Kanye West fan sets up GoFundMe page to help him regain billionaire status… but dozens of others respond by asking to make them rich instead of rapper
A Kanye West fan has created a GoFundMe page in order to help the artist get back billionaire status, however, dozens of others have responded by creating crowdfunding pages of their own to make themselves billionaires instead of the controversial star.
Over the past week or so, there have been dozens of pages created which can be found in a search of ‘Kanye billionaire’ on the American for-profit crowdfunding platform.
It all started when one GoFundMe page – тιтled ‘Make Kanye West a billionaire again’ – was put up asking for donations to help the 45-year-old star reclaim billionaire status after Forbes set his net worth at a paltry $400million after losing partnerships with Adidas and Gap.
As if that wasn’t already enough ridiculousness, many others responded by creating GoFundMe pages of their own pleading with generous users to donate money to make them billionaires instead of Ye.
These users haven’t exactly been able to jump social class as most have only raised about $5 with the most successful campaign earning just $40 so far.
This comes days after Ye claimed he lost $2 billion in a single day as companies have continued to sever ties with the rapper following his anti-Semitic remarks.
Meanwhile West’s empire has continued to crumble as last week Adidas dropped his Yeezy shoe line – a deal which was worth $1.5billion – with Gap, Footlocker, TJ Maxx, and Balenciaga all following suit and cutting ties with the rapper.
The rapper was embarrᴀssingly escorted out of Skechers headquarters on Wednesday after showing up unannounced to pitch his Yeezy brand a day after being dropped by Adidas and having his songs banned by Peloton.
Skechers representatives said in a statement: ‘Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation. Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West.
