A Brazilian court has ordered Instagram to reinstate the account of a man who closely resembles hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg.
Jorge Toledo, 42, had his Instagram account banned by the social network in July, according to Brazilian news site G1.
Instagram was given 48 hours to reinstate Toledo’s @snoop.carioca account on October 27 after the case was heard by the 1st Special Civil Court of the District of Duque de Caixas.
However, as of Thursday evening, it was not possible to talk about Toledo.
Toledo said he doesn’t know why Instagram blocked his account.
‘They didn’t tell me, they just pushed me’, he said.
DailyMail.com reached out to Instagram for comment.
A Brazilian court ordered Instagram on October 27 to reactivate Jorge Toledo’s account, but it had not yet been activated as of Thursday afternoon.
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Toledo said he first identified himself as Snoop Dogg’s doppelganger after strangers approached him during a class in Rio de Janeiro and told him he reminded him of they are about the rapper.
‘I always have beautiful hair. At the carnival they rightly said I look like Snoop. I didn’t care,’ he said. ‘I like him, but I listen to Michael Jackson more.’
The married father who took Snoop Dogg’s hair became a social media star.
‘I did braids and hangs,’ she recalls. ‘It became a meme. My friend sent me a video. Snoop saw it.’
Snoop Dogg finally caught the video in February 2020 and joked, ‘I found my cousin in Brazil.’
Jorge Toledo, a resident of Rio de Janeiro, is waiting on Instagram to comply with the court order and allow him to re-enter his account, which will allow him to generate income. to support his wife and children.
Jorge Toledo (pictured) rose to fame in Rio de Janeiro as the doppelganger of hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg and became famous in February 2020 when the rapper shared a video of the Brazilian man and claims to have found his ‘cousin’.
Jorge Toledo (left) is a Brazilian developer who came to prominence in 2020 after Snoop Dogg posted a video about him. The 42-year-old has been hailed as the rapper’s doppelganger
The footage went viral and has since been viewed more than 2.7 million times
Toledo hopes Instagram will comply with the court order and give him access to an account that has more than 24,000 followers and open up new ways to make money.
Snoop Dogg’s sudden appearance allowed him to work three jobs as a cleaner, car wash and street vendor to support his wife and children.
‘Deactivating the account of a digital developer is very important and we can compare it to taking a football from a player or a microphone from a singer, you will die from his work,’ the lawyer and Toledo, Felipe Camargo, told G1. ‘He can’t make a statement or be seen to do anything new. And platforms like Instagram don’t produce content. Those who produce it are the influencers and the users, and the wheel turns.’
