Kendall Jenner Is Getting Criticized Right Now for Using This Emoji
Kendall Jenner has encountered her fair share of social media criticism. Two weeks ago the supermodel had to deal with a barrage of messages from people who didn’t think she tipped her bartender in New York City. (She claims she tipped in cash.) And now Jenner is under fire for using a specific emoji in one of her tweets.
Let’s back up: In honor of Keeping Up With the Kardashians turning 10 this year, The Hollywood Reporter featured Kendall, her mother, Kris, and sisters, Kylie, Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney, on its cover last week. Naturally, the gals celebrated this with a string of social media posts. Kim kept her tweet short and sweet, simply writing out the name of THR‘s story: “The Kardashian Decade.” Kris said it was an “honor” to be on the publication’s cover.
But Kendall got a little crafty with her message. She uploaded a pic of the cover to Twitter and captioned it, “sister power…girl power,” alongside a medium skin-tone fist-bump emoji. See it for yourself, below:
Several fans had an issue with the skin color Jenner chose for her emoji, asserting that her family isn’t Black and therefore shouldn’t use it. “Y’all are not black. Next time use a white emoji,” one person tweeted. “Kendall & Kylie are worst of the Jenners & Kardashians. REALLY KENDALL?! You’re white. Not black. Use the correct emoji. Stop f–king up,” another user wrote. Someone even said Jenner using this fist bump was a form of cultural appropriation. Check out just a few of these reactions, below:
https://twitter.com/Shawnaloveeee_/status/898806293229699072
https://twitter.com/TrackCityChick/status/898682562977054721
However, not everyone had an issue with Jenner’s emoji. A few fans came to the 21-year-old’s defense and said her critics were reading too much into this. “People are ACTUALLY mad about the COLOUR of the emoji Kendall Jenner used. Surely there’s more important things to be angry about?” a user named @jazz_matchett tweeted. See some other replies, below:
Jenner hasn’t commented on this story yet, but stay tuned.