In her almost decade-long tenure as a PR and social media aficionado, Kim Kardashian-West appears to have missed a glaring memo the rest of us learnt a long while ago: jokes, no matter how funny, don’t translate so well on social media.
(Especially when you’re more well-known for your reality TV stardom rather than comedic timing.)
Kardashian-West’s latest foray into the depths of the internet’s outrage has come after the 36-year-old tweeted that the “flu can be an amazing diet” and that she is “so happy it came in time for the Met [Ball].” Because duh! Being sick is the easiest diet of all! No exercise required, and certainly no need to eat well. Why haven’t we been chasing germs all this time?
She’s joking…I think…but also kind of not really joking at all?
The since-deleted tweet was followed up by another, with the reality TV star re-tweeting an image of herself from the weekend, running with the caption "flu got me like".
Understandably, Twitter was having absolutely none of it, and true-to-form, had no issue telling her that. After all, Twitter's bread and butter is roasting a silly celebrity for saying silly things.
@KimKardashian THE FLU IS NOT A DIET STOP!!!!
— Priyanka Aribindi (@priaribi) April 19, 2017
Top Comments
Oh my GOD!!
So terrible! She might encourage her young followers to get the flu!!
When you get it bad, the flu can make you drop a couple of k's... it's happened to me I've joked about it, got to be a silver lining to feeling so crappy!
I think people just hate on her because it's the done thing. This is ridiculous... I bet if Amy Schumer said the same thing everyone would be chuckling into the back of their hands and nudging the girl next to them. Sheesh.
Seriously chill! You can't encourage young women to get the flu. The flu virus is above persuasion it just lands where it fancies.