The account “Ye” is owned by another person and West’s followers aren’t letting it slide.
Kanye West followers are standing up for his or her tarnished hero after he introduced he wished to alter his Twitter (X) deal with to Ye. The issue?
The account “Ye” is owned by another person and West’s followers aren’t letting it slide. The account is plagued by threatening (though possible innocuous) feedback that vary from “Simply give him the @ bro” and “your time is coming lil brah” to “get pleasure from ur username whilst you nonetheless have it” and “black vans about to drag up on you gang.”
“Ye” has had the account since 2007 and a few persons are satisfied he may get a great deal of cash from West if he had been to promote it to him. West tweeted about his intention to alter his deal with on Saturday evening (Could 31), writing, “Ima lastly cease utilizing the @kanyewest twitter trigger my identify is Ye. Gonna begin a ye account and it’s what it’s.”
Greater than 33 million individuals comply with his present account.
Ima lastly cease utilizing the @kanyewest twitter trigger my identify is Ye
Gonna begin a ye account and it’s what it’s
— ye (@kanyewest) June 1, 2025
Kanye West formally modified his authorized identify to “Ye” in October 2021. It’s a mononym that eliminates each his center and final names. The Los Angeles Superior Court docket granted his petition, which he’d filed in August of that yr citing “private causes” for the change.
Ye had been utilizing the nickname publicly for years, notably titling his 2018 album Ye and declaring on social media on the time, “The being formally often called Kanye West. I’m YE.”
The court docket’s approval made the swap everlasting, and Ye’s workforce has since requested that each one media, streaming companies and publishers check with him solely by his new identify—though that request has by no means actually been honored, almost certainly as a result of West hasn’t earned that respect attributable to his inflammatory conduct through the years.
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