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Sat Dec 3, 2022, 10:03 AM Dec 2022

Kanye West's Massive Reddit Page Overtaken by Taylor Swift Appreciation, Holocaust Awareness Content

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/kanye-west-reddit-taylor-swift-appreciation-holocaust-awareness-1235448134/

Dec 2, 2022 10:43am PT

Kanye West’s Massive Reddit Page Overtaken by Taylor Swift Appreciation, Holocaust Awareness Content as Fans Abandon Him

By EJ Panaligan

The tables seem to have turned for Kanye West fans. Following the 45-year-old’s appearance on right-wing talk show host Alex Jones’ “Infowars” on Thursday, where he continued to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric and deliberately gave praise to Adolf Hitler and Nazis, fans on the artist’s r/Kanye Reddit page, which has more than 700,000 subscribers, have decided to turn the subreddit into a Taylor Swift appreciation page.

Its spearheading post declared in its title: “This is now a Taylor Swift Subreddit. We had a good run fellas,” and has about 33,000 upvotes in agreement with the statement. Comments immediately rallied support for the singer, with some even confessing that their dislike of Swift throughout the pair’s long history of contention was misguided.

“I absolutely loathed [Swift] back in 2016/17 just because I took Ye’s side in their beef. Kinda regret it now that I like some of her music and it’s awfully clear that Kanye is a horrible person,” one comment remarked. Additional posts have become discussions about which Swift album West fans liked the best, while other comments remarked that Swift now “made ‘Graduation'” (a rather complicated reference to a longstanding retort by West’s fans about his problematic behavior, i.e. he got a pass “because he made ‘Graduation,'” his popular 2007 album).

West and Swift have been at odds since the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when West interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Video by a Female Artist to declare his support for Beyoncé. That incident was furthered in 2016 on the song “Famous” off the rapper’s “The Life of Pablo” album, when he declared: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that b—h famous.” Swift publicly denounced the lyric at the 2016 Grammy Awards and West and ex-wife Kim Kardashian later leaked a phone conversation with Swift where she seemingly gave approval to the lyric — the call was later revealed to be edited and Swift never signed off on West’s lines. Since then, the 32-year-old singer has refrained from engaging with the troubled rapper any further, though their respective fanbases have kept the feud alive.

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Kanye West's Massive Reddit Page Overtaken by Taylor Swift Appreciation, Holocaust Awareness Content (Original Post) sl8 Dec 2022 OP
The Dude should've been smacked down a long time ago. no_hypocrisy Dec 2022 #1
Will THere Ever Come ADay When WE Don't Hear His Nam Anymore? Me. Dec 2022 #2

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1. The Dude should've been smacked down a long time ago.
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 10:10 AM
Dec 2022

Said on the Concert for 9/11 that George W. Bush hated all black people.

Persuaded/pressured his mother to get a face lift, the consequences of which were her death.

Came on stage to humiliate Taylor Swift on 2009 to make an unabashed play for Beyonce in front of her husband.

Put online in 2016 in his video, Famous a compilation of celebrities sleeping in the same bed, Taylor Swift (again) next to Ye.

Kanye West has been trolling for years. Even going after media celebrity Kim Kardashian and marrying her was trolling.

Still consumers were still buying his music and merch. Money triumphed over morality.



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