06 June, 2017
On Monday, the 29-year-old posted the following meme on Instagram, which mocks all of the negative media attention surrounding her appearance.
Cosmpolitan.com called Barstool a "garbage sports site", while Allure magazine tweeted: 'Using misogyny & body-shaming women as a way to earn Twitter engagement is a pretty pathetic path to success'. In the 2007 photo, Mane looks out of shape compared to his recent image.
The meme read: 'If you can't handle me at my 2007 Gucci Mane, you don't deserve me at my 2017 Gucci Mane, ' while showing side-by-side comparisons of the Bricks rapper from both eras. All punctuated with a faux-concerned crying face emoji, like a champ.
Titled "Is Rihanna Going to Make Being Fat the Hot New Trend?" the article's content was pretty self-explanatory and opened our favorite Barbadian queen up to some disgusting fat-shaming.
The offending article has since been removed from Barstool's website for, essentially, not being amusing enough.
In a statement posted on the website, Barstool Sports' founder David Portnoy explained that he has since suspended Spags and removed the article, but only because he thought it was not amusing enough. He noted that if he or one one of his other bloggers had written the story, he would "defend it to the death". "I hired them because I think they are all legitimacy hilarious people" he added.
