A photographer ran a Facebook page with 2 million likes. Overnight, it disappeared.

Meet Willy Foo. He’s an accomplished professional photographer from Singapore. He stands out for running an incredibly popular Facebook page with over two million likes.

That page has disappeared overnight.

You can still see traces of it on Google though:

But click on the link, and you’ll be directed to an error message:

Turns out Facebook removed it. “The account was disabled as a result of repeated intellectual property violations,” a Facebook spokesperson told Tech in Asia, adding that the page contradicted Facebook’s statement of rights and responsibilities.

“We take violations of our standards seriously, and that is why we remove content, profiles and Pages that violate our standards when we are made aware of it.”

The spokesperson said that Facebook received a complaint, and took action after determining there were grounds to do so.

A Facebook search revealed that Willy had repeatedly posted viral videos taken from other sources. Take for example this video, created by Canadian company 2D House:

Willy responds

Facebook’s wrath