Poster's Inferno ft. Rachel Connolly
Added 2022-09-30 11:13:46 +0000 UTCRachel (@RachelConnoll14) joins us once again to talk about her recent Kinfolk article, on what happens when ordinary people go viral. We talk about surveillance, agency and *the spectacle*, and how all these themes could be seen playing out in the aftermath of The Queen's Death. We also talk about what it actually means when The Daily Mail goes searching for tweets, and who is really the target when shit hits the fan.
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It's also worth comparing Kim Kardashian's family to, say, the D'Amelio family, which is basically the TikTok version of pageant mums, though even her father is in on the gig, trying to launch a political career off of his daughters' short-form videos.
Elsie Hupp
2022-09-30 21:33:50 +0000 UTCIn fact it's interesting to contrast the career trajectories of Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton, in that Paris Hilton's family was much less supportive towards her (in a wide variety of ways), so Paris Hilton kind of burned out (before eventually developing her music career) in a way that Kim Kardashian did not.
Elsie Hupp
2022-09-30 21:31:16 +0000 UTCSomething perhaps worth remembering with Kim Kardashian and how she became famous is that her dad was this guy who basically built a career out of being college friends with O. J. Simpson during the media circus around O. J. Simpson's murder trial. (Robert Kardashian already had a law career, but he made a new career being a media personality in his 50s.) Also Kim Kardashian's stepfather is someone most famous for an extended Wheaties breakfast cereal brand deal (and, idk, something else before that? it doesn't seem important /s). Given the fact that Kim Kardashian is the daughter of someone who became famous as a side character in a lurid true-crime event—and she has talked about how her father enrolled her makeup-artist classes as a teenager so that she would be prepared for a lifetime of paparazzi—and also the stepdaughter of someone who pioneered influencer marketing, it's really unsurprising that her parents were able to turn the worst event in her life into a wildly, incomprehensibly remunerative career.
Elsie Hupp
2022-09-30 21:29:13 +0000 UTC
