As someone who unwillingly* ~keeps up~ with the Kardashians, I was curious to see why Khloé Kardashian was trending on Twitter this morning.
I can tell you right now, I don't know what I was expecting to find, but it sure as heck wasn't this:
Woke up to a locked page this morning Courtesy of the Kardashian’s lawyer 🙃🙃🙃
TL;DR: Khloé's team (confirmed in a statement by Tracy Romulus, the chief marketing officer for KKW) is threatening legal action against that account for posting this pic of her:
The color edited photo was taken of Khloé during a private family gathering and posted to social media without permission by mistake by an assistant. Khloé looks beautiful but it is within the right of the copyright owner to not want an image not intended to be published taken down.
Naturally, Twitter users had to weigh in with their thoughts. A lot of people were sad that the response to this photo going viral was legal action:
I think it's so depressing that an unedited photo of Khloé (in which she looked stunning) has sent the Kardashian PR machine into a tailspin. Sending out copyright claims because her "real" face doesn't match the shape-shifting CGI face she puts on IG. https://t.co/Dh91L7RtsM
@Andy Why does Khloe need her legal team to scrub one photo from the internet when there’s 15 seasons of pre surgery on TV FOREVER?
The swiftness at which @Twitter can remove photos Khloe Kardashian finds unflattering and ban accounts for posting them while leaving female journalists and other ~plebes~ to fend for themselves against literal death and r*pe threats is honestly... deeply disturbing to me.
Some are pointing out the damaging nature of unattainable beauty standards:
The unedited bikini pic of Khloe Kardashian is in no way “bad” but it’s a stark reminder that social media is a complete lie. There’s a whole team surrounding that family that are completely in control of their social media’s & editing to an incredibly high standard, it’s sad.
Khloe Kardashian is fighting to get this pic taken off the internet that was accidentally posted & it makes me so sad for those who think that their IG is real life and compare themselves to edited pics 😞 She looks gorgeous & happy in this pic, wish we’d see more like this.
The Good American slogan.....”Representing” Body Acceptance, this is a missed opportunity, imperfection is perfection! We are all ready for people to be real!! #nocompromises @khloekardashian
Some are praising Khloé for her looks:
i have seen the Khloe Kardashian pic and she looks fucking great! girl, give us more unedited photos!
Khloe’s unedited pic is SO refreshing to see! She looks amazing! People are tired of seeing the over edited images and want REAL. I hope Khloe is damn proud of how she looks cause I would kill to have her body after having a baby! Be proud mama- flaunt it!!
They’re doing a lot for a photo that’s been shared everywhere. It’s not even bad, just shows what Khloe really looks like, which is actually better than the image she tries to put out there. This is wild. https://t.co/6TZZe9EWfM
And then there were, of course, the jokes:
twitter’s community guidelines when someone is being racist: 😴😴 twitter’s community guidelines when someone posts an unedited picture of khloe kardashian:
Khloe really thinks she can get the pic off the internet ...
Khloe Kardashian when somebody tries to post a pre-plastic surgery picture of her
If you ask me (no one asked), the Kardashians should’ve focused their litigants on scrubbing the internet of Kendall’s recent Vogue photo where she’s blurry and out of frame. Not Khloe looking happy and fresh.
Khloe gonna make sure her nan never gets close to her with a phone ever again
The nuances of body positivity in the social media era are complex! When young, impressionable boys, girls, and everyone in between see the edited photos of the Kardashians that they're trying to pass off as "authentic" — it can be quite damaging!
But I also understand wanting agency over your own body and not wanting images of yourself to exist out there without your permission.
