The thing is: Facebook deleted the picture below from Nikki Sixx fanpage in Facebook because they find it offensive/pornographic. Yet Facebook lets teenagers have profile pictures that are more revealing, pictures that are meant to be sexual.
The fans of Nikki Sixx took the matter to their own and started changing their Facebook profile pictures to the cover of the single. As they see it, this picture is a work of art and it shouldn't be censored. More than that, it is also a statement of us all being equal and beautiful no matter what we look like on the outside. The message is simple and it is best told in the new Sixx AM video. Beauty can be found in odd places.
Not only changing their profile pictures in Facebook, fans have spread the word all over the internet and the revolution can be seen also in Twitter. The pictures by Nikki Sixx are provoking, no doubt about that. But there's also some rough beauty in them. And besides, isn't art supposed to be provoking? Isn't it a good thing that it starts discussion about things that are wrong in this world? After having so many wars and riots so that we can have the freedom of speech and the freedom of expressing ourselves our own way, are we going to give up on that freedom just because Facebook (or any other company) tells us? Are we letting them to define what is art and what isn't? I don't think so..
And it seems like I'm not alone thinking like that.
More about the subject can be read also from Nikki Sixx vs. Facebook
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