CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

December 3, 2022 JMG Community, Open Thread

Variety reports:

The tables seem to have turned for Kanye West fans. Following the 45-year-old’s appearance on right-wing talk show host Alex Jones’ “Infowars” on Thursday, where he continued to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric and deliberately gave praise to Adolf Hitler and Nazis, fans on the artist’s r/Kanye Reddit page, which has more than 700,000 subscribers, have decided to turn the subreddit into a Taylor Swift appreciation page.

Its spearheading post declared in its title: “This is now a Taylor Swift Subreddit. We had a good run fellas,” and has about 33,000 upvotes in agreement with the statement. Comments immediately rallied support for the singer, with some even confessing that their dislike of Swift throughout the pair’s long history of contention was misguided.

Read the full article.

Kanye West’s Massive Reddit Page Overtaken By Taylor Swift Appreciation, Holocaust Awareness Content as Fans Abandon Him https://t.co/HCrir4ciPx

— Variety (@Variety) December 2, 2022