West tweeted nine video clips from a 22-minute Periscope by the controversial cartoonist behind Dilbert, Scott Adams, on Monday.
Earlier this month, Kanye West reactivated his Twitter account and used the platform to announce he's possibly live-writing a philosophy book and that he has a new album planned for June 8.
Adams has regularly blogged about Trump, far-right politics, men's rights, and his particular homebrew version of behavioral science for years.
Since the 2016 election, he's become a prominent figure among the far-right.
Adams is an enthusiastic Trump supporter, who regularly praises the president's "persuasion style." He has argued that Trump is a master of "linguistic kill shots."
Adams' turn as a far-right figurehead isn't an entirely new development. In 2006, he wrote in a now-deleted blog post that he questioned official death toll numbers for the Holocaust. "Is it the sort of number that is so well-documented with actual names and perhaps a Nazi paper trail that no historian could doubt its accuracy, give or take ten thousand," Adams wrote. "No reasonable person doubts that the Holocaust happened, but wouldn’t you like to know how the exact number was calculated, just for context?"
Adams is also an outspoken men's rights activist. "The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone," he wrote in another now-deleted blog post.
When asked about his blog post, he wrote on the site Feministe that women were compromised by their emotions and couldn't understand what he was trying to say.
In 2017, Adams said that he believes his growing far-right ideology had alienated friends and possibly cost him a Dilbert movie deal.
Adams is also a regular guest on Alex Jones' far-right talk show Info Wars.
When Kanye West tweeted Adams' videos on Monday, the reaction among far-right internet personalities, like Mike Cernovich, was immediate.
Info Wars editor-at-large, Paul Joseph Watson, was similarly excited by West discovering Scott Adams.
And Alex Jones went so far as to reach out to Kanye West, inviting him on Info Wars.
The official account for Gab, the far-right Twitter clone, tweeted a photo of Kanye West meeting Trump from 2016.
At the time, Trump told reporters that they two have been friends "for a long time" and that they spent the meeting talking about life. West tweeted that he met with Trump to talk about multi-cultural issues.
Gateway Pundit contributor Cassandra Fairbanks began tweeting about it.
Fairbanks also wrote up the interaction between Adams and West, writing that West was "redpilling the masses."
The term redpilling is internet shorthand for the use of memes as a propaganda tool.
And Lauren Southern, a far-right YouTuber who was recently banned from the UK, began tweeting West's tweets.
Reactions outside the far-right sphere have been less positive, with members of the Kanye West subreddit calling the tweets "right wing propaganda".
And people are across Twitter are beginning to believe that Kanye West may have been "redpilled" by the far-right.
And the tweeting of Adams' videos don't appear to be totally random, either. Over the weekend, West tweeted his support for Candace Owens, a far-right YouTuber that goes by Red Pill Black.
Owens responded positively to the tweet, writing, "Please take a meeting with me. I tell every single person that everything that I have been inspired to do, was written in your music."
Also, on Monday morning, Ebro, the host of Hot 97, told listeners that West is still an avid fan of Donald Trump. Though there is some speculation that all of this is meant to create a buzz around a new album West announced for June.
BuzzFeed News has also reached out to Adams via email addresses listed on his blog.
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