Kanye West believes some social media customers are being pushed to suicide over lack of engagement from their followers.
“There are people who find themselves committing suicide as a result of not getting sufficient likes,” Ye tweeted Saturday (Sept. 22). “Seeking validation within the simulation.”
Ye’s tweet hyperlinks to a just lately printed New York Magazine article — titled “Kanye West Is Finally Right About Something: Twitter Should Lose Its Metrics” — that cites feedback he made suggesting that social media platforms ought to shut off feedback, likes, retweets, favorites on posted content material.
“We ought to have the ability to take part in social media with out having to indicate what number of followers or likes now we have,” West tweeted Sept. 20. “Just like how we are able to flip off the feedback we must always have the ability to flip off the show of followers. This has an intense detrimental impression on our self price.”
The rapper and clothier additionally likened the quantity of likes somebody has on social media to “how a lot cash you could have within the financial institution” or “having to write down the dimensions of you d–k in your t shirt.”
Earlier this week, Kanye additionally posted cryptic social media messages about doable new music. On Monday the rapper revealed that “Yhandi” would be the musical visitor on the Sept. 29 episode of Saturday Night Live. A second picture confirmed a CD strikingly much like the Yeezus album cowl, sparking theories that the second installment of the album is on its means.
Adding gasoline to the flame, “Yhandi” appears to be a play on Ghandi, similar to Yeezus was a play on Jesus.
There are people who find themselves committing suicide as a result of not getting sufficient likes. Seeking validation within the simulation. We want a live-streamed assembly with Jack Dorsey Kevin Systrom Mike Krieger Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Spiegal. pic.twitter.com/boAbEDqIyG
— ye (@kanyewest) September 22, 2018
Speaking for myself I personally need to take part in social media with the choice of not having to indicate my followers or likes
— ye (@kanyewest) September 22, 2018
Having your quantity of likes on show for the world to see and decide is like displaying how a lot cash you could have within the financial institution or having to write down the dimensions of your dick in your t shirt
— ye (@kanyewest) September 22, 2018
