Yeezy website offline after Kanye West’s Super Bowl swastika shirt stunt

Kanye West’s Yeezy website has been knocked offline implicit its caller peddling of t-shirts emblazoned with swastikas.

Shopify, an e-commerce level utilized by websites and businesses to merchantability products, confirmed Yeezy’s webstore has been unopen down, citing a usurpation of its presumption of service. Those trying to entree Yeezy.com connected Tuesday, were redirected to an mistake screen, speechmaking “Something went wrong,” and past “This store is unavailable.”

“All merchants are responsible for pursuing the rules of our platform,” Shopfiy said successful a connection to CNBC. “This merchant did not prosecute successful authentic commerce practices and violated our presumption truthful we removed them from Shopify.”

It comes conscionable days aft West, present legally known arsenic Ye, ran a Super Bowl ad promoting the site, wherever lone 1 point was disposable for purchase: a $20 achromatic T-shirt featuring a achromatic swastika. The 30-second commercialized kicked disconnected with the rapper filming a close-up of his ain look portion sitting successful a dentist chair.

“I spent, like, each the wealth for the commercialized connected these caller teeth. So, erstwhile again, I had to sprout it connected the iPhone,” helium said, smiling into the camera earlier directing viewers to Yeezy.com.

A swastika T-shirt for merchantability via Ye’s authoritative website Monday. (yeezy.com)

According to Variety, the website had been advertizing its emblematic enactment of merchandise and athleisure deterioration connected Sunday, but each of those items were removed and replaced with the swastika garment soon aft the advertisement aired.

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein noted the website’s owners “had an full day” to beryllium they weren’t violating the company’s policies, “which did not happen.”

“I’m a arrogant Jewish entrepreneur. I’m a arrogant Jewish assemblage member,” she told CNBC, adding that she was “devastated” by the store’s actions.

In the lead-up to the Super Bowl, West said helium was a Nazi and called himself “Yaydolf Yitler” during a days-long rant connected X that has been decried arsenic anti-semitic arsenic good arsenic insulting to minorities and women. His relationship was aboriginal deactivated implicit the play for reportedly posting pornography.