Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West really has some pretty serious pull. The hip-hop veteran has the head of Twitter’s attention following suggestions about possibly hiding followers/likes across social media accounts.
Yeezy went to Instagram – coincidentally – Thursday (September 20) with a screenshot of his convo with Twitter head Jack Dorsey about reconsidering how certain stats are displayed.
Earlier in the day, Kanye jumped on Twitter to suggest followers/likes could ultimately have negative impacts on users.
we should be able to participate in social media without having to show how many followers or likes we have. Just like how we can turn off the comments we should be able to turn off the display of followers. This has an intense negative impact on our self worth.
— ye (@kanyewest) September 20, 2018
Social media can be good but we have to hold the heads responsible for the psychological damage it sometimes causes. https://t.co/g81IBjqqaK
— ye (@kanyewest) September 20, 2018
Back in February, Kanye pulled the plug on his Instagram page and terminated his account.
Mercurial mad genius Kanye West has already deleted his Instagram account again after an all-too-brief return to praise his wife Kim Kardashian (and several other high-profile celebrity couples) on Valentine’s Day. Kanye originally deleted his accounts around eight months ago while recovering from an onstage meltdown during his Saint Pablo tour. The resulting public backlash and physical exhaustion of the tour caused him to retreat from public life while earning him a lawsuit and a very angry reference on Jay-Z’s Grammy-nominated album, 4:44. (Uproxx)
A day prior, Kanye spent hours putting together pics some of the entertainment industry’s biggest current and former couples on his page.
He started with photos of Madonna and Sean Penn and Barack and Michelle Obama, and by the time he was finished, he had name-dropped Ellen DeGeneres, Sonny & Cher, John & Yoko, Dennis Rodman, David Bowie, Iman, JFK, Jackie O, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, Kid Rock, the dude from Sum 41, a fictional couple from “Sex & the City,” and so many others. The series ended, of course, with photos of West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West. He’s since deactivated his account once more.) (Pitchfork)
why’s kanye’s insta turned into some tumblr screenshot page of couple goals pic.twitter.com/BzpyS099S0
— faith (@fvrubz) February 15, 2018
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