Kanye West has been sued and dropped by his talent agency after he posted a stream of antisemitic abuse, put T-shirts with a swastika on sale in his online shop, and was alleged to have described himself as Hitler to a Jewish employee.
Last week West, also known as Ye, wrote a barrage of antisemitic posts on X including, “I’m a Nazi … I love Hitler”.
The swastika T-shirt was placed for sale on the website of his fashion brand Yeezy, with the product line “HH-01”, assumed to be code for “Heil Hitler”.
Shopify, the company that provided the online platform for Yeezy, has now taken the store offline, stating: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms.”
I have some bad news for Yeezy. Nazis
weren’taren’t very fond of brown people either.Or the mentally ill…
Shopify only dropped him because they didn’t think he’d actually ship the swastika shirts, not because he was selling the swastika shirts.
Shopify when this happened: No comment.
Shopify after blowback: This is an abhorrent abuse of our policies! We are all adither!
In conclusion: Fuck Shopify. And obligatory fuck ICE.
Nothing to add except I’ve never seen “adither” written out. I’ve been saying “A tizzy” all my life. 🫣
I reported yeezy.com for being in violation of GoDaddy’s Terms Of Use.
Doubt it was me that caused any of this, but we can all do our part 😊
It says “This store is unavailable” which means it’s probably not a DNS or webserver block and still uses the shop software to serve the page. So it’s most likely a Shopify block.
Welp here’s hoping he loses the domain next.
Good riddance.
Let this be his only legacy.
I worked with someone who defended Kanye for like a year after he went publicly apeshit. Probably up until at least 2019 when I last spoke to him on the topic. He just kept claiming that it was so unfair that Kanye was getting judged as an off-meds mentally ill person suffering. Which I would get, as long as he wasn’t hurting other people. But that’s been the motherfucker’s raison-etre for a while now.
Would they extend anyone else dealing with untreated mental illness the same benefit?
Yeah, if you aren’t ridiculously wealthy and you start crashing out like this, you usually just lose your job and get kicked out on the street.
Being a little stinky in public is enough to get most mentally ill folks harassed by cops.
Likely. Not sure.
I thought that kind of attitude was normal to have. I don’t think my literally insane coworker is an evil person just because the voices in his head tell him to be racist
Well now there’s a ten dollar word if I’ve ever seen one.
Slips scrabble back to the top…
Dang I misspelled it. Raison d’etre, from French, meaning “reason for being”. Probably couldn’t use it in Scrabble.
Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. You’re not my supervisor.
I did say probably
😋
May his future be lit by the bridges he’s burned.
He still had a TA after the last nonsense? Who is that TA and wtf is wrong with them?
Let’s not forget the first time he got banned from Twitter when he put “the Jews” on “deathcon 5.” This guy is broken. I hope he can get some help.
Give him a one way ticket to birkenau and see if he can feel more at home
Why is this guy still a thing? He dropped relevance in 2009
I suppose this is exactly why…
Yup, he’s craving attention
That guy had a talent agent? Any port in the storm I guess.
And he’ll probably have another one shortly. Plenty of assholes out there who will make money off of him until it becomes untenable… then someone on a lower tier will pick him up
