Bad Blog Look: Kanye West Plays God

I wasn't going to write about Kanye West's God post, not because I thought people would object, but because I had this fantasy of getting on Kanye's blogroll!

Letting fantasies f*ck with your editorial is very bad and I want to be very good so let's leave that fantasy aside and look at how Team Kanye feeds fan worship.

I call it the God post because after lots of posts with no interaction with the readers, Kanye, or one of his operatives (I think a lot of this has to be an assistant), reprinted a comment as a blog post that asked Kanye if he was reading the comments.

It was ambiguous enough as to why it was there, because there's no additional commentary, that the commenters either puzzled over it like some obscure religious document or used it as another opportunity to profess their love.

Celeb blogging's cool because it gives one a much clearer picture of how famous people feel they should communicate with their followers after other media entities have been removed from the picture.

I despise one way communications and pretend efforts at showing one's love to one's fans and I'm getting kind of tired of seeing what they cherry pick from the best design blogs.  I've got better sources for that stuff so, when the personal edge is removed, I'm just reading this thing to get occasional tidbits that might help my bottom line.

And that's good cause fantasies of being Kanye's friend, like these nutty fans, or on Kanye's blogroll, like nutty Clyde, are fantasies, and I've got better things to imagine.

Comments

[Shay]

So will you be my Blogroll buddy?

[Clyde Smith]

You crazy kids!