In a series of private chats upon which Kim Kardashian urged Kanye West to stop harassing boyfriend Pete Davidson online, Kanye has asked his followers to not hurt Pete because he will be handling his current family problems by himself. In several deleted Instagram posts, Kanye who now prefers to be addressed as Ye said Pete, who he now calls Skete, snatched his wife and should be dealt with.
Kanye had urged his fans that “If anyone loves me and my family if you see Skete in real life, scream at the loser at the top of your lungs and say ‘Kimye Forever’”. He said “that’s what a real man does; fight for your family Ye.” But in a private message, Kim warned her estranged husband to stop goading to members of the public harassing her boyfriend, since there are dangerous people out there.
“You are creating a dangerous and scary environment,” Kim wrote Kanye in a private message. “Someone will hurt Pete and this will all be your fault. There are dangerous people out there and this is scary, and it doesn’t have to be.”
Kanye then asked his millions of fans to not hurt Pete in any way and that he is going to handle the situation himself. He said it was his “wife’s request” and he was honoring it.
“Upon my wife’s request, please nobody do anything physical to Skete; I’m going to handle the situation myself,” he wrote.
When Kim asked Kanye why he was screenshotting and sharing their private messages on social media, the Yeezy founder responded that Kim is his “favorite person in the world…I’m your number one fan. Why wouldn’t I tell everyone?” And as if to demonstrate that, Kanye sent a truckload of red roses to Kim on Valentine’s Day with the truck seemingly parked in Kim’s driveway.
Much later, Kanye in another deleted post stated that his constant use of capital letters may be misconstrued as yelling and that sharing private chats between him and Kim may be seen as harassment. He promised to stop sharing their messages on social media and quit using all-caps.
“I’ve learned that using all caps makes people feel like I’m screaming at them,” he stated. “I’m working on my communication. I know sharing screenshots was jarring and came off as harassing Kim. I take accountability. I’m still learning in real-time. I don’t have all the answers. To be a good leader is to be a good listener.”
Meanwhile, Pete appears to have returned to Instagram after more than three years of absence on social media. Although he has not made any posts within a few hours of creating his new Instagram account with handle @pmd, lots of heavyweight celebrities are already following him, among whom Kanye and girlfriend Julia Fox. He now has more than 873,000 followers, while he is only following two people.