Kanye West shared a couple of ideas on Thursday (Sept. 20) which were sitting on his aware for a while now. One is the destructive influence of social media, which Yeezy believes is plaguing our youth. West even posted a dialog with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey relating to stripping the significance of follower counts on their app.
“We ought to have the ability to take part in social media with out having to point out what number of followers or likes we’ve got. Just like how we will flip off the feedback we should always have the ability to flip off the show of followers,” he tweeted early Thursday. “This has an intense destructive influence on our self-worth.”
Yeezy adopted up by posting a video of Denzel Washington urging the youth to steer clear of the poisonous setting that social media has created to be able to preserve a wholesome life-style. “Social media could be good however we’ve got to carry the heads answerable for the psychological harm it typically causes,” West captioned.
Dorsey might have gotten wind of Ye’s sentiments, prompting him to ship the outspoken Chicago artist a textual content message in regards to the potential modifications coming to Twitter’s platform. “We’ve been pondering deeply in regards to the follower and like counts, and what that incentivizes. We wish to change. What made sense 12 years in the past does not make sense right this moment,” the Twitter CEO started. “Us making that quantity daring and large incentivized folks to wish to improve it, and really feel unhealthy in the event that they could not. That’s not proper. We wish to incentivize contribution to the worldwide dialog and consciousness.”
Additionally, West took goal at Nick Cannon, Tyson Beckford, and Drake in a sequence of movies for his or her false commentary surrounding his wife Kim Kardashian. He later pleaded as soon as once more that he was not answerable for giving Pusha-T the knowledge that was used on “The Story of Adidon” earlier this summer time.
Check out Kanye’s ideas on social media and his dialog with Jack Dorsey under.
we should always have the ability to take part in social media with out having to point out what number of followers or likes we’ve got. Just like how we will flip off the feedback we should always have the ability to flip off the show of followers. This has an intense destructive influence on our self price.
— ye (@kanyewest) September 20, 2018
