Caitlyn Jenner smashes Twitter world record, reaching a million followers

Caitlyn Jenner smashes Twitter world record, reaching a million followers 

Former Olympian and reality TV star, previously known as Bruce Jenner, takes just four hours to reach one million followers, becoming the fastest ever 

Former Olympic decathlon gold-medallist Caitlyn Jenner, previously known as Bruce Jenner, is praised by the Los Angeles LGBT community for her debut in Vanity Fair

Hannah Jane Parkinson

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Tuesday 2 June 2015 12.49 BST Last modified on Tuesday 2 June 2015 17.25 BST

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Former Olympic decathlon gold-medallist Caitlyn Jenner, previously known as Bruce Jenner, has smashed another world record by becoming the fastest person on Twitter to reach one million followers.


Jenner took just four hours (and three minutes) to reach the milestone, usurping US president Barack Obama who broke the record just two weeks ago with his




Jenner’s verified account announced itself with a tweeted picture of the star’s Vanity Fair cover. The magazine features the full debut of her new name Caitlyn, following Jenner’s male-to-female transition. 

Jenner features in the reality TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians as the step-parent of Kim Kardashian and the former husband of Kris Kardashian, and has gained widespread praise for her open approach to transition, particularly in a tell-all segment with confessional US TV-host Diane Sawyer.
The Vanity Fair piece features photographs shot by Annie Leibovitz and includes Jenner in a number of haut couture outfits, as well as an in-depth interview with Jenner about her coming out as a woman.


The lift selfie

The lift selfie 

Unexpected fallout of Solange-and-Jay-Z liftgate last year: the interior of a lift is a newly iconic backdrop for a photograph. Swap mirror selfies of yourself in the bathroom at home (too considered) and in the ladies’ loos (a bit adolescent) for selfies taken in the lift. These are surprisingly hard to do quickly enough, unless you live in the Shard, which is why they are impressive. Bonus points for getting loads of good-looking mates in the photo with you. (Although heaven help you if you forget to tag anyone.) 
The Sophia Loren/Jane Birkin/Audrey Hepburn photo
The sophisticated Instagrammer intersperses her own pictures with vintage ones. The classic genre is an inspirational photo of a style icon: see, for instance, Julia Restoin Roitfeld’s snap of a suspender-wearing Sophia Loren, or her mum Carine’s portrait of Diana Vreeland. These are like the photos you drawing-pinned above your bed, or Sellotaped into the inside of your desk, when you were a teenager. Classic chocolate-box beauties get a lot of likes, but really obscure shots from coffee-table art tomes are always good for tone.
The text-convo screengrab
Cute puppies, sparkling blue water, cocktails, bougainvillea, blah blah blah. You know what really stands out in this never-ending stream of visual gorgeousness? Words. The good news, if you’re not sure where your next deck-of-the-yacht selfie is coming from, is that one of this summer’s hottest memes is a screen grab of a text conversation. Think of it as You’ve Got Mail, updated. Those elongated bubbles have become iconic, without us even noticing it. People who spend a lot of time on social media are impressed by proof that you are having an old-school actual conversation with another person. Should include: autocorrect, one half of the conversation sending at least two messages in quick succession.

Lift selfies, lobster porn and pool feet: how Instagram redefined the summer

Lift selfies, lobster porn and pool feet: how Instagram redefined the summer 

Instagram is to summer what the John Lewis advert is to Christmas. Just as that first hit of small-screen schmaltz puts us into Christmas mode (equal parts consumerist fervour and hashtag-friendly nostalgia #blessed), your Instagram feed now fires the starting gun on summer. Once upon a time, you knew the change in season by the cooing of the first turtle dove; now, it’s the ping alerting you to the 14th my-new-pedicure-and-sandals selfie of the day. Whereas once you just needed a lunchtime shopping trip for a new bikini and a pile of paperbacks to prep for your holiday, you now need to update your Instagram look. For instance: you do know, don’t you, that the “sunglasses and phones in the middle of the table” picture has overtaken last year’s “shoes in a circle” as the hot group-shot meme? Phew. And that skyscrapers should always be shot from pavement level, and your lunch from directly above? And that’s just the start … 

The wing of the plane
Those people who post their flight details on Twitter (LAX >> LHR, or whatever) – what’s that about? By all means text your mum your flight number, but the rest of us really do not need to know. Anyway, the Instagram version of this is, naturally, prettier. Find a window seat with a nicely framed wing-tip view against soulful clouds. In the same way that the sweeping aerial shot of a night-time city from above is a classic opener for an urban movie, the plane window shot is a scene setter for the incoming Instagram slideshow of your travels. If you are in first class, you can annoy absolutely every single one of your followers by substituting this for a photo inside the cabin, with telltale flat bed/boarding pass with Seat 1A “casually” in shot. (Handy tip: don’t.)

Fierce “squad” group shot
Smiling is, like, so basic. Nobody smiles when they are having fun any more. The all-together-now photo from a night out is a classic – some of us are old enough to remember the days when, in order to do this, your most responsible friend would bring their camera – but it’s no longer enough to put your arms around each other and grin. As if! And no, you can’t do duckface, either: that’s only slightly less lame, being straight-up 2014. In 2015, you have to be fierce and/or silly. Both is best. Start with what Paddington Bear calls a Hard Stare. Flex your bicep in mock-Popeye style, take a Beyoncé-on-stage feet-planted-wide stance. If possible, arrange your friends in a graphic pose: Alexa Chung and friends made a human pyramid on the beach; Taylor Swift and Haim hiked along a riverbed until they found exactly the right number of photogenic boulders to straddle in hotpants and sneakers. Let’s be honest: if you want to achieve your Squad Goals, holidays can be hard work. 
The half-lobster holiday food-porn shot
The fashionable Instagrammer is much more concerned with colour combinations than Michelin stars. Avocado on rye toast has become a hipster obsession mainly because it is so much more aesthetically pleasing than, say, poached eggs on toast (delicious to eat, but looks unappealing on camera). So much so that avocado has, arguably, jumped the shark. Key summer food Instagram memes: fish and chips, in Cornish-type setting, held by someone looking slightly chilly in a Breton-stripe top. Platter of grilled prawns/lobster, sandy beach visible beneath the scrubbed wooden table. Food that looks good on Instagram all year round: doughnuts and sliders (good graphic shapes), heritage tomatoes (colour), bowls of yogurt swirled with berries and honey. Unwritten rules include: photos of green juice are only acceptable and not totally annoying if hashtagged #hungover.

From the frow to the brow: how front row politics transcended fashion

From the frow to the brow: how front row politics transcended fashion 

there’s a very real reason the feudal systems have remained in our social consciousness since the ninth tcentury. Take as an example the frow, the mother of all non-political non-manorial feudal systemst
The term frow is a portmanteau of front row, in the fashion show sense. It also, confusingly, translates as Dutch woman or, pejoratively, as freak show. But let’s stick with the former. In this fashion sense, the frow is the front row that lines the catwalk, a great place to see or be seen, like the Met Bar in the 1990s, or as Saatchi found rather less luckily, a table outside Scott’s.

 One of the best frows to be seen on is that at the Burberry show, which is littered with A-listers. The frow was created as a tool of hierarchy. As Hadley Freeman, a regular former fashion week frow-er, scrow-er (second) and throw-er (third) testifies, if you’re not on the frow it’s highly likely you don’t exist: “It is as hierarchical as the most feudal of medieval courts”.
But what was once the preserve of fashion weeks has now spread into other lite activities such as exercise classes or basketball courts both of which, it transpires, has their own version of a frow: VIP areas (seats or otherwise) which have become highly coveted purely for the status which they bring the occupant.
No two frows are the same, as I discovered, long before I started working on the fashion desk, when I reviewed gigs. A few years ago I was sat front row in the Nottingham Trent FM Arena at what turned out to be Whitney Houston’s final tour. The front row was populated by devout fans, various Houston family members and teenagers, who had all paid over £100 for a ticket. Except they hadn’t. As one woman in a wheelchair holding a plastic peel-top wineglass told me, half the tickets hadn’t been sold, prompting various members of Houston’s entourage to trawl the streets of Nottingham offering free tickets to fill the seats. The girls next to me were apparently given their tickets in the Tesco Express down the road.

Take SpinCycle, a bizarre mash-up of spinning (a bike machine with in-built resistance) and scientology (well sort of: the loud music, relative darkness, candles and screaming instructor have all been compared to a cult, even by the people who set it up) hit on a novel way of garnering competitive interest: by imbuing the class’s front row with a special status. According to the NY Times, some instructors request front row pre-approval, insisting novices must start at the back. On the wall of the studio, the rules are posted: “There is a direct correlation between your energy and your neighbor’s [sic] ride. If you want to do your own thing, please don’t ride in the front row.”


Sometimes, explained a spokesperson, instructors will ride in the front row “to set the tone”. Style consultant Katherine Ormerod has attended several classes and can vouch for this: “newcomers hide wisely at the back” she says. “It’s worth noting that the instructor is always looking for slackers and like boot camp will shame you for your lack of dedication. Plus you don’t want to look pathetic in front of the lithe ladies in Lycra ahead of you. So you keep going.” Such is the power of this frow that BoomBoom Athletica have brought out a pair of ‘Front Row Spin Leggings

Not dissimilar to the fashion frow is the brow – or basketball front row – a hotbed of A-listers, the importance of which will peak this weekend during the NBA play-offs. In order of babeness, you should spot: Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kate Middleton, Katy Perry, Cameron Diaz, Justin Bieber and Larry David (flip the list round if you’re after a GSOH order). Key games are the home fixtures for the LA Lakers or New York Knicks, because that’s where famous people live. The brow is an interesting counter to the frow, in that the view is terrible. Viewers regularly cite whiplash, confusion and sometimes actual, physical pain caused by flying balls.


Kendra Sunderland said she knew ‘that eventually everyone would see everything about me and see me naked.’

EXCLUSIVE: Oregon State webcam girl Kendra Sunderland opens up in first interview: ‘I've always been the type of girl who’s not afraid to show off'

In her first interview since she became a viral sensation, Kendra Sunderland talks about her experiences doing shows for MyFreeCams and the infamous library video that brought her sudden fame and a citation for public indecency. Sunderland, 19, said she hopes the hype helps her jumpstart a modeling career. 

Sunderland told the Daily News she’s dreamed of posing for Playboy since she was a girl and wants to become a professional model. The X-rated show in Oregon State’s Valley Library was just one of many performances for MyFreeCams, a live webcam sex site with tens of thousands of models, that was recorded by a viewer.


But that video attracted way more heat than she ever imagined. After someone uploaded it to the video site Pornhub sometime in the past month, it got hundreds of thousands of views and suddenly turned Sunderland into one of America’s hottest amateur models.


Weeks before leaving Oregon State University last year, Kendra Sunderland shot a webcam show in the school’s library, which recently went viral.
“When I first started working for MyFreeCams, I was hoping that it would open to modeling and doing magazines and shoots like that,” she said. “I knew that eventually everyone would see everything about me and see me naked. I just didn’t think that would happen so fast and have my actual name on it.”

“I’m not like most other girls that are insecure with their bodies or don’t want to show off,” she said. “I’ve always been the type of girl who’s not afraid to show off, so I didn’t feel weird about it.

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Sunderland grew up in Salem, Ore. and graduated from West Salem High School two years ago. In the fall of 2013 she enrolled at Oregon State University in Corvallis, one of the state’s largest colleges. She said she first wanted to become a counselor, and took a few classes in human development

She lost interest in that and switched to business and economics classes, thinking she’d be an accountant.

Eventually, she decided the 9-to-5 world wasn’t for her.

“I didn’t want to work in an office all the time,” she said.

During her fall semester, she applied to about a dozen waitressing jobs around Corvallis and said she never got any calls back.


KENDRA SUNDERLAND BREAKS SILENCE ABOUT LIBRARY VIDEO

KENDRA SUNDERLAND BREAKS SILENCE ABOUT LIBRARY SEXY VIDEO  


The teenager who became an online sensation after recording herself stripping in a university library admits her sexy antics have caused a rift with her parents.

Sunderland said her mom told her, “This is just something you can learn a lesson from and move on.”

In the clip Blonde Kendra Sunderland, 19, exposes her breasts and fondles herself as students walk past just yards away, seemingly oblivious to what is happening.

The clip, for live sex website MyFreeCams, went viral and has been shared more than 250,000 times.

The former resident of Salem, Oregon, says her folks didn’t punish her, but have cut off their funding. “They’re kind of upset now,” she told the New York Daily News.

Sunderland told the Daily News she’s dreamed of posing for Playboy since she was a girl and wants to become a professional model.
After failing to land a waitress job while studying, she turned to MyFreeCams, a site where girls strip and chat with users who pay them in real time.
“When I first started working for MyFreeCams, I was hoping that it would open to modelling and doing magazines and shoots like that,” she said. “I knew that eventually everyone would see everything about me and see me naked. I just didn’t think that would happen so fast and have my actual name on it.”



But Sunderland, who turns 20 in June, is more popular than ever now. She says she’s already fulfilled one request for a professional photo shoot, which is coming out soon, and many more offers are flooding in. She’s hoping to earn enough to “move somewhere sunny.”

HOW TO GET OUT

HOW TO GET OUT OF THE FRIEND ZONE AND INTO HER PANTS!

Joe Bentley | April 23, 2015

You’re a young, good looking guy with a decent job. You’ve got cool friends and fun hobbies. But whenever you find yourself interested in a girl, you wind up in the Bermuda triangle of dating situations: The FRIEND ZONE!
What is “the friend zone,” exactly?



The “friend zone” is the uncomfortable situation in which a guy is trying to either date a girl or get into her pants, but in her eyes he’s simply a close platonic friend. The friend zone could be summed up by the one phrase no guy ever wants to hear from a sexy woman: “You’re like a brother to me!”
This is a nail-biting, ego-crushing dilemma.
Why do you keep ending up in the friend zone?
Somewhere along the way, when you met or got close to the girl in question, you probably made a few wrong moves. You might’ve behaved too much like a friend, not shown your sexual interest, become insecure, or all of the above.
But it is possible to break out of the of the friend zone and hit on the girl you want. With the right knowledge and tools, seducing women is simple and easy.
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