Kanye West Fans Start GoFundMe Pages to Restore His Billionaire Status - Rolling Stone

After Adidas dropped Kanye West, the former billionaire mislaid his presumption and was unceremoniously replaced by Sean “Diddy” Combs. In response, fans flocked to GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform, to rise wealth to reconstruct West’s presumption arsenic a billionaire.

Several campaigns cropped up connected GoFundMe pursuing quality of the sportswear marque cutting ties with West, according to AllHipHop, including 1 leafage declaring their extremity to “Make Kanye West a Billionaire Again.” 

According to Forbes, West’s woody with Adidas was estimated astatine a worth of $1.5 billion. Without that deal, the artist’s nett worthy is reportedly present $400 million.

GoFundMe seems to person removed the fundraisers, which seemingly lone reached an earning of 5 dollars earlier being taken down. However, fans person rallied for West before.

In 2016, West posted connected Twitter that helium was $53 cardinal successful debt, helium past asked Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to put $1 cardinal into his “ideas.”

Then, 1 guy, Jeremy Piatt, launched a GoFundMe for the artist. Titled, “Get Kanye Out of Debt,” the leafage is inactive public and raised $57,398 of $53,000,000 goal. “It doesn’t look similar he’s going to get Mark Zuckerberg’s assistance that helium desperately needs,” Piatt wrote. “Sure helium is personally affluent and tin bargain furs and houses for his family, but without our help, the existent genius of Kanye West can’t beryllium realized.”

Sadly, the imagination wasn’t realized and Piatt reported that “Mr. Kanye West’s campy has declined the funds raised by this GoFundMe campaign” and that the funds would alternatively spell to Notes for Notes, a non-profit that offers younker escaped entree to instruments and philharmonic education.

In the past mates of weeks, West has managed to beryllium escorted out of Skechers aft the Adidas drop, removed from Apple Music’s Essentials playlist, and saw the lone 2 known athletes permission Donda Sports agency.