Earlier this week, we informed you that Kanye West — who now goes by Ye — purchased native advert time in Los Angeles through the Tremendous Bowl to advertise the most recent from his Yeezy style line. The advert, which was shot on his iPhone from a dentist chair (we’re additionally confused), inspired viewers to go to his web site the place the one factor on the market…was a t-shirt with a swastika on it.
Based on CBS Information, on-line the e-commerce platform Shopify, shut down Ye’s web site after studying concerning the tees, which have been on model for Ye contemplating his head-scratching three-day anti-Semitic rant on X the place he referred to as himself a “nazi” and professed his love for Adolf Hitler. Now, sellers on the net market Etsy are clapping again in a serious method by making their variations of a tee focused at Ye.
A seek for “Kanye shirt” on the location will produce a number of variations of a t-shirt with a Star of David inside a drawing of a center finger. West’s title is written beneath the picture. You will discover the shirts in varied sizes and colours for wherever between $10 and $25.
Ye’s Tremendous Bowl stunt additionally led to the creation of an AI-generated video that featured the likenesses of Jewish celebrities, together with Scarlett Johannson, Drake and Lenny Kravitz carrying t-shirts just like those being bought on Etsy.
The video, created by staff of an Israeli AI firm, encourages others to affix the combat towards anti-Semitism.
Johansson, whereas angered by the anti-Semitic messaging, doesn’t consider AI is the fitting strategy to combat towards it, saying in a press release, “I’m a Jewish girl who has no tolerance for antisemitism or hate speech of any variety. However I additionally firmly consider that the potential for hate speech multiplied by A.I. is a far larger menace than anyone one who takes accountability for it. We should name out the misuse of A.I., irrespective of its messaging, or we danger dropping a maintain on actuality.”