Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner: Why they excite the mind

Will you walk together over the red carpet or do you won’t be? This question came up with this year before this year’s Oscar ceremony with regard to Timothée Chalamet and his girlfriend Kylie Jenner. In the end, the answer was: No, Chalamet and Jenner did not pose together for the photographers at the red carpet, but Jenner took a seat in the hall next to her boyfriend.

The first rumors of relationships arose in the spring of 2023, but it was still time for the liaison to be confirmed. In September 2023, they gave up at the birthday concert by superstar Beyoncé. Pictures that went viral on the net. Just like every subsequent paparazzo recording of the apparently unequal couple.

Whenever a clip of an appearance of the two viral, the mostly critical comments on Chalamet and Jenner are piling up. The tenor is almost always: they don’t fit together! Whole Reddit forums are full of chalamet fans who do not approve of the relationship with Jenner. But why does the actor and the entrepreneur trigger so lively discussions?

On the one hand, the young film star, who apparently selects his roles, is very careful. He played in the literary film “Little Women”, in the sci-fi blockbuster “Dune”, in the melodramatic coming-of-age film “Call Me by your name” and most recently in the Bob-Dylan-Biopic “Like a Complete Unknown”, which earned him an Oscar nomination. Chalamet’s career path is clear: he plays serious character roles in the cinema. The bigger, the better. “I know that people don’t usually talk that way, but I want to be one of the big ones. I am inspired by the big ones,” he said in his acceptance speech at the Sag-Awards.

On the other hand, entrepreneur Kylie Jenner is. She became known as the Kardashian clan’s nest and has built up a cosmetics empire in recent years that made her a billionaire. The Kardashian-Jenners are happy to present their wealth. Thick cars, huge houses, lots of jewelry and bare skin – why not show what you have? Kardashians and elegant restraint go together like Los Angeles and constant rain: not at all.

Most recently there were reports that friends and family members of Chalamet warn him of the consequences of his relationship. He could run the risk of not being taken seriously in the film industry, it said because he was with a Kardashian Jenner. Similarly, Chalamet fan accounts, one of them, commented on “Club Chalamet”, led by a 57-year-old film lover. Also – to put it the least – she is not a fan of Jenner. Again and again she teases the young entrepreneur. The tone is often misogynia and is directed against Jenners. Chalamet, the reputable actor, is far too good for Jenner, the supposedly superficial reality star.

The fact that the 26-year-old and the one year older Jenner might just get along well is not in the area of ​​the possible for his super fans. The same could be observed when superstar Harry Styles came together with actress Olivia Wilde a few years ago. It didn’t take long for Wilde to become the enemy of the styles fans, especially young women and girls. They bothered that Wilde was not yet divorced and that she was older than the One Direction singer. Just as little as Jenner is good enough for Chalamet, wild ones were not good enough for styles.

Your (young) fans are important for chalamet and styles. They create hypes and ensure relevance. A dark side of the extreme fan culture is often the treatment of women alongside the stars. Milefitude runs through every part of society. Within the extreme fan culture, it is just as present as elsewhere, but is increased there by social networks. This quickly gives the impression that as a woman you couldn’t really make the screeching followers right anyway. As a social media professional and Kardashian-Nesthäkchen, Kylie Jenner should be used to these hostility. So maybe she’s exactly the right one for Timothée Chalamet.