The Press Association reports that Rose, who has recently been fronting AC/DC, made the complaints through a UK-based web monitoring company.
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So, let’s take a look at these big, bad memes before they disappear (because that’s how the internet works, right?). He’s out playing with his favorite band, AC/DC, and his main gig, Guns N Roses is about to play to sold out stadiums all over the country and the world.
He also said that he was completely unaware that Rose was trying to have the image removed from the internet. Vice published a post titled “Axl Rose Got Fat” with a separate image and a few days later a BuzzFeed community user published a post using the newer photo with some superimposed lyrics.
It is very understandable why Rose would not like the “Fat Axl” meme, which exists entirely to mock his weight.
The claim is that photographers attending Rose’s concerts must sign a release assigning ownership of the images to the singer.
The notices, filed on behalf of Rose, target several cropped versions of the original unflattering photo, along with others that have been captioned in keeping with the spirit of the meme.
“Please be advised that no permission has been granted to publish the copyright image so we can not direct you to an authorized example of it”, the complaint reads.
Rose, who at 54-years-old is not almost as trim as he was during the glory days of GNR, is particularly upset about a series of unflattering photos taken during a concert in Canada in 2010.
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According to Torrentfreak, Axl has sent a cease and desist order to Google itself to remove the photos from the Internet. “Either way, the photo was stolen off our website with no permission granted by the Winnipeg Free Press” Minkevich said in a statement. In the end, the pictures remained online and the incident resulted in celebrities taking similar actions being termed as “The Streisand Effect”.
