A Kanye West fan has created a GoFundMe page in order to help the artist get back billionaire status, however, dozens of others have responded by creating crowdfunding pages of their own to make themselves billionaires instead of the controversial star.Over the past week or so, there have been dozens of pages created which can be found in a search of 'Kanye billionaire' on the American for-profit crowdfunding platform.It all started when one GoFundMe page - titled 'Make Kanye West a billionaire again' - was put up asking for donations to help the 45-year-old star reclaim billionaire status after Forbes set his net worth at a paltry $400million after losing partnerships with Adidas and Gap.
Tribute: A Kanye West fan has created a GoFundMe page in order to help the artist get back billionaire status, the 45-year-old artist is pictured in Calabasas on Friday Hmm: It all started when one GoFundMe page - titled 'Make Kanye West a billionaire again' - was put up asking for donations to help the 45-year-old star reclaim billionaire status after Forbes set his net worth at a paltry $400million after losing partnerships with Adidas and GapHowever, the page was taken down - in addition to a few more like it - presumably due to violations of the site's terms of service but they reportedly did not raise too much money before meeting their end.
GoFundMe allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses.
The crowdfunding effort may have not raised that money but did get plenty of attention online as many posted about it on social media as news outlets also wrote articles about it.
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