Ring of Elysium, accused of stealing the image of Mei Yan (Lynn) - Ultimate Guide

The Chinese-American model Mei Yan and also known for its content on the YouTube platform has publicly stated that Tencent, the famous Chinese video game distributor, uses his image without authorization in his battle royale Ring of Elysium for one of his characters. The youtuber wrote a Twitt in which he expresses his opinion on the similarities that have his original photo and Lynn (the character of Ring of Elysium), where small details are appreciated in the locker room, ensures that his face is also used in The character, even one of his poses is suspiciously similar to the one he did in a photo shoot for the Omocat clothing brand.

Its publication has received more than 1000 retweets, which makes it clear that it is public domain and although Tencent has not given official details or commented on it, I remove all the advertising content that was where I appeared Lynn, even remove the trailer of the game on Youtube where the character was shown, so we can deduce that the company is already aware of the inconvenience caused.

I also used the instagram social network for their accusations through a post that explained: "I do not think there is a single person who disagrees that the game Ring of Elysium and his company, Tencent, stole my appearance and image. This is a picture I took over 5 years ago working with Omocat and the other one is an edited image of me that was used to promote his character Lynn. "

Mei Yan hopes that his lawsuit will be widely disseminated in networks and in addition to a Kotaku conferencing that "people have been paying for this Adventurer Pass, and therefore paying to have access to this aspect, I feel that, in a certain way, they have been deceived, and that is not right. "

"I learned about this for weeks and decided that I would not do anything but spread the news because I thought there was nothing else to do, but after they motivated me, I think I will at least try to contact them" was the last thing he said about it, the model and youtuber.