q news: Axl Rose demands Google erase Fat Axl meme
q news correspondent Mitch Pollock scans the latest arts and entertainment headlines to keep you in the know.
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The pictures that started it all. The Fat Axl meme uses photos from this concert, shot by Canadian photographer Boris Minkevich. (Boris Minkevich / Winnipeg Free Press)
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q news correspondent Mitch Pollock scans the latest arts and entertainment headlines to keep you in the know. Today:
Axl Rose's year has had some serious ups — like the Guns N' Roses reunion and filling in for Brian Johnson as AC/DC's singer — but it's the "Fat Axl" meme that may be his undoing. The photos aren't flattering, and the captions that followed are less so, but Axl has a plan: demand Google remove all offending images from the concert that birthed the meme.
Just one of many memes replacing the lyrics of Guns N' Roses songs with lines about food. (MemeGenerator.net)
Mixed martial arts fighter Kevin Ferguson, better known by his ring name Kimbo Slice, passed away on Monday, June 6, at the age of 42. Slice is one of the first professional fighters who can thank the internet for his fame when, in 2003, videos of his fights went viral. Though a fearsome fighter, Slice was described as a gentle giant and family man.
