Was Ye onto something?
The line between prank and reality
(picture via google search - credit to NYPost / InfoWars?!?)
Many watched or listened in horror as Ye, the rapper/artist/designer, not the Brazilian soccer player (There is a Ye, right?) decided to go on Alex Jones’s show, InfoWars, and praise Hitler. Alex joked about breaking the internet, and he was close. Most people disavowed Ye, others stayed away. I was a ‘WTF is he doing’ in a few of my group texts.
Then it hit me.
It’s a prank.
The line between reality and prank is blurred. Look at Libs of TikTok - are those people dressed as unicorns and having horn/horny pronouns serious? Are students trying to set up litter boxes in their middle schools trying to be cats, or are they messing with the situation?
Ye’s intent became more clear (yes I know there’s no mindreading but I’m a lawyer so I do this all the time) once video showed him prior to Info Wars with Alex Jones.
I cannot find the video (search @scottadamssays on twitter, believe he re-tweeted it, I’m also somewhat working right now). It is of Ye in the car with Fuentes and someone else. He is discussing his ‘Netenyahoo’ idea, as well as cracking jokes. He reminds me of….me prior to a show. Relaxed, discussing bits, making jokes. Does that sound like a mentally ill person?
My favorite examples of the prank/reality blur is the comedians attending school board/county board/city board meetings:
Alex Stein is fantastic. These pranks are fantastic. He’s obviously joking. Right?
RIGHT?!?!
Back to Ye. I realized it was probably a prank when I said his comments out loud. Try it. Go find a quiet, SECLUDED AREA, and say, “I see good things about Hitler.” Say it with a straight face - its tough! Try this with a straight face:
“If I say something derogatory about the Mossad, is that mossa-gynistic?”
How did it go? Now put on a ski mask and say it into a mirror.
See what I’m saying?
We may never know if Ye was pranking people, being serious, a combination of the two, or his prozac wore off prior to lights camera action. Are the above nurses ‘having fun’, taking a break from work, or trying to go viral?
Ye is currently the second greatest show on television behind Elon. Enjoy him while he’s here, you never know how the Mossad will take a joke.
Yes, at this point it is clear that Ye is trolling the internet and pushing the limits of free speech. In the process, he is exposing the fickleness of most vehement proponents of free speech.
He has already broken Elon Musk (to quote Scott Adams) whose banning of Ye is not warranted since Ye didn't break the law, and exposed many on the right who supported his ban to be fake in their stance on free speech.
It's amazing what we're witnessing!
I've never followed anything kanye related. I don't know any of his music. I remember seeing his clothing line on the internet and it reminded me of burlap sackcloth. As an outsider to all things Ye, he seems like a kook.