Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West directed viewers to his website, where the homepage was selling a T-shirt with a swastika on the front.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yes-website-selling-swastika-shirts-boosting-profile-super-bowl-ad-rcna191432Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works604
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I couldn't have taken enough drugs to write this timeline 20 years ago. WTF is happening? Maybe CERN did break the universe with the LHC
Harambee was our anchor being. Everything's been fraying at the edges since that day.
We had a second chance with Peanut the Squirrel. We fucked it up again.
The world really ended in 2012. We're living through the blooper reel.
Someone needs to stop using the What If machine!
We'd use the universal translator instead, but it just spouts crazy gibberish.
Clean your links! https://youtu.be/pwODwwgE6rA
No
"I'm gonna ask it the dumbest thing I can think of: What if Donald Trump became president?"
"Oh yeah? I'm gonna ask it what if Donald Trump lost re-election, then got re-elected?"
machine explodes
So that's what things would be if what's happening was just a result of a what if machine...
A man can dream, though. A man can dream.
I'm convinced that the timeline split happened in 1971.
ew a bitcoin evangelist site
*goldbug
"Yes, and".
All the way at the bottom are the Bitcoin white paper and a site to their merch store where you can get a shirt with Nixon or Regan or whatever doing a pose with the Bitcoin logo.
That was added later then. This was a goldbug site from the start. It’s also wrong about most of the reasoning unsurprisingly
Makes sense, there's a lot of "bluh, fiat" overlap.
Almost the plot to Cloverfield paradox
You must have been really optimistic to expect something different out of these morons, to me it's more surprising they managed to keep quiet until now
No, this is just a Nazi who has always been shitty. If you were fooled by him at any point, then now is the time to question your judgment. If not, then good for you. But you're still not infallible... None of us are.
And what's sad is that he's wealthier than everyone that uses lemmy, combined.
Why the fuck does good shit always happen to bad people, and good people always get shit on?
Money does, however, buy security. Money would solve all of my worst problems and make the other ones easier to handle. We don’t need a lot, but sure as hell need more than we have now and people like him don’t deserve a damn fucking cent(besides any universal social programs because that’s what universal means and I ain’t gunna be that guy).
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but a lack of money is sure to bring unhappiness.
Well he deserves a different level of miserable.
Probably not a popular opinion around here, but this is actually one of the rare cases where he is (was) extremely talented at his main thing (producing). That doesn't mean he deserves that disproportionate amount of wealth, but he's contributed more to culture than elon ever could.
This is basically undeniable, but what really makes me sad is the artists who don't seem to be Nazis or even right wing but still support this dude and stand up for him because he's been so influential on many of them.
You don't get wealthy if you're good, because it takes a certain amount of greed and materialism
It gets better. Shopify took down the store. This is what replaced it 😆
He knows he's black, right?
https://youtu.be/BLNDqxrUUwQ
it's a shame he died after the show aired.
He was that committed to the cause
He's "one of the good ones" and rich so he's all good.
That's always worked out in the past.
This must be proof that equality has been reached. Now he can be a rich bigot too! Welcome!
I think he forgot that a long time ago.
He sounds dumber every time he tries to become relevant again. Does Kim have sile custody? Because I would go after it now.
And mentally ill
Doesn't matter to him. He still wants to be a bigot.
He's not only convinced they would say he's "One of the good ones," but he actually likes the idea.
I'd like to see what the people at the local Nazis convention has to say about it.
What's insane is that FOX allowed this commercial to air in the first place. I'm sure someone at FOX will say "We had no idea he would put this on his site", which we'll all know is bullshit because they scrutinize the fuck out of every Super Bowl ad before it gets to air. There is a 0% chance that nobody knew about this beforehand.
At least the next Superbowl halftime show is going to be interesting:
There is absolutely no excuse for this u/Remember_the_tooth. This is wildly inappropriate and completely out of date. There is absolutely NO excuse generative AI and MLL can't remake this for a sequel using actual Kekius and Trumpf for the modern times.
That's a really good point. Why rehash Mel Brooks' old content when we have actual live NeoNazis on our front porch. Kudos to you for your insight. We could probably just livestream a rally.
Guys, just because he went on Alex Jones to make racist jokes and talk about how much he loves Hitler doesn't mean he's a nazi
Do we know when the website was changed? He could well have changed it the moment the advert went live.
I was on his website yesterday and there was no swastika then. There was "white lives matter" and a bunch of nazi-adjacent symbols with plausible deniability but no outright swastika.
What a strange chap.
Strange is an understatement
I heard it didn't air in all regions?
The commercial itself didn’t feature the shirt or any nazi imagery. It was a 30 second clip of Kanye in a dentists chair telling you to visit his website. It only aired in LA.
I don’t understand this timeline.
https://youtu.be/4eR--0vYHGc
I saw it. I'm not in Louisiana or Los Angeles.
The ADL is a zionist organization that was literally founded to protect a pedophile and child rapist who was, with no relevance to those actions whatsoever, Jewish. Do not take any of their "stances" as being for social justice.
Do you have a source on Sigmund Livingston being a pedophile?
If you see someone wearing that shirt, it is only right to deck them in the temple
Wow this is how old now, and I just noticed on the left starts clapping. An applause worthy punch for sure
This stick? I carry it for walking.
soup, soup for my family
Does this mean whatever payment processing center is used for his site is also pro, whatever this is?
It's shopify, which requires an account to report. So if anyone has a shopify account, please do the needful. Can probably be considered a threat of violence or terrorist organization, or both.
I have an account.
When I tried to report it as terrorist organization, the form gets stuck in a redirect loop. It's broken.
Threat of violence worked but I needed to provide my full name, phone number and address which felt pretty shit.
And yet I bet if you tried to set up a storefront with a certain sibling of Mario, you’d get shut down instantly.
https://lemmy.world/post/25419277
Looks like a few requests made it in.
lol what the fuck is going on in America?
End stage capitalism
Not yet
Smart has never been proven to cause rich, but is often correlated with it.
Karma
Sometimes when someone tells you who they are, you should just believe them.
Adding "Ye" to my list of blocked words
Ye of little faith
Wow, no need to go all body shaming :(
Man that’s just mean. 🤣
They'll never know.
I want to but I think the Thunder filter feature is a bit aggressive. I blocked the word "US" but I realized a long while later that it was also blocking all links to my instance sh.itjust.works. I'm afraid I'll lose all titles with "yesterday" or "yes".
I’m working on my own lemmy app. It would be cool to have settings for your filters like containers, starts with, ends with, word, part of word. But I also need to strike a balance between average users and power users. Maybe an advanced filter setting would be cool.
Neat! More options are always better. Do you have a community set up for progress updates?
I created a community but I haven’t launched a beta yet. I’m a bit of a perfectionist but I’m also thinking I need to have a certain baseline of features to not piss off users.
This is the web app, but I will be launching a native app in beta soon. https://blorpblorp.xyz
My main goals are creating a seamless experience between web and native, having a no compromise experience on larger screens while also not compromising on small screens, and allowing you to browse cached content offline.
Looks good! What's the community?
Can't you filter " Ye " or something like that?
I would assume that the filters are case insensitive and filter whitespace but I don't know for sure. I should test some stuff out.
\ [Yy]e\
No cause then you'd filter out everything with "Ye" in the name, and miss out on a lot of cool bands like The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yello, Yes, Yella, and Yeti.
That depends on how the filter is implemented.
If it's well implemented it should include the whitespace in the filter.
Oh stop it you stupid leftys.
Maybe he just like the design of it.
Maybe he's autistic.
Anyway no need to start calling everyone nazis.
This feels like something a hexbear user would say in a serious way. (Replace lefties with liberals)
And suddenly Chappelle's blind black man KKK member is truth.
Clayton Bigsby, and Yeezy isn't blind, which makes it even better
At least he is isn't hiding it
This is how low the bar is in 2025
What a timeline to live in...
Sad to see that the dude's in this state. He clearly needs psychiatric care, not a platform from which to yell his absurdities.
His account was closed
*NazYe
Uncle Rukus
No relation
One cannot help but notice that NBC is directing viewers to said website rather than other websites that are not owned by Kanye West and are not selling swastika T-shirts, which probably have a harder time getting potential customers to show up. I see that they also have pricing information and product photos.
One imagines that social media and similar probably also is directing a lot of people there.
This does suggest that West might be onto something.
In a world where people and organizations didn't discuss and link to the product, he might not have the same incentive.
Reminds me of an article posted on Lemmy earlier about how there was a call for a bilingual sign to be removed in London. The article was actually about Elon Musk backing this move, about this sign, the controversy, etc. in reality he responded to some dude complaining about it with a reply saying "yes". Three letters, bam, several journalists are writing articles and people are posting your opinion all over the internet.
GOOD! Let assholes put a literal target on their chest. I'm fine with this. Fuck me, I should start selling Nazi merchandise so I can track them.
This is frankly a bit odd
I do say old chap, this vexes me.
To say the least
Enjoying his Swastee in his Swasticar
o/`
Yep in my Swastee, yup in my Swastee
I slang in my Swastee, I bang in my Swastee
All in the club spittin game in my Swastee
Whoever that you might see, I know they got a Swastee
Homeboy, brother, sister, mother, daddy or your wifey
Kan Ye's be the name of my Swastee
Hispanic, nazi, niggas even yangs wearing Swastee
Hit the club deep and we all got a Swastee
A throwback, no gat, hell naw that don't excite me
You don't need no throwback cause you will be set on your Swastee
You can get a circle or a v neck on your Swastee
o/`
and post about it on swastwitter
I actually didn't know that this was legal to do in the U.S.
There aren't a lot of jurisdictions in the world that ban the sale or display of the swastika (in Nazi-supporting circumstances). Australia and Germany are the only ones that come to mind, and Australia has only done so very recently (this year).
Don’t forget about Austria, although I believe that won’t be for much longer as the next head of state is openly a Hitler fanboy
I didn't know, but that makes sense. My state in Aus also went further and banned the salute, and has actually prosecuted people under that law.
I'm not sure if displaying a swastika is banned, if it is I wasn't aware of that.
Most states banned the salute. The federal govt recently banned it too, with mandatory incarceration.
It's apparently encouraged even
Yes, this is what free speech looks like. It isn’t always positive
It's like a Mel Brooks movie! The guy in charge standing with his nose in the air, says something that any normal person would think is dumb as hell. And all the "yes men" are like "Bravo!" "Bully!" "Good show!" "Excellent!"
This goes for the orange man and X dork as well...
The most surprising thing about this story is his X account being deleted, but it sounds like this may have been a voluntary exit.
And I was wrong about who was the dumbest person on Earth.
Anybody know what the official shop site is called? On yeezy(dot)com is only one item and that’s a white r-Shirt with a black swastika on the front.
The shop feels broken tho, because there are almost no ux elements.
Is he doing this to remain relevant?
That is the official website. It's linked on the wiki page for Kanye, and Kanye has advertised it on his Insta. I thought it was fake too because it's so poorly designed. You can't even see the price of the shirt until it's in your cart.
Just an attention whore seeking attention.
How do I do this on YouTube Music ReVanced?
Well the website mentioned in the article is down.
Far be it from me to know of someone, anyone, even a celebrity, by using a reverse initialism or, worst, and I don't say this lightly, an apheresis.
Useful fucking idiot.
Give him the cancer every kid has. And put a live stream on him. I wanna watch his suffering.
I love watching people getting their payback, the more miserable they are the better I feel.
Him and the whole GOP can split it, there's more than enough cancer to go around.
I'm ok with during in the world. I'm just not ok with who is bearing it. Is almost never the ones that deserve it.