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The 324 Front Street Barnum, Iowa Google Street View Flasher refers to a viral image taken on Google Maps Street View sometime in 2024, which depicts a woman flashing her breasts. The flasher, who is standing in a parking lot outside of a bar and grill, can be seen flashing the Google Street View car in broad daylight, which quickly attracted attention online after it was discovered in late June 2024. The original posts about it surfaced on Facebook and Twitter / X. Due to the nature of her action, the Street View image was quickly censored, with images of it uncensored still floating around social media.

Origin

Sometime on June 22nd, 2024, an unknown Facebook user shared a post to the Facebook^[4] group Google Earth , Structures and Anomalies reading, "Google maps…324 front Street in Barnum Iowa…. Street view," gaining over 1,900 reactions. The post has since been deleted but results for it still appear on Google search results as of June 26th (shown below).

The location on Google Maps^[5] originally showed a woman flashing her bare chest (censored version shown below).

Spread

On the morning of June 23rd, 2024, more awareness of the Google Maps flasher spread on Facebook^[6] and then X.^[1]

Memes about the location and the image, in general, began to spread quickly as it was compared to both the Oilers Girl and the Hawk Tuah Girl in terms of a female acting promiscuous in public.

For example, on June 24th, 2024, X user @pureguava10300^[2] uploaded a Distracted Boyfriend meme in which the Distracted Boyfriend is looking at the Google Maps location instead of Hawk Tuah Girl (shown below).

As people became more aware of the location and what was supposed to be shown behind the censor bar, memes began to be made about it being scandalous. On June 24th, X user @BrandieWithABee^[3] uploaded a GIF of a female upside-down twerking in the spot where the original girl was flashing the car, captioning the post, "What's on 324 Front Street?" to boost curiosity about the location. In the GIF, it's noticeable that the male flashing the car in the back was also censored by Google (shown below).

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