Kanye West Suspended Off Instagram But Why Not Banned? – Highsnobiety

This article was published on March 17 and updated on March 18 to reflect Kanye’s return to InstagramGreat, Kanye West’s buffoonery got him booted off Instagram, if only for 24 hours. But maybe the rapper ought to stay off social media for even longer — what about forever?In case you need catching up: the DONDA rapper has made Instagram his platform of choice over the past few months, first using it as a vehicle to promote DONDA 2 and YEEZY GAP drops and then repurposing it as a battering ram to attack Pete Davidson, Kim Kardashian, D.L. Hughley, Billie Eilish and more.What seemed like crude self-promotion via viral tantrums — perhaps engineered by Kanye’s new social media team, perhaps not — escalated to viscous outbursts with real world effects, like when Davidson was tormented off Instagram.Kanye’s victim narrative was publicly refuted by Kardashian, Eilish, recent target Trevor Noah, and others but the stream of swiftly-deleted Instagram posts was ceaseless, only infrequently slowing while Ye was preoccupied like, say, while spending time with new girlfriend Chaney Jones.Weeks of random flare-ups came to a head on March 16, when Ye doubled down Hughley and began fixating on Noah, who had just done…
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