Kanye West’s newest antics have prompted critics to name on Coachella to drop the rapper as one in every of the music festival’s 2022 headliners.
Underneath the alias “Kim Pete,” a netizen launched a Change.org petition Wednesday saying organizers “needs to be ashamed of themselves” for giving West “any extra of a platform” to spew hate towards his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and her new boyfriend, Pete Davidson.
“We’ve watched Kanye harass, manipulate, and damage Kim, Pete, and others for over a 12 months now,” reads the petition, which amassed greater than 1,650 signatures by Thursday afternoon.
“Nobody appears to wish to stand as much as him, and those that do, he places underneath hearth as effectively. That is ridiculous that he’s allowed to freely do that.”
The petition was created on the identical day that Instagram suspended Ye, 44, from posting for twenty-four hours after his repeated assaults on Kardashian, 41, and Davidson, 28, in addition to comedians D.L. Hughley and Trevor Noah, the latter of whom the Grammy winner known as a racial slur for defending the truth star.
In his posts, West has accused Kardashian of utilizing their 4 youngsters to antagonize and “gaslight” him, taken concern with 8-year-old daughter North’s entry to TikTok and claimed he has slowly been distanced from his brood.
He has additionally been cyberbullying Davidson for weeks, even decapitating a caricature of the “Saturday Evening Reside” star in his newest music video, “Eazy.”
Relatively than give in to West, the “Kardashians” star has vowed to take “the excessive highway” of their ongoing divorce. (The exes had been declared legally single earlier this month, however they’re nonetheless hashing out points involving little one custody and property.)
“I’ll at all times be protecting,” Kardashian mentioned in a sneak peek of her April 13 look on “The Ellen DeGeneres Present” launched Thursday. “I at all times need my children to simply see the perfect of the perfect. So I simply attempt to — as exhausting as it may be typically — I do attempt to ignore it and simply attempt to do no matter’s finest for the children.
“I at all times noticed such instance in my mother and my dad of their relationship, so I’m at all times simply hopeful. And it doesn’t matter what goes on, [West is] the daddy of my children.”
Coachella is scheduled to happen April 15 to 17 and April 22 to 24 in Indio, Calif., with West, Harry Types and Billie Eilish as headliners.