Second Life Style Has Been Influenced by Kim Kardashian Long Before She Started Using Second Life in Her Social Media (Comment of the Week)

At the risk of over-exposing Kim Kardashian's Second Life-based social media campaign (then again, isn't over-exposure the whole point?) reader Blaise Glendevon makes a really good observation in response to SLers complaining about it:

I don't understand why so many of you are surprised or put out. The KKW aesthetic has been at the forefront of [SL] fashion and blogging personas for as long as I can remember. A lot of the top 'urban' brands in the events take great inspiration from what the Kardashian-Jenner sisters wear on social media.

That the patrons of this look have taken notice of SL isn't a surprise. That it took so long might.

This strikes me as exactly right. Looking at back at the SL fashion that was popular in the early years (as here and also here), you see quite a difference -- it leaned more toward goth/steampunk, on the one hand, and high-end and uptown, on the other. But Keeping Up with the Kardashians came out in 2007, and in the succeeding years, SL fashion styles have largely followed suit. So that nowadays, my Second Life social feed is swamped by glitzy, urban, highly sexualized avatar images similar to those that the Kardashians have made popular and mainstream since then. Or to put it another way: It's Kim Kardashian's virtual world, we're just logging into it.

Pics via Liz Milan West's Instagram.

Comments

[Anonymous this time]

For the love of Christ please stop posting about the Kardashians I’m about to flip my table.

[Blaise Glendevon]

This is an overreaction of epic proportions.

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

WHAAAT? Well that's it, I have to leave SL...She's ruined it for me. ;-)