{"id":317047,"date":"2025-08-04T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317047\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:46:09","slug":"us-comedy-rock-band-fire-member-over-disgusting-ozzy-osbourne-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317047\/","title":{"rendered":"US comedy rock band fire member over “disgusting” Ozzy Osbourne meme\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

US comedy rock band Green Jell\u00ff have fired one of their members following a \u201cdisgusting\u201d meme about Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The band, who are known for their 1992 song \u2018Three Little Pigs\u2019, have confirmed that they have parted ways with Michael \u201cFr33to F33t\u201d Snyder following a post made about the late metal icon.<\/p>\n

While many artists have paid touching tributes<\/a> to the soloist and Black Sabbath<\/a> singer following his death on July 22, Green Jell\u00ff seemed to take a different approach, and posted a meme that made light of the singer\u2019s relationship with drugs.<\/p>\n

As reported by American Songwriter<\/a>, Far Out<\/a> and Loudwire<\/a>, the band posted a photoshopped image of Osbourne holding up a sign reading \u201cone day sober\u201d shortly after news of his death broke.<\/p>\n

Frontman Bill Manspeaker then shared a different post, saying he deleted the image as soon as he noticed it had been uploaded, and blamed Snyder for sharing it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHe posted an extremely rude video about Ozzy Dying that I found highly offensive & I immediately took it down,\u201d the singer shared in the post, which has also been taken down. \u201cThe guy lost his mind & instantly started to demonize me on Facebook,\u201d he then alleged. \u201cNow it\u2019s gotten beyond the point of nonstop harassment\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Also in the update, Manspeaker claimed that Snyder \u201cmaybe played 10 shows in 10 years and doesn\u2019t even plug in his bass when on stage\u2026he just wants the selfie of him on stage,\u201d and previously asked him to sign CDs \u201cso he can sell them online\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything was fine until the moment I take down his distasteful meme about Ozzys death,\u201d the frontman added, before also accusing Snyder of trying to \u201ccancel\u201d him, and saying that a \u201ccomplete shit show\u201d followed.<\/p>\n

Snyder then made a post on Facebook about the falling out too, and while he didn\u2019t mention the Ozzy Osbourne meme, he said that he was made to leave the band because he \u201cdared to question William Manspeaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that some asshat on TikTok caused so much crap, but I\u2019ll always defend my decisions to push the limits of being a punk rocker,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Dear Green Jelly members, and fans. It\u2019s been an honor sharing the stage and recording with you. Initially, releasing\u2026<\/p>\n

Posted by Michael W Snyder<\/a> on\u00a0Saturday, July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Snyder then denied Manspeaker\u2019s claims that he hacked into his social media accounts, and responded to a fan who questioned the nature of the post in question. \u201cBut, dark humour is what we\u2019ve done there for years,\u201d the musician said (via American Songwriter). \u201cI would apologize to anyone who was seriously offended.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band, back in their early days, once counted Tool<\/a>, Puscifer<\/a> and A Perfect Circle<\/a> singer Maynard James Keenan<\/a> as a member. The singer has not been a part of the group for decades now, and performed at Ozzy\u2019s final live show in Birmingham on July 5<\/a> \u2013 just weeks before the metal godfather\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n

Green Jell\u00ff will be heading on a headline tour with 96 Bitter Beings, The Convalescence, The Bunny The Bear and Ignominious next month, and the tour starts on September 10 in Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US comedy rock band Green Jell\u00ff have fired one of their members following a \u201cdisgusting\u201d meme about Ozzy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,3981,269,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-metal","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-rock","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970334526408822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}