Kanye West took to Twitter to stir up the proverbial pot of controversy he would seem hellbent on existing in; and claimed Ryan Reynold's and his team ripped some of his music for the recent Deadpool 2 movie. Naturally, Ryan Reynolds went full Deadpool and shut down the BS claim, with an A+ response. Eager and hopeful this one escalates to a full-fledged spicy Twitter beefwar.
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The music industry is in a fever this week over the pure and unadulterated brutality of an ongoing diss-track rap battle between Pusha-T and Drake. Drake released a diss-track (aka lyrically ruthless song that meticulously picks apart one's most shameful, private moments) titled, "Duppy" this week which was a volatile response to Pusha-T's "Infrared" single off the new Daytona album.
Pusha-T proceeded to go OFF at the mention of his fiancee, and called out Drake for fathering an unclaimed child with a porn star in a song with an album cover that depicts Drake wearing minstrel-style blackface.
With Logan Paul continuing his radio silence after the massive, widespread fallout from posting the video last week that featured footage of a dead body in Japan's Suicide Forest, we went ahead and pulled together some of the older social media activity from Paul. Turns out the guy's always been on the outer end of the spectrum, with an apparent propensity for stirring up solid controversy...
Shaun White's taking some heat on Twitter following his Gold Medal victory at the Winter Olympics this year, for his past behavior with an old band mate Lena Zawaideh. White allegedly sexually harassed her, and forced an "authoritarian management" style over her for years because he was the band's financier.
Jake Paul's remained radio silent amidst the massively widespread controversy encircling his brother Logan Paul. The controversy? Oh, just his decision to post a vlog of a dead body he found in the Suicide Forest. Yes, that really happened. Still as unbelievable as when YouTube first allowed for that sh*t to pop up on trending. Weeks later, Logan's little brother Jake, finally used some of his vlog time to address his feelings on the insanity. It's about as mindlessly infuriating as you might expect, and then some....
This one's been a long time coming. Following a week of silence amidst the widespread hysteria encircling Logan Paul's decision to share a vlog which featured a dead body found within Japan's Suicide Forest, YouTube has finally issued a statement; one inevitably already met with a mixture of approval, outrage, and indifference. Here's the open letter:
The internet is widely divided over whether or not this H&M ad should be considered racist or not. Whatever side you land on, at the very LEAST it's a wildly unfortunate oversight by H&M's marketing department.
Artist 'The Weeknd' tweeted that he was ending all association with the clothing line after he saw the advertisement. A move that will surely hurt H&M's bottom line.
Logan Paul's having a hell of a year so far. In case you missed it, Paul posted a vlog showing himself and friends discovering a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest. The video was met with widespread shock and outrage, so he took it down, and issued an apology video. Since then, the internet's been stormed by a wealth of fiery reactions, and Paul finally emerged from his cave of contemplation last night to tweet out that he's taking a break from YouTube. This comes as big news to his fans, because the guy built his brand and reputation on vlogging everyday, no matter what.
Don't you just love it when the internet gets swept up in a fever of controversy over something as trivial and seemingly meaningless as the color of a damn pair of shoes? We've been down this road of ridiculousness before: take it on back to that dress, and whether it was white or gold....still not really sure. Well, we've got our latest little unnecessary point of controversy, with this pair of shoes, and whether or not they're pink and white, or green and grey?
