#KanyeAnalPlaylist

About

#KanyeAnalPlaylist is a "hashtag":m/memes/hashtag that became popular after a short feud between Kanye West and rapper Wiz Khalifa caused West's ex-girlfriend, the model Amber Rose, to tweet that she and West had engaged in anal play during sex. The tweet led to the development of the hashtag, which Twitter users assigned to tweets that imagined songs that West and Rose would have listened to during intercourse.

Origin

On January 27th, 2016, West revealed in a tweet that his upcoming album would be titled Waves. In response to West’s announcement, Wiz Khalifa, a Pittsburgh-based rapper who has had a child with West’s ex-girlfriend Amber Rose, tweeted several things that West understood to be offensive. In response, West responded with 31 tweets that took Khalifa’s personal style, music, and relationship with Amber Rose to task.

Amber Rose, observing that she was involved in the fight between her two ex-boyfriends, took Khalifa's side, tweeting "Awww @kanyewest are u mad I'm not around to play in ur asshole anymore? #FingersInTheBootyAssBitch." In two days, the tweet received 286,269 retweets and 336,450 likes.^[1] The next day, West denied that the couple had engaged in anal play, as Rose had alleged.^[2]

Spread

The first instances of #KanyeAnalPlaylist were recorded on January 28th, and the hashtag had received hundreds of thousands of uses as of midday January 29th;^[3] it was also trending on Facebook with more than 1,000 searches,^[4] and had been used 455 times on Instagram.^[5] The hashtag was often applied to a tweet that contained a song title or a modified song title that would have more humor when referenced in the context of anal sex or anal play. However, it was also applied to many image macros and other types of commentary about the situation. The hashtag was written about in several entertainment and pop culture publications, including VH1,^[6] XXL,^[7] and Music.Mic.^[8]

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