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Speaker 2: You might be thinking to yourself, I don't care about
Speaker 2: Kardashian gossip or Kardashian rumors, but I think you might
Speaker 2: want to because this is far deeper than two sisters
Speaker 2: having an Internet beef. It's the reality of commodifying everything
Speaker 2: in your life and then realizing in your forties, right
Speaker 2: before your midlife crisis, that actually some things are quite
Speaker 2: sacred to you. But your life up until this point
Speaker 2: contradicts that, and now one takes you seriously. The Kardashians,
Speaker 2: in particular, the older sisters Courtney and Kim, have offered
Speaker 2: up their life for public consumption for what twenty or
Speaker 2: so years, have sold and put a value towards every
Speaker 2: intimate moment again and again and again unprovoked.
Speaker 1: As well.
Speaker 2: They don't have to share as much as they do,
Speaker 2: but they keep doing it, and in return for that,
Speaker 2: they've built this massive following in this massive customer base
Speaker 2: that was meant to be enough until it wasn't. We're
Speaker 2: in this era of TikTok where the Kardashians don't have
Speaker 2: the same pool they used to, because they're not the
Speaker 2: gold standard of what is to be rich and famous
Speaker 2: on the internet. They're hyper curated and very conceded. And
Speaker 2: you that's what Kim named her book of selfies. Actually
Speaker 2: did she call it conceded?
Speaker 1: And she call it selfie? I wish I bought that.
Speaker 1: It's worth a lot. Now, Oh you can't buy it.
Speaker 1: You could get a secondhand.
Speaker 2: But they're like exturely at a local dimmicks like reddings reading,
Speaker 2: here's the thing on the internet. There's been this beef
Speaker 2: or I guess we've seen the remnants of what appears
Speaker 2: to be a beef about Courtney getting married and dult
Speaker 2: Chanine Gabana sponsoring the wedding and then less than a
Speaker 2: year later, Kim curating a fashion show that included some
Speaker 2: of the pieces that Courtney wore from the collection Courtney's
Speaker 2: were the impression that Kim's crossed the line and that,
Speaker 2: even though she commodified her and wedding were having it
Speaker 2: sponsored by a notoriously controversial and racist fashion house, that
Speaker 2: Kim's cross the line for including these clothes in a
Speaker 2: sponsored campaign. The thing about the Kardashians is they've always
Speaker 2: led with this family comes first. Messag Chris is really
Speaker 2: good at making sure the key messages come through. For example,
Speaker 2: when Kylie gave birth, right as soon as she gave birth,
Speaker 2: they launched that Stormy collection, which is named after her
Speaker 2: first daughter. In addition to that, they launched a two
Speaker 2: episode YouTube mini series of log I Think It Is
Speaker 2: Meant to Be More in which they were following around
Speaker 2: Kylie being like a business mum, right, and the messaging
Speaker 2: throughout that whole content piece was Kylie is a good mum,
Speaker 2: Kylie is a hard worker.
Speaker 1: Kylie she was a businesswoman pregnant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was around the same time of when she
Speaker 2: was on Forbes Self Made, Richest, whatever, and they had
Speaker 2: to rescind it because she wasn't actually self made, so
Speaker 2: they were like trying to rejig the narrative. So we
Speaker 2: all knew that she's a good mom, she's a businesswoman,
Speaker 2: she's self made, and she actually works within her business.
Speaker 2: I think what's happened is that the Kardashians have now
Speaker 2: realized that just because they can like spread a key message,
Speaker 2: it doesn't stick in the way they want it to.
Speaker 2: And that's where all this tensions coming from. So it
Speaker 2: all begins, it's like season three of the show, which
Speaker 2: I'm not watching.
Speaker 1: I just got all this on TikTok, right, say of
Speaker 1: the new Free Hulu revamp or whatever.
Speaker 2: So basically what happens is that Kim creative director creative
Speaker 2: directed Adult Chair and Gabana runway show that drew from
Speaker 2: the Fashion Houses nineties archives. So these like really cool
Speaker 2: pieces that were like glitzy and glamorous. But coincidentally, Courtney
Speaker 2: also used some of those pieces in her wedding, which
Speaker 2: was a televised event, which was a televised event, a
Speaker 2: sponsored event by Adultchay and Gabana. The whole family has
Speaker 2: a long standing relationship with Dultchay and Gabana, so realistically
Speaker 2: it's a friend of the family at this point. So
Speaker 2: Kim goes on to say that because Courtney doesn't want
Speaker 2: to work, quote unquote, she didn't want to bring Courtney
Speaker 2: in and give her the details because Courtney doesn't care.
Speaker 2: So Kim, knowing that Courtney knows that everybody in the
Speaker 2: family works with Dulce, Kim just said, Okay, here's a
Speaker 2: few things I want to do. So this doesn't like
Speaker 2: grass cut Courtney. I don't want it to be so
Speaker 2: close to the wedding. I need to be at least
Speaker 2: a year later. I need to not pull too many
Speaker 2: pieces from her collection. I needed to feel really separate
Speaker 2: in the branding. I don't want you to reference the
Speaker 2: fact that any of the dress's shop in both areas.
Speaker 2: This needs to feel separate, and the only relation between
Speaker 2: this and Courtney's that the fact that were sisters.
Speaker 1: That's it. Kim was like, I did my due diligence.
Speaker 1: I talked to Mom about it.
Speaker 2: I feel like inviting Courtney to the conversation is not
Speaker 2: what she wants to do.
Speaker 1: She does want to be across my check. She doesn't
Speaker 1: get paid to do this.
Speaker 2: However, Courtney felt violated because she thinks that or she
Speaker 2: had it in her head that Kim was only able
Speaker 2: to broker this deal post her wedding. As in, Kim
Speaker 2: saw those pieces gone inspired, went to Dolchain and said, oh, hey,
Speaker 2: I didn't know you had this heat cooking in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: Can we use those pieces to Courtney? It seemed all
Speaker 2: too coincidental that now after Courtney's had this like really
Speaker 2: public relationship with Adulta, and now Kim wants to have
Speaker 2: one too. It's not just wearing a dress. Now you
Speaker 2: want to go curate a runaway show. You don't even
Speaker 2: do fashion like that. Kantie is weeping literally, so Kim's view,
Speaker 2: she feels like Courtney's concerned are really petty because Courtney
Speaker 2: can't see the personal and financial value of what Kim's done,
Speaker 2: not for herself but for the whole family. Like Kim
Speaker 2: has done a lot of work trying to reposition how
Speaker 2: the world views the Kardashians as so much more than
Speaker 2: just like social styles. She's giving them this credibility that
Speaker 2: Courtney definitely isn't doing for the family.
Speaker 1: So she's like so much, that's it.
Speaker 2: Kim's like, this is so much bigger than your babe, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm out here working day in day out.
Speaker 1: You had a wedding, you got it sponsored.
Speaker 2: That's child's play, right, I'm curating fashion shows and making
Speaker 2: money for the whole family.
Speaker 1: Like, step your pussy up, you know.
Speaker 2: But the thing is, I feel like what's happening here
Speaker 2: is if anybody knows Kim and Courtney's relationship, it's not
Speaker 2: the first time it's happened where someone feels hard done
Speaker 2: by for a business decision made or whatever. Kim said
Speaker 2: many a time, like Courtney's not that special looking. She's
Speaker 2: definitely not the star of the family. She said this
Speaker 2: on Red Yeah, she said that, like Courtney's not interesting looking,
Speaker 2: she's not really special looking, like a couple of seasons
Speaker 2: ago on The Kardashians.
Speaker 1: Years ago eight.
Speaker 2: You know, Courtney doesn't want to work. Courtney doesn't want
Speaker 2: to do this. So like the positioning is that Kim
Speaker 2: is like the money maker, the leader of the family,
Speaker 2: and Courtney's this has been people don't recall that they
Speaker 2: exploited Courtney's relationship for the first decade of that show.
Speaker 2: I feel like what's happening here, in my personal opinion,
Speaker 2: is that it affirms that some things just really are
Speaker 2: too good to be true.
Speaker 1: Like how does a.
Speaker 2: Family of ten people all making money of commodifying each
Speaker 2: other and putting their relationship on a pedestal, but then
Speaker 2: demeaning it. It doesn't actually work like they want you
Speaker 2: to think.
Speaker 1: It works.
Speaker 2: Yes, initially when it was hyper curated, but it stopped
Speaker 2: being curated and therefore it got too real, Like their
Speaker 2: fight should never been televised, Like it should have been
Speaker 2: edited to a point where we couldn't even discern that
Speaker 2: the drama was real affake. It should have been like
Speaker 2: the Real Housewives, but it kept getting more real and
Speaker 2: more real and more real. And I think that they
Speaker 2: at one point the money was enough, and now it's
Speaker 2: not enough because you've had the money.
Speaker 1: You've been had the money for years. Now.
Speaker 2: You want respect, yeah, and you want to be recognized
Speaker 2: the things you find in are important to your family,
Speaker 2: and for someone like Courtney, it's just not. Also, I
Speaker 2: think that what I keep noticing with the Kardashians and
Speaker 2: the way people will try and comment on it, so
Speaker 2: they keep oversimplifying it and trying to resolve it in
Speaker 2: a conversation like was it good or bad for Kim
Speaker 2: to do what she did?
Speaker 1: It's not even about that.
Speaker 2: It's like years and years and years of Courtney being
Speaker 2: told the things that she finds important aren't important, of
Speaker 2: being told to just phone it in or being told
Speaker 2: to just like suck it up and just make the
Speaker 2: money for the family, and she has this one thing
Speaker 2: that she finally thinks is worth sharing and doing it
Speaker 2: the family way, and it wasn't respective.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see the vision there, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 2: She's like, Okay, I did this thing I got the
Speaker 2: sponsored bag. I'm doing it the way you want to,
Speaker 2: just let it live. And now she's like, when you
Speaker 2: google my name, your fashion show is coming up. And
Speaker 2: now every time they talk about my wedding, your name
Speaker 2: is coming up. And obviously there's like tension there because
Speaker 2: people keep calling Kim the older sister or the leader
Speaker 2: of the family. Courtney's like, bitch, I was here before
Speaker 2: she was here. I was definitely here before she was here.
Speaker 2: So either or I really think that the demise of
Speaker 2: the Kardashians is on the way, only because they can't
Speaker 2: generate enough chaos to make this worthwhile. Someone said that
Speaker 2: this storyline was like four or five episodes. This would
Speaker 2: not fly in the old season.
Speaker 1: See, but you don't have a sister. Ah, this is
Speaker 1: what it's coming back to me. I think it is.
Speaker 1: I think it is. It's a sister thing.
Speaker 2: It's definitely a sister thing. But this is the drama,
Speaker 2: so to speak. I don't think they'll be able to
Speaker 2: get over it. It's no longer seeming worth it because now
Speaker 2: their credibility is coming into question. It's making people critique
Speaker 2: the whole family. Everyone's like, oh no, I'm over it
Speaker 2: is worth it. And also we already got to taste
Speaker 2: of this drama before it came on the show. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Can they really maintain a multimillion dollar empire talking about
Speaker 2: old news for a long time?
Speaker 1: People want more.
Speaker 2: People want to hear about whether Chloe has the same
Speaker 2: dad as the rest of her family.
Speaker 1: Look give it.
Speaker 2: They want to hear whether or not Kendall's actually queer, please,
Speaker 2: that's what they want to hear. They don't want to
Speaker 2: hear about this should she or shouldn't she?
Speaker 1: Adult?
Speaker 2: They want to talk about sponsors content, but they don't
Speaker 2: want to talk about that anyway. So that's all the
Speaker 2: information you need. You need not do any more googling.
Speaker 2: It's that complex and uncomplicated. At the same time, I
Speaker 2: hope they sold it out because I, unfortunately for Courtney,
Speaker 2: feel as though if sides were taken, it would not
Speaker 2: be hers. Oh maybe not rip all right, Well we'll
Speaker 2: see tomorrow.
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