Funky.Monkey Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Crazyman Posted November 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2016 Does he not realize he's drawing more attention to it by doing this? 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AxlRoseCDII Posted November 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2016 If only he spent that energy on a damn new album 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 What a petty little man Rose is (or should I say big man haha!). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post moreblack Posted November 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2016 How about getting in shape instead? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane M. Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 He should forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillionsOfSpiders Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 The fat memes are about to get circulated on social media again then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickodez Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dgnr Posted November 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2016 Look at you now Axl, a skinny bitch...Keep up the good work and let go the memes already (and bring back the biker shorts) 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSoftie Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Why anyone thinks Axl would personally hire someone to do this is beyond me, it's management/Live Nation/PR people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 (edited) Oh no... Edited November 15, 2016 by KiraMPD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonok Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Sigh... 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangerInThisTown Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 1 hour ago, dgnr said: Look at you now Axl, a skinny bitch...Keep up the good work and let go the memes already (and bring back the biker shorts) Thats a badass fucking picture. Do you know what show its from? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 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. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RONIN Posted November 16, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2016 FAT AXL was a strangely endearing fellow. I quite liked him actually. He had a signature style with the oversized yellow raincoats and ginger facial hair. On stage, he was mostly in a daze...perhaps thinking of his next meal or the freshly baked goods that were waiting for him in his dressing room. This Axl would only dive offstage if he spotted a confectionery stand. Naturally, fans would have been crushed to death after he landed on them. Hunger, not anger, was FAT AXL's kryptonite. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jay Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 you can't fight meme magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 (edited) 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. Edited November 16, 2016 by Blackstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modano09 Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 If he's going to wear jeans and a white shirt with that body it's his own fault. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italian girl Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Come on axl, what's the problem with that???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 9 hours ago, AxlRoseCDII said: If only he spent that energy on a damn new album ????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 10 hours ago, moreblack said: How about getting in shape instead? This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alfierose Posted November 16, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2016 The stupid thing is I really haven't seen many fat Axl memes posted in comments sections etc.. for a while now. I think he was winning the battle just by being awesome with both GNR and ACDC which was always going to be the best way to counteract this stuff. By going down this path here we all are again...discussing fat Axl memes. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifalucis Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 He's already getting in good shape again. Why he still think about this? Why not just get fitter? Oh Axl, you are even older than my dad by a year but I hope you read this thread so you'll know when to stop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italian girl Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I think that it's only an ugly photo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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