Say what you want about the Kardashian-Jenner family you've got to hand it to the youngest members of the family, Kendall and Kylie, who are ruling social media and the internet generally at the moment. While Kim, Khloé and Kourtney have been debuting toned and post-baby bods all over Instagram and SnapChat and KennyJ is taking over the modeling world it's 18-year-old Kylie I'm keeping up with.
Both Kendall and Kylie have made Time's Most Influential Teens List in the past and, while controversial (especially alongside the First Daughters, Sasha and Malia, Malala Yousafzai, and Olivia Hallisey who, at 17, invented a new test for Ebola virus, casual) but I'd argue the budding starlet deserves her spot amongst the most influential, not necessarily for her activism in social justice causes or her role in U.S government but in looking at influence in a more broad context it's proof positive that King Kylie is just that - a reigning monarch of the millennial, social media obsessed culture. At a newly minted 18, Kylie flaunts 12,584,666 followers on her Facebook page, 15.7 millions followers on Twitter, and nearly 60 million followers on Instagram. Not to mention being one of, if not the most, followed person on Snapchat, crashing the internet every time she releases a new lip kit, with a major following on her app.
Kylie and Kendall have had my support since the show came out; while the older Kardashian kids and, at a slightly lesser degree, the older Jenner kids as well, may have volunteered to have their lives on display Kendall and Kylie were barely teens when the show began. Their older siblings had the luxury of going through puberty and graduating high school without the eyes of the world upon them; the youngest members of the family did not. As Kendall has entered the modeling world she's tried to shirk her last name, making sure her successes come from talent and professionalism over name awareness. Kylie and Kendall have branded all of their endeavors with just their first names, their Pac Sun line, endeavors with several shoe brands, Kylie's hair extensions, lip kit and nail color all brand to her personal identity and not her last name.
Again, you can say whatever you want about the family in question and the 'Power of K' but what Kylie's doing, at only 18, has the world talking, and following along thus far. You've got to give this teen queen eight props for "Keeping Up" with these media trends.





















