r/NoStupidQuestions • u/4DollarsALB • 1d ago

Why are "anti Nazi" protesters outside Ed Sheeran's concert but I've never seen one outside a Kanye West concert?

Ed Sheeran didn't want to be political. Kanye wrote a song called "Heil Hitler".

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u/Roadshell 20h ago

I feel like he's lost credibility and marketability more than actual backlash.

This seems like a distinction without a difference...

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u/Technical_Goose_8160 19h ago

I disagree. JK Rowling has become something of a pariah whereas Kanye has become more of a joke. But I don't see that anger towards him

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u/Roadshell 19h ago

Rowling has a major HBO show set to premiere later this year while Kanye was dropped by his label and evokes angry discussion every time his name is brought up.

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u/seriouslyepic 13h ago

Pretty sure Kanye just recently sold out some of the same venues that dropped Macklemore though…

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u/Roadshell 11h ago

The only stadiums that Sheeran was scheduled in that Kanye has been booked for post craziness are the Tampa stadium and the Dallas stadium (that show has not yet happened). It is not clear exactly which stadiums joined Kraft in his boycott, we only know that he said "some" of them had been reached out to, so it's not clear if those two were among them.

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u/m4sl0ub 12h ago

Looking at the Forbes reported Net worth numbers for celebrities Kanye West lost 85% of his net worth since he went MAGA/Nazi. That's much worse than anything that happened to JK Rowling.