Social media influencer extraordinaire Kim Kardashian has misplaced round 150,000 followers after she posted an inauguration day photograph of First Girl Melania Trump on her Instagram story, in keeping with an analytics agency.
Kardashian, the truth tv star and branding skilled who boasts some 358 million followers on Instagram, raised eyebrows on-line by posting the photograph of the primary girl sporting a wide-brimmed hat at Monday’s inauguration.
Socially Highly effective, the influencer advertising and marketing company, analyzed information which confirmed that Kardashian’s follower depend fell by 144,963 because the photograph was uploaded.
Kardashian additionally misplaced 9,553 followers on X, the platform previously often known as Twitter, since posting the picture, in keeping with Socially Highly effective.
The put up prompted a few of Kardashian’s Instagram followers to reply negatively, with one writing: “girl…. sold out for far right maga propaganda.”
“Well at least we can see exactly who you are,” one other wrote.
“Guys unfollow, don’t watch their show and don’t buy their products. Hit them where it hurts,” one other social media commenter wrote.
One Instagram consumer was offended that Kardashian posted a photograph of Melania Trump “but not Martin” — a reference to the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trump’s inauguration fell on the federal vacation honoring the slain civil rights chief.
The Publish has sought remark from Kardashian.
Although Kardashian is believed to help Democrats, she used her years-long friendship with Ivanka Trump to foyer her father to commute the life sentence of a black lady, Alice Marie Johnson, who was convicted of a nonviolent drug offense.
Kardashian continued her advocacy by taking part in White Home discussions on clemency and jail reform, additional solidifying her skilled ties with the primary Trump administration.
In April 2020, she acknowledged she wouldn’t publicly endorse any presidential candidate, focusing as an alternative on her prison justice reform efforts.
