u/imalliee

Hello! I’m an incoming transfer for this fall and I was wanting to know about the major I’m going into? I tried looking on YouTube and whatnot but I can’t find a lot of personal experiences about communication design. Right now to my knowledge I believe txst design program is #3 in Texas right behind UNT at #2 and UT Austin at #1. I choose txst because well one, I heard UT Austin is heavily ui/ux focused, and UNT…well.. I heard it’s pretty bad. Like process of elimination or something. So even though I’m 15 mins away from unt, I went with txst because it seems to be a broad major that teaches a lot of different types of design, which I thought was perfect since I’m not really sure which type of design I want to do. I just wanted to know if that’s true and what’s anyone’s experience like in the major?

For starters, I wouldn't say I'm a fan. I don't buy her makeup or keep up with her like that. But this is a genuine question because every time I see the name Kylie, or honestly anyone from her family, the hate that follows is insane. I get it, as a celeb your actions will be looked at so questioning celebs choices is okay and all but treating a person as a vessel for every frustration about modern culture is another.** **And that’s exactly what Kylie has become. The main things I hear are lying about surgery, not being open about procedures, benefiting off Black culture, having a business that profits off women's insecurities, and having an easy life financially I guess. Yet every time I hear those arguments it's kind of laughable.

If we take it all the way back, Kylie was born into the spotlight and labeled the "ugly sister" when she was literally a child. Millions of people watched her grow up while constantly picking apart her appearance. Any woman knows how brutal being a teenage girl can be. Now imagine going through that while the entire internet is telling you your lips are too thin, your nose is ugly, your sisters are prettier, and every feature on your face needs fixing. So you get work done at the rip age of fifteen...a literal kid. And yeah, you lie about it because it's 2013, cosmetic work is heavily judged, and you're a teenager. But you don’t stop there. You keep going. Keep getting procedures because every insecurity people pointed out suddenly has a “solution." And eventually you become the product of what everyone said you need to look like. What society considers beautiful. But now you're blamed for everyone's insecurities, blamed for girls wanting surgery, and expected to carry responsibility and baggage for beauty standards that existed long before you.

So what’s weird is that people give other celebrities completely different treatment like Ariana Grande, for example, has never openly admitted to most of the work people speculate she's had done beyond fillers. Yet when people bring it up, the response is usually, "She doesn't owe us that information" or "Don't surgery shame." Plenty of celebrities keep cosmetic work private but somehow Kylie is expected to release a full list of every procedure she's ever had or she's a terrible role model?

The makeup argument doesn't make much sense to me either. Kylie Cosmetics is supposedly "exploiting women's insecurities", but then brands like Fenty Beauty, REM Beauty, Rare Beauty, and countless others are considered empowering when they're all selling beauty products. Why is one inherently evil while the others aren't?

And to touch the black culture discussion when Ariana (and I keep using her as an example because she's heavily beloved to the point she's basically uncancel-able) was spray tanned several shades darker, used a heavy blaccent, and leaned heavily into hiphop and trap influences people joked about "Blackiana" and how iconic it is. It's "well her friends are black ofc she'll act like that." Yet when Kylie dates Black men or gets a BBL, suddenly she's benefiting from Black culture and deserves endless backlash.

At some point it just feels inconsistent. Most celebrities photoshop, most aren't fully honest about cosmetic work, most are extremely wealthy image focused people living in a bubble. Yet people excuse it when it's a celebrity they like. It's "don't surgery shame" until it's Kylie. It's "she doesn't owe us an explanation" until it's Kylie. It's praising celebrities for showing their natural face until Kylie does it, then people mock her appearance.

People bullied her natural face when she was young, then hated her for changing it. They criticize her for having no personality, then tear her apart whenever she shows one. It's hypocritical and nothing but following a bandwagon and quite frankly I think there’s a difference between criticism and obsession. Criticism can be reasonable. Obsessively mocking someone’s appearance for years, celebrating their mistakes, analyzing every photo, and acting personally offended by their existence is something else entirely.

Instead of asking questions like why does she feel the needs to get so much surgery and hide her personality you’d rather throw all the blame onto her because you’ve made her out to be the villain in your mind. When she was, just like the rest of us, a child who compared herself to everyone online whilst millions told her to get the same work done you all now complain about. But yeah she’s the problem. Definitely not you the people and society. I’m not saying she’s a saint but if you hate her you have a long list of other celebrities to hate and the problem is you don’t.