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Joshua Wolens

Activision quietly and permanently drops entire legal case against TikTok meme maker it previously alleged had tried to shake it down for an 'extortionate' fee

Anthony Fantano looks quizzical in front of a square reading 'worst albums'.

 Activision—the Call of Duty company and one half of the largest acquisition in videogame history—has dropped its lawsuit against Anthony Fantano—online music critic and pizza meme guy—mere weeks after launching it, Axios reports.

Activision originally sued Fantano to stop him suing it first. Fantano is the creator of the "Enough slices!" meme, an audio clip of the critic becoming increasingly alarmed as a pizza is cut into infinitesimally smaller portions that you've almost definitely encountered in a TikTok somewhere. Activision used the meme itself in a short TikTok video about (stay with me here) Crash Bandicoot-themed sneakers, and Fantano apparently took exception.

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