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Skete

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Published October 15, 2026

Skete is the nickname rapper Kanye West gave comedian Pete Davidson in February 2022 while publicly attacking Davidson over his relationship with Kim Kardashian, Kanye's estranged wife. First used in a since-deleted Instagram caption on February 13, 2022, the name spread as Kanye's fans and meme accounts picked it up. By August 2022, Kanye closed the saga with a photoshopped Instagram headline reading 'Skete Davidson Dead at 28.'

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Overview

Skete worked as both a diss and a punchline. For Kanye's fans the name was an insult aimed at Davidson, often paired with screenshots of Kanye's captions saved before deletion3. For meme accounts that followed the drama for laughs, Skete was the keyword marking a post as part of the ongoing feud, pasted onto photoshops like Kanye's own Civil War painting edit of Davidson5.

Posts tended to center on two beats: screenshots of the Instagram captions themselves, usually the all-caps lines addressed to Davidson by that nickname, and edits placing Davidson into other imagery drawn from combat or action scenes7. According to Know Your Meme, a likely source for the sound of the nickname is a December 2020 SNL sketch titled 'Rap Roundtable,' in which Davidson and Timothée Chalamet repeatedly say 'Skrrt' and 'Yeet'4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Instagram (Kanye West post) / Twitter and Facebook (viral spread)
Creator
Kanye West
Date
2022

On February 13, 2022, Kanye West posted a carousel on Instagram showing a man in a chokehold next to a screenshot of a text from Kim Kardashian. The caption read, 'UPON MY WIFE'S REQUEST PLEASE NOBODY DO ANYTHING PHYSICAL TO SKETE I'M GOING TO HANDLE THE SITUATION MYSELF,' which Know Your Meme marks as the first public use of the Skete nickname5. Kanye deleted the original, but the fan archive account @kanye.deleted reposted the screenshots on February 153. The archive also captured a separate text exchange from February 14 in which Kanye again referred to Davidson as Skete10.

How It Spread

The nickname moved outside Kanye's Instagram inside 48 hours. On February 14, 2022, the Facebook page Eric Andre M E M E S that Ranch over and Cry posted a meme using a screenshot of the Skete caption, drawing more than 150 reactions over the following month7. The next day, Twitter user @SweetToothAudio joked that Davidson should change his Twitter display name to Skete to send Kanye 'deeper into his meltdown,' a tweet that earned around 262,200 likes within a month2.

On February 17, Kanye recirculated screenshots from Davidson's 2018 Weekend Update segment mocking his MAGA promotion9, captioning the primary image 'HI SKETE YOU GOT ANYMORE MENTAL HEALTH JOKES FOR ME?'8 On March 13, 2022, leaked text messages showed Davidson signing off as Skete in his replies to Kanye, which folded the nickname into the actual conversation between the two men5.

Davidson and Kardashian split on August 5, 2022, after nine months together, reported first by E! News1. Three days later, Kanye posted a photoshopped front page on Instagram with the headline 'Skete Davidson Dead at 28,' which drew about 1.7 million likes in three hours6.

Timeline

2020-12-13

SNL airs the 'Rap Roundtable' sketch with Pete Davidson and Timothée Chalamet repeating 'Skrrt' and 'Yeet,' later cited as a likely source for the nickname.

2022-02-13

Kanye West posts the first Skete caption on Instagram, telling fans not to do anything physical to Davidson.

2022-02-14

The Facebook page Eric Andre M E M E S that Ranch over and Cry posts a Skete screenshot meme that draws 150+ reactions.

2022-02-15

The archive account @kanye.deleted reposts the deleted Skete caption; @SweetToothAudio tweets a Skete joke that earns around 262,200 likes.

2022-02-17

Kanye recirculates Davidson's 2018 Weekend Update MAGA bit with the caption 'HI SKETE YOU GOT ANYMORE MENTAL HEALTH JOKES FOR ME?'

2022-03-13

Leaked text messages between Kanye and Davidson surface, showing Davidson signing off as Skete.

2022-08-05

E! News reports that Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have broken up after nine months.

2022-08-08

Kanye posts a photoshopped newspaper headline reading 'Skete Davidson Dead at 28,' which draws about 1.7 million likes in three hours.

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How to Use This Meme

Skete typically appears as a one-word substitute for Pete Davidson's name in reply guy jokes, image macros and photoshops referencing the 2022 Kanye and Kardashian saga. A common convention is pairing the word with a screenshot of Kanye's own all-caps Instagram captions, so the nickname carries its original tone of mock aggression3.

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