A private photo of Beyonc's kids was mysteriously posted to the internet and people are furiou
A new photo of Beyonc and Jay-Z's kids was posted to the internet. But fans of the two musicians aren't happy about it.
According to a number of fans, the photo of Blue Ivy, Rumi, and Sir Carter sitting in a field was never supposed to make it way online, and represents an unforgivable rupture in the way Beyonc and Jay-Z have normally protected the public images of their children.
The photo was published on the Instagram account of The Hollywood Unlocked , an entertainment and lifestyle news site run by a man named Jason Lee. Lee is a controversial figure in some entertainment circles , and he's the main target of Beyonc fans' ire. The image itself seemed to be an photo of a portrait of the kids, framed and hanging on a wall. You could see the glare from a light in the image.
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Lee told INSIDER that the photo was taken down Wednesday afternoon after a Beyonc representative told him the image was "not authorized."
"We received a photo of Beyonc's children via an anonymous source and posted the image believing that it had already been posted by the Carters," he told INSIDER. "After receiving a call from Beyonc's representative and learning that the image was not authorized we immediately removed it from our platform out of respect for their privacy."
But the caption in The Hollywood Unlocked's now-deleted Instagram post attributed the image to Freeish Media rather than "an anonymous source." Freeish Media's own Instagram account mostly posts screenshots of funny tweets from other people and memes it slaps its own logo on.
Kecia Gayle, a representative for The Hollywood Unlocked, told INSIDER that the photo was actually sent to the company from a fan, but that The Hollywood Unlocked credited Freeish Media after an employee saw that Freeish Media posted the photo first.
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"We receive many direct messages from fans all the time," Gayle said. "Once we saw that Freeish Media posted it first on their platform, we decided to give them credit."
The now-deleted Freeish Media post, though, was actually a screenshot from a Twitter post from the Beyonc fan account @713yonce. The account has since been deleted.
A representative for Freeish told INSIDER that it took the photo from a social media post by a Beyonc fan.
"[We] are very active in Queen Beyonc Giselle Knowles Hyphen Carter's fandom known as her 'hive' and regularly find rare/unseen content featuring her and her family," the representative said. "Many popular accounts follow us across social media and sometimes share our content with their audiences!"
On Twitter, Beyhive members are furious at Lee, who they blame for taking the photo. Some pointed to a video from February, where Beyonc appears to avoid Lee at a Roc Nation party at the couple's house.
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Within the Beyonc stan community, people are furious at Lee for spreading the image.
Lee removing the image from The Hollywood Unlocked's Instagram account may be too little, too late. The image has already been duplicated and reposted on Twitter and elsewhere online.
Representatives for Beyonc and Jay-Z didn't immediately respond to INSIDER's request for comment.
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