The End of Kim Kardashian

Let's take a walk down memory lane and remember a time when Kim Kardashian was everywhere. Yes, it's 2016 and the Kardashian family is the largest influencer family out there and they are pulling in millions. Let's face it, Kim Kardashian used to run the entire internet. Ten years ago, you could not open up Instagram, any social media platform, any TMZ, or even a Business Insider article without seeing Kim Kardashian's name plastered all over it. She absolutely broke the app store with Kim Kardashian Hollywood. Yes, her very own app. And after her initial launch of her brand Skims, her fans absolutely trashed the website because there were so many users online. What about this article? Kim Kardashian Skims website crashes as fans rush to get sexy Dolce & Gabbana lingerie collab. Skims website crashed and I'm in the middle of picking out my pieces, one frenzied fan wrote with a crying emoji. Another fan shared to X, huh? I was on the Skims site. They had a corset dress for $500. I was trying to get the mesh bodysuit, but the site crashed. Then it came up and it was sold out. Personally, I found that really to be very tacky, but that's my own opinion. And let's be for real, the Kardashians absolutely owned every single Sunday night reality frenzy with all of their weird, awkward family fights. Brands were lining up. Makeup, perfume, waist trainers, gummy vitamins. If Kim posted a link, it sold out in seconds. But today, if you scroll, things are looking a little quiet. The comments are lower and the memes usually make fun of her instead of singing her praises. Gen Z mostly shrugs at whatever Kim Kardashian scandal rocks the internet. So ladies and gentlemen, let's absolutely buckle up and prepare for impact. Let's walk through why the switch happened, why her name doesn't just simply print money the way that it used to, all of her terrifying scandals, and if any of this can possibly be reversed. The first thing to notice is Kim's impeccable timing. Her birth and rise to fame absolutely matched the whole rise of social media. Previously known simply as Paris Hilton's sidekick or Robert Kardashian's daughter, she actually started to make a name for herself back in 2007 when her hit reality TV show Keeping Up With The Kardashians finally launched. Do you remember this? Listen up, I have an announcement to make. Did you guys know that I'm like the number one Google search last week? Oh my god, Kim, shut up. You're so into yourself. And then yesterday I was the top AOL search for the whole week. You also know that you were the number two on the dumbest people on the New York Post. As long as they're talking about me, honey. That was the beginning of starting to share all of your thoughts and opinions on Myspace, the birth of Facebook, and eventually Twitter. We first knew her because she was the daughter of Robert Kardashian, who was OJ Simpson's lawyer. Kim Kardashian got her first taste of fame through her father. That was the start of media friends, and I think Kim wanted that. I think she saw that as exciting. All right, you won't be in the movie. It's all Kimberly. When you were a little girl, what did you envision your life? Oh my gosh. I mean, I always loved fashion, and I had a job at 16 at like a kid's clothing store and at a woman's clothing store. I also worked at my dad's office, so I always loved just being busy. Did you at any point when you were young think about fame, wanting to be famous? I didn't think specifically about being famous, but I remember the show The Real World. And Kim constantly offered never-ending drama in these little bite-sized clips. It was absolutely perfect for early days of social media. She was also playing into something that the internet was just beginning to understand, virality. Don't be effing rude. Oh my god, slapping with the purse. Don't be rude. Are you kidding me? Each and every season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians was constantly giving us new viral bits. Kris crying, Kourtney yelling, Kim getting all upset because she lost a diamond earring in the ocean. It all felt real enough, and it showed us that these celebrities and very wealthy people were actually just like us too. At the time, actors were held at a very high pedestal. Actors and celebrities didn't want anyone knowing that behind closed doors, they argued with their spouses and yelled at their siblings just like the rest of us. And honestly, this is the exact reason why celebrity culture is dying now. We've gone completely full circle, and celebrities have returned to being completely unrelatable. I just find it interesting how clear the current downfall of celebrity culture is because more and more, none of us can relate to these people who are uber wealthy and uber privileged and all that. And it's gotten to the point it isn't enticing or interesting anymore. It's just downright insulting almost to just see these grand displays of wealth that we can't even begin to comprehend, as most of us are trying to pay for our groceries and dream of owning a home one day. I think the Super Bowl last night was a really good demonstration of this because of how clearly celebrities in every single commercial were there to kind of remind us like, oh, you like us, you want to see us, you enjoy us, right? But I don't think it's working in the same way they want it to. I think the more and more they desperately try to grasp back this power and attention that they had at one point, the more and more bitter a lot of us become towards them. Yeah, watching Alex Earl eat a burger doesn't really make me like her more. Anyway, for the first time in a long time, Keeping Up With The Kardashians showed us that celebrities and these very somewhat important people actually had a lot of problems just like us. And it gave us front row seats to legit drama that we felt like we never got to see. So the show quickly garnered millions of views and Kim, millions of fans tried copying her makeup and bought her exact bodycon dresses. It even got to the point of such insanity that women were getting cosmetic procedures just to look exactly like Kim Kardashian and then they would die from it. Kim Kardashian lookalike Christina Ashton dies of cardiac arrest hours after plastic surgery. The news of her death was shared by her family on April 26th through a GoFundMe page that was created to raise funds for her funeral next week. Rest in peace. In fact, Kim at her peak became so incredibly popular that upon release, Skims, the website, absolutely crashed and shut down. She was just trying to sell some skimpy t-shirts. By 2018, her empire had touched every single show. KKW Beauty hit $100 million in a few minutes. Skims shapewear finished 2020 valued above $1 billion. Magazines called her a branding genius and she was on every single cover. The woman who started as a tabloid punchline had become a lesson in modern entrepreneurship, but it was because of this mass popularity that nobody noticed the warning signs. The first crack in Kim's spotless branding was probably in the shape of her first controversy, which let's be honest, was the first of many. Actually, once they started, Kim's scandals never paused long enough for people to actually forget the last one. It was like a downward spiral. There was the kimono debacle where instead of calling her brand Skims, she decided to use a Japanese word and try to trademark it for her shapewear line, which obviously upset quite a few people. She quickly changed the name to Skims, which personally I think makes so much more sense and honestly it suits her brand so much more, but obviously it still left a weird sour taste in a lot of people's mouths. Before that, she was constantly accused of cultural appropriation for constantly wearing cornrow braids without giving any credit anywhere where it's due. She even wore fulani braids and decided to give them her own name Remember when Kim Kardashian coined this hairstyle both Derek braids and western media just ran with it? What we have here is a lie. I've been wearing this hairstyle since I was a kid, as did my mother before me, her mother before her, and so on and so forth, so today I thought I'd talk about the actual hairstyle and put it into its historical context. These are actually fulani braids and no, their origin story doesn't begin with an 80s rom-com. They're named after the fulani people who are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel region in West Africa. The braiding style itself was inspiration from the Wodabe, a small subgroup of the fulani, and also various Shuhuba styles found in different Ethiopian and Eritrean tribes. The early fulani tribes would actually weave these braids into their dresses and use them as a way of symbolizing their spirituality. So let's not buy into the idea that this hairstyle is new because it's been around for a very long time. I forget that the Kardashians are white. This is obviously a pretty touchy subject and a lot of people have a hard time coming to an agreement on it, but either way it simply made Kim Kardashian's reputation suffer even more. Kim Kardashian is part Armenian. Is it okay for her to wear cornrows? I personally think that it depends on what boundaries that culture has set so I can speak for black culture. The reason why, you know, some of us are offended and have problems with white women wearing braids is because it's documented. Black women are getting fired from their jobs for wearing braids. We are called ghetto. We are not seen as professional with our natural cultural hairstyles that are part of black culture and then when white women wear them, they are glorified, praised, and sometimes have the credit attributed to them. So that discrepancy is what where the issue comes into play. Her next problem was authenticity. For years, Kim insisted that she never had any major surgeries ever. No plastic surgery at all. She usually told everyone that she never had fillers, but when you go ahead and look at side-by-side images, you know that that is not a transformation that can be simply made with just a little bit of There is something seriously going on here and that is so wrong to lie about. And not just lie about, but like lie about for years. Like die on that hill lie about. Kim Kardashian is on the cover of Allure. Danielle at Allure did an article called Kim Kardashian and I analyze each other's faces. Danielle tries to crack the code behind Kim Kardashian's face and her beauty standards. Kim says that right now she only has a little bit of Botox, that she has no lip or cheek filler, or filler on her face in general. She said she's never filled either of her cheeks, these are her natural cheekbones. She said she's never had eyelash extensions and that they're naturally that long. Do you believe Kim? Let me know. You cannot tell me that anybody believes that. Look at this photo. What does this say for beauty standards for women? Oh, I've never even had any eyelash extensions. It's giving pick me Kim. I don't have the rhythm to be I completely forgot what Kim's body looked like just a couple years ago until this old video resurfaced of her and Addison dancing. I just can't believe how much they gaslight us into not admitting that they've had plastic surgery because they say it was just weight loss. But Kim is still very skinny here. I know people are gonna say well women don't owe you an explanation for what they do to their bodies and I totally agree but the reason why this is harmful is because there are little girls out there or teenagers or even adults who think that they can look like this without plastic surgery. Like they're really selling this diet and exercise narrative. I really think if they don't want to talk about it all they should just say I'm not commenting on my body. Like that would be enough without the gaslighting. Or just simply say yes. If somebody says hey did you get a BBL? Yeah I did. Why do you have to explain? Why do you have to go further than that? But if it continues and you're constantly being like poked and prodded and people are like pro like stop lying to us and like creating these absolutely unrealistic standards. Like do you not see the damage that you do because you're followed by millions of people? This isn't just some girl from like school or somebody down the road that you're like why don't you get a nose job? Like why does it matter? But it's like when people who are fitness influencers who are trying to tell you that they lost weight simply from working hard but they were taking a GLP-1 for the past year. Come on. Kardashian's before and after plastic surgeries. Okay. Gorgeous. I've had it. I've had it you guys. Are you kidding me? Oh no like you can't continue. Like the credibility is done. Khloe like stop. Oh there's nothing wrong there gorgeous regardless but like oh my gosh Kylie. This is the problem. It's so wrong to lie like this. It is so wrong. I've seen it. I've seen all I need to see. And then of course the butt implants topic consistently was coming up. It got so bad and people got so confused that on her tv show she specifically went to get an x-ray to prove that she never had any butt implants. There's nothing in my butt. It's all chem. But this didn't stop certified doctors from hopping online and explaining that fat transfers not silicone can give her that Brazilian butt lift. So this x-ray proves absolutely nothing. There are so many rumors that I have butt implants and I'm so tired of them so I really just want to get like a butt x-ray so I can show the whole world. Or just like feel her ass up and see if it's like you'll know you're a doctor to see if it's real. Can we x-ray Kourtney's boobs so I can see what an implant looks like? Since I have breast implants we are going to x-ray me so we can see what an implant looks like and then we're going to x-ray Kim's butt and see if she really has implants or not. Kourtney first. Those are your lungs over here. This sort of solid white area. Yeah. That's your implant. You ready for Kim's? Dun dun dun. I see an Oreo. That freaks me out. No implant. This is shocker. Kim. I am. What did the comments say? Kim behind the camera. I'll pay you. She literally just relocated her own fat so it's technically natural. Just look at how they looked in season one compared to now. It's just a BVL. Just stop lying. We know it's a BVL. At this point viewers felt gaslit. Influencers like Alex Earl had absolutely no problem opening up with every single tweakment, boob job. It didn't matter. Everybody was sharing it and they were being honest. Honesty became the new flex and transparency was something everybody was looking for in the people that they followed and Kim's whole secret shtick it just felt really old and boring and it felt wrong watching somebody that couldn't even have the decency to admit that they've had tweakments done especially to the people that love them, support them, and follow them and really it just reminds me of Kylie Jenner. Like the dishonesty is crazy and then the biggest problem hit Kim and it was the pandemic. During the pandemic so many people lost jobs and were forced to stay home. Meanwhile the Kardashians kept posting private island trips, 12-foot party cakes, and closets bigger than apartments. The thing that made them popular in the first place, the feeling that they were somewhat anything at all like us was completely gone. Now they were just tone deaf and couldn't simply understand how bad the pandemic was and how it seriously affected the lives of so many people. It's Kim Kardashian West and I just wanted to talk to you and have a serious conversation with you guys about social distancing. I know it's California, we've got the most beautiful weather, but we have to start to train ourselves. You went outside in your backyard and that's totally fine. I know that... Can you not jump on the bed? Give me like two seconds to seriously do this. Okay so guys we just want you to social distance. There's so many fun amazing projects you can do. You can spend time with your kids and have so much fun. Trust me I want to get out more than you know. It's really important to also do... That felt like the biggest slap in the face. Like I'm so glad I did not see that during COVID because I'm actually like pissed looking at that. Like you can't even have five seconds to make a serious video where there are people that have lost their jobs. People are dying Kim. Like there were literally people sick in the hospital left and right. Pretty easy to say when you live in a mansion. As she's staying in her 200,000 square foot home I really feel Kim's stress. Yeah no that is not doing anything for anyone. And then when Kim told women in 2022 to get off their butts and work. Get your ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days. It was backlash in an instant. Workers earning minimum wage under unsafe conditions were not in the mood to hear hustle tips from someone born into a millionaire family. Of course the problems didn't just simply stack up and ruin the Kardashians reputation because their worst nightmare began to come true. Their businesses started failing. Skims, her brightest platform, began to perform worse and worse. Her early drops had soft fabrics, inclusive shades, and amazing sizing that went up to 5x. Reviews were coming in and everybody was hyped. But the latest drops? Some customers noticed thinner materials, loose stitching, and clothes that just didn't fit right. And what's even worse were price hikes during inflation. People could not handle this. This made her customers very very mad. The company still books sales sure but the business is far from performing as well as it did back in its heyday. Is it just me or does anybody like not like Skims? Like I've been wanting to and every single time the quality was just terrible. The fit was off and I ended up returning it. Like I want to like it. I want to buy something. It's gotten so bad that people say that they do not want the Kardashians name anywhere on their products. Here's a new blind item that alleges that the Kardashians and the Jenners power to launch brands and endorsement deals is over and no one wants to use their name. The reality family will always be rich but no one comes to them any longer for endorsement deals. They get asked for financing but no one wants to use their name. Their power to launch brands using their name is over and the new generation just can't catch on. And again this is allegedly the Kardashians and Jenners. And the related headline reads every brand the Kardashians and Jenners have created. Whether you love them or hate them you've got to admit the Kardashian-Jenner family knows how to get off their ass and work. But seriously the Kar-Jenner clan knows how to keep their names relevant especially in business. When the Kar-Jenners set their mind to something whether it be selling baby products or makeup lines they end up killing it. What about Khloe Kardashian's newest popcorn brand? What is it called? Corn? Like with a K? Oh sorry it's called cloud. Yeah nobody is buying that. I will never buy that. It's just another stupid cash grab because they're running out of money. Like it's annoying. If you want to do anything go act. Go do something. Like have a talent. But it's all right I'm sure keeping up with the Kardashians like their biggest money maker for the longest period of time is probably still making a killing right? Well not really. Kim's family drama kept the spotlight swirling but not always in her favor. The divorce from Kanye West made everyone feel bad for her of course but his outburst later on just dragged her name into some really bad rumors. I honestly can't live anymore. I am like still in this like place where I'm stuck for years like he goes and moves to a different state every year. I have to be like together so I can raise the kids you know. He's an amazing dad. He's done an amazing job. But he's still young. They're just like loving better without me there. I think he deserves someone that can go support his every need and go follow him all over the place and move to Wyoming. I can't do that. He should have a wife that supports his every move and travels with him and does everything and I can't. I feel like a loser but I can't even think about that like I want to be happy. That's intense. It literally made me feel a little bad for her. You know sometimes Kanye will say to me can I have approval over what you say about me on your show and I'll say well you just talked about me in this song, this song, this interview, this interview and you didn't ask my permission and I never say anything bad. I never say anything negative. If I say I'm exhausted I feel guilty about that. I am exhausted and by the way I'm the one where ---- could be going down and I get in the car and every day the kids want to blast dad's music and I'm like he's the best. Yeah and I put it on and we're singing along and inside I'm like dying. In late 2023 Kanye West claimed in an interview that Kim Kardashian pimps out his children. There was no evidence that backed that up but a lot of viewers of the show believed that he was just simply having a crazy downward spiral like usual. You will never believe what Kanye alleges Kim did to North at the Met Gala. Yesterday Kanye's attorney sent Kim Kardashian a cease and desist letter. This was posted by TMZ. As you can see it's a cease and desist from Kanye's attorney to Laura Wasser who represents Kim. Cease and desist unauthorized use of minor children and custody violations on behalf of Kim Kardashian. This constitutes a formal demand to cease and desist from actions that violate Mr. West's parental rights, exploit his children and breach the joint custody agreement established in your client's divorce settlement. So Kanye is accusing Kim of exploiting her children. Additionally he is accusing Kim of something at the Met Gala. He said that she left North unattended in a vehicle while she attended the Met. He also allegedly says that Kim is ignoring his demands not to show North on their TikTok accounts and as we all know he's been claiming that he has not been allowed access to the four children that he shares with Kim. Now I don't know much but I do know that Kim Kardashian has an entourage of people, security, drivers, nannies, find it very hard to believe that she would leave North. But still the allegations consistently pop up online and they are very hard to be forgotten. When a rumor involves minors even a baseless one can mess up your search results forever and at this point it just seems like Kim was suffering from one controversy after another. At some point it kind of gets boring like every single time you swipe through TikTok and you're like oh Kim's involved with something else, Kim wore this, Kim did that, it's like okay? Like who asked? Like at this point I'm bored. It's just the same news over and over again and it's not 2015 anymore. Her new release of their Keeping Up With The Kardashians show on Hulu has just been steadily declining. Nobody is watching. Why is Keeping Up With The Kardashians so much more popular than the Kardashians? Let's talk about it. So first let's start off with the fact that when Keeping Up With The Kardashians started they were not nearly as famous as they are now. They even said like in this most recent episode of the Kardashians they did not think that Keeping Up Would have the success that it did. So they were more open and out there because they didn't really care. They didn't think it was going to become this global phenomenon that everyone was watching. So they were more themselves. They were just more outgoing and free because they didn't have to worry about the controversy that surrounds them now that they're so high profile. Another thing like the biggest thing that contributes to why the Kardashians is not as popular as Keeping Up Is social media. When Keeping Up With The Kardashians was airing like really the first like half of it social media was not as big. Yes it was coming onto the scene but it really didn't get bigger until the later seasons. So now with the Kardashians we see all this stuff on social media. You can find out a whole story within five seconds and then watch it months later on the Kardashians so you're like oh I already knew all this stuff. Yes you get a little more insight with reality tv because of the fact that they do give like commentary and everything but you already know like the plot of it. You know what's going to happen because you've seen it on social media. Social media has taken away the essence of reality tv because we see it all happen live. We hear about it whether they want it out there or not. The news outlets are reporting it. We're seeing it everywhere. Lastly something everyone agrees with is the family dynamic has definitely The Kardashians on Hulu is like lower stakes. It's boring. I've seen tons of viewers complain that there's all this like fake tension and fake scripting around different brand launches just to create drama that isn't even real. When drama does hit like Kourtney and Kim fighting over a Dolce and Gabbana contract audiences see scripted product placement and no genuine conflict. Honestly clips only go viral when there's some sort of drama behind a business deal which just goes to show you how commercialized this entire show has become. It's not authentic. If you ask me it seems like the general public has become very bored of the Kardashians and Kim. Honestly it was just hit after hit for Kim. She even paid a 1.26 million dollar fine in 2022 for promoting a coin without proper disclosure and now regulators have to watch her every move with every crypto ad and honestly it seems like this video is going on for a really long time but it just doesn't end there. The final nail in the coffin was Kim Kardashian and the Diddy allegations. We all know about what happened with Diddy. Sean Diddy Combs has been famous since the 90s. First for running bad boy records then for hitting every red carpet in a white suit with champagne in hand. His parties were legend. You got a paper invite and showed up at some rented mansion in the Hamptons and the guest list read like a Grammy's seating chart but over the years more and more controversy began highlighting those parties. Underage models, rooms you were told not to enter and literally NDAs longer than the entire dictionary. No proof ever stuck out and fully entered the mainstream but the never stopped. In late 2023 federal agents raided two Diddy mansions, one in Miami and one in Los Angeles. The warrant was tied to an ongoing trafficking probe. Court papers are basically still sealed but TMZ caught helicopters and SWAT trucks on camera. A former producer named Rodney Lil Rod Jones filed a civil suit saying Diddy ran a pre-empire that was chock full of drugs, gun and hush money. So where does Kim Kardashian fall into all of this? In the late 2000s Kim and Paris Hilton used to pop up at Diddy's all-white parties in the Bahamas and Miami. Here is a high quality picture of the three of them together. I'm not saying anything but I'm also not saying anything you know what I'm saying. Industry sources say that Diddy loved booking reality stars because they would drag in a schwack of paparazzi which just ended up boosting the press for all of his events and that's the link. Kim showed up smiled for some Getty images and then she went home and what's even worse is Kim was seen unfollowing Diddy only hours before the raid actually happened. A little bit sus but whatever. But let me tell y'all why Kim Kardashian basically stopped following Diddy. Judgment is here y'all. 24 hours before the raid Kim Kardashian decides to unfollow Diddy right? Well come to find out this person by the name of Lou Taylor is apparently Diddy's manager and this Lou Taylor woman is also on the board of Hillsong's church home. Follow Lou Taylor apparently is paying off allegedly some of Diddy's victims from the slush fund through some church fund okay. Not only that Kim Kardashian mama has been making these girls pay 10% tithes to some church that Lou Taylor and her husband is basically owner co-owner or whatever. So I was like let me look into this Lou Taylor person. I'm thinking Lou Taylor was a guy who was a woman with a husband whole husband and they doing ministry and everything. Okay so Lou Taylor is the CEO of Tristar Sports and Entertainment. She's like a business manager icon. So the Kardashians is linked to this lady because mind you there was no public connections until 2019 with the Kardashian family. Then all of a sudden they was named in filings in the KKW Beauty fragrance for Kim Kardashian. Also Kylie Cosmetics and Kendall Jenner Inc. This was all linked to Tristar okay and it also continues to today. Now in February 2024 this Tristar lady I can't think of her name y'all know I just said her name. She helped Kim secure a 70.4 million mansion. Not only that she also helped secure a 48.7 million loan through a trust associated with Tristar the company that this lady had. Child this is getting deep. I'm sorry Kim. So baby were y'all looking at pictures of who at the party and that is why the mama make them um tithe. Not y'all tithing. Not y'all even tithing the 10% back to the church that her and the husband. I don't know talking about some pay your tithe now. Are y'all crazy? Baby Day is doing this on the holy soil of child in the name of the 10% of the name of the that. But at the end of the day no lawsuit or police file names her explicitly. The FBI raid warrants list a bunch of other employees but not any Kardashians. Still this wasn't a good look for Kim and once newer influencers began to pile up in the 2020s nobody really cared about her anymore. Emma Chamberlain, Monét McMichael and hundreds of micro influencers showed us their messy bedrooms, stains on their t-shirts, authenticity and realness which is something that was a breath of fresh air. Influencers just felt more accessible than these celebrities that are sitting around in their 20 million dollar mansions. Plus algorithms push relatability now more than ever. That leaves polished celebrity accounts and all of their like face-tuned images like kind of in the dust. It all looks staged and completely unrelatable. Oh yeah and her Kardashians game in the app store it's getting taken down. So is this the end? Probably not but it is a pretty clear downward spiral. Kim is still one of the biggest names on the internet and if you think Kardashian she's definitely the one to pop up in your head. But the cultural grip she held before where every post set a trend it just isn't as strong as before. People can admire her hustle while at the same time get tired of all of her controversies. The internet cycles fast and icons that were once very popular 10 years ago will fade into nothing unless they decide to reinvent themselves and keep up with the Joneses. So is this the end of Kim? In all honesty like 15 years of content exposure can exhaust any brand. Eventually even the best soap opera can absolutely wear out its fans and it is just simple media turnover. Whether Kim rebounds really depends on how much real change she is willing to show. Either way it's completely up to her. If you guys enjoyed today's video you can go ahead and click here to learn all about the downfall of Kylie Jenner or click here to find out why Kylie Cosmetics is absolutely ruining your face girl. Do not use the cosmetics. Do not use the Kylie skin. You know I only make these videos because I love you and I only want the best for you. I hope you have an amazing day or night or whenever you're watching and I'll see you very soon. Bye.