Kylie Jenner Becoming A "Self-Made" Billionaire: The Internet Is Not Happy

Kylie Jenner is an American reality television personality, model, entrepreneur, socialite and social media personality.

With her status as a celebrity, the cosmetic company Kylie Cosmetics she runs and owns entirely, paved her way to become the youngest billionaire. "Social media is an amazing platform," Jenner said. "I have such easy access to my fans and my customers."

While many praised Jenner for her achievement, others aren't happy when she was said to amass her fortune "self-made".

It started when Forbes published a profile about Jenner, saying that she will become "the youngest self-made billionaire ever, male or female." Trumping Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, who became a billionaire at age 23, and Snapchat's Evan Spiegel who also became a billionaire in his early 20s,

People thought that calling her "self-made" was misleading.

"No one who started off rich with incredible connections should be allowed to market themselves as self made," said one Twitter user who further explained that Jenner isn’t even close to starting from the ground up. "It is like claiming you made soup from scratch because you opened a can and reheated it," said another user.

"Calling Kylie Jenner self-made without acknowledging anywhere the incredible headstart she had is what allows people to turn around and look at poor people and ask them why they haven’t become billionaires yet," complained another.

After all, as a well-known celebrity, Jenner is also associated with the famous Kardashian family. So here, people said that she clearly had enough money on her name before her empire took off.

With the outrage, Jenner's sister, Kim Kardashian defended her with a retweet.

A spokesperson from Forbes also tried to settle the issue, saying that: "Yes, Kylie comes from a wealthy family and she got a visibility boost from her family but she owns her company and is valued based on earnings she has personally received and on the value of the company she founded."

Dictionary.com also decided to take its part to reveal the definition of "self-made".

Even when it then revealed that searches for "self-made" had increased significantly to 8,628 percent since the news, Jenner's topic didn't end without more drama.