{"id":575947,"date":"2026-03-31T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575947\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:38:10","slug":"thousands-of-chinese-social-media-users-change-profile-photos-to-kris-jenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575947\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Chinese social media users change profile photos to Kris Jenner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Chinese social media users have started using images of US celebrity Kris Jenner as their profile photos in hopes it will bring them success and good fortune.<\/p>\n

Jenner, the “momager” of the Kardashian family and executive producer of their reality show, is extremely popular in China and nicknamed the “Queen Mother”.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear how the trend started, but it appears to have gone viral over the past weekend.<\/p>\n

A 22-year-old in southern China’s Guangdong province, who only gave her first name Skye, was among those who replaced her profile picture on Chinese social media platform RedNote with Jenner.<\/p>\n

She said she hoped it would bring her a good outcome from her gym training.<\/p>\n

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Chinese social media user Skye changed her profile photo on RedNote to an AI-generated image of Kris Jenner. (Supplied: RedNote)<\/p>\n

She used AI to create an avatar with Jenner’s face and a muscular upper body and also shared the image in a post on RedNote.<\/p>\n

“People are all creating and sharing customised Kris on RedNote,” she told the ABC.<\/p>\n

“People admire her wealth, and everyone’s just looking for good luck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’ve been watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians for a few years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She [Kris Jenner] has a very feminine personality, so I think creating an image of her with big muscles will leave a sense of contrast and is quite funny.<\/p>\n

“I made this one for myself and others who might want it.”<\/p>\n

In three days, more than 700 people liked her picture with dozens of people commenting to thank her and starting to use the same Kris Jenner picture.<\/p>\n

‘Redefining themselves’Keeping up with the Kardashians ending<\/a><\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian West says it is “with heavy hearts” she and her family are ending the reality TV series, which has lasted 14 years and sparked 12 spin-off programs.<\/p>\n

Pan Wang, an associate professor in Chinese and Asian studies at UNSW, said Kris Jenner wasn’t the first celebrity to be used in the young generation’s social avatars.<\/p>\n

Dr Wang said women sometimes replaced their profile photos with images of female Chinese actors.<\/p>\n

“Through redefining one’s image, they are redefining the value and existence of themselves,” she said.<\/p>\n

“By replacing their head shots with idols of the generation, often an idealised image of a woman, people will gain power and confidence through the attention that comes with the image.”<\/p>\n

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Kris Jenner is known as the “Queen Mother” in China. (Reuters: Danny Moloshok)<\/p>\n

In the case of Jenner, Dr Wang suggested it was also a process of sinicisation, or assimilating into Chinese culture.<\/p>\n

“In some of the pictures, she is addressed like a Chinese empress. In some others, she is against the backdrop of a picture of Shanghai or a Chinese national flag,” Dr Wang said.<\/p>\n

“Through localisation, people are turning a foreign idol into a Chinese cultural icon.<\/p>\n

“They would be able to gain a group identity through sharing admiration for their idol and the process of reshaping her image.”<\/p>\n

‘A form of emotional support’<\/p>\n

Another RedNote user, Rao Yuting, is using a picture of Kris Jenner reading books in her profile.<\/p>\n

‘Mixed feelings’ about a viral trend embracing Chinese culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Some Chinese Australians have mixed feelings about the sudden global embrace of Chinese culture after the trend emerged late last year.<\/p>\n

Ms Rao posted her new head shot and said she hoped that she could pass the written exam of the national public servants’ selection in April.<\/p>\n

“My friend got a good job offer after adopting Kris’s image in their social profile,” she told the ABC.<\/p>\n

“So I changed mine too.<\/p>\n

“I think young people these days are into mysticism \u2014 not just out of superstition, but more seeking for a form of emotional support.<\/p>\n

“Many are wearing the image to hint to themselves, but I don’t think in fact it’s going to change things much.<\/p>\n

“I did hear others saying good news came after they changed their avatars, but nothing happened to me yet.”<\/p>\n

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AI-generated images of Kris Jenner posted on Chinese social media. (Supplied: RedNote)<\/p>\n

Chinese beauty blogger Marcelo Wang, who also changed his profile picture to Kris Jenner, last week posted a video about the trend on TikTok, which had 307,000 likes on the platform.<\/p>\n

Jenner herself “liked” and commented on Mr Wang’s video on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“You’re doing amazing, sweetie!!!!” she said in a comment to the post.<\/p>\n

Many of those who commented on Mr Wang’s video had also changed their TikTok avatars to Kris Jenner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Chinese social media users have started using images of US celebrity Kris Jenner as their profile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[256,254,64,63,447,4690,134,7451,74848,26533,1685,20246,30172,248,97372,13882,434,101],"class_list":["post-575947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-chinese","tag-entertainment","tag-images","tag-kardashians","tag-kris-jenner","tag-media","tag-picture","tag-profile","tag-reality","tag-rednote","tag-social","tag-television","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}