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Are the Kardashians media and business geniuses? This lady has built her family into a celebrity marketing machine, the Kardashians. Are they shady and money hungry? The Kornabtmz.com, a group of people from New York have loved it, lost it, towards the Kardashians. It's just for waging a campaign of lies. Did you trademark the term momager? I did. Yeah. Are they the ultimate girl bosses, able to become media stars and own and operate several businesses? We're examining that today and looking through the graveyard of the Kardashian's failed businesses. Do you think that you are promoting unattainable standards of beauty in any way? No, I don't. Because I think we get up, we do the work, we work out, you know? You have to think about what you're asking for because money doesn't grow on trees. If it does, it's paper. Take all your pictures, just give her some space. Your sister's going to jail, have a little compassion. It's what she deserves. 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Do you think that you are promoting unattainable standards of beauty in any way? No, I don't. They did no key effect. But this wasn't always the case. Robert Kardashian, the father of Kourtney, Kim and Chloe, was born in Los Angeles, California on February 22, 1944. Robert grew up in the affluent View Park area of Los Angeles County. Robert attended the University of Southern California where he earned a degree in business administration. He also earned a JD degree from University of San Diego School of Law and practiced for about a decade. Then, after that, went into business. In the spring of 1973, Chris, known then as Kristen Mary Hewton, was 17 years old and was dating pro golfer Caesar Sanuto. Born November 5, 1955, Chris lived in San Diego with her family and attended Claremont High School where she graduated in 1973. While Caesar was out of town, Chris decided to go to the Del Mar Race Track in California where she met 28-year-old Robert Kardashian. For Robert, it was love at first sight. And by 1976, Robert was a high-profile lawyer and he wanted to be with Chris, who was a flight attendant for American Airlines. But Chris rejected Robert's first marriage proposal, that he was persistent and the second time he proposed, she accepted. The two were married in 1978 when Chris was only 22. They moved to Beverly Hills where they had Kourtney Kardashian on April 18, 1979, Kim Kardashian on October 21, 1980, Khloe Kardashian on June 27, 1986 and Robert Kardashian Jr. on March 17, 1987. According to the New York Times, the couple spent their weekends wearing Fila warm-up suits and playing tennis with their friends, American NFL star OJ Simpson and his wife at the time, Nicole Brown Simpson. But by the time that Chris was in her 30s, she'd become a bored housewife. She loved her family, Robert and the life that Robert provided her but felt that something was missing. And soon, Chris found the excitement that she craved in the arms of a lover, soccer star Todd Waterman. When Robert found out about the affair, he canceled her credit cards and ended the marriage. Soon, Chris became alienated from her friends, depressed and miserable. And she later called the affair the biggest regret of her life. But despite their messy divorce, Robert and Chris were able to make amends. It seemed that everything was peaceful in the family until a very dark event occurred. And that was the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. When their friend at the time, OJ Simpson, was put on trial for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, Robert Kardashian was asked to be a part of the team that represented him. I understand that there was a lot of tension and he became OJ Simpson's lawyer. Yes. Were you angry with him for defending him or being on the defense team? I wasn't angry once again. I was disappointed and I was confused. I didn't understand how he didn't see what I saw. And then husband Bruce Jenner talking to Inside Edition about the case during the trial where they were regular spectators. I think this is going to really tough year but in the past 15 months for all of us, not only have we lost Nicole, we've lost OJ too. Chris was very close friends with Nicole and many people at that time strongly, strongly believed that OJ was the one responsible for her death. During the trial, Chris sat in the courtroom, pregnant with her fifth child and wore Nicole's hand-me-down maternity clothes in protest. Kendall Nicole Jenner was then born on November 3rd 1995 and was given the middle name Nicole after Nicole Brown Simpson. Chris then gave birth to Kylie Kristin Jenner on August 10th 1997. Robert was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in July of 2003 and died two months later on September 30th 2003. That same year, Kim began working as a personal assistant for the hotel heiress Paris Hilton. During her employment with Hilton, Kim started to develop a close relationship with Paris and this was all during a high point of Paris Hilton's fame and this friendship started to boost Kim's personal fame as she appeared on episodes of Paris Hilton's reality show. Kim also began working for other celebrities in the early 2000s further boosting her fame and establishing her connections. By 2006, Chloe, Kim and Courtney ventured further into fashion opening a high fashion boutique called Dash in Calabasas, California. Then in February of 2007 a home s**t's tape that Kim made with American singer and songwriter Ray J years before was leaked to the public. Vivid entertainments bought the right to this tape for one million dollars and released the film titled Kim Kardashian Superstar. It's incredibly bizarre to me that this was done without Kim Kardashian's permission or consent. Or in a way, are you grateful for that experience? I'm definitely not grateful for that experience I would say if I had one regret that would be it. If I were to do it again like live my life again obviously I wouldn't do that again obviously I wouldn't have gotten married in that you know if I had known if I had the information and I had known better I would have done better. So rightfully so Kim sued Vivid Entertainment for ownership of the tape but ended up dropping the suit in April of 2007 settling for five million dollars. While Kim Kardashian and the Kardashian family in general received a lot of backlash for the leak How did you feel when that was public? I tried myself to sleep. It also boosted their fame and the family name into the spotlight and the mainstream public eye and Kris either having learned from her ex husband Robert or just through having a natural knack for business decided to capitalize off of this rising fame. The idea of creating a reality series originated in 2006 when Kris Jenner showed an interest in appearing on a television show together with her family. Producer Ryan Seacrest who had his own production company decided to further develop this idea He ended up hiring a cameraman to visit the Kardashian home They were all together as crazy and as fun loving as they are. Seacrest described the family after seeing the tape. He later initiated the series by sharing the tape with E and the show was eventually picked up. The show titled Keeping Up with the Kardashians aired in October of 2007 The show centered around the members of the Kardashian Jenner blended family and mostly focused on the older sisters Courtney, Kim and Chloe and most episodes in the show have a pretty similar structure The family shows off their privileged lifestyle and maybe gets into one or two minor family squabbles before ultimately wrapping things up with a monologue that reinforces the importance of family and I'm really thankful for my family I grew up with so many siblings that I just love Due to its high ratings the series was renewed another season one month after the first season's premiere. One of the most unique things about the show Keeping Up with the Kardashians is before the reality show the family really didn't have a lot of fame and notoriety on their own. Yes they were fairly wealthy and fairly famous but ended up forging their own name and brand through the reality TV show they created Courtney at the time was studying in the University of Arizona and the sisters Kim, Courtney and Chloe had just launched their Dash clothing store and when Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered it really propelled the family into fame. Suddenly the Kardashian fame was everywhere and Keeping Up with the Kardashians has without a doubt been a major success The Kardashian-Jenner sisters have hundreds of millions of followers on social media, a TV show in more countries than the Peace Corps and a collective fortune bigger than the Kennedys. I don't know if Chris, Ryan or the rest of the Kardashian-Jenner family truly planned for the amount of growth and reception the show was going to receive but soon after the show premiered the family skyrocketed into fame and became known as more than just LA socialites, they were now reality TV show stars Usually people become famous for doing something notable and then profiting off of that notoriety afterwards but the Kardashians kind of worked backwards. The Kardashians built their fame first associating with celebrities doing a reality TV show and then after that tried to build notoriety through the various businesses that they ended up starting this passion for business come from I worked for my dad in his office I've worked in a clothing store since I was 15 and I had maybe not the most glamorous jobs of burning CDs and pressing CDs in his record company but all of those experiences were so amazing and I just learned so much every single day working alongside my dad and this business empire that they tried to build had a lot of complications and a lot of disasters One of the most interesting things and one of the most unknown things about the Kardashians is the church that Kris Jenner founded. The Kardashians have always considered themselves to be very religious. Kris Jenner and her children are Christian and they all attended either a Presbyterian or Catholic school growing up but despite their public alignment with Christianity people were still surprised to find out that in June 2008 Kris Jenner co-founded the California Community Church located in Agora Hills, California. The establishment is fronted by a formerly disgraced pastor named Brad Johnson. Before Johnson signed on to be the pastor of the Kardashians church he led a 4,000 person congregation called Calvary Community Church in West Lake Village, California until his personal tribulations exploded in a cheating scandal and Johnson left the congregation. He began working at a local Starbucks until the day Kris and Bruce Jenner tracked him down and convinced him to lead their church which was then called the Life Change Community Church. Almost from the start the ministry faced criticism from those who believed it was only a money making venture and nothing more than a Kardashian tax haven. The church's website for example prominently features donation portals with past requests that church members donate as much as $1,000 per month or 10% of their income. Kim appeared to confirm her family's interest in the church in a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan My mom has helped create a church so we help fund that. She said Kim further explained that she donated millions each year to her mother's church which would make it a tax deductible donation under US federal law. Though the Kardashian families and the church's tax records are both private the company that Kim used for charitable donations in 2012 has public records. They showed that despite a surface promise to donate proceeds from an eBay auction of old clothes to charity, Kim used fine print to deflect the total she would actually donate. Of the $399,500 the auction raised only $19,975 exactly 5% went to the charity and the charity was the church that her mother owns. Not only that but members are paying $1,000 a month to be members and it's unclear where that money goes and a lot of people have theorized that it goes right back into the Jenner Kardashian's pockets. Before Dash there was Smooch, a children's clothing store that Kourtney and Chris opened and operated in 2003. The company was seen multiple times during season 1 of Keeping Up with the Kardashians but ended up closing shortly after. They decided to close Smooch in 2009 after running it for 6 years. Jillian has gotten some gifts from this lovely little store for Ben and Elsie. It's a wonderful boutique up in Calabasas and it's run by very famous mother and daughter. What little girl would run this dress? Is that cute? Smooch in Calabasas is a kids' boutique for newborns to young teens run by Chris Jenner and daughter Kourtney. Then by 2010 Kourtney Kardashian was sued by another children's clothing company. The lawsuit was filed on July 1st of 2010 in Van Nuys, California hours by Zoe naming Kourtney as a defendant alongside Smooch. The lawsuit was listed as a complaint for money and the clothing company was seeking damages for non-payment, meaning that Smooch and Kourtney Kardashian never paid this company for their services. The hearing was scheduled for January 3rd, 2011 but the outcome of this hearing was never published online. The Kardashians decided to move on to a different clothing venture, their company Dash. Dash was a boutique clothing and accessory chain founded in 2006 by the Kardashian sisters. The Kardashians opened their first Dash clothing store in Calabasas, California in 2006 and after the success of their reality show they relocated the store to Los Angeles. The clothing store was seemingly doing very well and they ended up opening two more locations one in Miami and one in New York, expanding their reality TV and fashion empire. We ended our stores first to Miami It's taken a long time almost a decade to really get our stores to what they are now and we have no plans of really slowing down. In an interview with Variety in 2015 Kim Kardashian disclosed that initially she wanted keeping up with the Kardashians to focus more on the Dash stores in order to bring publicity to the fashion stores. Dash's retail stores appeared on the reality TV series many different times helping create more awareness of the fashion stores and associating it with the reality TV brand that the Kardashians were building. Khloe even reflected on Dash's origins on her app writing, At this time my mom and Kourtney were running their kids store smooch and when the space next door opened up, Kourt got it. She saw that I was spiraling and wanted to give me responsibility a reason to wake up in the morning so she told me I was going to help her run a new store. Fast forward to today and all of the sisters lives look completely different than those early beginnings. For a long time Dash was a source of steady income for the Kardashians and was even the source of a shortly lived spin-off reality series titled Dash Dolls which premiered on E in September of 2015. But the Dash boutiques have not been without many scandals of their own. In 2016 the stores were sued for discrimination by an employee who is legally blind and claimed that the stores were inaccessible. Then TMZ reported that their New York store closed that same year due to high rent and as the Kardashians grew more and more in fame and notoriety each of the Kardashian members ended up branching off and creating their own clothing line, collaborations or other product lines and soon maintaining the Dash stores became kind of pointless and just another added expense. So the Kardashians made the decision to close the Dash stores in early 2018. After 12 years the sisters have decided to close the door to Dash for good. Yesterday Kim may be announced on her app and tweeted out saying quote bitter sweet after an amazing 12 years. In the statement Kim said quote we've loved running Dash but in the last few years we've all grown so much individually. And as of April 2018 all stores have closed down after 11 years of being open. Then on April 20th of 2018 Wrapped posted an article written by Rebecca Jennings titled the 20 most brutal Yelp reviews explain the death of Dash. Jennings alleged that the main reason Dash closed was due to a massive decline in revenue and outlined many many problems associated with the stores including tons of negative reviews that the stores had. Whether it was low quality clothing, lousy service, expensive items or an unsanitary store overall it was clear that the Kardashians just started completely neglecting the Dash stores leading to their eventual closure. For a long time Superbowl advertisements have been one of the most exciting parts of Superbowl to some and with millions of viewers tuned into the game it's one of the most desired spots for advertisements. On February 7th of 2011 Kim Kardashian appeared in Superbowl ad for Sketchers Shape Ups. Sneakers that the brand claimed would help customers tone their body and get into shape. The ad was filled with lots of sexual innuendos and shows Kim Kardashian breaking up with her personal trainer claiming she doesn't need him anymore thanks to Sketchers Shape Ups you're amazing the things just aren't working out well that's not completely true I am working out it's not someone else it's something else Hello Shape Ups my shoes Following the advertisement Sketchers Shape Ups actually became a massive thing. I don't know if anyone else remembers the time that Shape Ups blew up but I remember that every single one of my friends owned a pair of Sketchers Shape Ups and everyone seemed to think it was going to increase their fitness level by like 10 fold. We're definitely going to start shaping up with Kardashian and we're so excited to be a part of this company and this brand and this amazing technology I really like the product it works and so I really am honored to be a part of it and to be the face of Sketchers. We have a lot of fun surprises in store and I won't give away all of our secrets but we have some really exciting fun stuff that we're going to do that will probably be different than any other ad campaign that you guys have seen before. We've always worked out together as a family so it really is a perfect fit you know the Kardashians and Sketchers. Giving Sketchers Shape Ups is the ultimate gift of help I mean it could be a better gift From the Sketchers Fitness Group Shape Ups have changed the way millions of people walk, work, play and train. Shape Ups are revolutionary. Shoes with comfort and style designed to make you more fit, healthier and yes, happier. But as time passed customers began to express their displeasure with the results of the Shape Ups and even reported back pain from the odd shape of the shoes. On May 16th of 2012 the Federal Trade Commission announced that they had determined Sketchers lied about clinical studies which claimed that their Shape Ups helped people lose weight and strengthen muscles in the butt, legs and stomach. Claims that they used Kim Kardashian to help them advertise. The Federal Trade Commission is now saying the notion of putting on these shoes in lieu of working out isn't quite working out like Sketchers advertised. As a result of what the FTC calls deceptive advertising, Sketchers now has to foot a 40 million dollar bill. Most of that money will go to consumers who paid as much as $100 for these and three other brands of toning shoes but wound up feeling like only their wallets ended up leaner. So let me remind marketers once again either shape up your substanciation or tone down your claims. After being exposed for making false claims, Sketchers agreed to pay $40 million in settlement costs. Shape Ups remained on the Sketchers website with the money's description no longer claimed that the shoes toned legs. While I wouldn't necessarily say that it's Kim Kardashian's sole fault and responsibility for not accurately reporting the findings of the Sketchers Shape Up shoe and not being honest about the Sketchers Shape Up capability because how is Kim Kardashian going to be able to know that the clinical studies that Sketchers had were a complete lie, I do think that this was the beginning of a larger pattern that Kim Kardashian and the other Kardashians started to display of lying about health benefits and promoting health and wellness products that are seen as shady and fraudulent. Around this time the Kardashians also launched a debit card that I remember some random YouTuber talked about a while ago the Kardashian credit card until reading about it they tried to open up a credit card but the defender may be the new Kardashian card named for the reality show Celebritons. It's marketed to teenage girls. With this one you don't need credit, you don't even need a bank account. But you do need a lot of money for fees a six month card cost $59.95 just to set up $1.50 to use the ATM $1 for balance checks $1.50 to speak to customer service $9.95 to replace a lost card and $6 to cancel the account. They actually deducted or they charged you. And overall this was sort of the beginning or early days of the Kardashians profiting off of even the little fame that they had through half thought out or poorly thought out business ventures, sponsorships and partnerships. Quick Trim was a weight loss diet pill available in a 14 and 28 day cleanse system and a thermogenic stimulant formula Kim and Khloe Kardashian Odom This is Odom, thank you Good morning guys As soon as they came in this morning they were working the phones These two you guys are business women Quick Trim, you guys are always doing something different I was reading the label on that Big Bob there's a lot of just a lot of berries and good stuff in there There's not you know They're all natural and the caffeine it is, it is just green tea or like black liquor extract with all natural stuff They were claimed to promote a healthy weight, a healthy metabolism and increase energy The detox formula also claimed to make weight loss easier by supposedly flushing out the system during sleep all sounds super legit and the Kardashian sisters had been associated with the Quick Trim brand since 2009 carefully name dropping the brand during television and magazine interviews and telling their fans how they used the brand to lose weight and stay thin You have the power to reinvent yourself You can change the way you look I'm a mother of four and when I turned 40 it was time for me With Quick Trim I got my body fat I lost 30 pounds and I feel fantastic I love my curves but when I found myself buying a size 16 I had to make a change I went from a size 16 down to a size 6 and look at me now Quick Trim, create the body you deserve She's like my idol She's fabulous, she's strong, she's confident She's gorgeous, everything My dream is to meet Kim so let me begin if I want to sexy her body I need to drink Quick Trim Wow This was the early days of I guess what you could call influencer marketing when there wasn't a lot of crackdown rules or awareness on the tactics of how people were promoting various brands and you could say that early reality TV stars were kind of like original influencers reality TV stars became famous through sharing their daily life kind of like the influencers of today and like influencers of today the Kardashians promoted the Quick Trim brand through tweets as well just did an amazing Pilates class with at Kim Kardashian Chloe tweeted to her fans in 2010 that and a little quick trim in my bikini bod will be ready in no time In early 2013 New York based law firm Bursar and Fisher reportedly filed a $5 million class action lawsuit against Chloe, Kim and Courtney of four customers who say that the Kardashians made unsubstantiated claims about the benefits of Quick Trim During that time that FDA had recently evaluated the ingredients of the product and found the main ingredient of Quick Trim to be just caffeine which the FDA determined was not a safe or effective treatment for weight loss. Attorneys for the four plaintins slammed the Kardashians and product maker in Mill Health for making out landish claims like that Quick Trim curbs cravings promotes weight loss and burns calories. The suit also took issue with the advertising of the product which encouraged using the full Quick Trim system for the most effectiveness when there was no evidence to support that conclusion a federal United States magistrate ended up dismissing the lawsuit because a separate settlement was reached in a similar California class action case but in a separate class action lawsuit filed against the Kardashians in Quick Trim, a settlement was reached. According to the terms of the settlement in which Quick Trim and the Kardashians denied any wrongdoing, customers that bought the diet pills from the company website could receive a 50% refund. On top of that Quick Trim agreed to redesign its packaging to state the nature of its products and its benefits. But this is definitely not the last time that the Kardashians promoted shady, shoddy diet products and well diet scans. Literally every single Kardashian has promoted fit tea products which are literally the same thing basically just caffeine and or laxatives and which numerous health experts have debunked and have stated not take as a means of effective weight loss. Detox teas and miracle supplements are bullshit. These products are not cleared by the FDA. Supplements are not treated like pharmaceutical medications. They first of all don't need to prove that they work and second they don't even need to prove that they're safe. I'm going to be 100% transparent. All of these tea companies have reached out to me numerous times trying to get my endorsement for money to have me tell you that these products are going to help you lose weight look great, feel more energized suppress your appetite. I will not do that. It's not true. It doesn't hold up as fact, as science and ultimately my job as a doctor my responsibility is to keep you at home. The Kardashians have also promoted belly bands which some people swear by. There was also the skinny lollipops that Kim Kardashian promoted on Instagram one time and also just many many other weight loss products and supplements that the Kardashians have promoted that would probably take too long to mention even in this one video. The Kardashians have gotten in a lot of backlash for promoting these types of companies. The Kardashian plan has made its money over the past 20 years from deceiving the public putting out photoshopped images from selling diet pills that don't work, selling beauty products that don't work and finally when we see what they actually look like so we can get an idea how these diet products and these beauty products work then the picture has to be taken down yes I got suffered into buying one diet pill one time and it didn't work I'm like oh my god this is this is the best it's going to make you so slam this is what we use. No it isn't. And yet continue to do it they brazenly continue to promote these types of health companies knowing that they'll receive backlash but I guess the money is just too good. On top of that the Kardashians have a lot of young people that look up to them and will follow suit on whatever they promote. One of the things that the Kardashians are most known for is creating a new unattainable beauty standard. It's just exploitation of these obvious flaws in our culture they didn't start it. There were these flaws in our culture long before we came around. There's the beauty myth which sort of touches on this but over the past 14 years 15 years it has just gone into overdrive beauty is a double edge sword people who are beautiful they form their identities around being beautiful and so when they lose their beauty they start to lose their minds because they're like well what am I now if I'm not beautiful. You're a human you're a human with hobbies and interests and a family that loves you it doesn't care how you look the incredible hourglass figure that the Kardashians have and who's known to be one of the most impressionable demographics when it comes to advertisements young girls are so a lot of young girls probably saw these weight loss advertisements and decided to purchase from these companies hoping to become like one of the Kardashians when in reality much of the Kardashian beauty standard is created off of literally Photoshop and plastic surgery something that the general public can't afford it's literally taking an unattainable beauty standard to a whole new level because you have to be willing to pour in thousands and thousands into plastic surgeons and getting risky surgeries in order to look like a Kardashian and then the Kardashians took this unattainable beauty standard that they created and turned it into profit for themselves by promoting diet products and weight loss supplements and trying to convince their fans that the way to get the Kardashian body is through purchasing these various items themselves there's been some incredible commentary videos about the danger of the Kardashian beauty standard and the unrealistic nature of it all that I'll definitely be linking in the description below because they've helped people find confidence in their body type and it occurs because I also feel like people who don't look like them feel like they should look like them and you shouldn't have to change your way to please somebody else. All the skinny guys watching this, you shouldn't have to be slim thick or thick just because you see that body type being praised in the media or just because you see that men want it and in my opinion as far as general harm to society goes I think that this aspect of the Kardashians was the most harmful and was the most damaging to girls of younger generations but this was only one aspect where the Kardashians tried to make money and it seems that the Kardashians tried to expand into almost every single venture you possibly could expand into and one area that they tried to go into was creating different talk shows. The first to attempt to do this was Kris Jenner who tried to create a talk show in 2013 In July of 2013 Fox Network decided to broadcast Kris Jenner's new talk show, Kris also known as Kris Jenner Show the show was announced to appear shortly after a barrage of Kardashian family related stories clogged the internet pages. While the Kardashians are no strangers to publicity it was definitely unusual during that time the sheer amount of stories that had come out coincidentally around the same time Kris Jenner was coming out with a talk show and it's rumored that Kris's secret skill set is her ability to drum up publicity in this manner and work with a lot of media outlets to get Kardashian stories published. Reporter Holly McKay was one of the people that noted how unusual the amount of publicity that the Kardashian family was getting was at that time on certain websites almost every article was about the Kardashians. All these various stories all leaked a week before the show. One industry insider told Fox 411's Pop Tarts column it's a carefully crafted attempt to make sure that all of these items are left unanswered so that people tune in on Monday to see what's going on. Kris even hinted that Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's first daughter Northwest would be shown the talk show for the very first time. Hi, I'm Kris Jenner and I'm a mom with a pretty active family. When we're all just hanging out, that's my favorite time. Lots of laughs, great conversation and I thought that would make for a great talk show. So Kris, premieres July 15th you're in for a good time. Kris Jenner gained a lot of industry insider connections which she made sure to utilize through carefully constructed publicity that sort of benefits both parties. If you go to paparazzi with an interesting story it benefits them to be able to break that story. Yet also you get to control the narrative of your family and how they're being perceived by the public and when their stories are leaked. Kris premiered on July 15th 2013 on Fox the show released 10 separate one hour episodes and finished its 6 week trial on August 23rd of 2013. One of the most notable moments on the show was when Kanye West appeared as a guest. Kanye West appeared as a guest where he for the very first time released photos of himself and Kim Kardashian's daughter, Northwest. And I think to just you know stop all the noise and and her I thought of really cool like on her grandmother's season finale. This episode had the highest ratings of the 6 week test run and was Kanye's first television appearance in 3 years. But after the show had concluded reports surfaced in August that Kris Jenner's talk show had been cancelled after its initial 6 week trial run this inside source also revealed that Kris's daytime show suffered such poor ratings that the network was adamant that there was no chance she would be picked up for a second season. The ratings were averaging an abysmal 0.8 and advertisers were less than enthusiastic about it. The source added, Kris did get a ratings bump for her last show when Kanye West revealed the first baby pic of daughter Northwest with Kim. But that was a one time shot in the arm and it wouldn't be indicative of what the ratings trend would be. So on January 17th 2014, Fox officially announced that the show had been cancelled. Meanwhile, another source confirmed to rate her online Kris has been told her talk show is not going to happen. Viewers just tuned out and genuinely don't want to see her on daytime television in any format which is pretty harsh. Something I never knew or even imagined was a thing is that Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner actually wrote a sci-fi novel, believe it or not. Wrote, if you know what I mean. On June 3rd of 2014 Kendall and Kylie Jenner published a science fiction dystopian novel titled Rebels City of Indra, the story of Lex and Livia. And despite being the only credited authors, believe it or not, I know it's surprising. Kendall and Kylie never did any of the writing at all. I know, shocking, right? Look what we've got ladies and gentlemen. I wanted to learn firstly more about who actually has written this. And it's super apparent there are a lot of hands working in this mess. Kendall and Kylie Jenner obviously the author on the front and then when you turn it, you have and Elizabeth Hilbert Roman with By Us Low. Two famous reality TV star teenagers didn't fully write an entire sci-fi novel by themselves? Who would have ever thought? The book was written entirely by a ghost writer named Maya Sloan. Upon release of the book, customer reviews on Amazon give the book a rating average of 3.9 out of 5 stars. However despite the Jenner's popularity and influence, the book did not receive the attention it hoped and resulted in less than impressive book sales. According to data from the Nielsen book scan obtained by Radar Online, the sci-fi novel has sold a mere 13,000 copies since its release. In comparison, fellow reality star Lauren Conrad's two novels sold close to 500,000 copies about a year after publication. Despite Kendall and Kylie having done promotions and book signings in LA and New York, and even talking about the book on the show The Talk in June of 2014. It becomes clear to me that at least Kylie made an effort to know what this book is about because she'll say things to Kendall that are key to the plot or about these characters. Kendall will have more ideas than she's talking about and have to pretend like she didn't know what she was talking about. Olivia, because Olivia's like, she has heightened senses. She can tell when people are coming around her. Despite the poor reviews, the sisters came out with a sequel to this book which received better ratings but seemed to do even worse commercially. So, I think it's safe to say that the sisters' endeavors as writers just never really panned out. The Kardashian family opened Kardashian Chaos at the Mirage Hotel & Casino in November of 2011. Felix Rappaport, president and COO of the Mirage said it's hard to think of a brand that embodies fun, energy, and excitement better than the Kardashian brand. The store, which fashioned itself as a celebrity lifestyle boutique sold a collection of Kardashian souvenirs including keychains, water bottles, and other novelty items. An entire store dedicated to just basically Kardashian merchandise at a casino. Sounds like a good business plan? The website for the store stated the Kardashian Chaos online store includes specialty made to order gifts, apparel, exclusive souvenirs, and lots of fun one-of-a-kind items. Enjoy shopping! The entire Kardashian family joined together at the Mirage Casino & Hotel for the grand opening of Kardashian Chaos. To be fair the store definitely does sound a little bit chaotic. Since the store's initial opening the sisters would occasionally make appearances at the store. However, after only 3 years it was announced that the Kardashian's Las Vegas boutique Kardashian Chaos would be permanently shutting down. Although no official reason was given behind the closure it's pretty much believed that poor sales were the reason for the closure. Believe it or not not a lot of people wanted to go to a dedicated Kardashian souvenir store. I know who saw that coming. And this is where my mind is just blown because despite the fact that so many stores were performing poorly and not doing well and so many business ventures of the Kardashians were failing because of their fame and massive following that they had amassed the Kardashians were still able to partner with large and massive brands and still able to bring in a lot of money from these partnerships. People still believed in the Kardashian name and the Kardashians ability to sell. Despite the fact that most of the things they sold resulted in lawsuits or ended up shutting down or discontinuing. Kardashian collection was a fashion line by the Kardashian sisters Kourtney Kim and Chloe launched in 2011. The Kardashian collection included everything from accessories to shoes, denim, swimwear, clothing, intimates and home lines stored at Sears. And initially it looked like this clothing line was actually doing really well and pulling in great sales numbers. And it seemed that the clothing line stood a chance to compete with other major retailers. The best part of tonight is just seeing our dream really come to reality. I mean we've planned this for so long and just even being out there and seeing the backdrop with our name, Lara logo. I mean this is what we dreamed of our whole lives. Just knowing that our pre-sales sold out, that was like so exciting to us. That's like what you know we've always, you hope that for the line but you don't really think it's going to happen. So we were just like oh my god that for so long we wanted a line that's for our fans. Something that you're not, we're not sacrificing quality in fabrics just to hit a price point. We still get every single thing we want. We worked in retail from our stores. We know how much fabrics really cost. The Kardashians were keen and photographed wearing their Kardashian collection almost everywhere they went which generated a ton of free publicity initially for the clothing line. And since it was sold at Sears and priced at a fairly reasonable price the general public was able to purchase these clothes and it was more accessible to more people. So it seemed like initially the perfect business with all the right ingredients. However it wasn't long until the Kardashians started receiving a lot of bad press regarding their Sears collection. Many were upset over the really poor material that was used to stitch the clothes, with many demanding their money back. On top of that TMZ claimed an investigation was going on at the Chinese factories where the fashion line was being produced. With insiders claiming workers behind the Kardashian collection were earning no more than $1 per hour and would work up to 4 hours a week. The Kardashian family was estimated to have made $60 million from 2011 to 2012. So it was kind of ridiculous and very scandalous that the Kardashians were allowing this to go on. The TMZ publication that posted about the workers behind the Kardashian collection wrote, The Kardashians are in bed with some pretty bad people. Charles Kernigan the executive director of the news for global labor and human rights told Star magazine via raideronline.com Not only are celebrities like the Kardashians taking advantage of these workers they're holding hands with a government that spits on democracy and human rights. This negative publicity and poor quality products affected the brand dramatically and in 2013 it was reported that the line had declined significantly regarding its social appeal to the point where Sears had to decrease prices of the collection to bargain basement levels with some items as low as $8 and $9. Then in May 2015, Sears announced that it parted ways with the Kardashians and all the remaining clothes of the Kardashian collection were sold at discount prices for the rest of the year. Despite the bad press and customer feedback, the cheaply made clothing line still made the Kardashians a lot of money until its eventual implosion. In early 2020, the New York Times conducted an interview with Kim Kardashian where she spoke about Kardashian collection and the Kardashians clothing partnership with Sears. Kim told the New York Times that she and her sisters received a 6% cut of proceeds from the product in that deal. However, the three sisters split that amount giving them each just a 2% cut and that was still before they each had to pay 15% of their take to their agents and an additional 10% to their mother slash manager Kris Jenner. Kim also explained that they were flying from city to city, country to country to promote the line yet had little to no control over the quality of the products. Basically saying that the poor quality and working conditions of those producing the line was not the Kardashian's responsibility, which I could definitely see both ways. If you're the face behind a brand, you definitely have some responsibility there in ensuring that your line is ethical and to a certain quality that your fans probably expect and deserve. But also, I understand that being a face of a brand, if you're just the face and you have no authority or power over the brand itself and the products and creation, then of course it can be hard to monitor all aspects of that brand. So overall it seems that the Kardashians allowed themselves to be a part of a bad business deal. The dynamic that the Kardashians have created really illustrates the society that we're currently living in. They do a lot of really strange giveaways basically promising these luxurious prizes to their audience so they can live like them, they promote diet products so people can look like them fashion lines so people can wear clothes like them. Most of what they've done is through building an image and then trying to get their fans to want to be like them, to want to replicate them. But all the while they're just getting more and more money off of their fans and supporters. While in more recent years Kim Kardashian specifically has been doing more philanthropic work, I still can't help but feel like most of the Kardashian fortune was literally built off of taking money away from their supporters and not really giving their supporters anything back of quality in return. Greenlit on July 21st, 2015 Cocktails with Khloe, a talk show hosted by Khloe Kardashian, was ordered 8 one-hour episodes and commenced production immediately after the announcement. The show was produced in part by Khloe Kardashian herself. Filmed in Los Angeles, California Cocktails with Khloe premiered on the FYI cable channel on January 20th, 2016. But by April 2016, FYI had cancelled Cocktails with Khloe after only one season. In a statement issued to the Hollywood Reporter, bosses at FYI and Pilgrim Media Group insisted that despite the cancellation Cocktails with Khloe had been good for the channel. The sudden cancellation of Khloe Kardashian's talk show series primarily shocked media watchers because the ratings were high. But behind the scenes, the show was chaos, sources told page 6. Cocktails with Khloe was a commercial success for the network FYI since its debut. It averaged 24% more views than a show in the same slot a year ago, and online it netted the most views in the channel's history. But an insider said that Cocktails was chaos. Nobody agreed with anyone about what it should be or what direction it should be going. Yesterday was a sad day for Ms. Khloe Kardashian less than three months after its debut FYI and Pilgrim Media Group announced that her talk show Cocktails with Khloe has officially been cancelled. It sounds like the official announcement from the network is that the show is on indefinite hold which is just a veiled way of saying that the show is done. While there is no word on who decided to pull the plug, rumor has it both sides were unhappy with how things were going. TMZ reports that Khloe wanted to focus on her other jobs and had no interest in shooting the next season. A network execs could see that she checked out and they weren't happy about it. Another source said Khloe rubbed some of the staffers the wrong way. Insiders also claimed that both Khloe and executives were unhappy. Telling TMZ, Khloe had checked out and had no interest in shooting another season. Despite these reports Khloe took to Twitter and tweeted I'm not going anywhere. An article by Nicki Swift was posted on March 7th, 2018 that outlined what went wrong with Cocktails with Khloe. One of the most significant issues discussed was the talk show's lack of critical success. The New York Daily News called the show complete crap giving it one out of five stars. One review explained that the show's directional aspects were lacking, writing needs a better structure. Everyone talks at the same time to the point where you have no idea what's going on. So Cocktails with Khloe couldn't find a direction or an area where everyone involved would agree on something so it just fizzled out and died. Khloe also did a show called Revenge Body which debuted in 2017 and follows Khloe Kardashian as she works alongside a team of trainers to help individuals work towards a healthier lifestyle and then confront individuals in their lives who discouraged or belittled them. Which is kind of a weird message. It's basically get healthy and get a quote unquote better body so that you can prove to others how wrong they treated you as opposed to just doing it for yourself in your own fulfillment. Like that's just I don't know if that's a good message just me. The show had three seasons but it doesn't look like at the moment that a fourth season will come. The show was pretty widely well received so it wasn't necessarily a failure compared to the other talk show attempts that the Kardashians have done. Live For Now also known as Live For Now Moments Anthem is a 2017 short film commercial for Pepsi featuring Kendall Jenner and the song Lions by Skip Marley and this was probably one of if not the most poorly received commercials to ever exist in modern times. The commercial began with a cellist on a rooftop. Outside young people are marching displaying V signs and carrying signs including one that says join the conversation. Jenner's character is first seen in the commercial modeling at a photo shoot. Jenner removes a blonde wig, wipes off her dark lipstick and heads towards the march. Several police officers are standing in a line formation watching the march approach them. Jenner appears in a more casual outfit and walks up to the police officers handing one of the officers a can of Pepsi. After the police officer drinks from the can the crowd cheers enthusiastically. The photographer puts aside her camera and hugs someone nearby in celebration. Peace for all with Pepsi. So yeah this ad basically was boiling down a message of it'll all get fixed with Pepsi and it was just a really weird take and a really strange approach. Basically a brand trying to do some sort of performance activism that was just really not their place and just not executed well at all and everyone saw right through it immediately and the company pulled the advertisement literally one day after its distribution due to criticism. The advertisements creators were widely criticized on social media and by media outlets for attempting to capitalize on imagery imitating protests in the Black Lives Matter movement. The company released a statement saying Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly we missed the mark and we apologize. We did not intend to make light of any serious issue. We were removing the content and halting any further rollout. We also apologize for putting Kendall Jenner in this position. Pepsi's decision to apologize to Kendall Jenner did not sit well with activists either because Kendall Jenner chose to partake in the ad. She was not forced. She was not misled. This was her own decision and therefore as an adult woman she should probably take responsibility for that as well and Kendall Jenner did not publicly respond to that outrage for six months and her response wouldn't come until the 14th season premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians which you have to wonder if it was kind of used as a way to get more viewers on the show because people wanted a response so instead of doing it publicly they made people wait until the reality show premiere to get an answer from Kendall. That's just my theory but it seems that the Kardashians have mastered the ability to use public outrage for their own promotion. On top of that Caitlyn Jenner ended up doing an interview on a radio show where she claimed that Kendall Jenner had seen and approved of the script for the ad beforehand. Someone calls me with more bad news every five minutes. It's just so stressful. I just felt so stupid the fact that I would offend other people or hurt other people was definitely not the intent. I genuinely feel like I have no idea how it about to look. This is the first time you've had a scandal. The only thing you can really do is just be like real and honest because you can't ignore it. So the claims of naivety that Kendall Jenner was sort of insinuating weren't entirely accurate. She knew what she was getting into. She didn't really have the depth and maybe even her privilege blinded her where she couldn't really see the defensiveness of this ad. In 2012 the Jenner sisters teamed up with Paxum to start their Kendall and Kylie brand. Now the once collaboration has turned into a global lifestyle brand. The site which offers a variety of clothing options features numerous images of the Jenner duo. The prices range from $30 for a top to nearly $170 for a pair of sunglasses and $180 for a pair of shoes. Since Kendall and Kylie are the youngest of the Kardashians, a lot of young girls look to them the most for style inspiration. So with this clothing brand, fans could purchase items the sisters supposedly handpicked themselves. And while Kendall and Kylie are focused on different projects these days, the brand still generates significant revenue. But the brand wasn't without its controversy. On June 28th, 2017, Kendall and Kylie decided to release a limited edition vintage t-shirt collection that featured legendary musicians such as Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Pink Floyd, Jim Morrison, Kiss, and Metallica superimposed with the faces of the Jenner sisters. The audacity. Why would you do this? Why would you do this? Which was available on KendallKylie.com for $125 each. Social media was outraged and questioned why the sisters felt compelled to print their faces over the original artworks of musical icons. And because of this, the Leto Wallace, Notorious B.I.G.'s mother criticized the Jenner's in an Instagram post while a lawyer for the rapper's estate threatened legal action should the vintage shirts continue to be sold on their site. In the post, Wallace also claimed that they had not been contacted with a request to use his image. I'm not sure who told Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner that they had the idea to do this. Wallace's post read, the disrespect of these girls to not even reach out to me or anyone connected to the estate baffles me. I have no idea why they feel they can exploit the deaths of Tupac and my son Christopher to sell a t-shirt. This is disrespectful, disgusting, and exploitation at its worst. Wallace's lawyer also issued a cease and desist letter to the sisters. Ozzy Osbourne's wife, Sharon Osbourne, also criticized the t-shirts, tweeting, Girls, you haven't earned the right to put your face with musical icons. Stick to what you know, lip gloss. According to the Rolling Stone, former American rock band, The Doors also set a cease and desist letter to the Jenner sisters over the controversial line of t-shirts. Jeff Jampol, manager of The Doors, and the Jim Morrison estate spoke out to the pair for the decision to sell the unauthorized clothing. This is the case of people who fashion themselves as celebrities who are famous for being well known but don't actually do anything trying to utilize and steal and capitalize on the legacies of those who actually did do something and created amazing art and messages, Jampol said. It's ironic, at least, and criminal at worst, both morally, ethically, and artistically. Kendall and Kylie Jenner both issued identical messages on Twitter in response to the controversy, which read, these designs were not well thought out and we deeply apologize to anyone that has been upset and or offended, especially to the families of the artists. We are huge fans of their music and it was not our intention to disrespect these cultural icons in any way. The t-shirts have been pulled from retail and all images have been removed. We will use this as an opportunity to learn from these mistakes and again, we are very sorry. Then months after the vintage t-shirt controversy, the company came under fire again when they released a bag on the Sacs Fifth Avenue website that raised many eyebrows. The handbag cost $150 and was designed to resemble a Chinese takeout container named Lee Clutch. The front of the bag read KK Express Los Angeles, California and the words are accompanied by the drawing of a tiger. Teen Vogue noted that the bag's name featured an Asian last name. Not only did the bag raise concerns of cultural appropriation, but others were quick to point out that the bag also looked oddly similar to one of Kate Spade's handbags from its Shanghai inspired Fall 2014 line. Despite all of these controversies, the Kendall-Kylie clothing brand still exists today and is still being sold in various stores. And oddly out of all the Kardashian fashion lines and clothing stores seems to be the most successful and profitable even though it's simultaneously seen as a complete joke. In 2016, Emma Greed and Khloe Kardashian founded Good American. Based in Los Angeles, the fashion brand offers trend driven denim designs and preaches body positivity and inclusivity and carries sizes from 00 to 24. I really wanted to get involved with Good American because I believe that there is a huge missing link to the denim community. And I know with me and all my girlfriends, all we ever do is talk about that gap in the back of your jeans. And no matter what size you are here at two or at 32, you always have that gap because women's waist are smaller than their hips and booty. And I wanted to make a denim line that was made to fit the female shape and not making us to fit the denim line. Is that made to fit the denim line? It's launch campaign brought in $1 million on its first day. Controversy for the brand started in March 2nd 2017 when the brand released new styles of pants including a pair of black skimmy that lace up the sides all the way from mid thigh to ankle. People quickly compared the new release to a product made by Madegold seen on celebrities such as Kylie and Gigi and Bella Hadid. Good Americans lace up style is priced at $189 and Madegolds is priced at $298 meaning Good American just slightly undercuts the price of Madegolds. On top of that, Good Americans lace up pants gained more exposure due to its famous co-founder. The owner of Madegold concluded it's such a blatant ripoff of a small brand and hopefully other brands think twice before trying to make a dime off of an independent designer's talent. But unfortunately it doesn't seem like a good American learned with lesson because on June 2nd 2017 controversy struck again for the company when indie designer Destiny Blue alleged that Good American copied her designs and sold them under their brand name without compensating her for her designs. Blue took to Twitter and tweeted as one of everything on your site has you make them custom at Blue Dazzle work never posts it or wears it then copies it and tagged Chloe. She also posted pictures of Chloe wearing a sheer black the Dazzle leotard beside a similar cat suit from her line. Chloe's team responded to the accusations with a cease and desist letter via Good American claiming that under no circumstances had copying occurred and that the problem was handled through legal procedures. Blue then provided Refinery 29 with a copy of her June 8th response to Chloe Kardashian in Good American which was full of correspondence that proved that the good American team has been in touch with her since November of 2016. The correspondence also showed that Kardashians then stylist Monica Rose contacted Blue to borrow black and nude body suits and bras which Blue claimed were later also knocked off by Good Americans. In May 2020 Destiny Blue's company, Blue Dazzle officially filed a lawsuit against Good American seeking damage repair of $10 million. By May of 2021 the two reached an agreement in private and both officially asked the court to close the case and speaking of copying can we just quickly and briefly talk about the similarities of Poosh a blog and Woo Woo wellness store created by Courtney Kardashian and Goop a blog and Woo Woo store created by Gwyneth Paltrow years before the creation and inception of Poosh. I mean don't get me wrong Goop has been the source of tons of online internet jokes and jests and also has had multiple lawsuits filed against it. A lot of people see Goop as a total joke but it's still kind of a little odd and a little shady and unoriginal that Courtney Kardashian basically took the exact same layout of Goop sells similar overpriced products, writes similar blogs and even has two O's in the name basically going copy and paste of everything that Goop is doing but rebranding it as a Kardashian website. In early June 2017 Kylie Jenner dropped some additions to her Kylie shop that looked similar to designs from black owned independent brand Plugged NYC. Kylie's two piece sets closely resemble the bright orange camo threads created by the shops designer Tezita Balemle. Celebrities like Rihanna Kiki Palmer and Jenner herself were seen dressed in Balemle's pieces. On the day of Kylie's drop Plugged NYC CEO and creative director Tezita shared images on their Instagram story that showed side by side comparisons of the two designs and screenshots of Balemle's emails showing that Jenner had ordered clothes from Plugged NYC in the past. Overall it just seems like the Kardashian Jenner sisters are shameless. They'll steal from artists and other creatives, rebrand them put their face on them. It seems like anything but actually create their own body of original creative work. The Kardashian Jenner's digital properties launched in 2015 were developed and managed by Whale Rock Industries. The very first app with the Kardashian name was Kim Kardashian Hollywood Game, which may have grossed the star and development partner $200 million in annual revenue according to some reports at the time. And by 2015 the entire family got involved seeing a huge huge cash grab opportunity. The Kardashian and Jenner sisters all launched their own subscription apps by late 2015, all of which shot up into the app store's top charts. The Kardashian Jenner apps had a freemium business model where the basic app was free, but if you paid an extra $2.99 a month you could get access to exclusive content. With such a strong start, the app seemed poised to generate millions and millions per year. However by 2018 it appeared that each app started tanking and badly. According to app Annie, everyone's app struggled to make the overall ranking, which meant they were somewhere lower than number 1500 on the app store. Kendall Jenner was the first sister to shut down her app in site sometime in 2018. Then on December 19th of 2019 the rest of the Kardashian Jenner sisters followed in Kendall's footsteps and all shut down their apps. We've had an incredible experience connecting with all of you through our apps these past few years, but have made the difficult decision to no longer continue updating in 2019. Kim wrote in a message on her website, we truly hope you've enjoyed this journey as much as we have and we look forward to what's ahead. And identical notes were posted on all of the sisters websites. Creating an app is really challenging and requires a lot of ongoing expenses paid out to developers because there's constant updates, bug fixes and the like that has to be done and paying for a developer continually can be expensive. So if you're not generating a decent amount of money, it becomes unprofitable very quickly. And this is something a lot of celebrities and influencers don't really understand about apps which is why so many apps created by celebrities and influencers end up failing and shutting down. Before Kylie Jenner's famous makeup line and Kim Kardashian's financial makeup line, there was Kardashian Beauty, which was the Kardashian's very first makeup line and was sold at Ulta. I remember seeing reviews of this makeup line saying it was absolutely terrible and the line ended up discontinuing. The line was launched in 2012 and was called Chroma Beauty but was eventually renamed to Kardashian Beauty after multiple lawsuits of copyright infringement. But the brand fizzled out after terrible reviews and poor quality and inevitably a lack of sales. Years and years later, Kim Kardashian started a makeup line after her sister's brand Kylie Cosmetics seemingly became a massive hit. Kim Kardashian named the line KKW Beauty but there wasn't really the same massive response to KKW Beauty and it never really found its hero product. Then in August of 2021 Kim announced that KKW Beauty's website will be shutting down with a rebrand coming soon and KKW Beauty's inventory before this was being sold off at heavily discounted prices. It seems that the beauty industry has taken a huge dip from the boom it saw in 2016 and a lot of brands are now closing or rebranding. I think Kim assumed that KKW Beauty would become a massive success because of her sister's brand and her following but this just doesn't seem to be the case especially considering KKW Beauty's initial launch of the contour sticks received very poor reviews for the minimal product and the breakage of the product and the poor quality of the brushes. Also not complaining about the size I just think relative to the price it may be a little bit expensive. While Kim's makeup line doesn't seem to be doing the greatest her company Skims a shapewear and loungewear line has actually become a massive success with many loving the fabric and quality of the brand. I was really excited to see the shorter version it was like oh my god I love the dark palm one so much. They haven't done a short version I'm buying it in all versions. This dress looks really cute I'm not going to lie it looks like the length of it is perfect and I love that I chose this color because it looks like a very nude skin color moment and I feel like it's going to be one of those things that you put on your body and it feels kind of like barely there. So my hopes for this one are high. Wow. I love this. The material of it feels really really cozy and comfortable. I like how fitted the arm is. I love this little section for some reason. Skims I pictured this. I pictured luxury at home comfort. Like what? Ben why does it cost that much? But when I got it I was like the quality is amazing like the snack whatever whatever whatever. I was like you know I was there I saw the chef of her vision. So now the question is did the vision see me? No it did not. In fact the company is so successful that the New York Times put the company's valuation at 1.6 billion last April. But I think a lot of people forget how the brand started. In 2019 Kim Kardashian West changed the name of her then newly launched shapewear brand from Kimono to Skims where the former sparked criticism of cultural appropriation. It's funny how quickly we all forgot about the initial name of the brand being Kimono. And I personally think that this initial name wasn't intended to be the lifelong name of the brand and is really just an example of outrage marketing. Something the Kardashians are truly a case study for. In fact the Kardashians have managed to walk the line of making people angry enough so that they talk about them but not so angry so that the Kardashians can still turn things around and maintain general support. At the end of the day we've all been played by them for free outrage tweets and publicity whether you love or hate them and whether we like it or not. In 2014 Kylie Jenner and Chris founded the company Kylie Cosmetics which they first named Kylie Lip Kits. Quiet on this! Shut up! Just kidding. Seeing it go from literally three Lip Kits in 2015 to six years later with Kylie Cosmetics, the global empire I just feel so grateful to be working with Kylie and Chris to just start really. Kylie is so smart, so creative so full of ideas. She truly disrupted the entire beauty business and the industry. They partnered with Seed Beauty a retail and product development company co-founded by siblings John and Laura Nelson. Jenner has described her former insecurity about her lip size as inspiration for why she started her brand. I was younger I had an insecurity with my lips. I would go to makeup stores the mall and just find like lip liner that matched my lip color and just would overline my lips. I became obsessed with makeup in general. I did my makeup so fast I'm just nothing myself. Your lips look amazing. Really? I have temporary lip pillars. It's just an insecurity of mine and it's what I wanted to do. We all struggle with something and when we struggle with things they kind of spiral out of control from time to time. The company's first product Kylie Lip Kits, a liquid lipstick and lip liner, debuted on November 30th, 2015 and in February 2016 the company was renamed Kylie Cosmetics with plans to expand outside of just lip kits and it was reported that by the end of 2016 the company's total revenue was over 300 million. There were some initial controversies like some lip kits that exhibited poor quality, broken wands, dried out bottles things of that nature but most of the controversy surrounding the brand wouldn't happen until a few years later. Kylie Cosmetics also launched a brush set which is expensive and criticized for the poor quality brushes they had. Prominent beauty influencer Jackie Aina uploaded an official review of the Kylie Cosmetics products to her YouTube channel titled Kylie Concealers vs ColourPop where Jackie compared ColourPop products to Kylie's more expensive line. Both ColourPop and Kylie Cosmetics are manufactured by the same parent company Seed Beauty meaning that the Concealers were likely at least somewhat similar in composition. However, there's a huge price difference with Kylie Jenner selling her Concealers for $20 at the time and ColourPop selling their Concealers for $6. Jackie Aina also criticized Kylie for allegedly only gifting her Concealers to lighter skin toned beauty influencers feeling to promote the darker tones. Let's not act like Kylie's not known for like stealing it from other people like that whole blowout she had with Lana like what that was less than two years ago she literally stole and copied imagery from a not as well known artist but someone who's very popular. So my question was like how long did she get away with that because like Lana was kind of a big deal. Lana I believe did sue her. Um yeah she was sued by Lana. She stole some imagery that was like inspired inspired by her imagery and used it. Kylie had used it for her lip campaigns that she first came out. I feel like she's doing what everyone else is doing not necessarily in a good way down to like her imagery for the brand like this is the sleeve that the concealer box comes in. I saw some sign by side comparison of like Vinty's imagery compared to Kylie's imagery for her Concealers and I was like ooh when you look at it when you look at it that way for you. I do I'm also very curious to know with Kylie's like outreach and like her social media I mean you went out of your way to make all of these beautiful bottom row of darker colors but I didn't see a single person on YouTube outside of Shayna I don't see any vloggers reviewing these products. I mean I haven't repaired this and I most certainly got the whole line out there but I'm just saying why did you go out of your way to make all of those shades and you didn't bother to send them to anybody to review. I mean I would think that if you're going to create the products you're also going to take a more holistic approach to expanding your brand right? I want to see some reviews from some chocolate girls I just want to know where are they next shade is Kiki E it's literally like a chalky paste on your lips oh god then sometime later in May of 2019 Kylie launched Kylie Skin a vegan skincare line within the sort of Kylie cosmetics umbrella but a lot of skincare experts criticize a lot of the ingredients and products within the line more particularly the walnut scrub which has been shown to kind of damage skin and not be the best thing for your skin in the long run alright let's start with walnut scrub so my walnut face scrub it's really gentle it's gentle enough to use every day I recommend 2 or 3 times a week that's how much I use it the next concern about the walnut powder is that it caught in the skin there is a class action lawsuit against st. ives for their apricot scrub because the customers claim that the walnut shell which was used in this case were exfoliating and this promoted acne and other skin issues due to these tears in the skin in fact the st. ives apricot scrub was the subject of a 2017 lawsuit where plaintiffs claimed the physical exfoliant created microscopic tears in their skin leaving it vulnerable to bacteria and causing long-term damage and sensitivity in 2020 Kody Incorporated bought 51% of Kylie Cosmetics and a deal valued at $1.2 billion earlier the previous year Forbes declared Kylie Jenner a billionaire due to the financial documents that her and her mom showed the magazine she convinced Forbes reporters that her company was doing more than $300 million in annual revenue when in reality it only did $125 million that year which is of course still a lot of money but Kylie and her mom drastically exaggerated these sales just so she could be named the youngest billionaire the truth about Kylie's financial status only came out when the acquisition with Kody Inc happened to quote Forbes in the deal between Kody and Kylie Cosmetics a less flattering truth emerged filings released by publicly traded Kody over the past 6 months lay bare one of the family's best kept secrets Kylie's business is significantly smaller and less profitable than the family has spent years leading the cosmetic industry and media outlets including Forbes to believe me feel more confident starting a company on my own and it being so big from the beginning there's not a lot of room for mistakes and now in 2021 and 2022 after a decline in cosmetics companies how is Kylie Cosmetics faring well Kylie alongside Kim and KKW beauty also announced a rebrand of Kylie Cosmetics is in the plan so much so much more than what I knew when I started Kylie Cosmetics Kylie's evolved over the last 6 years with remissioning some of the stuff that she has that is iconic like the lip kit you can always take something to the next level the girls are always trying to be the best they can be and especially applies to Kylie and Kylie felt like it was really time to redirect the nature of the brand it can be cleaner, it can be more elevated it can be more beautiful there's a movement towards more clean there's also been better innovation in formula and technology over the course of the last few years being clean and vegan and cruelty free and paraben free all these things are really important to me now I want to just be really proud of everything that I release with apparently a new vegan formula launching while vegan formulas are more popular is there actually more at play behind the scenes than just an attempt to keep up with consumer preferences he was that frustrated he kept buying 17 dollars for things that were just it's hard to come consistent that Kylie Cosmetics was not worth the price you're paying for over and over again we're seeing more incidents where the price of the sheet was called out for repackaging shapes if you were paying for the same shape then you paid more and that first launch was the moment that everybody turned on Kylie Cosmetics that final launch after the interview came out where you saw all the beauty gurus all the big people on YouTube pretty much saying that no you have lost their mind this point nobody cared about Kylie Cosmetics and I didn't have the you know the same hype that it once did because we had finally finally two three after release we were finally seeing that it was all a scam in June of 2020 Forbes reported that Seed Beauty the company that manufactured both KKW and Kylie Cosmetics filed a lawsuit against Cody Inc. who owns both Kylie and 20% of KKW beauty where Seed Beauty claims Kylie shared their trade secrets Kylie Cosmetics has also been accused of copying packaging and ripping off various ideas as well but really what's new in the Kardashian world I am really curious about the future of Kylie Cosmetics and whether it'll start to fizzle out considering from the very beginning the entire family has lied about the success of Kylie Cosmetics and the company has seemed to be going more and more downhill since then my lip kits are up and within seconds it was gone and I was like what we should have ordered more lip kits oh no start off as lip kit by Kylie then when I realized after the first launch that it could be something that I've always dreamed about a real cosmetics line then I changed it to Kylie Cosmetics while some applauded her ability to secretly launch an award winning tequila company others called out Kendall's appropriation of Mexican culture Kendall Jenner shared a campaign shot from an agave farm in Mexico which raised many red flags online on Instagram Jenner posted the controversial shots from the ad campaign saying what an incredible experience I've had thus far learning about this beautiful place its beautiful culture and the beautiful people in the imagery Kendall can be seen riding a horse through rows of agave plants in another photo the model was sipping her tequila on the back of a pickup truck there were several photos of agave farmers and another of agave cooking in an oven Kendall's attire in the photos also garnered controversy viewers online pointed out her choice to wear an outfit and hairstyle traditionally associated with Mexican culture Kendall called out the look as cultural appropriation or as an attempt at migrant chic given that Kendall is American many applied to the campaign and tequila brand itself are capitalizing on stereotypes typically associated with farmers in Mexico tequila is a significant part of Mexico and its culture Kendall later defended her brand claiming that the company was making efforts to support the community but Kendall has never confronted appropriation accusations and chose to turn off her comment section on Instagram for a brief time during the peak of the controversy it seems that Kendall's businesses seem to always be shrouded in blindness of her privilege it seems that Kendall Jenner out of all the Kardashian Jenner sisters is the one that always tries to spin a positive message out of her business endeavors but instead her messaging always comes across as tone deaf I only think this is because Kendall Jenner can't actually relate or understand many of the issues and activism she tries to take a role in. Kendall Jenner alongside Kylie Jenner were both really young when the Kardashians rose to fame and throughout almost their entire lives all they've known was fame and fortune but instead of recognizing this privilege Kendall Jenner seems to try and take an approach of acting like an activist without actually doing the work and through only trying to promote her own businesses and the reality is people have seen right through that and at this point it's almost comical because you'll never guess the latest news regarding the Kardashian Jenner and that's that Kendall Jenner's tequila brand was accused of blatantly copying tequila 512 in a lawsuit that tequila 512 made against 818 and if you look at the side-by-side comparison of the two tequila bottles I mean I'm not gonna say anything definitive but definitely suspicious Kylie Jenner debuted her new swimwear brand Kylie Swim in an Instagram post on August 17th 2021 she later announced on September 13th that Kylie Swim would release its first collection for sale on September 17th WWD reported on May 21st despite the optimism behind the brand Kylie Swim received tons and tons of negative reviews from consumers who accused Kylie of selling poor quality swimsuits many people filming and uploading videos of the swimsuits showing bad stitching and completely see-through fabric which is kind of a bad idea for bathing suits oh okay here we go this is like our first sign of some problem here here around the crotch area we have a little bit of fraying here honestly nothing that would normally concern me like I would never even notice that but that's the first sign of like wear on some of these swimsuits so let's put this spaghetti noodle on I just can't unsee like a banana hammock in this I don't know why when I first saw this I was like is that like a banana hammock cause that's what it feels like oh there's so much going on oh no look at on the back oh you can see the Kylie swimwear logo that's on the inside it's right here see you can see through it she wasn't expecting this reaction and insider confessed exclusively to life in style she's really freaking out over all the hateful reviews the source continued well then maybe make better quality products just a suggestion Kylie used to feel like everything she touched turned to gold but that just isn't true anymore and she's really upset it seems in recent years business wise Kylie Jenner specifically has had the biggest downfall Kylie cosmetics is sort of declining and all of Kylie Jenner's recent attempts at new product launches have not been taking off and it makes me wonder is the allure and success of the Kardashian empire starting to fade and are people no longer trusting that the Kardashians are going to produce good quality products and also who would blame them one could say most of the Kardashian businesses have had some sort of major issue involved with them and the Kardashians as business people creating an entire brand and family empire cannot seem to produce a quality product and a quality business and that brings us to 2021 and 2022 and unfortunately one of the saddest events that the Kardashians and the Kardashian Jenner family have been involved in Kylie Jenner is baby daddy and co-parent Travis Scott a musical artist hosted a music festival called Astor World in late 2021 that resulted in tragedy that should have been a normal concert as estimated 50,000 people gathered in Travis Scott's Astor World music festival as the event progressed and panic ensued the crowd surged and many concert artists trampled others ultimately leaving at least 10 people dead hundreds more injured the tragedy left many questioning how the concert continued for so long turning it into one of the most deadly concerts in US history yeah within the last hour details about their preliminary investigation however you're right we still have a lot more questions first I'm going to tell you about the ages of some of the victims one was 14 one was 16 two were 21 and two were 23 one was 27 and the age of the last person remains unknown at this time in total there were eight people who died 13 people are still hospitalized five of them are minors so the 10 year old is still in the hospital tonight in critical condition due to a crowd surge hundreds of people were injured and 10 people lost their lives at the concert which should just never be a thing from attending a concert since then Scott has been named in a ton of lawsuits mounting to 3 billion dollars but him and the Kardashians namely Kylie Jenner who attended the event have remained silent but overall I want to extend my heart out to the victims and the families involved in the tragedy it's so heartbreaking and I'm sure so disheartening to see the lack of reaction from those involved and close with those involved in the concert the Kardashians have made a name for themselves off of fame, glory and glamour but the world behind it is one riddled with dark failed businesses, lawsuits scams and shady tactics to try and profit off of the fans who look up to them the Kardashian image is tactically created and planned but behind it all is the graveyard of failed businesses and mishaps so what does this make the Kardashian empire if it's built on shaky foundations is this a story about business redemption and the idea that even if you fail numerous times you can still have at least one business venture that becomes a massive success or is it a story about manipulation greed and stealing money from fans through these fake, shady uncertain business ventures that often result in failure the Kardashians are intricately tied into the business endeavors that they've been participating in from the very start and yet much of these business endeavors equate to nothing it seems that the Kardashian businesses are as much of an illusion as the image that they put out itself, photoshopped and fake to appear glamorous but really it's all just an illusion and that's the end of this video on the dark truth of the Kardashian businesses thank you so much for making it all the way to the end if you're currently watching I really appreciate it considering the massive amount of time that I pour into these videos I hope you guys are all doing well and I'll see you in the next video bye