I agree that her environment was a huge part of her success, and don't separate her success from the environment she was in and what it afforded her, but there's also definitely an unusual fixation on her sex-tape and trying to reduce her accomplishments to a simple result of it.

I mean the comment I replied to is trying to imply, out of all the factors involved, the sex-tape is what young adults would take out of it.

Meanwhile I don't see people saying all they expect young adults to get out of Bill Gates' success is you should drop out of school...

True, she will be judged on the basis of that tape by some people. I did too, at least back when Ray J was the more famous person on it. Long-term, I see it differently. She owned her sexuality and leveraged the notoriety to sell an image of an aspirational, fun, no consequences lifestyle that average people could never afford, but are happy to gawp at. Hence the long-running success of their reality show.

> Meanwhile I don't see people saying all they expect young adults to get out of Bill Gates' success is you should drop out of school...

I've seen my fair share of bad IG "motivation" and "hustle" posts that push this exact message, although they use Zuck as the dropout in question. This will become more common as college costs keep rising while post-graduation incomes remain stagnant. Lifetime earnings compared to people with HS only are of course better but when you see a sticker price of $60k on 1 year of college, lifetime earnings differential isn't what you'll be thinking about.