10. Kim Kardashian – Internet Trailblazer
Let’s talk about Kim Kardashian for a moment. Kim is easily one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Internet. She can be seen as one of the biggest Internet celebrities of all time. She is a woman who has limited talents but was able to first capitalize on a sex tape she made with a boyfriend long ago. A young Kim Kardashian sent the Internet into a frenzy with the tape and established herself as a brand shortly after by posing for Playboy. The combination led to a television show and the rest is history. Using amazing marketing sensibilities from her mother and creating a strong publicity team around her, Kim Kardashian turned her single appearance in a skin flick into a massive empire. She used the Internet as her vaulting point and hasn’t looked back, being one of the most talked about and watched pseudo-celebrities on the Internet. With a business empire behind her, that little tape from long ago that lit up the Internet seems like a distant memory.
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