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Axl Rose Is Still Trying To Get The Fat Axl Meme Off The Internet

November 15, 2016

Axl Rose attempted to force Google to remove unflattering images of him from the internet earlier this year. Now, the Guns N’ Roses singer is coming after websites that reported on the Fat Axl meme.  

The Daily Dot received a DMCA takedown notice Tuesday morning sent on Rose’s behalf. It was issued by the Web Sheriff, an anti-piracy company out of the U.K. that helps clients protect their intellectual property and copyright claims. It’s typically employed to help artists, studios, and labels remove pirated content, especially leaks, from the internet, as well as any other unlicensed material.  

Rose originally employed the Web Sheriff in June for a DMCA notice to Google, essentially claiming ownership of the concert photo—taken in Winnipeg, Canada, in 2010—that became the basis of the Fat Axl meme. The meme uses Guns N’ Roses lyrics—real or slightly altered—to poke fun at the singer’s physical condition at the start of the band’s highly anticipated reunion tour. 

A quick Google search shows that effort was in vain. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Fat Axl images out there. If anything, the initial DMCA request triggered the Streisand Effect, calling significant attention to the very thing the artist wants swept under the rug. 

According to Know Your Meme, the Fat Axl meme originated in October 2011, when both Vice and BuzzFeed posted photos showing the frontman’s apparent weight gain. That spurred the creation of a Fat Axl page on Quickmeme on Oct. 10, but the image Rose is currently fighting wasn’t really used in memes until June 2012, when Meme Generator created a page called “Axl Rose is Fat.” (The photos have since been removed.)

The meme had a predictably short shelf life. Google Trends shows that after an initial spike, interest in the search term dropped off significantly—until Rose’s DMCA notice to Google went viral earlier this year.

http://www.dailydot.com/upstream/fat-axl-rose-meme-dmca/

 

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Just lose more weight, get in shape, begin to use only biker shorts in shows again and ''Axl Rose Great Again'' thx Trump will go easily to the trending topics. 

Most people still using the fat Axl meme are GnR fans, and they only begin to use this meme again because of this ''Axl trying to get fat axl meme off the internet'' nonsense.

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Sigh... :facepalm: The man who wrote One In A Million trying to limit freedom of speech and people having some fun. Rich, Axl. What does he have to be insecure about? He's looking the best he has in years. Decades, even. Give it a rest.

 

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Who advises Rose, or makes these decisions on his behalf, or is Rose really this stupid - or are they that stupid?

The internet operates like an adolescent whose mother does not allow him to watch a notorious horror film, the inability of which merely making him all the more urgent to see the film - and they usually succeed. In fact it is worse than that. If you try and censor something, it proliferates. It is impossible to close anything down. If you do, it immediately pops back up again in five hundred more places, under different names. That is how the internet runs, and it is obvious to all.

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30 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

Who advises Rose, or makes these decisions on his behalf, or is Rose really this stupid - or are they that stupid?

The internet operates like an adolescent whose mother does not allow him to watch a notorious horror film, the inability of which merely making him all the more urgent to see the film - and they usually succeed. In fact it is worse than that. If you try and censor something, it proliferates. It is impossible to close anything down. If you do, it immediately pops back up again in five hundred more places, under different names. That is how the internet runs, and it is obvious to all.

my thoughts exactly :)

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Many celebrities have tried to remove links from google search results through DMCA and/or the EU law for data protection (Izzy has filed a request too, as is evident from the notice at the bottom of his search page); which is useless, because even if a page doesn't appear on the search results, it continues to exist. In most cases, if not all, it is not known what the request is about. Only Axl managed for his request to become an issue.

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