PIERS: Kylie isn’t self-made, she’s SELFIE made -off Kim’s sex tape
Kylie Jenner isn’t a self-made billionaire, she’s a SELFIE-made billionaire profiting off the back of her big sister’s sex tape. What a tragic reflection on our shallow social media society
‘Kylie Jenner is the youngest-ever self-made billionaire!’ screamed the prestigious Forbes business magazine.
Yes, Ms Jenner, aged just 21, is officially the richest youngest person ever to inhabit Planet Earth thanks to the phenomenal success of her Kylie Cosmetics make-up and beauty product empire.
Even more successful, in fact, than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was an elderly 23 by the time he made his first billion.
What an incredible story!
What an inspiration!
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What a wonderfully empowering example, especially in the week of International Women’s Day, to every other young girl in the world who wants to get on in life!
Hmmm.
Forgive me for raining on the parade, but how exactly has Ms Jenner achieved this staggering ‘self-made’ success?
Ms Jenner’s Wikipedia page describes her as ‘American reality television personality, model, entrepreneur, socialite and social media personality.’
That’s quite the portfolio.
Yet what does any of it actually mean?
From what I can detect, Kylie Jenner has no actual talent for anything other than being Kylie Jenner.
She doesn’t sing, dance, act, write, solve scientific problems, save lives or try to rid the world of disease.
Instead Kylie Jenner appears to just be very, very skilled at being herself. Most of her cosmetic sales come from her promoting them on her own social media platforms: she has 128 million followers on Instagram, 26 million on Twitter, and is one of the most viewed Snapchat stars in the world.
Kylie Jenner appears to have no talents. Her only skill is being herself
Most of her cosmetic sales come from her promoting them on her own social media platforms
But let’s be brutally honest: her young female fans are only interested in her and her taste in lipstick because she happens to be a member of the Kardashian family.
And the disconcertingly enduring success of that family is entirely down one thing: a sex tape.
For the uninitiated, let me explain:
In February 2007, an explicit video was mysteriously leaked featuring Kim Kardashian and her ex boyfriend Ray J.
It was made in 2003 and leaves little to the imagination as the couple perform various intimate acts on each other.
A video of their sex romp was released by Vivid Entertainment, which distributed it as ‘Kim K Superstar.’
This title proved to be extremely prophetic.
It exploded into the ether just as the internet and social media, really began to explode too, ensuring the clips went viral around the world and making Kim instantly infamous.
Kim feigned fury and sued Vivid, settling for a reported $5 million.
But within a few weeks, she and her family capitalised on all the publicity by signing a deal with E! to make a new series, ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’, starring Kim with her mother Kris Jenner, step-parent Caitlyn (then Bruce) Jenner, her siblings Kourtney, Khloe, and Rob Kardashian, and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.
In 2007, a sex tape was mysteriously leaked featuring Kim and her ex Ray J, which had been made in 2003. Kim feigned fury and sued Vivid, settling for a reported $5 million. Within weeks, she and her family has signed a deal with E! to make ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’
It quickly became a smash hit success, and as a result every member of the family became world famous.
This in turn made them all very rich.
And they’ve kept themselves world famous and ever richer by serving us up a constant daily vomit of vacuous, trivial nonsense about their lives masquerading as news.
We’re subjected – and I fully concede the media has played a big part in fuelling this circus – to every single unedifying morsel of tedious Kardashian/Jenner tittle-tattle as they’ve grown into the human form of McDonalds: a deeply unhealthy 24/7 diet of fast-served crap that we take because we can’t help ourselves.
We know it’s bad for us, we’re know it’s destroying our brain cells, integrity and culture – but still we seem to crave it.
The popularity of these dim-witted cretins is as terrifying as their influence.
Young people just can’t seem to get enough of them, or in lining their bulging bank vaults with cash.
Yet what does it say about modern society that the richest, most successful young person is Kylie Jenner, a woman with no discernible talent, charm, intelligence, or real beauty?
(I don’t mean to be rude by questioning her aesthetic qualities, just factual: only Kendall of the entire family would have had a successful modelling career if it weren’t for the family name. Yet Kylie was able to launch her cosmetic company with $250,000 from modelling work.)
Kendall, left, is the only member of the family who would have had a modelling career if it weren’t for her name. Yet Kylie was able to launch her company with $250,000 from modelling
Kylie says it’s ALL down to her.
A few months ago, when rumours first began to circulate that she was approaching billionaire status, she claimed her success was due to her own hard work, inspired by her mom and dad cutting her off financially when she was 15.
‘My parents told me I needed to make my own money,’ she said. ‘to learn how to save and spend your own money, stuff like that.’
So young Kylie just worked hard from the age of 15 and bingo – within six years she’s a billionaire!
What a load of disingenuous bullsh*t.
Kylie Jenner didn’t become a billionaire because of her work ethic and it’s preposterous for anyone to say she did, least of all Forbes who should and do know better.
She became a billionaire because her sister Kim starred in a sex tape.
That tape led to the TV show, which led to all the family cashing in on their newfound celebrity status like ravenous jackals feeding off a freshly slain gazelle carcass.
I don’t blame them for this horrifically avaricious behaviour – many in their shoes would have done exactly the same.
I hate the ludicrously delusional and misleading notion that Kylie is a ‘self-made’ billionaire as much as i hate Kim posting topless photos claiming they are ’empowering’
But just as I hate it when Kim posts her pathetic topless selfies and proclaims them to be ‘empowering’ examples of feminism, so I hate the ludicrously delusional and dangerously misleading notion that her little sister’s now become a ‘self-made’ billionaire.
‘I did have a platform but none of my money is inherited,’ she insists.
Perhaps not, but all the lucrative fame and notoriety that created her money IS inherited, and all that fame and notoriety originated from her big sister having sex on camera.
Without that, there would be no TV show, no gazillion followers on social media, no Kylie Cosmetics empire and no absurd announcement by Forbes that she’s the ‘youngest self-made billionaire in history!’
Without Kim’s sex tap, there would be no TV show, no gazillion followers on social media, no Kylie Cosmetics and no announcement that she’s the ‘youngest self-made billionaire in history
Whether you want to admit it or not Kylie, you owe it all to a grainy video of Kim having sex.
Why does this matter?
Because young girls should surely have better aspirations than thinking the way to succeed in life is to make a sex tape, or post dumb topless photos?
Kylie told Forbes about her billionaire moniker: ‘I didn’t expect anything. But it feels really good. That’s a nice pat on the back. I work really hard.’
No luv.
The only really hard work behind all this came from Kim – and she had to do a lot more for it than just be patted on the back.
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