Chapter 479: How did the building collapse? (5000)
SOHO 25 West Houston Street, 4th floor, Soho, Manhattan, New York.
Several big-name Kardashians and other celebrities were here, but the atmosphere seemed a bit dull and solemn.
This is Kanye's apartment in New York, which is also his and Kim Kardashian's main residence in New York.
More than 20 people were crowded in the large flat of more than 230 square meters, most of whom were film crews carrying cameras, lights and radios.
"Indefinite suspension? Mom, are you crazy? How can you say something like that in front of the camera? I've already secured TT for this season, how can filming be stopped?"
Outside the camera, Khloe Kardashian, whose lips were as thick as sausages, exaggeratedly pulled her hair back with her hands, with a funny expression.
Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been filmed for twelve seasons, and the thirteenth season started filming half a month ago. After ten years of filming, this family has almost developed an occupational disease. Whether they are facing the camera or not, drama has become a natural part of their lives.
A photographer turned his camera around, but was glared back by Queen Mother Chris.
"Kim just went through this yesterday, and now both the media and social media are saying it's a self-produced hype."
"Kim is currently in transition, and Kendall Jenner's career is also on the rise, so we need to be more cautious about many things."
Chrissy looked calm and glanced with satisfaction at Kim Kardashian who was curled up on the sofa in the distance and pretending to be "calm" (yes, two pretends) playing with her two children. She turned her gaze back to her third daughter Khloe Kardashian and her youngest daughter Kylie who was communicating with the photographer in front of her, and couldn't help but sigh.
When Khloe Kardashian heard her mother's answer, she growled in dissatisfaction, "You don't only have two daughters, Kim and Kendall Jenner!"
Queen Mother Chris's face darkened: "Chloe, watch your emotions. This is neither professional nor ethical. If you want to pay the penalty, keep making trouble!"
Seeing her mother calling her by her full name with a sullen face, and then hearing the word "penalty for breach of contract", Khloe Kardashian couldn't help but shudder and suddenly wilted.
"What I mean is that the performance of the twelfth season has begun to decline, and the popularity of the thirteenth season cannot continue to decline, otherwise it will affect our overall commercial value."
Khloe licked her lips unnaturally.
She just had hyaluronic acid injected into her lips, and they still feel a little swollen.
The sisters' main agency contracts are all under Jenner Communications, the company founded by their mother, and except for Kim Kardashian, everyone has signed extremely high liquidated damages with Kris.
The breach of contract clauses in their agency contracts were extremely harsh. If they violated them and Chris held them accountable, the money they earned multiplied by ten would not be enough to cover the compensation.
As for whether Chris would ask them to pay compensation if they fell out with their mother, the answer is definitely yes.
She knew her mother too well.
Seeing Khloe give in, Chrissy's expression brightened slightly. "So we're still filming now, and the next season won't be finished until next year. The Gallic police have already found the suspect and are hunting him down. Once they catch him, it'll prove we're not just hype."
"Besides, KUWTK's contract is with E! TV and was just renewed for three seasons last year. How could we not continue filming!?"
"Get it? Use your brain more!"
Last week was Paris Fashion Week, and the Kardashian family naturally came out in full force.
As a result, the night before yesterday, Kim Kardashian was robbed by six or seven robbers at her apartment in Portales, Paris, which had hosted top stars such as Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio. All the jewelry she brought to Paris was stolen.
The funniest thing is that after this girl escaped, she and the makeup artist called the police, but they actually called 911, not the Paris police number 17 or the Europian unified emergency number 112.
No wonder others suspect that she directed and acted in the film herself.
After hearing her mother's explanation, Khloe suddenly realized and breathed a sigh of relief.
I told you, KUWTK (Keeping Up with the Kardashians) is the most important channel for maintaining the value of the entire family, how could it possibly stop filming?
It turns out that my mother, the swordsman, is playing with the emotions of those idiotic fans again.
Kris Jenner smiled, but there was no sign of relief in her expression.
As the actual helmsman of the Kardashian family, what she is most proud of is that ten years ago, she took advantage of the popularity of her second daughter's video to launch her own family variety show, taking advantage of the opportunity to make the whole family famous.
What Kris Jenner is best at is planning ahead. When Kim Kardashian was at the peak of her career, she thought of using Kim Kardashian's momentum to make other sisters popular. Eventually, the whole family would attract each other. Even if Kim Kardashian was not popular, there were other sisters to take over.
Now Kim Kardashian is still the "top star" in the family, and more than 40% of the traffic of the entire Kardashian family comes from Kim Kardashian.
But the other four sisters, including her and her ex-husband who just underwent sex reassignment surgery, the five sisters' ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends, friends, and running friends... have all become famous because of them, and each has fans around the world.
Compared with the Kardashians, the so-called top internet celebrities in Da Zhou are simply weak.
Moreover, this kind of fire is the kind that has already pierced through the class barriers.
Whether it is a tangible barrier or an intangible barrier, in fact, the class stratification and class barriers in Anmai are more serious than those in Da Zhou.
Under this social reality, it is incredible that the Kardashian family, which is almost of grassroots immigrant origin, was able to go from being a servant class like Paris Hilton's bag-carrying assistant to the edge of the upper class in just ten years.
This is even more difficult than illegal immigrant Musk becoming the world's richest man.
Because if you want to enter the upper class of Anmai society, there is an invisible rule - you can be born a pauper and have no money, but you cannot have been a servant.
Just like in some dynasties in ancient Da Zhou, a farmer's son could become an official even if his family was penniless, and a merchant could not wear silk and satin in public even if he was the richest man in the world.
In a sense, Kim Kardashian was once Paris Hilton's house slave.
But to this day, although the real upper class of Mai country still looks down on this family, this family seems to have begun to master the trick of "entering the pass".
They rushed around recklessly, with the momentum of "after entering the pass, there will be great scholars to debate for me", and even some "illegitimate sons" of the upper class began to hang around this family, hoping to gain traffic in exchange for profits through the Kardashian family.
Musk is still following the traditional "Silicon Valley elite" path that is more recognized by mainstream society. Countless people have walked this path and countless people have succeeded.
The Kardashian family has already broken out of the traditional capital power framework. If you, the upper class, don't want to play with me, then I will establish a parallel power. When my influence becomes so great that you can't ignore it, naturally some of you will come to play with me.
I don't need you to acknowledge my nobility, I just need you to acknowledge my existence.
We don't join your clubs, we don't go to your charity receptions, we didn't go to your prep schools - but we're famous.
We control the pace on social media, and we can even get your children to imitate us, consume us, want to sleep with us, and even dream of becoming us!
From this perspective, the Kardashian family is the family that best fits the Great Zhou spirit of "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born of different species?"
Before the middle of this year, this approach worked quite well for them.
The five sisters' personalities began to have a specific division of labor. As the fourth and fifth sisters rose rapidly in their respective personalities, the Kardashian family prospered and even had formal social contacts with the presidents of some small countries.
The five sisters of the Kardashian family each have their own personality. The eldest sister, Kourtney, mainly plays the role of a housewife, but she is a little old and doesn’t know how to "make things happen". She is relatively "simple" and has the worst traffic.
The third child, Khloe, is known for her love-brained and NBA best defensive persona.
From Rashard McCants of the Timberwolves to Odom, from Odom to Harden, and from Harden to the current Cleveland Cavaliers' center TT Thompson, Khloe continues to use her increasingly taller physiques, bulging skin and thick lips to create scandals to attract attention to her family.
But Khloe's popularity is a bit poor. Although she has dated the most basketball stars, the value of her endorsements has never been raised. Her commercial returns are almost at the bottom, only slightly better than the boss.
This is also the biggest concern of the third brother Kohler.
The fourth child, Kendall, is a fashionable high-end supermodel. She is also the only one in the Kardashian family who does not reveal her relationship on the family show. Although her commercial value is not as good as the second child for the time being, she is the "face" of the family.
The youngest, Kelly, is not as good-looking as the second and fourth sisters, nor as open-minded as the third sister. Later, she simply changed her track and focused her main energy on becoming a beauty blogger on Instagram.
Queen Mother Chris planned to create a character for Kelly that is a "business genius". She would create her own company through beauty products, and then use false capital operations to inflate the company's valuation, thereby establishing her character.
Many of Kardashian’s fans thought that Kylie started selling lip gloss at the end of last year because fans were curious about her lip makeup, so she took advantage of this wave of traffic.
In fact, they didn't know that as early as the beginning of the previous year, Chris and Kelly had jointly established a company, registered a beauty brand named after themselves, and had already found a professional operation team to handle this matter.
After that, Kylie started to post on Instagram every day to share her life in real time. Through operations, she became a top Instagram influencer and subtly guided her fans to pay attention to her lip makeup.
After more than a year of painstaking efforts, she pretended to be inspired by her fans to enter the beauty industry at the end of last year and officially started selling her own lip gloss, setting a record of selling out 15,000 lip glosses in one minute for the first model.
Everything was going smoothly at first, but after entering the second half of the year, everything seemed to take a turn for the worse.
First, after the 12th season was released, the audience was tired of the show, and there was no eye-catching conflict in this season, so the reviews were very bad, which even affected E! (This is a TV station under NBC, which is E with an exclamation mark)'s investment in the next season.
Immediately afterwards, in July, Kim's husband Kanye released a personal MV, in which a line of lyrics involving Taylor Swift caused controversy, and Taylor Swift also expressed dissatisfaction.
Then, Kim Kardashian released a three-minute edited recording of the phone call.
Judging from the released recording alone, it seems that Kanye had communicated with Taylor about the lyrics and obtained their consent, and called Taylor Swift a venomous snake, so the entire Internet began to cyberbully Taylor Swift.
As a result, within two days, Taylor Swift released the full version of the phone recording, in which Kanye did not mention the controversial lyrics at all, and asked Taylor for her opinion on another line of lyrics.
Taylor Swift also specifically explained that she did not have the habit of recording phone calls because the Alcatraz incident made her realize the evil in the world, so she began to consciously protect herself during that time.
Of course, this was just what she said to the outside world. The actual situation was that she was a member of the Omniscient Society. As a result, the top leaders of the Omniscient Society disappeared mysteriously during that period, and even the "original" Adam Meyers was missing. Naturally, she was in a panic all day long, and she was suspicious and recorded every call.
But no matter what, once the full version of the recording was exposed, it was confirmed that Kanye and Kim Kardashian deliberately set a trap for Taylor Swift.
Even though Kim Kardashian is not afraid of most scandals, this incident involving deliberate frame-up still dealt a heavy blow to her business value.
That’s not all, Kelly the Fifth’s “business genius” persona is also beginning to face challenges.
Because the partner turned against us.
It can't be considered as betrayal, it should be said that he is looking for a better partner.
No matter how capable Kris Jenner is, things like network operations still need professionals to do the job.
So, Kris Jenner used her connections to find a company that specializes in OEM for brand-name cosmetics - Spatz Labs.
spatz originally manufactured skin care products on an OEM basis and also produced some cosmetics, but in small quantities.
spatz attaches great importance to the cooperation with the Kardashian family. The boss, old Nelson, specially asked his daughter Laura Nelson to re-establish a company called Beauty Seed to help Kylie Jenner, who has nothing but black gold in her belly, to operate products and build a sales network.
The cooperation was quite good at the beginning, but in the middle of the year, Kylie Jenner felt that these cosmetics were sold entirely by herself, so she asked Laura Nelson to lower the shipping price or provide additional rebates.
This means that Spatz will get less profit.
Because the Kardashian family has always been holding the power to breach the contract and block the supplier, the penalty for breach of contract agreed by both parties is only 250,000 Malaysian dollars. Laura Nelson originally planned to accept it under the threat of the Kardashian family.
But at this time, a company called Lorraine Novin approached Spatz, hoping to acquire Spatz and its subsidiaries, including the management team, and let them operate Lorraine Novin's cosmetics distribution market.
When Laura Nelson asked about Lorraine Nowen, her eyes lit up.
Wow, it turns out this is the agent of Tears of the Moon Goddess!
They are now the top skincare brand in the entire Malaysian country. They are the exclusive distributor of Tears of the Moon Goddess, which cannot be bought even at a black market price of 15,000 Malaysian dollars!
Regardless of how much goods are needed, the social resources that can be obtained by being acquired by such a company are incomparable to those obtained by working as an OEM for a little kid like Kylie Jenner.
As for profits, even if it is only a part of the distribution market, the profits that can be obtained are far greater than the profits from OEM and operation for the Kardashian family.
The only thing is that Spatz and the Nelson family are not allowed to manufacture the same type of products for others to avoid the comparison effect.
Faced with this dilemma, if Laura Nelson hesitated for even a minute, it would be disrespectful to Maiyuan.
So, Laura Nelson ran away at the speed of light.
After all, the penalty is only 250,000 Malaysian dollars.
This time, both Kylie Jenner and Kris were left on dry land.
First, the resulting shortages, delayed shipments, after-sales service, and other imminent problems have caused immeasurable goodwill losses to the Kardashian family.
After spending a lot of money to solve this problem and changing the OEM operator, Kris Jenner found that Internet operation is not something that everyone can do.
It seems that Beauty Seed did nothing when it was first established, and the operation, promotion and distribution channels were well organized, but after changing the operator, there were problems almost everywhere.
In just over two months, the beauty brand created by Kylie Jenner has basically become a bad brand.
The character of "business genius" and "independent woman" that she originally wanted to create was out of the question.
For a while, with internal and external troubles, Chrissy suddenly felt that the Kardashian family, which had been invincible in the black and red fields for more than ten years, was about to collapse.
Fortunately, the fourth member Kendall Jenner is relatively stable now.
Kris Jenner glanced from outside the camera at Kendall Jenner, who was sitting alone at the dining table with a shy smile on her face, holding her phone and chatting on WhatsApp with someone, and couldn't help but frown.
Kendall Jenner, the current topic is the consolation money, and there is also discussion about the Paris robbery the day before yesterday. What are you doing now?
Neither professional nor ethical!
Following Kris Jenner's gaze, Kim Kardashian on the sofa also saw Kendall Jenner who was distracted from the drama. Her eyes flashed, and she made a gesture to Kris that would make the Korean man angry, and walked towards Kendall Jenner.
"Gigi and I are also in New York. Don't be in such a hurry to leave. I'll see if I can sneak out."
Kendall Jenner sent a message with a smile on her face that couldn't be concealed.
"Jiji, you bitch! You actually took advantage of this moment, damn, aren't you afraid of being overeating..."
After listening to one voice message, Kendall Jenner sent another vicious voice message.
"Kendon, who are you talking to? That Asian guy? He can't bring you anything. TT is having a party in Long Island tonight. Last year's Suns Rookie of the Year Booker and Blake Griffin will also be there. You have to go to the party with Khloe tonight."
"Booker has been messaging you on Instagram for years now, so you can hype up your childhood sweetheart image. Blake Griffin is still the Clippers' second-in-command, so he can bring you even more traffic in Los Santos."
Kim whispered into Kendall's ear with an expression that said, "I'm already PTSD but still pretending to be strong," but her tone was completely different from her usual coquettish and pretentious tone.
"Everyone should make due contributions to the family. If you take advantage of the family's traffic, you must give back. This is what you should do."
"Whether you socialize with them or not, it's not too much to ask that you establish a connection."
"Of course, unless you can bring more traffic and benefits to the family, then I can cooperate with every show of yours."
Kim Kardashian put her hand on Kendall Jenner's neck, applying a little force, then stood up and returned to the photographer's camera as if nothing had happened.
(End of this chapter)
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