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Updated: Everything We Thought About the Beyoncé/Kanye Truce Was Wrong

The shoes she wore, originally reported to be Yeezys, were from Public Domain.
JayZ  Beyonc and Kanye West share a candid moment at the Grammys in 2008.
Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Kanye West at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in 2008.By Lester Cohen/WireImage.

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Update (4:40 P.M.): Despite reports otherwise, it turns out that Beyoncé was not wearing Yeezys in the photo that Kanye West posted Thursday. Beyoncé was wearing clear heels from Public Desire, as confirmed on Instagram from the brand itself.

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The brand, which sells the shoes for £34.99, posted West's photo on Instagram on Thursday afternoon. West, however, never credited Public Desire with the shoes, and several outlets reported that the shoes were $850 Yeezys. What looked like an olive branch of sorts after a four-year feud between the Carters and Wests turned out to be just . . . different clear plastic shoes. No update on whether or not West still considers the couple “famleeeeee.”

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Beyoncé and Jay-Z have signified the end of an era: they are, it seems, no longer feuding with Kanye West. On Thursday, the rapper posted a photo of the couple in a car and captioned it “famleeeeee.” As for the most important note here, Beyoncé is wearing a pair of clear wedge heels by Yeezy, as spotted by Page Six. If this isn’t an olive branch, then, truly, what is?

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Unlike many of his tweets, this post from West actually makes sense without some sort of encryption code. Four years laters, West appears to have forgiven the Carters for skipping his May 2014 wedding to Kim Kardashian. Yes, it’s been four years. Let’s catch up.

In May of 2014, Solange Knowles was seen hitting her brother-in-law in an elevator of the Standard Hotel. TMZ posted the video, and now anyone who uses that elevator has to say “this is where it happened.” On the Carters’ 2018 track “Friends” on their new joint album, Everything Is Love, Jay-Z implies that it was that incident that caused them to stay home from the Wests’ nuptials, something that West never quite got over.

“I ain’t going to nobody for nothin’ when me and my wife beefin’,” Jay-Z raps. “I don’t care if the house on fire, I’m dyin’, n---a, I ain’t leavin’.”

West told the Breakfast Club in May of this year that he was upset that Jay-Z would miss his big day: “I was hurt about them not coming to the wedding,” he said. “I understand he [Jay] was going through some things, but if it’s family, you’re not going to miss a wedding.”

Now that the Carters and Wests seem to be done with their drama and have forced the whole of the pop-culture-consuming Internet to revisit four-year-old beef, it’s probably safe to move on. What is absolutely not acceptable to move on from, however, is that, per the Blast, Beyoncé’s ex-drummer Kimberly Thompson claims the singer is involved in “extreme witchcraft” and filed for a restraining order.

She says that Beyoncé, who did not return a request for comment from the Blast, is guilty of “extreme witchcraft, dark magic,” and “magic spells of sexual molestation.” She also claims that the 37-year-old mother of three murdered her cat. Thompson’s request for a restraining order was denied by a judge, but if Beyoncé is really practicing witchcraft, it likely won’t do anything to hurt her fan appeal. That stuff is really in right now.