Despite 130,000 people signing a petition to banish him from the Worthy Farm grounds, Kanye West faced down the haters and delivered a massive set at this past weekend’s Glastonbury Festival. He brought out Justin Vernon, covered Bon Iver and Queen, and ripped through 30 hits from across his career. It was redemptive, triumphant, vindicating. Leave it to the BBC to turn it all into one big meme-able joke.

BBC 2 broadcasted much of the festival live, including West’s performance. Though the network aired an advisory about “bad language” prior to the start, it assured viewers there they was a contingency plan. While the BBC didn’t outright censor any of West’s lyrics, the folks handling the subtitles came up with hilarious alternatives to some of the lyrics.



Any instance of an F-bomb was apparently replaced with a less foul and more fowl word.

For the rapper’s prominent use of the n-word, the network simply grabbed one end of that first letter and pulled it straight up, giving us the wonderfully PC, completely nonsensical “ligga.”

Mum asked to put the subtitles on for Kanye's set, wasnt much use to say the least #MyLigga #Kanye pic.twitter.com/gzxmcBxzUv — Jordan James (@GustavsonJordan) June 27, 2015

Confusion reigns: Kayne and #Kanye are battling it out for top trending rights – but at least we have subtitles pic.twitter.com/U5iVkIyBKp — Mark Frankel (@markfrankel29) June 27, 2015

The BBC’s Subtitles for Kanye West’s Glastonbury Performance Were Hilariously Bad http://t.co/PcvFbjDUEd pic.twitter.com/r3tkIh2dIU — Dubie Bacino (@opajdara) June 28, 2015

While there’s no doubt that “Liggas in Paris” was a laugh-a-second read, sometimes the closed captionists just missed the point entirely.

Best BBC Kanye subtitles so far: 'To all you liggas you cabinet handle.' — Danny Wright (@dethink2survive) June 27, 2015

By the end of it, it seems the writers had just flat out given up.

Meanwhile at #Glastonbury the subtitle department of the BBC have called it a day. pic.twitter.com/saNMRUbWyO — Sentric Music (@SentricMusic) June 27, 2015

Even the BBC subtitle writer got sick of Kanye at Glastonbury. pic.twitter.com/H2nB0KX2mN — You had one job (@_youhadonejob) June 28, 2015

If you want to know what Yeezus really said, you can watch his full performance here. Sadly, BBC’s subtitles are not included.