JR responds to photographer with twitter spat
Updated | By Bongani Mtolo - East Coast Urban
It started out innocently with JR posting a picture to his Instagram
account. What happened next was a little over the top.
JR Bogopa - musician, songwriter and record producer has now become another celebrity who's involved in a Twitter war.
Twitter user and photographer, @Alex_MK7 sent JR a tweet letting him know that he had used one of his pictures without crediting him.
I put the pic up on twitter. Homie took it. Edited. Posted. No credit. #creditthephotographer pic.twitter.com/n4uUiNr5KB
— #TEAM (@Alex_MK7) March 14, 2017
JR then responded by taking the picture down.
So your fave who chose not to credit me, deleted the post after I sent him a polite DM asking to be credited.
— #TEAM (@Alex_MK7) March 14, 2017
I fail to understand how giving credit bruises your ego. It's not like you took the pic yourself.
— #TEAM (@Alex_MK7) March 14, 2017
Eventually JR decided to respond via his Twitter account.
@Alex_MK7 you need to relax coz found that pic on the net, now I must ask EVERYONE "who took this" all my pics credit the photographers.
— jr (@JRafrika) March 14, 2017
And things got really heated after the response.
@Alex_MK7 did you shoot a picture of a flower here?? No you shot ME! And I will post a PICTURE OF ME! Never point dat thing in my direction
— jr (@JRafrika) March 14, 2017
The whole thing just seems really silly if you ask me. First of all JR should have known that you can’t just grab any image off the internet and use it without accreditation.
However the photographer should have direct messaged JR rather than tweet for the whole world to see, as JR mentions “did you shoot a picture of a flower here?? No you shot ME! And I will post a PICTURE OF ME! Never point dat thing in my direction.”
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