On Thursday this week, Twitter user Michael Butler posted a screenshot of his phone’s new Kanye West wallpaper, which is positioned so that every time he receives a notification Kanye holds it up. It’s gone viral, of course. Really viral.
In his tweet, Butler said, “This is the best screensaver cos whenever i get a notification, Kanye holds it up for me,” and he’s damn right. Since it was posted, the tweet has been re-tweeted almost 150,000 times. It also already has a quarter of a million likes…
…and it’s convinced a bunch of other Kanye fans to do the same:
@mahnoorkhannn @michaellbutlerr @_Shanique_S @MaureeenNganga @priya2000patel I’m changing mine to that
— jo (@joannamackie99) September 29, 2016
this is the best lock screen bc when i get a notif, Kanye holds it up for me. pic.twitter.com/weVTZA4xVS
— εѵα (@evajohnso_n) September 29, 2016
Butler was hit up by masses of Kanye fans, requesting a version of the image for themselves…
@michaellbutlerr Can I PLEASE get that image? I wanna replicte it as my lockscreen on my OnePlus 3!
— Sahil Bhalla (@IMSahilBhalla) September 29, 2016
…so he ended up retweeting the original image in the hope that DMs would finally stop flooding his inbox. The image, which we’ve posted below so you can grab it as your own wallpaper, was taken at Kanye’s Listening Party 3 and Fashion Line show earlier this year.
Now go change that wallpaper.
this is the original picture
pls. make the dms stop. pic.twitter.com/jSScsv8zua— mb (@michaellbutlerr) September 30, 2016