Tommy Lee

Rock musician Tommy Lee posted a full-frontal nude selfie on Instagram and Facebook early Thursday with the caption "Ooooopppsss.".

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The Mötley Crüe drummer posted a naked picture at approximately 3:52 am EST on Thursday morning to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Taken at a downward angle, ...

Even as the shocking photo racked up thousands of comments and shares, it remained active for at least nine hours on Instagram despite what appears to be clear violation standards. As of early Friday morning, the photo is still up and active on both Facebook and He captioned the photo simply “Ooooopppsss” without any further explanation.

Tommy Lee posted a full-frontal nude picture on Instagram, sparking a fierce debate about censorship and misogyny.

This shoot was one of the most beautiful and empowering experiences of my life. “I am being repeatedly silenced,” Guaitamacchi said in a follow-up post. Another Twitter user said: “I have no issue with Tommy Lee’s full frontal Instagram post.

While the image (which Tommy captioned "Ooooopppsss") was deleted from Instagram and replaced with a meme of an elephant asking a nude person "how do you ...

I think a lot of people would think it's one thing, but it's really about privacy and how things got crazy then. Good morning, hello there, Tommy Lee appears to have randomly hopped online and posted a full frontal nude photo. Tommy has obviously been thrust back in the public eye thanks to Pam & Tommy on Hulu, which featured a scene of his character (played by Sebastian Stan) having a full convo with his penis.

If you thought Tommy Lee posting a photo of his junk on social media was a shockingly out of character action, you probably haven't paid much attention to ...

“You’re gonna take flak any time you push like that from your fans, because they’re used to seeing you do one thing," he added. By the end of the decade, Tommy Lee had decided he'd had enough. "On my vacation (after hours on Spectravision) shootin' / My jizzy jizzum the woody / Has rizzy risen." While the likes of Korn, Pantera and Sepultura were pushing the genre in exciting new directions, heavy metal in its truest form was on the decline commercially, especially with Iron Maiden and Judas Priest both changing singers and struggling to maintain the successes of the decade prior. 'Seventy seven million dollars made / From watchin' me cum under the sun," raps Lee, referencing his infamous sex tape with Pamela Anderson that was recently the subject of Disney+'s Pam & Tommy series. As it goes, the 1990s were a funny old time for metal.

(CNN) Rocker Tommy Lee posted a nude photo on social media -- but not everyone is applauding. The heavily tattooed Mötley Crüe drummer shared a full-frontal ...

This is not the first time Lee has made headlines for something other than his music. "So Tommy Lee can post a picture of his penis on @instagram that's still up three hours later but a picture of my curvy booty in a thong bikini gets taken down? The double standard is so apparent," one user posted.

The drummer also shared a bunch of memes about the situation.

Lee had a media resurgence in 2022 as a result of Hulu’s biographical series Pam & Tommy, which centered on his relationship – and marriage – with Pamela Anderson in the late 1990s. For instance, this Friday, August 12, Lee shared the trailer for a new movie titled The Retaliators. The photo has obviously now been deleted given that it doesn’t comply with Instagram guidelines of what’s allowed to be shared on the platform.

Now, a deliberate, reworked edit of the D-pic popped up on Lee's Instagram late Thursday night. Someone seems to have run an art filter over Lee's photo, ...

She compared seeing Lee's nude picture on social media to getting an unsolicited picture of a penis. "'So Tommy Lee can post a picture of his penis on @instagram that's still up three hours later but a picture of my curvy booty in a thong bikini gets taken down? Someone seems to have run an art filter over Lee's photo, randomizing his necklace and tattoos and, well, all the body parts, into a brightly colored mosaic.

Tommy Lee posting a fully nude photo on social media may have come as a surprise to fans, however the Motley Crue drummer was unrepentant and reposted the ...

Fans had speculated whether the original image had been posted by accident on on purpose, and the repost appeared to confirm it had been done intentionally. Never one to disappoint the fans on Instagram either, Tommy reposted the same image, which had been drawn in bright colours and patterns, but still with the most famous part of his anatomy on show. The musician, 59, had shared a full-frontal nude picture with his followers on Thursday, captioned simply: ‘Ooooopppsss’.

Instagram was harshly criticized on social media after it allowed a nude photo posted by Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee to remain online for hours ...

The 59-year-old rocker wrote “Ooooopppsss” next a photo of him entirely naked with his genitals visible. “Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is OK, too,” the company’s guidelines say. Its guidelines also bar “some photos of female nipples.”