Nah; Full House was a while ago; although her target audience would probably be familiar with it, would it have any influence on driving traffic to her sites?
Commenter HMSGoose points out that her parents may have provided a boost in terms of networking though, which could be a factor.
Not impossible; their networks may have given her a leg up, but it’s hard to say.
She was one of the highlights of John Oliver’s bit a while ago. I’m sure I wouldn’t have taken any particular note of her if not for said bit; it was rather damning.
“I don’t know how much of school I’m going to attend,” she said. “But I do want the experience of, like, game days, partying. I don’t really care about school, as you guys all know.”
I mean, yikes. People could probably speculate about that on their own, but she said it herself, deliberately, on camera!
Thanks. That was a good read. I liked this part in particular:
But what accounted for the intensity of emotion these parents expressed, their sense of a profound loss, of rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs? They were experiencing the same response to a changing America that ultimately brought Donald Trump to office: white displacement and a revised social contract. The collapse of manufacturing jobs has been to poor whites what the elite college-admissions crunch has been to wealthy ones: a smaller and smaller slice of pie for people who were used to having the fattest piece of all.
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there’s a squeeze on those kids. The very strong but not spectacular white student from a good high school is now trying to gain access to an ever-shrinking pool of available spots at the top places. He’s not the inherently attractive prospect he once was.
These parents—many of them avowed Trump haters—are furious that what once belonged to them has been taken away, and they are driven mad with the need to reclaim it for their children. The changed admissions landscape at the elite colleges is the aspect of American life that doesn’t feel right to them; it’s the lost thing, the arcadia that disappeared so slowly they didn’t even realize it was happening until it was gone.
I’m not sure what she’ll be able to do now with still-wealthy parents and only 1.4 million instagram followers.
Yup, to paraphrase the saying getting so much mileage this day in age: for many accustomed to privilege, equality, or least less privilege, feels like oppression.
One tangential thing that ties this into the mirage of American meritocracy† is the petty myopic classist shortsightedness of treating higher education not as an opportunity for the populace to flourish intellectually for the general weal, but as a rubber stamp and networking opportunity for the perpetuation of hereditary elitism.
† a specification I make because while I believe meritocracy is in principle possible and thus not an outright myth, the myth that it’s practiced in America or any part of this planet is pure wishful thinking and propaganda in service to maintaining the status quo for the establishment corrosive to the very progress that could realize some measure of meritocracy.
Olivia is such a brat. Stop blaming your parents when you were quite aware of what they did to get you into USC. You wasted some other deserving students spot. Your mother just wanted to brag that you got in. Lori is the real brat.
I’m not sure. The internet is very uneven in converting fame to money.
This is why I chose to sleep my way in
Fuller House just ended, so it’s very possible. https://www.cohengardnerlaw.com/fuller-house-really-most-popular-show-tv
ETA: And it got two Teen Choice Awards! So that looks like a yes. (Go figure.)
The beauty guru lost brand deals with TRESemmé and Sephora as a result of her parents’ alleged actions.
And yet the beauty guru only gained brand deals with TRESemmé and Sephora as a result of her parents’ actions (that is, by being a wealthy Hollywood scion).
The real problem is that her parents just weren’t rich enough. They tried bargain bribing, instead of buying the school a new building.
Hear, hear! This, too, must end. Colleges and universities must end the practice of “UnAffirmative Action for the Wealthy” which allows undeserving students like Olivia Jade, or Donnie Trump, to get into schools where they haven’t earned their way through their grades and extracurricular activities. It’s not like these rich people don’t have all the resources they need to ensure their children can succeed. They can afford tutors, private lessons, expensive equipment, test preparation courses, and tons of other benefits the poor can’t afford. But by leaning on Unaffirmative Action for the Wealthy, they create a system where actual effort is deprecated beneath “how much money your daddy and mommy have.”
The sad shame is, once people become rich, they often join right in with bribing and scamming their way to ensure they and their offspring stay on top as long as possible. I grew up with nothing, I earned what I have, with much help from society (student loans, the very roads I needed to drive to classes, etc). I ask the same of my children, though I’m happy to provide them assistance with college costs and books which my parents could never afford. But bribing folks to get them into colleges or jobs they didn’t earn? Fuck no, they were told if they wanted those things what they needed to do to earn them.
On the other hand, she was still in high school when all this happened.
It’s not too much of a stretch to think that she did it just to get her mom off her back.
“Ok, mom, here’s your stupid picture! Gah! I hate you!”
as someone who has attended school in America, why should anyone care about school in America?
When my dad was her age he was drafted into the army and spent the next 2 years sleeping in a ditch in the jungle getting sprayed with agent orange.
