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Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.
Spotify, SoundCloud and other tech platforms have worked to remove a new song from Ye that praises Adolf Hitler, but the song and its video have continued to proliferate online including across X, where it has racked up millions of views.
On various mainstream and alternative tech platforms this week, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been able to share his latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” along with its companion title, “WW3,” which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.
While some platforms have taken steps to attempt to pull down the song, others have seemingly let it spread freely.
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Honest question: is Ye just mentally ill, or is Russia manipulating him?
Russia is manipulating him.
Edit: I don’t actually believe this; I just thought it would be hilarious to have two comments with opposing answers. Fuck Kanye
Unless Dr Sergei took him off his meds, this is probably all his own doing.
Being rich clearly means you have no real friends, because any real friend would have sat him down long ago and stopped him doing whatever the fuck this is.
Mentally I’ll with “any publicity is good publicity”.
I can’t remember the details but I remember some time back hearing a pretty compelling argument that he’s actually just a Nazi. It happens, apparently far too much.
Very mentally ill.
Very mentally ill gay fish.
But also it’s super easy to manipulate a mentally ill person. Just keep whispering in his ear that he’s totally right and oh by the way he should be upset about this other thing too, and he will take the bait. Every. Time.
No, he’s just a divorced dad
edit: wow this joke was not well-received. Half of this song is just straight up references to his divorce though, it’s basically a manifesto of the divorced-dad to reactionary pipeline.
Man these people took my kids from me
Then they post my bank account
I got so much anger in me
Got no way to take it outWith all of the money and fame
I still can’t get my kids back
With all of the money and fame
I still don’t get to see my childrenThat man is very much not ok with his divorce.
There’s a kernel of truth in the joke, divorced parents make up a serious section of the right-wing “SovCit” movements, it’s a real entry to the right-wing pipelines.
Both? Just like the conspiracy theory crowd.
What a load of fucking bullshit. They must think we are dumb.
OH no we can’t find his music to delete it guess we’ll just keep cashing in on the listens because it’s viral right now then delete it in a week.
Fucking clowns
hope he will tour in germany soon
It’s not even a good song.
80% of it is him and a crowd of black guys (who may or may not have been AI generated or paid a tonne to get in on the white supremacist grift) chanting “N***a heil Hitler!” The other 20% comes across as some kind of incel or MRA manifesto, where he’s whinging about being cancelled and denied access to his kids.
Kanye has well and truly lost the plot. He needs to be detained in a psych ward…
So platforms (rightfully) remove this song, but are happy to let him have an account and make money off his other songs? If they actually cared, he would have been banned a long time ago…
If they remove his other songs, his fans might gravitate to other platforms. This is why they don’t remove his other songs.
His other songs like from years ago? Maybe those don’t belong to him and the platform does not remove those because that would punish a completely different entity that has nothing to do with what Kanye does now. All his songs prior to 2012 are owned by Def Jam (universal music subsidiary)
So Kanye doesn’t get a penny from his songs he made before 2012?
Why should his other songs be removed?
He’s got another song on that album about showing a younger (?) cousin porn and having sucked his dick. That cousin is in prison for murdering someone. Now, children are curious and child perpetrated sexual abuse is a complicated and messy topic for professionals, but I don’t think you have to be a professional to say “yeah, probably not a good idea to release that.”
If someone keeps making Nazi comments online, should they be banned or just the comments removed?
maybe they should be REMOVED
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Assuming they don’t own the platform?
Man I am so hungry…
You alright bro?
His username? The “funny bit” I am trying to make? Hello? Nobody gets me…
Oh. I am error.
which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.
Oh, that Hitler…
A regular measuring of how many dumbfucks there are isn’t news.
Nazi
I can’t believe it was that incident that revealed Snopes as a nazi outlet(they basically said it was impossible to tell and talked about “not being able to read his mind”. And they have made zero attempts at correcting the article or changing their stance, so they stand by what was written)
They desperately sane wash Trump.
I wonder if it’s connected to the drama behind the site. There was a really good breakdown I read about how a war between the guy and his ex wife over who got to own it…
Got a link?
I think this is the one I read a while back.
There was lots of e-begging in the mid 2010s IIRC.
But htf do you seriously publish this? “But omitted his words explaining the gesture”? No, it’s a fucking Nazi salute.
Can I just say, I fucking hate that line in particular. It’s a thought-killing cliché.
Of course we can’t know what’s in anybody’s mind or heart. So we have to go by their actions. And his actions were, quite plainly to anybody with eyes, a Nazi salute. And honestly, it’s not surprising or shocking that he would do one; his other actions around the world scream “Nazi”.
Man, for years, I had right wing dickbags telling me Snopes was leftist propaganda because it debunked all their crazy bullshit. And now they go and pull something like this.
They’ve been doing it since Charlottesville.
When did he rename himself Ye?
Who listens to this shitty artist anyways. I get the shock or discovery plays, but dude is straight trash anyways lol.
i WISH i didn’t like his stuff, but years ago (pre-Nazi shit by a long time) he used to be a really talented artist and he had a really major effect on rap as a genre. i don’t listen to his old stuff since the Nazi shit cuz he needs consequences fr, no matter how small, but it honestly sucks a lot cuz he has some really really great music. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of the GOAT albums imo, and as sad as it is to say about someone profoundly mentally ill i think it woulda been best for his career if he died around 2016 😭
Lol, Kanye has never been a talented artist. At least, not objectively. Plenty of people have thought he was trash since day one.
By that logic no person in the world is talented at anything lol. I don’t disagree with the idea that people are allowed to hold the opinion Kanye has never been a good artist, but I’m not sure what point you’re trying to go for.
You can just pirate it and he doesn’t get any money, yet you get the music.
Every time it comes on i think that, but it’s usually in the car and i forget by the time it’s relevant lmao
People have their own music tastes and that’s okay
For example, you now have something other than Skrewdriver to listen to.
What an ignorant thing to say, he’s a fucked up person but he’s one of the most talented musicians of our age. He singlehandedly ended gangster raps reign over the rap genre by dropping an album where he sang about his feelings in autotune. Honestly I don’t know why im arguing with you, you’re probably just gonna turn around and use some shit excuse like “its mumble rap” or something.
Nah, I respect your opinion and taste. That’s the thing about art, you can love or hate it. You love it, and I hate it. Simple as that.
I could never stand him even at the peak of his popularity.
The “Golddigger” song wasn’t terrible, but then, I’m not a huge rap fan, so that’s the only song of his I know.
i couldn’t name a single one, or recognize him or his songs from the audio alone. and i’m only cursed with knowing what the asshat even looks like because the attention whore gets the media attention he craves.
Understood. I was just stating my experience.
I have no desire to delve deeper.
Same. I could probably fill a page of A4 with stuff I know about him because I got fed it by The Algorithm, and yet nowhere on that page would there be the name of one of his songs.
Meanwhile my social accounts get shut down within minutes of me posting PG beach photos that the algorithm claims are promoting sexual activity. I know I’m sexy, but tech platforms aren’t facing challenges, this is intentional.
That AI isn’t going to let you get away with posting beach photos with (I’m guessing) mild nudity or skimpy clothes that are perfectly acceptable attire.
No sir, how dare you!
Scantily-clad people? On my internet?
Such a preposterous proposition!
Damm just too hot 😔
There was a trans woman who made an account on some social media account called “do I have boobs yet” and posted a topless pic every day after starting estrogen until her posts started getting taken down.
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So when is he going to get a conservatorship?
He’s clearly in need of others making decisions for him.
Part of the song is complaining about how he can’t access his bank account, so maybe there’s action there.
But we all know conservatorships are really for when your child who you relentlessly groomed as a sex object wants to start keeping her own money. (How much do you think Dan Schneider paid off the family to keep anyone from knowing who her sisters baby daddy was?)
his mom died, so no other conservator, kim already left him years ago.
He should just jump into the sea and start living with other gay fish
I can only think about that Chapelle show skit.
When I think of Chapelle now, I think of the time he had Musk on stage and call his audience poor for booing Musk.
Also his stupid comedy special about how you can’t make shitty jokes about trans people, which demonstrated that you still can in fact make lots of stupid shitty jokes about trans people and be rewarded for it.
That too.
Btw, do you remember an article written by a queer Black person who critiqued the first special? I’ve been looking for it for a while because it was the most succulent I had found on the matter. One of their criticisms was that Chappelle said that trans was a white person problem.
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