Green Jellÿ, originally known as Green Jellö, came to prominence on the back of their 1992 hit “Three Little Pigs.” The memorable video featured a claymation rendition of the classic fairy tale with plenty of comedic moments.
The band stopped in 1995 but founder Bill Manspeaker reformed the band in 2008 and they have been consistently touring pretty much ever since. Last week, one band member, Michael Snyder, posted a meme to the band’s social media accounts that seemingly mocked late singer Ozzy Osbourne’s battle with substance abuse. It featured a photoshopped image of Ozzy holding a sign that reads “One Day Sober,” and was posted shortly after his passing. Manspeaker would go on to delete the post and fire Snyder.
The singer explained: “UNFORTUNATELY THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN POSTED TO YOUTUBE” Long story short…I allowed a green jello member control of my green jello page…He’s been doing a excellent job posting funny memes for years…Recently Recently he posted a extremely rude video about Ozzy Dying that I found highly offensive & I immediately took it down…the guy lost his mind & instantly started to demonize me on Facebook…Now it’s gotten beyond the point of non stop harassment…
All I have to say is this…for decades I have been traveling the world meeting fans & making them part of my life…this person has been participating in my band for over 10 years…Being my best buddy asking me to sign these 20 cds so he can sell them on line…He’s maybe played 10 shows in 10 years and doesn’t even plug in his bass when on stage…he just wants the selfie of him on stage…everything was fine until the moment I take down his distasteful meme about Ozzys death…
Now it’s has turned into let’s try to cancel out Bill Manspeaker & all the nice things he’s ever done for people…This person decided to defame Ozzy with a terrible joke about his death on my green jello social media page & I removed it…Now all this hate is the result…ask yourself 1 thing who is the real issue…the guy who has no respect for a man’s death and mocked Ozzy or the guy who immediately took it down because it was disrespectful…if I ever helped you out or spent a moment with you please post a nice comment about our times on the YouTube video…Right now it’s a complete sh*t show…
I am home from tour enjoying time off with my family & now I gotta deal with this campaign of lies…Nobody should be treated this way because they took down a disgusting post about Ozzy…his name is Micheal Snyder he goes by Fr33to F33t you can find him on facebook & he’s one of the extremely few that’s been officially fired from green jello…”
Snyder apologized for the post via his social media. “You know, it occurred to me, in all of this drama it’s really the Osbourne family that I should apologize to,” he wrote. “I don’t know if they’ll ever see this, but I’m truly sorry if I offended any of you. We’ve done lots of dark humor on the Green Jellÿ page, and I never meant to hurt anyone. I’m actually an Ozzy fan, I even have a signed photo framed. I’ve seen Ozzy live three times. I thought Ozzy wore his issues on his sleeve, and thought it was inline with Ozzy’s sense of humor. Some of the Green Jellÿ fans didn’t feel the same. Again, I sincerely apologize if I hurt anyone.”
Snyder also said that the trouble apparently didn’t come about until Manspeaker later posted an AI cartoon image of Ozzy and Hulk Hogan, which has since also been deleted, that drew further criticism. Alleged internal text messages show Snyder initially apologizing to Manspeaker who wrote “No worries, I don’t care,” and “Don’t quit. No big deal.”
Shortly after, however, Manspeaker made several other derogatory posts about Snyder that he later took down. Snyder has taken screenshots of those posts and posted them to his Facebook page. He also said that Manspeaker is claiming his accounts have been hacked by Snyder as a cover for several fans complaining about unfulfilled merchandise orders.
