Kanye picks up a 24-hour Instagram ban after Trevor Noah comments – The AV Club

Kanye WestPhoto: Pascal Le Segretain (Getty Images)Instagram has finally reached the state that so many of us have achieved over the last decade and change. I.e., being all full up on hearing from Kanye West. Which is to say that the Meta-owned social media network has issued a 24-hour ban to the musician, presumably linked to comments he recently made about Daily Show host Trevor Noah.Specifically, Noah—doing, y’know, his job—covered the ongoing social media conflicts instigated by West toward his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and her new boyfriend, Pete Davidson—as part of his work on The Daily Show. West’s response to Noah’s commentary has since been deleted, but, per Variety, it apparently involved at least one racial slur.The ban is largely only surprising in so far as Instagram has typically been pretty lenient about West’s behavior, even as it’s continued to push well into territory that reads as harassment to many in his treatment of his ex. Among other things, West has aired a number of public fantasies about beating Davidson up—to the point that Jake Paul, ever the arbiter of class in the online ecosystem, has apparently offered to set up a boxing match between the two. (Davidson, to his…
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