Kardashians in the Media

[iwasish]

2 hours ago, nexxie said:

Guess his sweats aren’t as genius as he thought!

He needs to be more creative with the placement of the rips and tears. And that camo pattern needs work. Maybe go with one long sleeve, one short... change things up!! 

[Veronique Bette]

4 hours ago, iwasish said:

Kanye didn’t make the list?

“The man” is keeping him down.  He’s not allowed to succeed. It’s a big conspiracy. 

This has nothing to do with Kanye or his politics or beliefs. This ranking has to do with professional fashion stylists such as Monica Rose and the many other professional stylists that the Kardashian-Jenner sisters and other celebrities employ or have employed to get them red carpet ready and noticed in the press. That is what this ranking is based on. Yes, Kanye has "encouraged" Kim to model his "fashions" in his delusional belief that he is a cutting-edge designer -- designer, not stylist -- but let's not get this twisted: everything that's gone wrong with this tacky family is not Kanye's fault.

[vast wasteland]

Fan Or Not, The Kardashians Have You Trapped In Their Scandalous Web

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Since 2007, the Kardashian family has been reeling in millions of viewers, eager and sometimes desperate, to get a closer look at the too-crazy-to-be-true lives of one Calabasas-based family. These women — along with their partners, children, and inner circle of friends— have arguably spawned more businesses, cultural moments, and franchises than any other group of people in the 21st century. As a unit, they’re an inescapable, flawlessly contoured juggernaut.

But being the most watched and talked-about family in America (that isn’t in the White House) comes with its own set of burdens. How do you stay relevant? How do you not only maintain a fully dramatic lifestyle, but also generate different drama each season, all with the same cast? (The core family has remained consistent — save for Caitlyn Jenner’s departure from the series in 2017.) In the first few months of 2019 alone, the family has faced more “scandals” and career-defining moments than most other celebrities do in a year: Travis Scott performed at the controversial Super Bowl and may have secretly proposed to Kylie Jenner while there. Kylie threw daughter Stormi Webster the most insane first birthday party. Kim Kardashian West announced that she and West are expecting a fourth child. Tristan Thompson cheated on Khloé Kardashian with Kylie’s now-excommunicated best friend (and former roommate) Jordyn Woods. Kourtney Kardashian might be dating Blink-182’s Travis Barker. Kylie is the youngest “self-made” billionaire to ever exist.

It’s only March.

As an avid consumer of all things Kardashian, I’ve come to notice that these huge “scandals” tend to go down before the season premiere of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the family’s long-running E! reality show. (March 31 marks the series’ 16th season debut. Let that sink in.) The go-to joke is that the devil works hard, but Kris Jenner works harder — but is it true? Is there a pattern for a Kardashian scandal? And does it work? There’s only one way to find out.

 Much like the roll out of a new album, it’s becoming clear that every recent Kardashian "drop" follows a distinct, but loose, timeline: The first inkling of a rumor is leaked on a tabloid site, where it then enters the public sphere. Other outlets begin to pick up on it, and mass speculation turns the tiny spark of rumor into a full-blown fire. The sisters then take to social media to weigh in on said scandal, confirming and denying aspects of it that build a narrative. (For instance, with the Tristan-Khloé scandal, Khloé pivoted the narrative from Jordyn being a “homewrecker” to the 21-year-old model being a victim of Tristan’s infidelity.) Building on the original chatter, supplementary stories about the family come out, keeping the fire ablaze. This only lasts a few weeks, until the fire is extinguished when Keeping Up With the Kardashians premieres and the family introduces new plot lines for fans to pick up. They’re spoon-feeding us our daily intake of mindless gossip, and like Pavlov’s dog, we are left salivating for more — even if we don't actually watch the show. Four weeks of non-stop Kardashian news, and we’re sucked back into their lives. It’s insidious as it is brilliant.

Ground zero of most Kardashian scandals is TMZ. This tabloid site is notoriously the first to “break” any Kardashian news, based on inside sources and direct contact with someone who knows a lot more about the family than you or I. “Trustworthy” and “TMZ” may not be two words commonly associated with one another, but regardless of their sleazy headlines, the site’s almost always right. When it comes to news about this family, Harvey Levin’s Hollywood gossip site is the spigot from which the tap flows. As the New Yorker wrote in a 2016 exposé on TMZ, many celebrities come directly to the site with tips and, more importantly, an angle.

In fall of 2017, TMZ broke the news that Kylie was pregnant with a short post, late on a Friday afternoon, only two weeks after rumors dropped that Kim and Kanye were expecting their third child. Neither Kylie nor her sisters commented on the legitimacy of the claim. Instead, the notoriously public 20-year-old hid out at her house to experience her pregnancy in private — and Khloé Kardashian stepped up by announcing that she, too, was pregnant with her first child with Thompson. Kylie would not confirm her own pregnancy until Super Bowl Sunday — February 4, 2018 — three days after giving birth. On February 6, she uploaded the first photo of Stormi, which would become the most liked Instagram post until the "Egg."

And what was happening during all this pregnancy news? The tenth anniversary of the series. On October 1, after Kylie’s pregnancy was “leaked” to TMZ and speculation on the matter ran wild, the series premiered to higher-than-normal viewership.

Here’s the actual timeline:

September 6, 2017: TMZ reports KimYe is expecting third child, their first via surrogate.

September 22, 2017: TMZ leaks that Kylie is pregnant with Travis Scott.

September 26, 2017: US Weekly leaks that Khloé is pregnant with Tristan Thompson.

October 1, 2017: Season 14 of KUWTK premieres higher than average viewership, according to RatingGraph.com.

During this period of great speculation by the media (and fans at large), no one from the family confirmed or denied any of the rumors. According to a Forbes article from January 2018, season 14 ratings have been improving in tandem with the scandals. (The most watched KUWTK episode to date was Kim’s 2011 wedding to husband-of-72-days Kris Humphries, which brought in 10.5 million viewers.)

Let’s compare the timeline for Kylie’s pregnancy to the cheating scenario that just unfolded.

February 19, 2019: TMZ reports that Jordyn Woods made out with Tristan Thompson at a party. Khloé Kardashian immediately reacts on social media, cryptically commenting on a post about the rumor.

February 20, 2019: Kim Kardashian West is the first family member to officially react on social media.

February 26, 2019: Khloé Kardashian directly addresses the drama with a tweet.

March 1, 2019: Jordyn Woods goes on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table TalkFacebook show.

March 3, 2019: Khloé Kardashian blames, then apologizes to, Jordyn Woods.

March 4, 2019: Travis Scott reportedly caught cheating on Kylie Jenner.

March 31, 2019: Season 16 of KUWTK premieres.

Sure, pregnancy and infidelity are different types of drama, but when comparing the 2017 and 2019 timelines, a clear strategy emerges: both situations unfold a month before the season premiere of the show. But, in 2019, instead of greeting the rumors with silence, the family enters the ring to directly confirm or deny rumors on social media. As we’ve seen the past month, Khloé and Kim are liking, tweeting, and answering fans’ questions about the Tristan-Jordyn brouhaha. If something is true, they’ll weigh in. If something’s not, they will let 👏 us👏 know. And the whole rigamarole is whetting fans’ appetites for the new season of KUWTK. Which seems to be the whole point.

Since three is a trend, let’s look at one more major Kardashian moment from 2018, right in between Kylie’s pregnancy and Khloé’s cheating heartbreak: the sister feud. Remember when Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé decided that they all hated each other? And Kourtney went to therapy, and Kim made fun of her for it? And Kourtney’s therapist convinced her that her mother Kris was the root of all her issues in her adult life? This feels like a Fake Feud. Unlike the 2017 and 2019 scandals, this one was teased purely in promo clips and trailers for season 15 of the series. It was August 2018 — the baby news was all out in the open, Kanye West wasn’t making regrettable comments about Donald Trump yet, and a simple sibling feud was an easy, attention-grabbing narrative to latch onto. It worked. Outlets noted that Kim and Kourtney hadn’t been in photos together recently, and speculated that the relationship was degrading before our eyes. Kim essentially called Kourtney basic (the ultimate insult), and even their momager chose sides (#TeamKim).

Here’s how it went down:

August 3, 2018: KUWTK teases the feud.

August 22, 2018: The feud continues both on the show, and IRL. Kourtney and Kim bicker on Twitter after each episode airs.

September 27, 2018: Kourtney curses out Kim for being a clown and a snob.

October 31, 2018: Kim ends the feud.

After a nine episode arc, where the fight lubricated an otherwise dry season (that is until episode 12, when the first Tristan Thompson story broke), the hyped-up conflict ended. Kim and Kourt went back to privately resenting one other’s narcissism instead of hamming it up for the camera.

These three different timelines all involved the Kardashians' inner-circle; they all broke a month before a new season of the show; and they each made the public pay closer attention to the family again.

What’s interesting, though, is that the stories breaking right before a season premiere won’t actually be discussed in the series because of the way filming works. For example, season 16 can’t address Thompson and Woods at all because it was already filmed earlier this year, prior to the news breaks. It will presumably only set the stage for the more drama by hinting that Khloé wants to end things with Thompson, or even (I’m really hoping for this) revealing that Khloé actually has her own secret man. But this is producer-talk (hello, Chris Harrison and Ryan Seacrest: I am very good at this) — all of these timely scandals are meant to build long lead plotlines for the show. We can bet that season 17 will take a closer look at Khloé’s reaction to Jordyn kissing her man, and if Kourtney is really dating the drummer of everyone’s favorite teen angst band.

In reality TV, it’s more difficult to create these season-spanning plotlines and keep them interesting — unless, like The Bachelor, you’re constantly changing out the cast to keep things fresh. So, the Kardashians have improvised.

The drama isn’t exactly fake — it’s just strategic, if you know what you're really looking at.

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Plastic surgery rates rise again: 18 MILLION Americans got procedures last year

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Dr Linder says one way that clearly shows the normalization of plastic surgery is the lack of shows on TV.

'Besides Botched on E! there's few to no shows on plastic surgery anymore,' he said.

'I used to get called every month to discuss plastic surgery on Extra or Access Hollywood. But they don't call anymore because it's so mainstream - there's no more "wow factor".'  

Dr Rowe says that the impact of celebrities and social media - namely the Kardashians - on the rising numbers can't be ignored.

'Celebrities and social media have a dramatic impact,' he said. 'In 2019, we're looking at our faces and bodies more than ever before.

'Now you look at yourself hundreds of times a day in selfies, [patients] want to look like Kylie [Jenner], they want to look like Kim [Kardashian], so that's one aspect.' 

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How to Create Nonstop Content Like a Kardashian

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Somehow, in the span of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians tenure (KUWTKfor Pete’s sake), Kim Kardashian, and her sisters, became legitimate business women. I’m equal parts horrified and in awe.

I’m horrified because the pervasive image of all of the Kardashian-Jenners is one of excess- over sexualized and under intellectualized.

But. These women wrote the book on content creation. They’ve each gone so far as to have intense plastic surgery to keep people talking about them (c’mon, look at that photo above… Khloe and Kylie don’t even look like the same people anymore).

Khloe’s baby shower last year was sponsored. By Amazon. Seriously.

So, what can we learn from this? That we should all have plastic surgery and live in the limelight as “Influencers”? Absolutely not. I think from a brand perspective, we can take home a few key points.

Four Things We Can Learn About Content Creation From Kim Kardashian:

Create content that is valuable. Hey, Kim’s app Kim Kardashian: Hollywood may not be my bag, but millions actively engage with it. She launched it years ago as people wanted more and more access to her and monetarily captured some of her first fans that way. 

Always have a call to action. Part of Kim being able to monetize people’s interest was to have something she could steer them to. The sell piece started subtle with the Kardashian/Jenners and they’ve continuously leveled up. If you ever watch shows like Ellen or Jimmy Fallon, the celebrities on the show are usually promoting something- their new movie, a new makeup line, a decor line at Target, etc.

Create streams of revenue around the content in unique ways. Last year Kim debuted ScreenShop that allows people to easily search online retail options of fashion in screenshots. 

Leverage, leverage, leverage. Kim debuts a product, Kylie debuts a Kim-partnered product, Kanye debuts his fashion line by Kim wearing the clothes in paparazzi photos. 

The Kardashians entered the reality tv scene around the same time as many others that we no long pay any attention to. What’s made them stand the test of time (and make hundreds of millions of dollars in the process) is their master-level content creation and seemingly endless ability to leverage. Other businesses can take note and learn from these strategies to grow revenues or increase visibility, even if our own personal values contrast with those of the Kardashians.

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Women can build positive body image by controlling what they view on social media

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Celeste Barbour runs an account on Instagram where she parodies the images celebrities post on their own social media. 

https://www.instagram.com/celestebarber/?hl=en

Social media use is often described as being problematic for mental health and body image. But is all social media use bad?

Our new research shows that viewing bodypositive Instagram content may actually improve women's body image, at least in the short term.

With more awareness, social media users might be able to curate a social media environment that promotes positive body image by unfollowing or blocking idealised accounts, and following more body positive accounts – possibly including more Celeste Barbour – on Instagram.

Chasing 'the ideal'

Body image concerns are common among young women and can have serious negative consequences. Most young women use social media daily, and researchsuggests that viewing idealised appearance-focused content is associated with poorer body image.

That is, following accounts like the Kardashians/Jenners, fitspiration, or influencers and friends posting glamorous bikini shots, is associated with women being more preoccupied with their appearance and less satisfied with their own bodies. As a result, women may engage in unhealthy dieting or exercise strategies to try and achieve "the ideal" they see in their social media feeds.

The rise of BoPo

Recently, a new trend has emerged on social media called "body positivity" (or "BoPo").

Body positivity aims to challenge narrow beauty ideals and encourage acceptance and appreciation of bodies of all shapes, sizes, and appearances. BoPo accounts such as @bodyposipanda (with over 1 million followers), have become particularly popular on Instagram.

A search for the hashtag #bodypositive returns almost 9 million posts, and #effyourbeautystandards (popularised by body positive activist Tess Holiday) generates almost 4 million posts.

A recent content analysis of body positive content on Instagram shows that these posts do indeed depict a broad range of body sizes and appearances. Content includes:

selfies of women proudly displaying their belly rolls and cellulite

before and after photos of "real" vs "edited" bodies, encouraging awareness of the common use of Photoshop on Instagram

self-compassion quotes

images focusing on body functionality (what the body can do rather than what it looks like).

But do women feel better?

Although body positive content is intended to make women feel better about their appearance, there had been no research confirming whether this was actually the case.

In our new study, 195 young women (18-30 years old) viewed either body positive content, idealised content with thin women, or appearance-neutral content taken from Instagram.

Before and after viewing this content we asked women to rate their mood, body satisfaction, and the extent to which they focused on their appearance (known as self-objectification).

We found that brief exposure to body positive Instagram posts resulted in improved body image and mood in young women, compared to idealised and appearance-neutral posts.

Women who viewed body positive posts felt more satisfied with their bodies, were more appreciative of the unique functions and health of their bodies, and had more positive mood. In contrast, those who viewed idealised Instagram posts had poorer body image and mood.

Although this study found positive results for body image, it also showed that body positive content can make women more focused on their physical appearance over other aspects of themselves.

This has been a criticism of body positive accounts in the past, with some suggesting that it may be better to focus on aspects of the self that are unrelated to physical appearance in order to improve well-being.

We need more research to determine the effects of body positive content over time and to explore what types of posts are more helpful than others.

Curate your own environment

Given the popularity of social media among young women, we need to understand the type of use that may be helpful or harmful for body image. Unlike traditional media formats (like magazines and televison), social media users are active content creators and have agency in what they post and view.

Interestingly, another recent study found that showing women humorous, parody Instagram content (@celestebarber) resulted in improved body image and positive mood, compared to viewing traditional thin celebrity posts.

So, maybe social media is not necessarily all bad? Rather, we need to be more mindful of the content we are consuming. Considered choices about who we follow, and the messages they promote, might actually help us feel better.

[Showthyme]

45 minutes ago, vast wasteland said:

Fan Or Not, The Kardashians Have You Trapped In Their Scandalous Web

TMZ has to be on the Kardashian payroll. TMZ doesn't report on any other reality celebrity or show unless the celebrity gets into some kind of legal trouble. Rarely does a day or two go by without a Kardashian being featured. TMZ is an infomercial for the Ks.

[vast wasteland]

36 minutes ago, Showthyme said:

TMZ has to be on the Kardashian payroll. TMZ doesn't report on any other reality celebrity or show unless the celebrity gets into some kind of legal trouble. Rarely does a day or two go by without a Kardashian being featured. TMZ is an infomercial for the Ks.

Good call, showthyme:

A Theory of How TMZ Landed the Kardashian Pregnancy Story of the Year

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In 2013, TMZ founder Harvey Levin appeared as a co-host on Kris, the ill-fated daytime talk show hosted by Kris Jenner, matriarch and founder of the Kardashian empire. “I think people have this preconceived notion that we don’t get along,” Jenner said as a manner of introducing Levin, who went onto explain that the two have been “old friends” since 1994, when he was working as a TV reporter in Los Angeles. Jenner, Levin said, “had her tentacles, as she does, in everything,” but especially, at that time, in the O.J. Simpson trial on which Levin was reporting. (Jenner was close with Nicole Brown Simpson.) “I lasered in,” Levin said with a nervous giggle, to which Jenner replied flatly, “Yeah, you did.”

The two have gone on to enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship, with Levin’s website helping give rise to the family, and the family providing an ample amount of material for the website, including suspiciously well-sourced exclusives, creating an unceasing feedback loop that has helped make each enormously rich and famous. It is with this relationship in mind that we will attempt to untangle the mess of news regarding the apparent cheating scandal involving the at the time very pregnant Khloe Kardashian and her basketball playing boyfriend Tristan Thompson—news that has blanketed gossip websites for days, and gives us a unique peek at how America’s real first family attempts to judiciously control its narrative, and what happens when it appears to briefly let that control slip.

It all began on Tuesday, April 10, when the Daily Mail acquired amateur video of Thompson and a then-unidentified woman kissing each other at a party in New York this past Sunday, April 8. Shortly after the Daily Mail’s article, photos appeared online of Thompson and the same woman outside the Four Seasons in Manhattan, where he was staying with his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who were in town for a game against the Knicks. Those photos did not appear on TMZ, but a short time later the gossip behemoth wrested control of the news cycle with even juicier footage, posting video from last October taken by a security camera inside a hookah lounge in Washington, D.C. The video shows Thompson hanging out with three women, two of whom eventually engage in mutual groping with the basketball star.

A mere nine minutes after publishing that six-month-old hookah lounge footage, TMZ also published the first video of Thompson and the woman walking in and out of the Four Seasons this past Sunday. (She was later identified as an Instagram person named Lani Blair; Blair does not appear to be one of the two women Thompson fooled around with in D.C.) That these two incidents took place almost seven months apart but were publicized by TMZ on the same day, only nine minutes apart, is almost certainly not a coincidence. Levin and Jenner are old pals, and Jenner is notorious for having complete command of her family’s gossip. When it comes to Kardashian family secrets, “Kris Jenner doesn’t care that you know everything,” Taffy Brodesser-Akner wrote in a 2015 New York Times Magazine profile of Jenner. “Kris only cares that you heard them when and where she decided you should.”

Gossip publications have long been known to obtain incriminating material on the people they cover, only to hold it until it can be best used to the publication’s advantage. In many cases, they don’t ever publish the material, a method known as “catch and kill,” a practice that has become more public in the wake of Donald Trump’s (alleged) encounters with various women who were not his wife. TMZ, for instance, held a video of Justin Bieber using the N-word for at least four years, reportedly as a manner of forcing Bieber to cooperate with their reporting and appear in their videos.

Under that logic, it’s possible, if not likely, that TMZ had the hookah lounge footage of Thompson more or less immediately after it happened. (TMZ is, of course, the place one would go to sell such a video.) Security camera footage is typically wiped from hard drives after a short period of time, but this video obviously made its way outside of the lounge. That it wasn’t published until this week suggests that TMZ might have been waiting for something.

Thompson’s public dalliance in New York provided an opening, even if TMZ, and perhaps the Kardashians themselves, were caught flat-footed. The Four Seasons video published by TMZ was not actually taken by TMZ. Instead, it, and the still photos previously published by other outlets, were shot by Splash News, an agency that provides paparazzi footage of celebrities to whichever publications are willing to pay for it, either à la carte or by subscription. Splash News appears to have first provided the photos of Thompson and Blair outside the Four Seasons to the popular Instagram gossip account the Shade Room, which posted them as an “exclusive,” in two separate posts on Tuesday. From there, the story was picked up by other publications, with TMZ once again managing to regain a handle on the news cycle by posting the full video footage, which it presumably purchased from Splash.

This process would seem fairly cut and dry—TMZ reigning in the news cycle, perhaps with the guiding hand of Kris Jenner—if it weren’t for an Instagram post by Khloe from Monday, which shows her and Thompson, shot by a professional photographer, kissing each other as he holds her pregnant belly. “We are ready whenever you are little mama,” reads the caption. The Kardashians, like almost all very famous people, take great care in how they present their relationships to the public. Though their empire is based in part on a constant flow of relationship drama (triggered by a parade of cheating men), Khloe—and by extension the family—seemed to be making a pretty clear statement about the status of her relationship with Thompson.

The revelations of Thompson’s cheating make that presentation look, at best, confusing, and, at worst, farcical—an unusual hiccup for a family that has burnished its image into a nine-digit fortune. Given Jenner’s relationship with Levin, it’s more than possible that at least some of the Kardashians have known about the video of Thompson canoodling in the hookah lounge for some time. What they might not have anticipated was Thompson being so flagrantly open about his romancing of other women that the paparazzi (Splash News) and media (Daily Mail, the Shade Room) were able to break the story before Khloe and her family could get ahead of it. (It is also possible that Jenner and the family knew about all of it, and Khloe decided to post photos of Thompson anyway, for whatever reason.)

Regardless, TMZ was there to help right the universe. The immediate publication of the hookah bar video helps hammer home the characterization of Thompson as someone willing to cheat on his pregnant girlfriend on multiple occasions. There are now enough potential storylines to fill an entire season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. TMZ is getting something out of it, too: an IV drip of hour-by-hour news updates. On Tuesday afternoon, the site reported that Khloe—who’s been staying in Cleveland, where Thompson lives—was having early contractions as she waited to give birth to their child; on Wednesday, it broke the news that Thompson would be “allowed in the delivery room.” TMZ’s six most popular articles as of this writing are about Khloe and Tristan.

Of course, that was all merely a prelude to the news of the baby’s actual birth. Back in February, when the Kardashian family last had a closely-watched birth to herald, Kylie Jenner announced the arrival of her daughter on Instagram, and then with a YouTube video, which was picked up dutifully by the major gossip sites, including TMZ. But this time around there was no note to fans or home video footage; instead there was TMZ. “Khloe delivered a baby girl early Thursday morning — around 4 AM EDT — at a hospital outside Cleveland,” the site exclusively reported, attributing its scoop on one of the year’s biggest celebrity pregnancies to “our Kardashian sources.”

[howmanywords]

Well it also helps that Kardashian stories get clicks. Love them or hate em they get people talking. All these gossip sites are going to keep posting regularly anything that shows its grabbing interest. Every click,repost gives them incentive to write about them. Why do you think rags like Daily Mail post things as minor as every time Khloe posts an inspirational quote?

[vast wasteland]

So it's not just to demonstrate her vacuousness?

[DangerousMinds]

3 hours ago, vast wasteland said:

Fan Or Not, The Kardashians Have You Trapped In Their Scandalous Web

2 hours ago, howmanywords said:

Well it also helps that Kardashian stories get clicks. Love them or hate em they get people talking. All these gossip sites are going to keep posting regularly anything that shows its grabbing interest. Every click,repost gives them incentive to write about them. Why do you think rags like Daily Mail post things as minor as every time Khloe posts an inspirational quote?

I sure don’t click on them, and hate seeing them posted here tbh.

[suomi]

4 hours ago, howmanywords said:

Well it also helps that Kardashian stories get clicks. Love them or hate em they get people talking. All these gossip sites are going to keep posting regularly anything that shows its grabbing interest. Every click,repost gives them incentive to write about them. Why do you think rags like Daily Mail post things as minor as every time Khloe posts an inspirational quote?

It serves a greater good when someone here posts an entire article or enough excerpts to clue us in because hundreds of us get the info and they only get one click. 

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Proof That the Kardashians Have Been Masterminding Their Drama RIGHT in Time for 'KUWTK'

Another timeline of Kardashian events in conjunction with KUWTK.

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Here Are All The Ways The Kardashians Make Money

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It’s no secret that the Kardashian family makes a lot of money from their business ventures. After all, Kylie Jenner famously appeared on the cover of Forbes last year as one of the richest self-made women in America.

What may be less known, however, is exactly how the Kardashians have managed to become so rich when so many other reality stars have gone broke. From TV shows to beauty brands to real estate and stocks, here are the diverse ways the Kardashians have kept money streaming in over the years.

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Everyone the Kardashian-Jenners Have Ever Dated in One Nifty Chart

[DangerousMinds]

OMG who the hell cares?😆

[Cocoa Puff]

1 hour ago, vast wasteland said:

Everyone the Kardashian-Jenners Have Ever Dated in One Nifty Chart

Some poor intern at Marie Claire had a lot of time on their hands, or maybe it was some poor low on the totem pole worker who was made to do this 

[iwasish]

Watching a clip from Sunday Service. Now we know where all Kanye’s unsold fashions went.  Put an orange safety vest in them and it could be a group of citizens serving out  their community service sentences. 

[nexxie]

It’s baaack...

[Cocoa Puff]

19 minutes ago, nexxie said:

It’s baaack...

Coming soon too new eps start on the 31 I believe

[howmanywords]

Oh for gods sake Khloe can STFU crying crocodile tears over her fucked up life being made public.  I know the whole promo was geared towards feeling sympathy for her, but nope. And crying over how people need to be kind? That's rich coming from such a loud mouth , rude bully. I snorted laughing watching her scream into the phone.

[nexxie]

What does Khloe see in that childish clown anyway? Take the baby and run already!!

[iwasish]

When they’re riding high and everything’s great, going on fab vacays and red carpets and to the popular restaurants,  and fans are clamoring for pics and tweeting adoring comments they have no problem living their lives on camera and raking in the $$$. But when the worm turns and someone gets dumped/ humiliated/embarrassed or acts a fool... we get tears and hysterical requests for understanding during these “private” situations. Then they hole up and and film their sanitized version of what happened, always making themselves sympathetic, and selling it as the “next season on”

[RHJunkie]

13 hours ago, iwasish said:

When they’re riding high and everything’s great, going on fab vacays and red carpets and to the popular restaurants,  and fans are clamoring for pics and tweeting adoring comments they have no problem living their lives on camera and raking in the $$$. But when the worm turns and someone gets dumped/ humiliated/embarrassed or acts a fool... we get tears and hysterical requests for understanding during these “private” situations. Then they hole up and and film their sanitized version of what happened, always making themselves sympathetic, and selling it as the “next season on”

Asking to respect her privacy and be kind while tripping over her own feet to incorporate the scandal into the new season of the show. She didn't want to say anything bad about Tristian on Twitter because he's the father of her child BUT she'll allow cameras to record the demise of her relationship so that her daughter can watch it as many times as she wants as she gets older. That's really putting children first, ain't it? 

[vast wasteland]

From Comedy To Drama: The Sad Transformation Of ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’

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The trailer for Season 16 of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” is out, and it perfectly illustrates the show’s gradual transformation from a comedy to a drama. In the world of reality television, that’s a tragedy.

[vast wasteland]

Twitter Is Convinced This Jordyn Woods Drama Is a Massive PR Stunt Thanks to the 'KUWTK' Trailer

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Footage for the upcoming season of Keeping Up with the Kardashianslooks, to put it bluntly, INSANE—not to mention high-key savage when it comes to Jordyn Woods and Tristan Thompson. It's clear America's First Family will be going in on Tristan and Jordyn thanks to their infamous ~cheating scandal~, and for the most part Twitter is READY. But...wait. Didn't this whole thing literally just happen?

Jordyn and Tristan's cheating scandal broke in February, and Jordyn Woods' Red Table Talk aired on March 1. Meaning, the Kardashians kept cameras rolling to make sure alllll that drama was captured, and then whipped up a trailer featuring events that literally just went down. And after seeing said trailer, fans are...suspicious.

[vast wasteland]

What Really Happens After You Get Dumped by the Kardashians?

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For years, we’ve watched the Kardashians cut off people who they feel have betrayed them in some way, which got us thinking, where are the people today who were once so close to the Kardashians? What happens when the family cuts you off? Must you join witness protection? Do you become a social media pariah?

[druzy]

Jada Pinkett-Smith Is Done With The Kardashians

There is a serious rupture in one of the most enduring relationships in Hollywood, because Jada Pinkett Smith has made a move signaling what could be the end of her relationship with longtime close pal Kris Jenner, as well as Kim and Khloe Kardashian ... TMZ has learned.

Jada has JUST unfollowed Kris, Khloe and Kim on Instagram, and our sources say it's all over the fallout involving Jordyn Woods.

As you know, Jada and Will are all but family to Jordyn ... she calls Will her Uncle. Jordyn broke her silence over the Tristan Thompson scandal by appearing on Jada's Red Table Talk show, and Jada was sympathetic.

We're told Jada has made it clear to a number of people ... she feels everyone should put it behind them, but clearly the Kardashians are still angry, as you can see from the promos for the new season of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." 

As you know by know, after Jordyn hooked up in some form with Tristan last month, she became persona non grata with the Kardashian family. Jordyn had been living in Kylie's guest house but was almost immediately declared unwelcome. She hasn't even come back to pick up her stuff.
We're told the conflict goes way beyond Instagram ... the relationship itself is severely fractured.

Jada is still following Kylie and Jordyn. We're told Jada is a strong source of support for Jordyn.

[Cocoa Puff]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/style/kardashians-interview.html

This was a really good article about the family just in time for the new season to start Sunday night and the writer of this article called them influencers and that's what they are now. 

Like before that became a thing to be a social media influencer that's what they were in the beginning of the show they kind of had like that Oprah effect where anything they wore or had sold out in minutes or anything that they put their name on two would sell out whether it was crap or not.

Edited March 31, 2019 by carolinagirl81

[CabotCove]

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“She said, ‘We will be vulnerable at all points of impact no matter what presents itself and that struck me,’” Seacrest said in an interview. His production company was so fledgling that he had to send an employee to Best Buy to buy a video camera to record a Kardashian pool party that became part of the sizzle reel to pitch E! The cable channel initially passed, but Seacrest convinced executives.

KUWTK is E!, to think that nearly didnt happen.....

[DangerousMinds]

I have always detested Ryan Seacrest and this is a big reason why.

[CabotCove]

On 2/28/2019 at 12:50 AM, iwasish said:

 I kinda laughed when daughter Willow basically said she wasn’t really the great mother she thought she was.  

lol, got a link?

[BrindaWalsh]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/a-look-inside-kim-kardashian-and-kanye-wests-terrifying-home

For a laugh

[iwasish]

Interesting that Jaden Smith and Jordyn Woods are appearing together at Coachella.

He’s been friends with Kylie and her family for years. 

[nexxie]

On 4/1/2019 at 8:08 PM, BrindaWalsh said:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/a-look-inside-kim-kardashian-and-kanye-wests-terrifying-home

For a laugh

I always say that their house is the perfect symbol of the twisted emptiness at kimye’s core - but how awful for the kids!

[howmanywords]

That Vogue Q&A taught me something though..there is more furniture in that house than I realized lol. Literally every time I've seen it I felt like I was looking at some bare museum like house or something resembling The Shining hotel and only remember seeing a round table. The house looked nicer in that video and I liked seeing the kids walking all over Kim and Kanye's bed. It seemed like a normal thing kids like to do. Keep in mind the house is enormous so theres probably even more we havent seen.  Heck the kids even have their own little kitchen which was only seen in video from Saints birthday.

[GaT]

THE INTERNET IS REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT KIM KARDASHIAN AND KANYE WEST’S SINKS

[Cocoa Puff]

https://people.com/tv/kim-kardashian-west-khloe-kris-jenner-opening-dad-robert-ucla-center/

[howmanywords]

Kim showed on her instastory how the sink works.  I'm simultaneously fascinated and freaked out by it. And of course Kanye designed it, She also showed later on the bizarre humongous TV that lifts up out of their bedroom floor.

[iwasish]

And I though the private areas of their house were off limits to the public. 

Those TV things have been around for years. Theirs is just bigger than most and comes up from the floor and not out of a console. 

A real genius would have had one sink basin contoured to fit Kim’s ass cheeks and the other her tits. 

Edited April 18, 2019 by iwasish

[RHJunkie]

The view from that bathroom is an absolute sanctuary to look out at but that bathroom looks like a fucking morgue. I know there are people who love that cold, sterile minimalist vibe but I just don't get it...it's a huge ass space with stone, concrete and glass with two random chairs in the middle against the window like it's a waiting room or something.

The sink works much like one that's at one of the my local malls - their sink was renovated over a decade ago. It has the same 'table top' look but instead of sloping upward like Kim's, it sloped downward so the water was caught in the back rather than the front. Kim was talking like Kanye envisioned the concept but really he borrowed from existing concepts and simply customized the look to his preference.

[GaT]

15 minutes ago, RHJunkie said:

Kim was talking like Kanye envisioned the concept but really he borrowed from existing concepts and simply customized the look to his preference.

In other words, it's just like his clothing line.

[RHJunkie]

2 minutes ago, GaT said:

In other words, it's just like his clothing line.

Precisely, lol.

[BitterApple]

I wonder if that bathroom is just for show, and they actually bathe and brush their teeth in something more typical. Most women like to have a close-up mirror when washing their faces and applying skincare products. The set-up in the Master doesn't seem practical. 

[iwasish]

28 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

I wonder if that bathroom is just for show, and they actually bathe and brush their teeth in something more typical. Most women like to have a close-up mirror when washing their faces and applying skincare products. The set-up in the Master doesn't seem practical. 

You think she washes her own face? She had said before that she sleeps on her makeup a lot. No mirror is really strange though.

its just funny that the gossip sites are acting as if Kanye really designed that sink. Kim said they built 8 prototypes before agreeing on that one. 8 prototypes? No wonder it took so long for the house to be built. They’ll never make that money back. 

[BitterApple]

54 minutes ago, iwasish said:

. Kim said they built 8 prototypes before agreeing on that one. 8 prototypes? No wonder it took so long for the house to be built. They’ll never make that money back. 

Those designers certainly knew a sucker when they saw one, eh?

[howmanywords]

There's a mirror. In one of the Instagram posts where the lack of mirror was mentioned this clip was posted from February. It looks like the wall is one huge mirror

[GaT]

2 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Most women like to have a close-up mirror when washing their faces and applying skincare products. The set-up in the Master doesn't seem practical. 

Most women don't have a "glam room", I doubt she does any of that stuff in the actual bathroom.

[iwasish]

48 minutes ago, GaT said:

Most women don't have a "glam room", I doubt she does any of that stuff in the actual bathroom.

I wonder what the genius thought up in terms of toilet design. 

[Artsda]