It’s hard to imagine that anyone who chooses to rock a mullet — possibly the most maligned hairstyle in history — would also be self-conscious enough to care what anyone thinks of it. But Australian teen Ali Ziggi Mosslmani, who goes by Ziggy, is one such person. He is suing the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and an Australian radio network for defamation after they republished viral memes of a photo of him dancing at a party with commentary calling the haircut ridiculous, the Guardian reported.

Last year, the 16-year-old Ziggy was photographed at an 18th birthday party dancing:

Ziggy Mosslmani told to mull over mullet defamation bid in Sydney court https://t.co/9mHtgGF5Qb (Pic: Jeremy Nool) pic.twitter.com/gHRLvkALfY — ABC News (@abcnews) October 26, 2016

Friend Jeremy Nool took the picture, who told the Daily Mail in its original coverage that he posted the photo on Facebook, where the internet grabbed hold of it and proceeded to gleefully Photoshop Ziggy into a slew of mullet-themed memes. Ziggy was placed at Mount Rushmore (as all four heads), on the U.S. dollar bill, and as a horse:

Ok, so this #ZiggyMosslmani kid is now suing the media for causing him to be ridiculed? Uh? Did they cut his… https://t.co/ocl1mLgxtn — Wade Garrett (@DJ_Wade_Garrett) October 26, 2016

In others, he was put on a My Little Pony ad, or portrayed as a pin the tail on the donkey (the mullet is the tail, of course).

Then there’s the one where everyone’s head in the original photo is replaced with Ziggy’s mulleted head, or a choice meme where his mullet is replaced with a picture of a skunk.

In the coverage at the Daily Telegraph, a friend of Mosslmani’s said Ziggy had his hair cut this way for years, and “couldn’t care less,” and that he “doesn’t mind people he doesn’t know making fun but annoyed at people he knows who are doing it.” But the lawsuit proves otherwise. Mosslmani’s lawyers argue that the portrayals of his hair as “ridiculous” or “horrendous” by multiple outlets defame him as “hideously ugly” and “a joke.”

The preliminary judgment on the case (with PDFs to the offending media links) from Judge Judith Gibson, says Mosslmani has “overpleaded” his accusations, and will have to amend some of his claims. Gibson writes that none of the coverages “suggest physical ugliness on the part of the plaintiff, let alone “hideous” ugliness. “The plaintiff has not been compared to Frankenstein, or some other hideously ugly figure; his haircut has been criticised as ridiculous,” Gibson wrote.

“These are very short publications which make the point that the plaintiff’s striking mullet haircut has generated a great deal of interest on the Internet, most of it humorous, and some of it in the form of clever observations, such as the ‘Pythagoras’ direction in one of the memes.”

Gibson’s only concession in the preliminary judgment to Ziggy’s claims is that “the closest any such picture gets to suggesting there is anything unattractive (as opposed to ridiculous) in the plaintiff’s appearance is the photograph where a skunk has been added to the plaintiff’s head.”

But Gibson notes that in the context of the other memes included in the media coverage, that particular portrayal is still only in support of the ridiculousness of the hairstyle, and “this is not the same as saying that the plaintiff is ugly.”

The case heads back to court for another preliminary hearing on November 17.