Look, we could sit here for days and argue about when exactly Kanye went insane, or if he was ever really sane at all. But the fact is, there used to be a time when he didn’t tweet out swastikas.

Let’s pretend the present-day Kanye West doesn’t exist for a minute, and take a walk down memory lane. Enjoy some relics of the days when a Kanye tweet could make you laugh, instead of making you fear for the future of humanity.

So today, let’s separate the art (tweets) from the artist (Kanye) and remember a time before Twitter was owned by Elon Musk and swarmed by right-wing bots. Check these classic tweets out.