What was peak Kanye hysteria ONLINE? Like on sites like this. So I'm not necessarily talking about chart success but when his every move got 100s of pages here.

And when did it really start fizzling out, if it was before 2018?

2016

TLOP era

Yeezus

Yeezus-TLOP

Back when he was fresh

so during the messy rollout late 2015 until spring 2016

Feel like the hype was off the charts but could just be me. Those SoundCloud releases on Fridays used to be still remember hearing NMPILA for the first time

TLOP was definitely the peak. Hasn’t been the same since. Donda was shaping up to be another peak but then son lost his mind again

Pablo ez

2003-2009

Damn grandpa

It's part of what made the rollout so agonizing, then the MSG show happened, and all was forgiven

Donda was about the best it could get for 2020s Ye tbh lol

Facts lmao

and that’s the thing. Ye would wild out but the music would be so good that we would just let it slide. After the MAGA s***, the music would be just as bad lmao

TLOP-era. Coming off the back of his flawless 2004-2013 run, and the success of the YZY-Adidas collab, you had both longtime fans, and new fans who’d listened to his back catalogue yet to “experience” a Ye rollout, all eagerly awaiting his next album. The long wait time for the next project meant both fan bases massively grew in size.

Yeah as soon as the "genius" didn't match the music, it was curtains

TLOP was huge but so was Graduation

Probably his most accessible albums to a wider public even though most of his albums are pretty accessible overall tbh

Yeezus/pablo

Graduation was huge because of who he was as a rap artist. By the time Pablo came out he was a f***ing global icon lol

Yeezus to TLOP (2013-2017)

Homeless couture in the Yeezus era >>>>>

During yeezus/pablo he was a fashion icon, rap superstar, dating KimK in her prime. That was peak ye fan base for sure and before the MAGA hat I think too right?