Tommy Lee, the drummer of Mötley Crüe, shared a frontal nude image on Thursday via his Instagram profile, which violates the community guidelines of the social media platform. In the picture, Lee is entirely unclothed, with his genitalia fully visible. He accompanied the explicit photo with a one-word caption, “Oops,” implying that he was aware of the inappropriate nature of his actions, as he exposed himself without the consent of his audience. The explicit image of the 59-year-old rock musician remained visible on his Instagram feed for a minimum of four hours afterward.
According to Fox News, Lee eventually removed the explicit image from his social media feed. Another person commented, “Are we just going to ignore what happened?” In the comments section of the controversial Instagram post, one user criticized Lee for his mistake, which caught the attention of many of the drummer’s 1.5 million followers.
The Instagram app states that it allows photos of breastfeeding women to remain published, even though guidelines for the community were repeatedly updated to remove inappropriate content involving children and nursing women. However, the app continues to censor women’s nipples while allowing celebrity white males to show their penis on the main feed for a few hours. This inconsistency regarding nudity bothers me, and I am not alone as many Instagram users were also outraged.
It took eight hours for the writing to be published. According to its own guidelines, the app Instagram does not allow photos of bare bottoms, as well as Tommy Lee’s post with his d**k pic in which he is facing a naked man feeding an elephant and mooning the camera. Interestingly, Lee has now posted a video of a concert B-roll on his Instagram feed without a caption, which may have been a PR ploy to generate interest.
It is well known that when a user breaks Instagram’s rules, they usually get penalized by Meta for a few days. However, Justin Bieber infamously posted a nude shot of his bare booty on Instagram in 2015. Lee is not the first white male celebrity to try to get attention by posting nude photos on the social media app.
White bodies should be shown and celebrated, while bodies like mine, which deserve to be hidden and are grotesque, if they resemble mine, should be off-putting. I still feel horrible, but my body, which had not been censored, wasn’t wearing underwear in the photo. However, the person in the photo, despite breaking the community guidelines, was banned from posting on Facebook for several days and the post was taken down. The image in this post, which was automatically connected to my Instagram stories, was a quote about empowerment on her skin. Unlike the surgically enhanced behinds that have been taken over social media, the woman in this image had cellulite and stretch marks. I shared an Instagram post that featured a curvy woman with a booty in a thong, which I found uplifting.
I was not naked — I was clearly wearing a black bikini thong and a top swimsuit in the photo. I was warned that I could lose my account if I posted nudity again, and I took down the photo after posting a picture of myself in a swimming hole in Uruguay, which is a sacred land to my Charrúa ancestors. Instagram censored my body in May of this year, specifically in May on Instagram.
I felt terrible when my photo was taken down on Instagram. It made me feel inadequate because the survey asked me about my body, which is considered problematic on social media. Strangely, my post was reinstated and I can now link it back to Instagram. I filed a complaint about the takedown and was informed that the post was removed for violating Instagram’s rules. I was alerted about the post being removed for violating Instagram’s rules.