International- The top Kanye subreddit has converted into a Holocaust education center and Taylor Swift fanpage.
- Another large Kanye subreddit announced it was shutting down, while a third said it would dissociate from Ye.
The biggest Kanye West fan page on Reddit, r/Kanye, has converted itself into a Holocaust education center and Taylor Swiffan pagege after the rapper's widely condemned interview with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday.
In the InfoWars interview, a mask-wearing West, who now goes by Ye, praised Adolf Hitler and said that people need to "stop dissing the Nazis all the time." The interview also featured the white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and came after a flurry of controversies involving Ye over the last month and a half, including multiple anti-Semitic rants.
On Friday, the day after the interview, users on r/Kanye began posting clips and images related to the Holocaust to educate people on the history of the genocide. A top post with over 11,000 upvotes appears to show machines being used to clean up corpses at a concentration camp, while another features a quote written on a wall by a Jewish prisoner during the Holocaust.
Several top posts also celebrated Taylor Swift, who Ye famously interrupted during the 2009 2009 MTV Music Video Awards as she accepted the award for Best Female Video.
R/Kanye has over 712,000 followers and often has thousands of users online browsing or posting at once.
Insider previously spoke with a moderator of r/Kanye, before Ye's interview with Jones, who said the fan-filled forum had fallen into chao,s although moderators were very active in removing anyinappropriatec content.
Another subreddit dedicated to discussing Ye's music, r/WestSubEver, announced it was shutting down in light of the musician's descent into hate speech and the InfoWars interview. A moderator of the page wrote in a post on Thursday that Ye's recent comments were "the final nail in the coffin" and that they didn't want the subreddit to be used as a platform for him.
The subreddit's "About" section describes Ye as a "disgraced artist" and "neo-Nazi."
The final top post on r/WestSubEver, before new posts were blocked on the page, is a seven-second clip from Thursday's interview of Ye saying, "I like Hitler."
A smaller subreddit themed after Ye's shoe line, r/Yeezys, also announced on Thursday that it was "looking to further disassociate with Ye and his name."
Moderators of the three subreddits did not respond to Insider's additional requests for comment.
Ye's antisemitic comments were widely condemned online. President Joe Biden appeared to indirectly address them on Friday, writing in a tweet that "the Holocaust happened" and calling Hitler "a demonic figure." Twitter CEO Elon Musk suspended Ye's Twitter account Thursday night after the rapper went on a tweeting tirade and posted a picture of a Star of David combined with a swastika.