Kanye West has been banned from the streaming platform Twitch after just seven minutes of his first stream.
The rapper appeared on the platform for the first time yesterday (April 25) and quickly launched into a speech that included slurs about Jewish people and the LGBT+ community, per The Daily Beast. He also threw a Nazi salute while proclaiming: “Heil Hitler.”
West also told the audience that X owner Elon Musk had given him “free passes” to post discriminatory messages on social media. He also made a series of disparaging comments about his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.
Within minutes, his Twitch page had been replaced with a message that read: “This channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.”
West had not even reached 220 followers before being banned.
Kanye West. Credit: Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
It follows a string of highly controversial posts Ye has been making on X/Twitter recently, which have seen him take back his apology to the Jewish community for his past anti-Semitic remarks and go on to declare himself “a Nazi”.
In February, he came under fire for selling a white T-shirt with a large swastika emblem on the chest, listed as “HH-01” on his website – possibly a reference to the “Heil Hitler” chant.
The site was later taken down by Shopify, though the online retailer later stated that the artist’s website was taken down due to the potential for fraud – not because it was selling a swastika t-shirt. Shopify did condemn the item, calling it “vile, disgusting and inexcusable”.
West then took to X (formerly Twitter) to say he’s had the idea for the t-shirt for “over eight years”. It came alongside a string of highly controversial posts which saw him rescind his apology to the Jewish community for his past anti-Semitic remarks, and go on to declare himself “a Nazi” and write: “I love Hitler”, as well as praise billionaire and X owner Musk as “the most lit person that [has] ever been on Twitter”, following the latter’s accusations of Nazism at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.
Then, the controversial rapper then seemed to backtrack on his earlier comments, taking to X to share that “after further reflection”, he’s “come to the realisation that I’m not a Nazi”. However, it was followed only a few days later by yet more swastika apparel appearing on his X page.
Kanye West. CREDIT: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Earlier this week, West claimed that he took part in incestuous acts with his male cousin as a child.
In other tweets, he seems to have insinuated that it is the traumatic incidents from his childhood that are behind his controversial behaviour – which has included the aforementioned declarations of support for Nazi ideology, incidents of a sexual nature in public, insulting Jay-Z and Beyonce’s children and much more.
As well as sharing the update about his cousin, West has shared a photo of himself and Bianca Censori together – suggesting that the two of them are back together. News of their split came earlier this month, when West said in a new song that she had left him.
Elsewhere on X, the rapper issued an apology to Jay-Z, seemingly relating to nasty comments about his and Beyoncé’s children.
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