I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 479 How did the building collapse? (5000)

SOHO25 West Houston Street, th 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.

There were more than 20 people crammed into the large flat of more than 230 square meters, most of whom were film crew members carrying cameras, lights, and radios.

"Indefinite suspension? Mom, you're crazy! How can you say something like that in front of the camera? I've already secured TT to participate in this season, how can we stop filming?"

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. Regardless of 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 networks are saying that this is a self-directed hype."

"Kim is in transition now, 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 a dissatisfied tone: "You don't only have two daughters, Kim and Kendall!"

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!"

When she saw her mother calling her by her full name with a sullen face, and then heard 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 had 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, a company founded by their mother, and except for Kim Kardashian, everyone has signed a very high penalty agreement 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 pay for the damages.

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 lightened up a bit, "So we are still filming now, and the next season will be completed next year. Now the Gallic police have found the suspect and are arresting him. As long as they catch him, it will naturally prove that we are not hyping it up."

"Besides, KUWTK's contract is with E! TV, and it 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 naturally the Kardashian family came out in full force.

As a result, the night before yesterday, Kim Kardashian was robbed by six or seven robbers at her Putales apartment in Paris, which had hosted top stars such as Madonna and Leo. All the jewelry she brought to Paris was stolen.

The funniest thing is, 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 Europs unified emergency number 112.

No wonder others suspect that she directed and acted in the film herself.

After hearing her mother's explanation, Kohler suddenly realized and breathed a sigh of relief.

I told you, KUWTK (Keeping Up with the Kardashians) is the most important channel to maintain the value of the entire family, how could it possibly stop filming?

It turns out that the swordsman Mom 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, and took the opportunity to make the whole family famous.

What Kris Jenner is best at is preparing for a rainy day. 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, so even if Kim Kardashian failed, there were other sisters to take her place.

Now Kim Kardashian is still the "top streamer" 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 Kardashian family, 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 Angmai are more serious than those in the Great Zhou.

Under this social reality, it is incredible that the Kardashian family, who were almost of grassroots immigrant origin, were able to move from being a servant class, such as the bag-carrying assistant of a rich lady like Paris Hilton, to the edge of the upper class in just ten years.

This is 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 without any money, but you cannot have been a servant.

Just like in some dynasties in ancient Zhou Dynasty, farmers' sons could become officials even if they were penniless, and merchants could not wear silk and satin in public even if they were the richest people 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 still looks down on this family, this family seems to have begun to master the trick of "entering the pass".

They rushed forward 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 and profit 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 jumped out of the traditional capital power framework. If you, the upper class, won't 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 that I am noble, I just need you to acknowledge that I exist.

We don't go to your clubs, your charity receptions, or your prep schools - but we're famous.

We set 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 Dynasty's spirit of "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?"

Before the middle of this year, this approach worked quite well for them.

The five sisters began to have specific divisions of labor in their personalities. 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, focuses on the persona of a housewife, but she is a little old and doesn’t know how to “lively” herself. She is rather “plain” and has the worst traffic.

The third child, Khloe, is the love-brained NBA best defensive player.

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 breasts, bulging skin and thick lips to create scandals to attract attention to her family.

But Khloe's popularity among the public is a bit poor. Although she has dated the most basketball stars, the value of her endorsements has never been raised, and her commercial returns are almost at the bottom, only slightly better than the boss.

This is also the biggest concern of the third child, Kohler.

The fourth child, Kendall, is a high-end fashion supermodel. She is 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, she is the "face" of the family. The youngest, Kylie, is not as good-looking as the second and fourth children, and is not as open-minded as the third child. Later, she simply changed her career path and focused her main energy on Instagram to become a beauty blogger.

Queen Mother Chris planned to create Kelly's character as 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 at that time they 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 operation, 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 lip gloss.

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 just E with an exclamation mark)'s investment in the next season.

Immediately afterwards, in July, Kim's husband Kanye released his personal MV, one of the 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 her consent, and said that Taylor Swift was 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 only 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 of time. Even the "original" Adam Meyers was missing. Naturally, she was in a panic all day long and was suspicious. She recorded every call she received.

But in any case, 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 one involving deliberate frame-up still dealt a heavy blow to her business value.

That’s not all. Kelly, the fifth child, also began to face challenges in her image as a “business genius”.

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 was originally an OEM for skin care products and also made some makeup, but in small quantities.

Spatz attaches great importance to the cooperation with the Kardashian family. The boss, Nelson Sr., 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 pretty good at the beginning, but in the middle of the year, Kylie Jenner felt that she was selling all the cosmetics on her own, 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 suppliers, the two parties agreed on a liquidated damages fee of only 25 Malaysian dollars. Laura Nelson originally planned to accept it under the threat of the Kardashian family.

But at this time, a company called Lorraine found Spatz, hoping to acquire Spatz and its subsidiaries, including the management team, and let them operate Lorraine's cosmetics distribution market.

When Laura Nelson asked about Lorraine Novembre, her eyes lit up.

Wow, it turns out this is the agent of Tears of the Moon Goddess!

They are now the top skin care products company in the entire Malaysian country. They are the exclusive agent for Tears of the Luna, which cannot be bought at a price of 15,000 Malaysian dollars on the black market!
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 that can be 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 shared are far more 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 25 Malaysian dollars.

This time, Kylie Jenner and Kris were left on dry land.

First, the imminent problems such as shortages, delayed shipments, and after-sales service caused by this have brought 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 seemed as if Beauty Seed did nothing when it was established, and its operation, promotion, channels and product distribution were all in an orderly manner. However, 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 stink.

The characters of "business genius" and "independent woman" that were originally intended to be created were out of the question.

All of a sudden, 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 on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, the fourth member Kendall is still 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 unknown, and couldn't help but frown.

Kendall Jenner, the current topic is the consolation money, and we are also discussing 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 away 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 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 eating too much..."

After listening to a voice message, Kendall 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. Booker and Blake Griffin, the best rookies of the Suns last year, will also be there. You must go to the party with Khloe tonight."

"Booker has been messaging you on Instagram for several years. You can hype up your childhood sweetheart image. Griffin is still the second-in-command of the Clippers and can bring you more traffic in Los Santos."

Kim whispered in 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 should 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, in which case, 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)