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Among the star-studded Super Bowl ads that viewers saw during Sunday’s game was an awkward 30-second spot, filmed vertically on an iPhone, in which the rapper Ye talks about his new teeth and instructs the audience to go to Yeezy.com.

As of the morning after the game, when they visited the site, shoppers could find exactly one item for sale: a white T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika.

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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 106 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Took a screenshot. Not happy about uploading a picture of a swastika, but wanted to capture it in case he backtracks.

::: spoiler :::

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 105 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

edit edit: apparently they took it down because they were concerned he wouldn't ship, not because they enforce their own guidelines. I'd say "suck a dick, Shopify" but that would give blowjobs a bad name

~~Edit: The store is gone, good work everyone!~~


~~Whaaaaaaaaat the fuck. That is a Shopify store, and their terms of service explicitly state~~

~~You can’t breach the social contract of commerce.
There are activities we don’t allow on the platform because they breach the social contract of commerce. This means you can’t call for, or threaten, violence against specific people or groups. And you can’t sell products that facilitate intentional self-harm.~~

~~https://www.shopify.com/legal/aup~~

~~Pretty sure this shirt calls for violence against Jewish people. Anyone who cares to join me in reporting it can do so here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/tools/report-an-issue/report-a-merchant~~

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hell yeah, talk about collective action! I'm sure the reports from this thread weren't the only ones, and it was probably already under review, but every pebble counts in a landslide. Thanks for letting all of us know 😊

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was able to find and report the same item in the Shop app, within the "YZY" store.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Nice, thanks for you contribution! 🙌

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

Thank you for your sacrifice, current site:

[–] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Boy, that HH-01 product description is a really great touch. Fucking shit.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Only if they had 88 products would that be any more on the nose.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago

To think I'd upvote a swastika picture.. but here we are.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I met him on an aircraft a couple of months ago. He seemed so scared to be recognized. I said nothing to respect other passengers and the flight attendants but I'd have loved to have called him a nazi. Btw the flight was headed to Dubai.

Edit: I recognized him because he asked the flight attendants how to connect to the internet (you simply connect to the WiFi and you're done??). His brain is cooked

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Should a done it man. Shame these fucks.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't he wealthy enough to fly privately anywhere?

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

For some reason people stopped buying his products. It's a mystery really.

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I have figured it out. Kanye West is actually Andy Kaufman and this is his final troll.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh to be so rich that getting high at the dentist could result in buying superbowl ad space and shooting said ad immediately on selfie cam.

I probably wouldn't use the ad space to sell a mega basic Nazi t-shirt though...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Getting high at the dentist is very profitable if you're a terrible person. It resulted in L. Ron Hubbard starting Scientology.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the Beatles first LSD trip!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I don't know that they were/are all terrible people. John Lennon was though. George seemed like an okay guy.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

We're so close to the plot of iron sky

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Is it made in America though?

Some people in America will get upset if it isn’t.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As of 2025, a 30-second Super Bowl commercial costs $8 million

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-rising-cost-of-super-bowl-ads-1965-2025/

And the worst part is, I have no trouble believing he's going to make a profit from it.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What a weird timeline we live in where a black man can make money selling half a million Nazi t-shirts to football fans.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Assuming the shirts are print on demand, there's a tiny amount of profit in that. I'm betting he just flushed 8 million down the toilet.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago

Would be real sad if a DDOS happened to a yeezy. What a fucking nut job this freak is.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If anything says pure aryan blood, it's definitely not Kanye. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_racial_theories

The Nazis considered the putative "Aryan race" a superior "master race" with Germanic peoples as representative of Nordic race being best branch, and they considered Jews, mixed-race people, Slavs, Romani, Black People, and certain other ethnicities racially inferior subhumans, whose members were only suitable for slave labor and extermination.

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