As I’ve been saying, it’s been every weekend in 2022. From Friday until Sunday, Kanye West is a complete mess. He’s posting memes, he’s harassing Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, he’s making ridiculous claims about his children, he’s starting beefs with Kid Cudi and others, and on and on. It’s not just a weekend thing, but the weekends are the worst of it, and every weekend, he’s escalating. Some people have said that Kim is likely “grey rocking” him to try to deescalate the situation (and I agree) but it’s not really working. So take this as a preview of what will likely be another bonkers weekend in Yeezyville.
On Thursday, Kanye posted the above Instagram, only to delete it some time later. He’s been doing the ‘gram-and-deletes constantly, and I have no idea why. Does he think that no one is keeping a record of his harassment? The screencap was of Pete Davidson on SNL’s Weekend Update, where Pete wore a red “Make Kanye 2006 Again” hat. It was from an October 2018 appearance in which Pete spoke about his own mental illness and how he finds medication very beneficial, and how Kanye should take his meds. The 2018 video has aged very well. You can really see how much compassion Pete has for Kanye, and how Pete has “bought into” the support system he needs for his mental health and wants that for Kanye. After Kanye posted that, Kim Kardashian finally, at long last, unfollowed Ye.
Kim Kardashian has cut the digital cord. The Skims founder unfollowed estranged husband Kanye West on Instagram Thursday amid all of his tirades about her, their family and her current beau, Pete Davidson. We’re told that Kardashian unfollowed West shortly after he posted attacks about the “Saturday Night Live” star to his account, writing, “HI SKETE YOU GOT ANYMORE MENTAL HEALTH JOKES FOR ME?”
In a second post, 44-year-old West said he wasn’t harassing Davidson, he was just getting “payback.”
“This boy thought he could get away with performing this sketch for the team that wrote this for him,” West wrote of the 2018 “Weekend Update” segment in which Davidson blasted West’s MAGA rant. “This is not harassment This is payback.”
Neither Kardashian, 41, who filed for divorce from West one year ago, nor Davidson, 28, have publicly responded to West’s posts, but now that the “SNL” comic has his own account, he could engage in the comments. The fact that Davidson joined amid all this drama is a brave choice, considering West’s first move was to follow him.
I assume Kim unfollowed him because her lawyer has a team monitoring and keeping copies of all of Kanye’s social media posts, and Kim no longer wants to subject herself to it. I doubt Pete will engage, but I suspect Kim might try to engage again, perhaps to warn Kanye to f–king back off. What’s particularly weird is that the 2018 SNL video is actually very personal from Pete. He’s talking about himself as much as he’s talking about Kanye. And what Pete’s saying completely holds up.
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The so-called genius doesn’t know the difference between any more and anymore? Okay, lol.
He has no writing skills at all. Punctuation? None to be had. Random capital letters is his deal. And, yeah, I don’t expect him to understand how to write a sentence correctly. He’s attention-seeking in a really unfortunate and embarrassing way.
The random capitalizations, name-calling, harassment and lack of reason are just some of the ways Kanye reminds me of Trump.
Thought ‘skete’ was shorthand for ‘skeleton Pete’ • found out it’s slang for… ejaculation!
Not quite a burn then as he is “skete-ing” right into Ye’s ex-wife, the woman he is “pining” for control over …err I mean to win over again.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH yesss
The irony of him sharing that to his IG is that it actually makes Pete look good. He wasn’t cruel to Kanye. He wasn’t making fun of him. He was actually speaking from a place of empathy and compassion. And personal experience. But Kanye is too delusional to see it.
Seriously, Kanye should watch that clip. It is not unkind to him (though yes, it criticizes him).
And the clip has aged extremely well.
And Mr. Davidson is right, if a pilot came on the intercom and said: i’m off the meds, its the *real* me flying the plane today- i too would disembark.
@Ameerah, hmm, I dunno, I think Kanye is currently being an insane person, but I don’t see how anyone would not be insulted by that video. He is 100% making fun of him, and also putting him down.
Pete has had serious mental health issues since early childhood. He deals with it by working with doctors and taking his meds and using it all for comedy because like most good comedians, he is drawing from his own experience.
He wasn’t insulting Kanye, he was giving him good advice based on his own life: Take your meds. Pete has tried it both on and off meds and he is telling Kanye that life and family relationships will be so much better on the meds and taking professional advice.
Kanye is making the big but common mistake of thinking he is more creative off his meds. No, he just thinks he is more creative off his meds, that’s a side effect of the mania. His perceptions are skewed. Any creative product is in spite of his illness, not because of it. It’s difficult to get the dosing right in treating his disorders because we are at such a primitive stage in dealing with “mental illness”, which is really physical like any illness but involves the brain and therefore behavior. But he has four children and owes it to them as well as himself to try to get as stable as possible. He is wasting a potentially very creative period in his life by just letting the disease control him.
People who are drunk on alcohol also think they are insightful and clever, but they are objectively not (speaking as someone from a long line of alcoholics who has too often been the only sober person in the room). One stage actor talked about being drunk when he showed up for a play and thinking that he gave his best performance ever. When he sobered up, he eventually realized it was a terrible performance. The alcohol just made him think he was brilliant.
Pete Davidson is more mature than Ye.
He is a horrible abuser and I hope Kim gets everything she wants in this divorce.
Probably what she wants is to never have to see/deal with him again, and that’s probably almost impossible with the kids, but I hope she and their kids (and Pete) are safe.
The stan culture around Kanye isnt called out enough. People always call out or ridicule the swifties or whatever stan community that consists of women and gays.
But Kanyes stans are basically consisting of geriatric millennials and 16 year old wannabee white boy rappers and they all sound a lot like incels. They are far more frightening with their threats of violence. They are now saying Kim left Kanye for Pete and basically ignore that she filed for divorce a year ago and he’s dated something like 4 people since she filed so they can paint him as some poor male victim.
“The stan culture around Kanye isnt called out enough. People always call out or ridicule the swifties or whatever stan community that consists of women and gays.”
+1000. Never been a Swifty, but what you say about stan communities that consist of women/queer people is so true. Not that fandom violence should ever be tolerated or excused at all. Kanye has hate movements on his side, and many have allowed themselves to become so blinded by their hatred of the type of woman he’s targeting that they’ve echoed those hate movements.
Pete has a nice voice. I have zero idea how he is in real life, but he seems self deprecating, fun and engaging. I dislike the KK world so, so much, hate what they do to the children, grooming them for that kind of life, all the black fishing, lying and appropriation they do, but what KW is doing, is really scary. I fear for the more innocent involved, particularly Pete, who I doubt has a security detail.
This video holds up really well and Pete looks funny, compassionate, and brave in being vulnerable, especially compared to Kanye. This is one of the funniest SNL skits I’ve seen from him.
The older Pete gets the more I overall like him, it’s admirable to be so public about mental health and also to follow through on your treatment despite public scrutiny.
That clip of Pete really speaks volumes about his character.
I wonder when Kim will drop “West” from her name, if not in business, then at least on socials?
It’s possible that she won’t since it’s her children’s last name and she wants to continue to share that with them.
Pete was trying to be nice to Kanye but also tell it like it is. If Kanye is on his meds, I’ll buy a MAGA (I’ll later use it for bonfire) but someone in Kanye’s inner circle needs to get him help.
I love the fact that Twitter is dragging him for his $200 stem player, which is the only thing that will play the Donda 2 album. The egocentric and mania elements are very high these days with him.
I finally watched the SNL clip and I co-sign all the other comments about it. Pete is being charming and vulnerable while stating facts about Kanye. This absolutely stands up today.
This makes it clear that Kanye is not going to move on, despite that apparently contrite IG post he made after deleting all the previous posts. How he thinks this kind of behavior is going to win Kim back is truly beyond me.
The fact that you use the term “grey rock” is very telling. You literally turn your self into a grey Rock by shutting down your emotions and responses just to survive. It is emotional detachment and it is how abused women survive.
Yup! Been there, done that!😔. It works but it’s so alarming the levels of abuse and mistreatment a narcissist will put you through until it finally starts working! I feel for her because I was able to walk away cold turkey, deactivated FB, deleted my IG app, and could gradually completely limit my interaction with him. She has 4 whole children he claims when he sees fit, and was (still is) married to him. 😓
I did not know this was what I had done in previous relationships that were toxic/abusive. Grey rocking= wow! Hard to delineate what is “me” now after having done this so many times. :/
H, the way Kanye explained the $200 device is that the record companies rip the artists off and artists only get 12% of the profit. I do feel for new artists. They need the exposure and do get ripped off at the beginning of their careers. However, Kanye is supposedly a billionaire (like his idol is also supposedly a billionaire). To make his fans pay $200 to hear his new album is an onus on them. If artists I actually liked made me pay $200 for their new album, I wouldn’t do it.
Cessily, I find the term “grey rocking” so sad. I once went to a group meeting of people against domestic violence and one speaker said that some women get so worn down that they fail to make any defensive movements as they are being beaten. They do not raise their arms to block blows. This really makes me cry and I never forgot it.
And some, if they manage to get away, struggle for a while to “reanimate” and engage others. It took me a while to be willing to build even new platonic relationships because mutual friends had been weaponized to manipulate and turned against me.
The grey rock technique is not a submissive response as described in behavior of abused partners who have resigned themselves to the abuse. It is instead a very strong maneuver suggested by professionals when dealing with a narcissist that you can’t just leave, and also when handling their rage and attempts to damage you further after you escape. It is done from a position of strength, definitely not weakness.
You don’t lose your emotions, you simply deliberately do not express them in front of the narcissist and remain calm. Narcissists thrive on chaos, and love both negative and positive attention. They are baffled by grey rocks. It really throws them off balance but also puts you in control, which automatically minimizes the damage they can do to you.
A good series of YouTube videos (mostly short) can be found on the channel DoctorRamani. Look for the video with grey rock (or gray rock) in the title for a complete explanation of the technique. Also look for her videos about the futility of calling out narcissists in your life for their bad behavior – that is likely to backfire and they will simply escalate their attempts to damage you directly and indirectly via their “flying monkeys”. She has better suggestions. Don’t waste energy on counterproductive actions and focus on minimizing the damage the narcissist can do.
Her patients are typically the targets of narcissists and other difficult people, so she has excellent advice for anybody in situations where they can’t just run far away from the narcissist or are dealing with the aftermath when they successfully leave.
KC, so sorry for your experience. I wish you love, happiness and a very bright future.
Is it weird that I quite like Pete’s speech pattern and voice? It’s oddly charming.
And for the life of me, I can’t work out where “Skete” came from. Is it a couple-name insult? A weird Kanye-ism that makes sense only to him? Or did I just miss the explanation?