--- title: Kanye West Returns to Instagram on Valentine's Day description: More than nine months after Kanye West mysteriously disappeared from social media, the rapper and fashion mogul returned to Instagram canonical: https://time.com/5158669/kanye-west-instagram-post-2018/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-14T20:53:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T08:58:24.035Z og:title: Kanye West Returns to Instagram With a Message For Kim Kardashian og:description: The rapper and fashion mogul just posted for the first time in over nine months og:url: https://time.com/5158669/kanye-west-instagram-post-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c62f2b7d2d49b6a/698927a7db298757fc25ec71/kanye-west-instagram-valentines-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3047 og:image:height: 1714 og:image:alt: Celebrities At The Lakers Game og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kanye West Returns to Instagram With a Message For Kim Kardashian twitter:description: The rapper and fashion mogul just posted for the first time in over nine months twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c62f2b7d2d49b6a/698927a7db298757fc25ec71/kanye-west-instagram-valentines-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kanye West Finally Returns to Instagram With a Valentine's Message For Kim Kardashian > Sponsored content. 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Chicago West has entered the building_ by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Feb 14, 2018 8:53 PM UTC Chicago West has entered the building by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Feb 14, 2018 8:53 PM UTC More than nine months after [Kanye West](http://time.com/5110414/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-baby-name-chicago/) mysteriously disappeared from social media, the rapper and fashion mogul returned to Instagram with an adorably simple message to his wife, [Kim Kardashian.](http://time.com/5104492/kanye-kim-baby-girl-born-third-child/) “Happy Valentines Day babe,” a plain white card reads in the photo, which appears to be placed on a counter of some sort. The post has no caption, but already has 180,000 likes and rising within 35 minutes of its upload. For a while there, the rest of Kanye’s Instagram profile was just as bare as his post. His avatar still is blank white, which was an intentional choice, otherwise a white silhouette over a grey background would be visible had he opted not to upload a profile picture. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were no other posts on his grid, rendering the rest of his page blank white as well until he shared a photo of the Obamas. Minutes later, Kim appeared to give a response — albeit on a different platform, Twitter. “Happy #ValentinesDay!” she tweeted with a photo of her and Kanye kissing, which links back to her website. Earlier in the day, she posted an additional tribute on Instagram, gushing: “I love you to infinity! Happy Valentine’s Day!!!” > [](https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/963865690636767232) Kanye first went dark on both networks on May 5, 2017, and his Twitter remains down. Social media users and publications alike [speculated](http://www.elle.com/culture/music/news/a45082/why-did-kanye-west-delete-his-instagram-and-twitter/) what prompted the _Yeezus_ rapper to make such a decision. The optimistic hope was that he was working on a new project, perhaps in music. Now that has he vaguely resurfaced, are we due for some new Kanye tunes? Perhaps we’ll find out soon. ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] And [01:23] you just told us it's a girl! Yes. [ APPLAUSE ] Yes. It's a [01:24] girl! It is. 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