If you don't ask, you don't get, right?
Well, in that spirit, rapper Machine Gun Kelly recently gave an impassioned plea to Google to take down a photo that he hates.
We've all been there; you go for a great night wearing a new outfit or trying a new hairstyle, only to check socials the next day and find a horrific photo of you front and centre. That bold new look you were sure of? Turns out it looks awful on camera, and you didn't find out until far too late.
If you're lucky, a friend posted it and you can ask them to take it down, but imagine if millions of people have already seen it. What happens though when it's a tech giant responsible for posting the wretched image of you?
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MGK recently revealed in an interview that a much-loathed pic of him kept appearing in Google searches. Why he was Googling himself, he didn't say.
The artist said: "If we can take a second to talk to Google real quick... hey, hey, you take that picture of me with the moustache off the main image of MGK."
He added: "Okay Google? I get it, you're playing jokes, you need to stop it. I put that in a photodump of me shaving my face."
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"You weren't supposed to put that as the main image of what happens when you search MGK!" he insists.
"You need to stop, stop doing that!" he laughed.
He shared a series of photos to Instagram earlier this year (shown above), captioned: "Album’s finally finished! Swipe I found out what i look like with a mustache. which one is more important?"
It seems he decided the album was more important, as he shared the post to his Instagram story, writing 'ALBUM'S DONE!'
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Fans have noticed that when you search for MGK now, a much nicer pic of the star appears.
If you search for the star now, the first pic is of him with tousled blonde hair and clean shaven, wearing a white shirt with a black tie, sweater vest and pearls in a shot taken on the red carpet of the American Music Awards.
When he's not busy challenging Google, MGK has recently been celebrating the birth of his daughter with his ex Megan Fox. The duo revealed the new arrival's unusual name as Saga Blade Fox-Baker, and fans were divided.
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He had previously had to explain to fans that the new baby's name wasn't 'celestial seed' after he referred to her as that in his birth announcement post. Fans realised the former couple had hinted at the name years ago in an interview.
When asked about middle names for themselves, Megan said MGK should have the middle name Blade.
“@machinegunkelly always wanted his middle name to be Blade, so him & Megan Fox made it their baby girl’s middle name," wrote one fan.
Others added: “This is just a super cool full circle moment.”
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Tyla has reached out to Google for comment.
Topics: Technology, Celebrity, Megan Fox
Jen Thomas