Kanye West Encouraged Fans To Make These Funny Fake Album Covers For ‘Ye’

Last Friday, Kanye West released his eighth studio album, Ye, after a listening party at a Wyoming ranch that has since banned rappers. You can stream the album here or read our reviews here and here. The 23 minute-long album seemed to be a last-minute affair, with Kanye still working on it during the day of release and the album cover itself being snapped on Kanye’s iPhone on the way to the listening party:

Since the album’s release, that cover has spawned a meme, which only grew in popularity after Kanye tweeted a link to “Yenerator”, a widget for generating joke titles for the album. Between Yenerator and photoshop users on Twitter and Reddit, a bounty of new album covers have come online.

Some people theorized the album art was so slapdash because they already blew their budget on Daytona:

But some people wondered what would happen if they had gone with a Life of Pablo style cover:

And others made slight adjustments:

— Conor O'Hagan (@conyac420) June 3, 2018

Via Reddit

This is what we're supposed to do, us gays, right #Ye pic.twitter.com/Q0s2twUFdu

— (@SDLedge) June 2, 2018

How you gon leave the best track off the album #ye #Yenerator pic.twitter.com/IEY6VZgYLB

— ruthless zae (@izaeah) June 3, 2018

Some of the replacement covers repurposed old Kanye quotes:

— JujuBean (@JewjewBeen) June 3, 2018

While some covers were unusually on point with a BoJack Horseman quote:

Well, that escalated quickly. Let’s go back to the fun ones:

— em (@emilyiliwys) June 3, 2018

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— Jules (@Julian_Epp) June 2, 2018

Pretty sure this is what #ye actually had in mind #yenerator #wowbobwow #twinpeaks pic.twitter.com/wDdd3Xe1oM

— Sean Spark (@sparky_sean) June 3, 2018

pic.twitter.com/A3FnR1oxVH

— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) June 4, 2018

Via Reddit

classic pic.twitter.com/05Y0ocXlNN

— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) June 1, 2018

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— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) June 4, 2018

Some of the suggested replacement covers referenced other memes, like Jimmy Barnes the singing Australian/Scottish cowboy from the music video for “Big Enough” or updated privacy policies.

— Alex Villa (@VILLAin4417) June 3, 2018

And finally, some people noticed this album cover was prophesied by South Park: