No, No not that kind of lucky. This is real life and not a movie script.
The dude had perfect timing. Getting his cell phone and snagging a selfie with her as she walks by. Fast thinking and it looks like Kim may have paused a second so he could get a good photo.
I hope the guy posts the pic somewhere. I’m curious if he really got himself and Kim framed in the shot.
Looking at that photo again, what I really appreciate is the realness of that moment. Some much PR is manufactured around the Kardashians. The paparazzi made them famous.
It’s interesting to see three people share a spontaneous and all too human connection. Even if it is only for a couple seconds.
He could be worse, but what’s wrong with the classy pencil beard? It in no way screams “date rapist.” I hear Obama’s gonna grow one to emulate Lincoln, but better.
I am sorry if this comes across as threadshitting. If it does, please just ignore and feel free to dismiss me as a cultural Neanderthal. I get that sometimes
This situation just seems so…indicatively ridiculous.
You have a faux celebrity who is famous for being hot and in a porn tape and turned that into a revenue stream and relationships with famous men
You have a bunch of celebrity media types trailing this person in order to feed the media beast but with nothing to really say
You have a guy snapping a photo, merely seeking to use the faux-celebrity in the background of his selfie - because it’s not about her, it’s about him
You have this douchebag on camera, with a camera, taking a photo of a faux celebrity who exists to have her life on camera
[/get off my lawn]
Wait - I have it! You know what this is? It is Norman Rockwell’s Triple Self-Portrait, updated to reflect the vacuous nature of celebrities and self-promotion today.
I understand none of this. She’s right the fuck there, kind of glancing over. If he wanted to take a picture of himself with her in it, he could have turned his head forty five degrees and said hey Kim, it’s cool to meet you, would you mind a real quick picture? And then she would have been, like, in it.
Taking a picture with her in the near background like a historical landmark is just bizarre. Won’t every single person who sees it say uh, hey Blayden, did you, like, say what’s up to her? Or you were just near her. Oh, OK. Well, that’s… not that cool.
And then the paparazzi are taking pictures of his non-human behavior. And then there’s a thread about how real it is! A human connection!
I agree the guy was rude and ill mannered to snap a selfie without asking Kim.
I found it interesting that Kim was still posing. She could have easily turned her head and messed up his shot. She seems drawn to cameras, any camera pointing her way.
More charitably, she was just being amendable to what he was doing and letting him have his moment. I’m sure he’s not the first guy to take a quick phone-cam shot of her.
I don’t understand what’s noteworthy about any of this. So someone is taking a celebrity’s picture on the street? Doesn’t this happen all the time, to lots of celebrities, in many different places?
Hell, I wouldn’t call her posing. She’s just looking at the camera. If someone quickly tried to take a picture of me, I would probably react by looking at the camera too.
