In a faintly surreal legal contretemps, Axios reports that Activision is taking YouTube and TikTok music critic Anthony Fantano (also known as theneedledrop) to court. Activision is suing Fantano to stop him from suing it first, after the critic took issue with the company using an audio clip of him in a 19-second TikTok video about Crash Bandicoot-themed sneakers.
You might be familiar with the Fantano clip in question. It's also known as the "Enough slices!" meme and was taken from one of the critic's 2021 TikToks in which he reacts with increasing horror as a pizza is cut into ever-thinner portions. The audio has been used in countless videos since it was first uploaded, but Fantano took issue when Activision used it in one of its own TikToks uploaded in June (it's since been taken down).
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