A man has gone viral after showing the moment Kanye West and Bianca Censori rejected his request at the Grammy's. Cole Walliser, a filmmaker and music video director, is best known as the operator of the GlamBOT high-speed camera , having worked with E! Entertainment on it since the 2016 Emmys. It involves a high-speed camera on a robotic arm capturing dynamic, slow-motion video content of celebrities.
Walliser was at the Grammys on Sunday when he approached West and Censori—who later caused a stir on the red carpet —to participate. However, the rapper rejected the cameraman's advances. Newsweek contacted a spokesperson for West and Censori for comment via email on Wednesday outside normal business hours.
A post shared by instagram Walliser uploaded videos to TikTok and Instagram of him approaching the couple and asking, "A little GlamBOT slo-mo action?" In response, West smiled and waved his hand as he and Censori kept walking. As Walliser moved away from the couple, he said, "He's like, 'Ahhhh no.'" Walliser wrote in the caption for both videos, "Had to shoot my shot with Kanye.
" The clip has received more than 6.3 million views on TikTok and 17 million on Instagram. In the comments section, viewers said Walliser was lucky that West refused to take part in the GlamBOT video.
"Sometimes rejection is a blessing," one person wrote, while another said, "Not the glam bot we want anyway." "He refused, it was a gift to you," a commenter added, and another user wrote, "It's alr.