Warner Bros. Streisands The Leaked Trailer For Canceled Powerpuff Girls Show To The Moon
from the mission-accomplished dept
Whenever we talk about an instance of the Streisand Effect, the dot-connecting portion of our readership will often chime in, wondering aloud if the subject of the post was Streisanding on purpose. Whether for attention, to generate buzz, or some other nefarious end, how do we know someone isn’t using the effect for gain?
I don’t think that is going to be in question in the case of Warner Bros. trying to nuke every instance of the leaked trailer for a live-action Powerpuff Girls show from the internet. The show, you see, was canceled several years ago before it ever got released.
In case you missed it this morning, a trailer for the canceled 2023 live-action CW Powerpuff Girls show was leaked. The internet almost universally deemed it a dumpster fire and started clowning on it, and Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the superhero sisters, has been going to great lengths to scrub it from the internet. Why would you care that much about a leaked trailer for something you’ve already canceled? Probably because it’s terrible.
The original trailer was posted by Lost Media Busters, a YouTube account that posts footage related to scrapped game levels, unaired commercials, and other stuff that never properly saw the light of day. It immediately spread throughout social media, including X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and elsewhere. On top of this, it was also published on the Internet Archive, which is used to save articles, webpages, and other media on the internet in the event they get deleted from live websites. At least, that’s the idea. Alongside hitting social media posts and the original YouTube upload, Warner Bros. has had the video taken down from the Internet Archive, which seems excessive considering the show isn’t even coming out anymore. You can’t claim it’s interrupting the flow of a marketing campaign if you weren’t going to put the show it’s promoting on TVs in the first place.
Now, I’ll say this: there is no valid dissenting opinion when it comes to this trailer. It’s hot garbage. I know, because I’ve seen it. Despite WB attempting to whack all of the moles using takedown notices, this thing is still out there. As are an absolute plethora of reaction videos that show stills, snippets, or the entire trailer within them.
Which is a very, very long way of saying that the trailer is still out there, despite WB attempting to disappear it. And now, because of that attempt to disappear the trailer, it is being turbocharged back into the public’s view once more as outlets begin covering what WB is doing. Exactly the opposite of what the company was attempting to achieve, in other words. And the media is certainly not going to play along with WB’s goal.
In the meantime, I guess I’ll keep adding new embeds to our original story about the trailer each time WB nukes whichever one I’ve got in there. You can’t wash away the horrible stink of bad television, Warner Bros.
If it was on the internet, it’s never truly gone, friends.
Filed Under: leaks, powerpuff girls, streisand effect
Companies: warner bros. discovery
Comments on “Warner Bros. Streisands The Leaked Trailer For Canceled Powerpuff Girls Show To The Moon”
Funny how I haven’t seen it, and hadn’t even heard about it, yet immediately and will all confidence presumed the same.
Why live action.
Just.. why. Who asked for that?
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I know who asked for that: someone who should’ve been fired from the company/blackballed from the industry right after the pilot was presented to CW execs for the first time.
Re: Re: the pilot
Now I want to see that pilot. I had to dig up the trailer/promo. It’s bad. I think something must be wrong with me. I need to watch bad things.
If WB just hadn’t done anything, the hubbub surrounding this trailer would probably have blown over in a week.
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I saw some still from this on a website covering it & mocking it.
I only needed to see 1 thing to know it was going to be a dumpster fire… the CW logo bug in the corner.
Re: not the normal plan
I admit that I may be a little out of touch, since I have too much other stuff going on to spend time watching television. So perhaps my understand of how things work is outdated.
With that caveat, my understanding is that when an entertainment company creates a real big stinker, the sort that can be smelt two counties away, they immediately promote it heavily. There will be adverts in different media, and possibly merchandise.
Indeed, they sometimes ``Streisand” material in order to raise interest. Think of it as cheap advertising. It is unlikely that we would know anything about Canceled Powerpuff Girls but for this campaign.
This is surely such a stinker. The failure to do the complete promotion campaign and product release seems odd to me.
You would think that WB would want people to see how bad it was to prevent anyone from thinking their decision to shitcan it was incorrect.
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There’s always that.