The moderator of Kanye West’s largest Reddit discussion board says the web page has turn out to be a “massacre” following the rapper’s antisemitic feedback.
Throughout a 15 October look on the Drink Champs podcast, West, who legally modified his title to Ye, blamed “Jewish media” and “Jewish Zionists” for quite a few alleged wrongdoings, saying that “Jewish individuals have owned the Black voice” and that “the Jewish neighborhood, particularly within the music trade… they’ll take us and milk us until we die”.
The 45-year-old rapper additionally sparked controversy by claiming that George Floyd died from the drug fentanyl and {that a} police officer’s knee “wasn’t even on his neck like that”.
Attributable to Ye’s feedback, a Reddit web page known as r/Kanye, which has over 700,000 followers, has been a relentless supply of interplay between the rapper’s followers.
Ian Slater, who’s the moderator of this web page, spoke to Insider about how latest controversies have seen a change within the discussion board.
“The world as we all know it’s gone,” Slater stated of the Ye subreddit, describing the artist’s diehard followers as residents “with no nation”. He additionally stated Ye’s controversies have resulted in him changing to a “Charli XCX man”.
As per Slater, many Ye followers have left the discussion board because of the rapper’s latest feedback, nonetheless, those who nonetheless stay, “they stroll amongst this valley of ash and hearth with eyes that don’t see.
“It’s a massacre out right here,” Slater informed Insider. “[Some] customers are s**tposting their method to an early ban grave.”
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The moderator additionally revealed that he’d be stepping down from his publish.
Earlier this yr, Adidas announced it was terminating its partnership with Ye over a sequence of antisemitic remarks by the rapper, causing him to lose his billionaire status overnight, in accordance with Forbes.
The mother of Floyd’s daughter is also suing the Donda rapper for $250m (£224m) over his declare.
As of the start of November, Ye was within the course of of shopping for various messaging platform Parler, which types itself as an unbiased platform and is common with outstanding US conservative voices.
