The effects of pepper spray may be temporary, but for the PR team at UC Davis, the damage is long-lasting.

After news broke that the university paid $175,000 to remove a particularly damning image from 2011 of a campus police officer pepper-spraying a row of student protesters, the internet responded by plastering the image everywhere. Countless news outlets ran articles featuring the image, chastising the university for its misguided PR move.

But before the news cycle had a chance to die down, Reddit users took the effort to preserve the image one step further, by placing it at the forefront of a Photoshop Battle (which UC Davis could’ve predicted if they saw what happened to Beyoncé after her publicist asked BuzzFeed to remove some “unflattering” photos of the singer).

If you’re not familiar with Photoshop Battles, here’s how they work: A random photo is presented. Anybody in the community can participate. All you need to do is edit the image as you please and submit your work in the comments section.

Redditor citizen_coping thought the overzealous use of pepper spray seemed less befitting of a campus police officer and more appropriate for a—well…

User herhusbandhans simply reinterpreted the police officers as walking cans of pepper spray:

Redditor TanSquaredPlz satirized the university’s clumsy attempt to erase the photo from the internet with this image, titled “Their initial low budget attempt at censorship”:

Photoshop Battle regular i_am_a_bot_ama attempted to add some dark humor to the photo by transforming it into a nightmarish gif, captioned “These hover boards make everything so much easier”:

But perhaps the simplest and most pointed twist on the original photo came from redditor SleepingInsomniac, who aptly summarized what happens when you try to erase an image from the internet: It backfires.

To view all of redditors’ takes on UC Davis’ costly photo-op, check out the original Photoshop Battles thread. It won’t be removed from the internet anytime soon.