{"id":150620,"date":"2022-12-07T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-subreddit-finally-turns-on-kanye-west\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T09:30:08","slug":"kanye-west-subreddit-finally-turns-on-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-subreddit-finally-turns-on-kanye-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West subreddit finally turns on Kanye West."},"content":{"rendered":"
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For decades, Kanye West was one of the most magnetic celebrities on earth. This was evident not only in the bestselling albums, packed concerts, and mega-hyped sneaker drops, but in the thriving online communities that organized around him. Ye had earned a devoted subreddit with hundreds of thousands of followers, a handful of highly influential fan forums, and a quick-to-mobilized army of snake-emoji-ready soldiers ready to man the Instagram ramparts. Even as West became more and more controversial a public figure, and his new albums became less and less vital, these fans found comraderie among one another and occasionally still organized to defend their fave.<\/p>\n

At least until now. Having witnessing Ye’s yearslong escalation from \u201cdragon energy\u201d mantras to open Hitler worship, many of these former stans are finally ready to leave their onetime idol behind\u2014though not \u201cthe friends we made along the way,\u201d as r\/Kanye moderator Clement Leveau put it to me. \u201cKanye brought all of us together, but we don’t identify with him anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2016, as Ye’s reactionary turn advanced from public support for Donald Trump to sporting bigoted symbols like the \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d slogan and the swastiska, plenty of attention has turned to the fan communities: subreddits like r\/Kanye, forums like KanyeToThe, Instagram and Twitter accounts like @TeamKanyeDaily. For all of them, grappling with Ye’s reactionary drift has been a yearslong struggle; as Aaron Mak reported for Slate four years ago, KanyeToThe’s reckoning with its hero’s MAGA turn dates back to 2018, when he told TMZ that slavery was a \u201cchoice.\u201d But West’s dining with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and praise for Hitler during an infowars <\/em>appearance were the \u201cabsolute breaking point,\u201d Leveau stated, and now these spaces are condemning Ye much more strongly. On Oct. 28, a KanyeToThe admin pinned an official \u201cStatement on Antisemitism,\u201d which declared that \u201cAntisemitic content is not tolerated under any circumstances in our forums.\u201d TeamKanyeDaily hasn’t posted an update in weeks. And r\/Kanye has transformed into a Holocaust memorial space, a dumping ground for cathartic anti-Ye rants, and\u2014gasp!\u2014a shrine to Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

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