from year to year, is distributed by Internet users, was not published in the Buzzfeed selection, which caused the singer’s discontent. However, there is no doubt that it was done at the same event. It was not possible to find his source “verified” - it was quite possible that it was among those pictures that the Getty Images agency deleted. Apparently, the singer was indeed upset by the appearance of such personnel on the network, since Forbidden Photo correspondents take concerts as part of her next tour.
Thus, the story of Beyonca’s lawyer, who won the court to remove the singer’s unsuccessful picture from the Internet, is a grand exaggeration. In fact, there was no lawsuit and trial: the PR agent of the singer simply wrote a very polite letter to one of the large American online publications with a request to replace not the most successful pictures from her point of view. The publication refused to do this and fanned the story with click -headed headlines in the spirit of "PR headers Beyoncé do not want you to see these photos." And Internet users picked up and even more distorted the information-at first as a joke, and years later, already seriously claiming that the representatives of the singer were suing to delete the photo.
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