Photo of Beyoncé and Jay-Z kids posted to internet without permission

A new photo of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s kids was posted to the internet.

But fans of the two musicians aren’t happy about it.

According to a number of fans, the photo — of Blue Ivy, Rumi,

and Sir Carter sitting in a field — was never supposed to make its way online,

and represents a rupture in the way Beyoncé and Jay-Z have normally protected the public images of their children.

The photo was published on the Instagram account of The Hollywood Unlocked, an entertainment and lifestyle news site run by a man named Jason Lee. Lee is a controversial figure in some entertainment circles, and he’s the main target of Beyoncé fans’ ire. The image itself seemed to be a photo of a portrait of the kids, framed and hanging on a wall. You could see the glare from a light in the image.

Lee told INSIDER that the portrait was taken down Wednesday afternoon after a Beyoncé representative told him the image was “not authorized.”

“We received a photo of Beyoncé’s children via an anonymous source and posted the image believing that it had already been posted by the Carters,” he told INSIDER. “After receiving a call from Beyoncé’s representative and learning that the image was not authorized we immediately removed it from our platform out of respect for their privacy.”

The original source remains mysterious

But the caption in The Hollywood Unlocked’s now-deleted Instagram post attributed the image to Freeish Media rather than “an anonymous source.” Freeish Media’s own Instagram account mostly posts screenshots of funny tweets from other people and memes it slaps its own logo on.

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Kecia Gayle, a representative for The Hollywood Unlocked, told INSIDER that the photo was actually sent to the company from a fan, but that The Hollywood Unlocked credited Freeish Media after an employee saw that Freeish Media posted the photo first.

“We receive many direct messages from fans all the time,” Gayle said. “Once we saw that Freeish Media posted it first on their platform, we decided to give them credit.”

Beyoncé and Jay-Z accept their 2019 BRIT Award in front of a portrait of Meghan Markle. YouTube/BRITs

The now-deleted Freeish Media post, though, was actually a screenshot from a Twitter post from the Beyoncé fan account @713yonce. The account has since been deleted.

A representative for Freeish told INSIDER that it took the photo from a social media post by a Beyoncé fan.

“[We] are very active in Queen Beyoncè Giselle Knowles Hyphen Carter’s fandom known as her ‘hive’ and regularly find rare/unseen content featuring her and her family,” the representative said. “Many popular accounts follow us across social media and sometimes share our content with their audiences!”

On Twitter, Beyhive members are furious at Lee, who they blame for taking the photo. Some pointed to a video from February, where Beyoncé appears to avoid Lee at a Roc Nation party at the couple’s house.

—Mac (@Malc_white1) February 11, 2019

Within the Beyoncé stan community, people are furious at Lee for sharing the image.

—KEY-LI (@NoFakeBarbs) April 3, 2019
—. (@BadddBitchB) April 3, 2019
—Nyla (@nickidefender) April 3, 2019

Lee removing the image from The Hollywood Unlocked’s Instagram account may be too little, too late. The image had already been duplicated and reposted on Twitter and elsewhere online. Some of those posts have since been removed as well.

Representatives for Beyoncé and Jay-Z didn’t immediately respond to INSIDER’s request for comment.

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