David Gonterman's operate-ins with the Streisand Effect day back again to about 1995-1998. Initially an unexceptional fanfiction author and comic artist with enough weirdness to bring in a number of MSTs, he invoked the impact when he began throwing public tantrums about any criticism and then went on a campaign to get all his will work deleted from the Internet. A quantity of sites devoted to archiving his functions popped up in response.