Kylie Jenner wants to show off her success, and there is no denying that the reality TV star and cosmetics mogul has built a huge empire for herself. Still, some of their performances have turned out to be not quite what they seemed. Take, for example, their billionaire status.
The star was too eager to reach the historic milestone to become the youngest self-made billionaire, but the truth was a little more complicated – and maybe just false.
Now fans are looking at the comments section of their famous heavily followed Instagram account and wondering if anything fishy is happening on it as well.
Kylie Jenner has claimed some great successes
Kylie Jenner is the youngest of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters, and – until recently – she was widely considered the most successful. The star grew up on reality TV since she was just 10 years old then Continue with the Kardashians premiere.
By the time she hit adulthood, she had an enormous mass of fans who watched her for years, and she was cleverly able to exploit that fanbase in a career.
With the launch of her lip kits, Jenner managed to fuse her love for cosmetics, her reputation for experimenting with new looks, and her deep social media following. The kits almost sold out, and Jenner was able to roll that popularity into a thriving cosmetics line. By 2019, Forbes had Jenner declared the youngest homemade billionaire.
Furthermore, Jenner became the poster child for how the new economy built on influencer status could disrupt older perceptions of wealth. A big part of that status of influencers was following her incredible social media following.
Jenner’s Instagram followers – 190 million of them at the time of this writing – gave her a range that could compete with more traditional advertising space and all from the comfort of her own selfie-snapping phone.
Kylie Jenner’s billionaire status was bored
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The short-lived place at the top was soon in question. At first, people took issue with the idea that Jenner was a “homemade” billionaire because she came from a family where each of her parents were on their own multi-millionaires. While Kris Jenner, Kylie’s mother, admitted that her daughter spent her own money to sow her cosmetics line, fans mocked the idea that one could separate the money Jenner earned for her performance from the fact that she was launched as a child as of her family.
When I expose the technicalities of “self-made” status, the real scandal about Jenner’s billionaire status is that it seems to be false from the start. In an article Forbes printed in May 2020, they officially stripped the young star of her title, claiming that both Kris and Kylie Jenner had exaggerated the value of Kylie Cosmetics to make it more successful than it really was.
They even went so far as to accuse Kris Jenner of falsifying tax documents to pursue the scheme.
Fans think some of Kylie Jenner’s Instagram followers are fake, too
It’s not just Jenner’s financial status that makes some fans think fishy. They are also suspected of their Instagram account. Sure, many of the nearly 200 million accounts that Jenner follows on the platform are real people, but fans are wondering how many of them might just be bots.
Part of the evidence for this comes to light in a Reddit thread that discusses the unholy similarity between many of the comments left on Jenner’s posts. The original poster pointed out that many of the comments on Jenner’s birthday post contained the same strange phrases as “the most selfless” and “I need everyone to know.”
One commenter came up with a quick theory: “they are bots.”
If Jenner’s followers contain multiple fake accounts, it’s hard to know if they are deliberately looking for them or just dealing with the reality of being famous on the internet. After all, back in 2019, a deep dive found that almost half of her sister Kim Kardashian’s followers were fake accounts, but there is no clear sign of where the bot accounts came from in the first place. .
Maybe Jenner is paying to cheer up her followers and prestige, or maybe her account is just popular enough to attract bots created for her own purposes.
