Kanye West has erased all of his Instagram postings criticizing his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian after their public feud escalated this weekend.
The months-long conflict erupted on Friday when Kanye — now legally known as Ye — called Kim out on Instagram for allowing their 8-year-old daughter, North, to have a TikTok account, something he voiced displeasure about in an interview last month.
Ye questioned why North was being “placed on” TikTok by posting a screenshot of her account and specifically identifying Kim.
“Because this is my first divorce, I’m not sure what to do about my kid being posted on TikTok against my permission,” the caption stated.
Soon after, Kim — who has kept silent in the months after Ye openly questioned her parenting approach — responded to her ex’s remark in a long Instagram story.
“Kanye’s continual assaults on me in interviews and on social media are crueler than any TikTok North would produce,” she added, before claiming to be the “primary provider and caretaker” for their four children: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.
“As the primary provider and caregiver for our children, I am doing my best to protect our daughter while also allowing her to express her creativity in whatever medium she desires with adult supervision – because it brings her happiness,” she wrote, referring to the TikTok account she shares with North.
“Divorce is painful enough for our children,” she said, “and Kanye’s preoccupation with attempting to control and manipulate our situation so negatively and publically is just bringing extra agony for everybody.” “I have wanted nothing but a healthy and loving co-parenting relationship from the beginning because it is what is best for our children, and it saddens me that Kanye continues to make it hard every step of the way.”
In response, Ye shared a series of postings on his Facebook over the following several days, challenging Kim’s parenting choices and emphasizing his belief that their whole argument is being “one-sidedly managed.”
In response to Kim’s tweet, Ye said on Instagram, “What do you mean by the major provider? America witnessed you attempting to kidnap my daughter on her birthday by failing to provide the address” — a reference to another disagreement they had last month over their now-4-year-old daughter Chicago’s celebration.
On the day of the party, Ye posted multiple videos in which he claimed Kim refused to provide him the address. “I’m merely wishing my kid a happy birthday in public,” he explained. “I wasn’t supposed to know where she was having her party.”
Later that weekend, Ye reposted multiple screenshots of tweets criticizing Kim’s statement from right-wing media figure Candace Owens.
“I will never longer blend my hand to embrace my children,” Ye wrote. “When I was three, my mother moved me to Chicago and told my father that if he came to Chicago, he would never see me again, so I bought the house next door… I fantasize of a future in which [fathers] can still be heroes.”
Not long after, Ye uploaded another tweet in which he chastised Kim for not allowing him to take their children to his hometown of Chicago, a topic on which they previously disagreed, as shown on Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
“I want to send my kids to my hometown of Chicago to see my basketball team play in front of 7,000 people, and Kim is preventing me from doing so,” he wrote, before asking, “How is this shared custody?”
Ye then posted many supposed text exchanges with Kim’s cousin, which appeared to corroborate their agreement on North’s TikTok approval.
“This is an example of Kim’s cousin agreeing with me about TikTok, then asking me for some Yeezys,” he added accompanying the screenshots.
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