Forbes recently launched their latest issue featuring Kylie Jenner on cover. She was named one of the 60 richest women in the US, and the youngest billionaire at that!
How Kylie Jenner leveraged her massive social media following to build a $900M cosmetics fortune:https://t.co/3VGT6MpwmX #SelfMadeWomen pic.twitter.com/fxaqucQZWx
— Forbes (@Forbes) July 11, 2018
Using her massive social media following as leverage, Jenner was able to propel her own business, Kylie Cosmetics, turning it eventually into a $900M-empire. But an online dictionary decided to point out on Twitter the magazine’s usage of the term ‘self-made’ to describe Jenner’s success:
Self-made means having succeeded in life unaided.
Used in a sentence: Forbes says that Kylie Jenner is a self-made woman. https://t.co/sr8Ncd7s5A https://t.co/ehEL7Cf6KV
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 11, 2018
Can we just say that’s just straight up S A V A G E.
But people found the tweet pretty amusing:
When the dictionary gets involved. I am weakkkkkkkk 😂😂😂 #kyliejenner #forbes #selfmade https://t.co/bYGAfNvke4
— Nọ́lá Thee Journalist (@NolaMarianna) July 11, 2018
Damn, https://t.co/oZdXwXZFkn is pulling no punches in 2018 https://t.co/4vwmOoNQ5u
— Jennifer Mascia (@JenniferMascia) July 11, 2018
Dictionary, show me the definition of "savage" https://t.co/J4PMytUtah
— Karisa Maxwell McKee (@KarisaMaxwell) July 11, 2018
Apparently, several Twitter users have been pointing out the same thing because for them, Jenner isn’t exactly a “self-made woman”, as the publication has claimed. Having been born in a rich and famous family, people argued that she has the available resources she needed to build her own business from the ground up. So, obviously people are not buying it.
https://twitter.com/that_wild_wolf/status/1017063590526947328
She didn't have the idea for a cosmetics line. The Kardashian brand already had several business entities and she was given a cosmetics line. Her "earned" income came from the show her family started. Everything was literally laid out for her. That's not self made.
— On the Phone with Blue Ivy (@We2DopeGirls) July 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/Alexa_Curtis/status/1017056566963593221
Kylie Jenner is not self-made. She started with fame & fortune. (Not taking away from what she’s done) But she is not self-made, she had a huge advantage in everything she’s accomplished. She started from a place of privilege, wealth, and power that most of us will never know.
— Abby (@AbbyKlaas) July 11, 2018
Apparently "self-made" doesn't mean what I always thought it meant.
— AnnaLisa Scott (@TheWorryGames) July 11, 2018
“Build something from the ground up” pic.twitter.com/frO14reE0H
— Philbert (owner/Daddy of Clemson U) (@Philbert_11) July 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/Jonathan2k19/status/1017233387961176064
Disgusting. Starting from the top with $ and a big team to do the actual work, doing the easy fun jobs like picking colors from preselected samples and photoshoots..sounds tough, LOL. Shame on Forbes for promoting such fakery. #kyliejenner
— Nya (@tanyalcurtis) July 11, 2018
There were others who defended Jenner that it sparked a brief online debate:
https://twitter.com/carlaacedit/status/1017068155125026816
https://twitter.com/00youngjezzay00/status/1017130414882734080
https://twitter.com/armideon/status/1017369376830492672
Even her sister, Kim Kardashian-West, defended Kylie against netizens, saying that they didn’t “depend on their parents for anything besides advice” and that “no one works harder than my sisters and mum”.
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