Ex presidential hopeful Kanye West is in the midst of a pretty ugly divorce
with Kim Kardashian and unfortunately this drama has been made public in
regard to the trials and tribulations of co-parenting.
This was a story that caught my attention because I actually think Kanye has
a point when it comes to his own children who are incredibly young being put
on social media.
And so this all started when Kanye shared on social media very publicly that he's
having difficulty with the fact that his daughter North is on Tiktok.
He said since this is my first divorce, I need to know what I should do
about my daughter being put on Tiktok against my will.
This was in an Instagram post which he has since deleted and
the Tiktok account featuring North is mostly mother daughter videos,
they hang out together and dance and stuff like that.
Now in an interview last month,
Kanye had similar criticisms in regard to Kim's parenting.
He said this, tell her don't have my daughter wearing lipstick on Tiktok and
don't have her on Tiktok at all if I don't approve that.
And I said it after it was done without me knowing and it happened again.
So I feel like there's some poking the bear trying to antagonize me or
create this like crazy narrative because to say someone is crazy, they're trying
to take the power away and do anything to get people to not pay attention to me.
So look, whatever you think about Kanye West, I want you to like put that aside
for a second and think about, first of all how insanely difficult it is to co-parent,
especially when there are these big disagreements,.
Even if you're not divorcing, I'm sure even with married couples,
making these decisions is incredibly difficult.
But also I do think that he has a point here.
>> Yeah. >> I don't think that he's
completely innocent because I don't think that there should be something he puts
out there in the public, you should find a way to talk about it and
discuss it privately, negotiate about this privately.
I hate that it's so ugly and it's so public, but it does bring up
that issue of kids on social media, North is only eight years old.
To be fair, Kim Kardashian pushed back against this narrative and
said look I hate that this is being played out in public, I'm supervising this,
this is something that makes my daughter incredibly happy and
she gets to be creative on this app and I want to support her in that.
And she's being supervised so basically back off, what do you think?
>> Yeah, I think this is super tough issue, we even have a poll who's right,
Kanye or Kim and to this moment, I'm not positive how I'm gonna vote.
But I'm leaning as you'll see here in Kanye's direction and
now that's surprising because I don't like Kanye at all.
I've never thought he was a genius it nothing drives me more crazy when they
say he's a genius, he says they're trying to paint me as crazy.
No brother,
you are crazy, Like you're so crazy, I feel bad calling you crazy, right.
Now having said that, he's not at all crazy about this.
So we're not biased, we have a perspective, but we're not biased.
We take each story for what it's worth.
So when he came out and he's like, Trump's great for black people, You're nuts, dude,
nuts, okay.
But when you and Kim both said, hey, we should list some people out of prison
because they were wrongly convicted, you were right, okay.
So it depends, it depends on the context, it depends on the facts.
So in this case, Anna's right, co-parenting when you're married is
super difficult when you have significant disagreements.
When you're divorced, it's even harder when you're both public figures that God,
it's got to be near impossible, right?
So I have sympathy for both sides here.
But overall, if one parent says, please don't put my kid out publicly
on social media, I think you the other parents should respect that.
So I'm not saying that there should be laws or or anything along those lines,
but it's I don't think it's cool on the part of Kim Kardashian to say,
yeah, you're her dad, but I'm gonna damn what you think and
I'm gonna publicize her on social media anyway.
No, I think I'm going with Kanye on this one.
>> Yeah, and again, we wanna hear what you have to think because I do think this is
a difficult case.
So go to T Y T dot com slash polls, who's right, Kanye or Kim TYT.com/polls.
My take on it is I'm biased because even though I don't have children,
I have nieces who I'm obsessed with and I spend a lot of time with and
I feel temptation to post pictures with them on instagram, right?
Because I love them so much, but
I also know what the world is like and I know how awful people are and
I don't want to expose my nieces who are incredibly young to that world.
I don't think that it's my place to do that.
I would like kids to be able to make decisions about like when they're old
enough to make decisions about what's out there about them on social media.
I'm just not comfortable with kids,
literal eight year old kids being on Tiktok and all of that stuff.
It's just anyway its not for me.
>> So luckily my wife and I agree on this overall and so
it's just the kids wanna be on camera every once in a while, they're kids.
And so they'll sneak into a picture or sometimes they look really cute when they
were young and I took a one or two pictures and stuff like that but
like I would do so much more if the world wasn't so terrible right?
And so I really sympathize with Kanye on this because if you think
the world is terrible and it is and you think that your former spouse's
exposing your kids to that that's tough, that's really tough.
So yeah, no I'm voting Kanye and and and
like I said otherwise I can't stand him okay but right is right and fair is fair.
>> Yeah, I agree.
And for for
Kim's part I think it's only fair to to read her statement in response to Kanye.
So let's put up that graphic.
She says Kanye's constant attacks on me in interviews and
on social media is actually more hurtful than any Tiktok North might create.
As the parent who is in the main who is the main provider and caregiver for
our children I'm doing my best to protect our daughter while also allowing her to
express her creativity in the medium that she wishes with adult supervision.
Because it brings her happiness, divorce is difficult enough on our children and
Kanye's obsession with trying to control and manipulate our situation so
negatively and publicly is only causing further pain for all.
So let me just stop there.
I think that is her strongest point.
I don't like the fact that he's having this play out in public.
I think that part of it is pretty gross but that doesn't take away from the valid
points I think he's making in regard to his own children being on social media.
>> Yeah, I agree with you, Kardashian on that one too.
So when he asked in the first post, hey my wife,
my ex wife is doing this, what should I do?
I thought, well, here's what I know what you shouldn't do,
which is ask people publicly what to do about your ex wife and your kid.
So he's making that issue public, which is definitely also wrong.
>> Right.
>> So no one's got clean hands here.
And and by the way, I don't get me wrong, I'm not judging Kim Kardashian either, and
I got no problem doing that, I've done that in the past as well.
It's just that's a decision she's making and if her husband or ex husband or
dad agreed, then no problem, everybody makes different decisions.
My decision doesn't have to be hers, right?
I'm not imposing my views on her, but it's just that when the dad disagrees,
especially in a sensitive situation like that,
I think that you should be mindful of that and respectful of that.
But Kanye shouldn't make all these disagreements public either,
that's super ugly