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Congratulations to Devin Nunes on His Massive Self-Own!

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Published: Mar 20, 2019 04:24 pm

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Yesterday, we learned about Devin Nunes’ lawsuit against the parody Twitter accounts that were hurting his feelings. Until then, I didn’t even know there were Devin Nunes parody accounts, and I don’t know how Nunes could possibly have thought that throwing a fit about a Twitter account pretending to be his cow might have gotten people to pay less attention to it. So, really, I can only assume that his actual goal was to bring attention to the mocking cow, in which case, congratulations to him because he has succeeded to an extraordinary degree.

Before Nunes’ lawsuit was filed, @DevinCow, one of the accounts named, had about just a few thousand followers. Overnight, that number grew to about 100K. As of this writing, it’s at 450K (and rising fast), far more followers than Nunes has himself.

This is one of the best examples we’ve ever seen of the Streisand Effect—a term based on Barbara Streisand’s 2003 attempt to keep a photographer from releasing pictures of her Malibu home. That lawsuit only increased downloads of the pictures hundreds of thousands of times over.

We might have to rename the phenomenon.

Devin Nunes’ Mom–the other parody account Nunes is suing–was shut down last year, but a new version is now back up.

And others have come up with their own Nunes-based accounts.

There are just so many.

Congratulations again, Devin Nunes. You succeeded in dramatically increasing the number of people who know your constituents despise you.

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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.
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