Here’s a photo of Kim Kardashian from her Twitter this week, where she’s giving me major Michael Jackson vibes. As we all know, Kim lives on social media these days. She recently joined Snapchat and she’s been overdoing it ever since, Snapchatting her days away like crazy and somewhat neglecting her Instagram and Twitter accounts. But I guess there’s a point to it all, because Kim has been named one of Time Magazine’s 30 Most Influential People on the Internet. Note the caveats… it’s not “most important,” it’s most influential. And it’s not “in the world,” it’s on the internet. Internet influence is sort of different than real-world influence, although they can co-exist.
The list of influential internet people includes: Kim, Kanye West, James Corden, DJ Khaled, JK Rowling, Donald Trump, Cristiano Ronaldo, Caitlyn Jenner, Narendra Modi, Drake, and more. You can see the full list/slideshow here. Honestly, I didn’t know half of the people on the list, and I spend a great deal of time on the internet. What I did appreciate though is that the list was multi-racial and it wasn’t just focused on Americans (although Americans dominated the list).
Meanwhile, Kim has changed her hair. She’s now got blondish tips, or an ombre dye or whatever you want to call it. This might be the dumbest Instagram I’ve ever posted.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Kim’s social media.
It doesn’t seem too much of a ‘compliment’ to me…. The kind of people who spend their lives nose-diving into thier phones all day are pretty shallow & stupid anyway. It makes sense that Kim would be on that list because DUH
Especially not when you consider how I assume they measured “influential”. Followers? Retweets?
Influencing hordes of strangers to take time out of their lives to write about her?
Well she deserves it society is full of different kind of people and she is one of the many kinds not just the typical accepted kind but a different kind of person.Liked or not liked.
Ugh. I could be more supportive if she did something worthwhile with her time and influence once in a while.
What’s worthwhile for you and what is for her may not be the same. Are you making sure you’re doing things that are worthwhile worth your own influence? That’s all that matters : )
I think what Astrid is trying to say is that if she really feels empower by her body & a true feminist than she should do something about that influence that she has. Let’s not pretend that Kim donates time or money to charity, or helps out women/talks about equal rights or pay.
I enjoy her and I regularly take a look at her / the other Kardashians Instagrams. I have a really tough job and after a long day of work I just want to relax and have some superficial entertainment. So for me she / people like her matter. 🙂
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This is why I have an issue with her selfies, I am not body shaming her, I just think she is promoting this “image” for young girls, an unrealistic image.
The waist training, Photoshop, chemical procedures.
In addition, Instagram is one giant commercial now too. She is profiting from her “influence”.
Whats wrong with her profiting?
Also the images are mainly unrealistic because most people have no interest in that level of body modification, fitness or fashion. Still, just because the look is an outlier it doesn’t mean there is ANYTHING wrong with women who choose to look that way AND flaunt it.
Your body, your choice.
You see nothing wrong with them profiting off lies?
Like telling your social media followers you got your butt from button cream and lips via lip liners and your nose via ‘puberty’ at age 30, while all were actually surgically enhanced/modified?
Um sigghh, profiting of a prescription drug without fully disclosing side effects & eligibility is a problem. It is wrong.
That Level of….Fitness? Ok that made me laugh. If by fitness you mean the Doctor’s knife, sure.
@sighhh I get you are a super fan but come on. For me this has nothing to do with her profiting and more to do with the fact they straight up lie to everyone’s faces. They won’t even admit to any of the procedures they have had done, which anyone with eyes and a brain can see. Please. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I really don’t understand Kim and her families fans, it’s like when faced with reality they chose to believe the manufactured BS regardless of how much evidence proves otherwise.
Is she influencal? Sure, but in no way shape or form a positive one.
My problem isnt so much the profiting as the influencing. I can only believe that the soughts of people who follow her social media accounts are either impressionable young girls, iq challenged adults and of course silly women, all prime targets for brain washing.
Holy high horse batman!
And for the folks who replied to me above. …… kim is doing exactly what everyone else is imo. Everyone is trying to profit off their own “talents” whatever that may be in one way or another.
Nobody may care that a woman is super super organized or an excellent chart and presentation builder and someone pays her 100k a year for that…..but if your good at being “pretty” AND SOMEHOW MANAGE to profit (and especially profit WELL) off if it welll……the knives come out, other women will often drag and degrade women like Kim. Which happens here every.single. day.
suddenly these women are “vapid and meaningless and sad”
This place leans feminist kinda but it’s like an issue overall. ..women who are pro women who are really only pro-certain types of women. I lurk a lot and most of my comments don’t make it out of moderation but I’m challenging yall to treat other women with as much respect as you can muster and kim k …..looks like a good place to start for some of you
@sighhh – I notice you didn’t address my point that Kim K and her family profit off LYING about their looks and selling products that aren’t actually responsible for helping them achieve said looks….
you say feminist, I say fraud, no matter how you sidestep the issue by claiming she ‘deserves respect’ etc.
Sigghh- Kim is a shill. That’s why she buys followers, the more followers the more she can charge for her ads disguised as genuine personal recommendations. She gets a commission on pap photos and that’s why she calls the ones who pay her, to tell them exactly where she will be and when. She waits until they have gathered outside the building and then makes her exit. This has all been repeatedly verified by people who have been with her. She lies about all her medical procedures because she makes more money if she can convince young girls that it’s all natural and they should just pay to get her makeup and workout tips so they can look just like her photoshopped image. She lies about other things as well, manufacturing scenes in her shows as she alters the spin on real-life events. She gives the minimum percentage of eBay sales (of clothing she got for free to shill) to her own manufactured charity (that funnels more money back into her pockets) to qualify by ebay’s rules, to try to make more money for herself from people who think it’s for a good cause. This is all typical shill behavior — lies, lies, and more lies to get more suckers to let loose of their money.
That argument applies to 90% of celebrities, so it doesn’t really hold water with me. They’re all profiting off of the changes they make to their bodies to fulfill unrealistic images.
+1
Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson all profit off of others and have unrealistic images that could be damaging.
@sasha – what unrealistic images have those women set? They are pretty basic when it comes to the celebrity realm.
@sasha – like Tify says, what changes have Jennifer Aniston or Scarlett Johansson made to their bodies? They’re pretty basic but to the best of my knowledge, they haven’t paid for surgeons to have a go at them and then lied that it was their new boob/butt cream or whatever.
Jennifer Aniston has had a nose job. Scarlet Johannson, may have had a nose job- but I am talking more about broad unrealistic expectations on women and how they are supposed to look. I used these 3 women specifically because they epitomize blond, thin aesthetic that is heralded in society and because all 3 heavily endorse products via ads and campaigns. Fitting into an unrealistic image isn’t just about plastic surgery- it can be skin color, excessive dieting, being very thin.
It’s like, literally, she is like, so influential.
There are legions of women who mirror her look, the makeup, the styles, etc. Come on now. Kim definitely is and has been influencing pop culture.
In a very superficial way.
She is absolutely influential. In a good way, maybe not. But she definitely is.
She is one of the most influential people on the internet. They put her on the list. Makes sense.
I get why she is influential on the internet. But to me that means very little in the scheme of things. Also, I wouldn’t call her hair ombre (unless the picture is just bad and doesn’t truly show the dye job). My impression of hair that is ombre is that it gradually goes from one color to the next. This looks more like they dyed the tips – her choice. Article on DM says she had this done late at night – her words “Midnight haircut”. Who does this so late at night?
What’s that phrase? Being famous on Instagram is as meaningful as being rich in monopoly? Something like that.
HAHAHAHA that’s amazing because it’s so true. Sadly the teenagers do look up to Kim K & her sisters, either for beauty tips, clothing, etc. Not so much with Kanye, he’s more of a let’s look at Twitter & see what dumb thing he’s done today. That’s sad really because even though right now I can’t look at Kanye without wanting to punch his face, he meant more than making memes of him & laughing at his expense.
She should try to use her influence to get her old nose back. She mostly spends her time looking at herself in a mirror or camera. It seems like all of that gazing has influenced her into making terrible plastic surgery decisions.
Can we talk about the held duck face on that IG? I’m dying. Comedy gold right there.
Yeah, I can see how influential she is, using her powers for vapid not good.
Thankfully I’ve never met anyone who’s lives or choices are influenced by Kim Kardashian or any of her sisters. I also have teenage daughters who would recoil in horror if I suggested such a thing about them or their friends. Maybe I live in an ulternate universe, though I’m pretty sure I don’t. Just because people are talking about you a lot, (especially on the internet) doesn’t mean you’re influencing lives. I get there are a bunch of instagram models who are trying to follow the Kardashian way, but I personally have never met anyone who wanted to be like any of them, let alone Kim.
Kim’s ever changing face scares me. She’s not even old looking where she needs all that stuff done to her face. I hate to think what the next ten years will be like. 😓
She used to be gorgeous but now it looks like there’s too much space between her nose and her mouth.
Some faces are just NOT meant to have a cute narrow little ski jump nose and hers was one of them.
I don’t see the influence. I see that lots of people click on articles to blast her and her husband who by the by is back again as also influential. If Time bothered to read comments about not only Kim and KanYe but also the whole Kartrashian coven I think they would see they are more disliked than liked and influence people NOT to use whatever products they try to sell. And if it is all about followers Time gets what they deserve if they believe the lie that Kim has 55 million followers or whatever her knew number is and can’t figure out that most of that number are bought and fake or abandoned accounts.
Yes, Kim has great name recognition but the vast majority of people who recognize her name don’t like her. This has been true for years, though, and is well documented (look up Q scores) and is true even for people who are not in the habit of celebrity watching in tabloids and on sites like this. She just doesn’t inspire love and admiration even with the bits that reach the mainstream media. I think it’s partly some dippy things she says and does but also people might be picking up that pathological self-obsession and self-absorption she exudes plus her emotional coldness. Her short marriage #2 didn’t help – there were so many obvious things wrong with the way she proceeded in her mad dash to divorce after an extravagant broadcast wedding with an obscenely costly bridal registry.
She does have fans, but I doubt that most of the real Twitter followers and show watchers are even in that category. People do follow such folk on Twitter etc. and watch reality shows to laugh at the fools, not because they want to emulate them.
I imagine Time is looking at mentions of her name on the net and not really delving into what people are saying about her. What kind of influence and on whom? She wears those awful clothes designed by or approved by Krazy Kanye and I don’t see that kind of odd fashion catching on.
But Time magazine isn’t really a serious magazine these days. Their lists meant more a few decades ago.
That means nothing. It’ll probably give her a good ego boost (as if she needs that). I don’t get it though. She has like 40 million followers but her pics only get around 400 000 likes or less. Something is not adding up !
The problem with Kim is that she likes to believe she invented or discovered everything. She is now overdoing snapchat so she can get the title of “snapchat queen”. She does this with EVERYTHING including clothing trends. She wears a trend to death and then is forever linked to that trend. It’s what she does. I mean look at all the time she has on her hands. Not like she has kids or some businesses to attend to.
Pathetic. We are all doomed.
So…I followed her on snapchat for 3 days. I’m embarrassed of that but I had to see what she would do. She did her best kiss(or frozen cat look) face at the camera on video nonstop. I was embarrassed for her!!!! Omg. I can’t believe someone makes money doing that all day. Lol The world we live in.
Like it or not, she IS influential. Which is why I’m on the side of Chloe Moretz about her antics on social media. She DOES influence what young women wear (or don’t wear) and what they define as a successful woman. People are spending their live savings to get plastic surgery to look like her. People are buying her “fashion” lines. The rise of makeup contouring is because of her. She is influential because every time she posts a naked photo of herself, it’s news.
Depressing but true.