Kanye West’s 6 ridiculous Twitter eras, from water-bottle hate to ‘Stop playing chess with life’

Author: Sonia Rao / Source: Washington Post

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, and Kanye West, who recently reactivated his account, is spewing the equivalent of those inspirational Yogi Tea bag quotes.

The rapper’s musings come days after the Hollywood Reporter published an interview in which he claimed he was writing a philosophy book. We shared our theories on what it could include, and it seems we already have an answer. In the middle of Wednesday’s Twitter blast — does this man not know how to thread his tweets? — West

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: “oh by the way this is my book that I’m writing in real time. No publisher or publicist will tell me what to put where or how many pages to write. This is not a financial opportunity this is an innate need to be expressive.”

Weird? Absolutely. But West has always been ahead of the curve, whether through his music or online nuttiness. Since joining Twitter in 2010, he has shared his thoughts on everything from airplane water bottles to creative ownership. A majority of the tweets have been deleted, but nothing is ever truly gone from the Internet.

In honor of West’s most recent case of the Twitter fingers, here are six distinct eras of his time on the social media site. (This is obviously not exhaustive because dear God, who would do that to themselves?)

The era of ridiculous things like water-bottle hatred and cherub-imagery desire (2010)

West cemented his status as fantastic follow when he tweeted the following in October 2010: “I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.” Who among us hasn’t been in his shoes? The sentiment was so #relatable that it even ended up — albeit misdated — on a ceramic mug that you can buy online for a whopping $16.99.

In July of that year — the month he signed up for an account — West shared his disappointment at ordering the wrong Persian rug: “I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.” We’ve . . . all been there?

He also tweeted that day about needing a luxury horse, according to Jezebel, and about how Twitter was “designed specifically with me in mind just my humble opinion…

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