Kylie Jenner comes under fire from fans for ‘tasteless’ Astroworld-themed birthday party for Stormi and Aire
Social media users have been furious after Kylie Jenner threw a joint birthday party for her two young children while seemingly making light of the deadly Astroworld tragedy that left 10 people dead.
Kylie celebrated Stormi’s fifth birthday first on Wednesday, and Aire’s first birthday party followed on Thursday, with both apparently wearing the same massive decorations.
But the celebration took a dark turn when the 25-year-old cosmetics mogul and her famous sisters shared photos and videos from the event, revealing that she had put up what appeared to be decorations inspired by the cover of her ex Travis Scott’s hit. Astroworld album.
The designs, which included creepy inflatable heads with gaping mouths inspired by Stormi, were inspired by a similar large head modeled on Travis’s own face on his LP cover.
Social media users described the display as tacky due to its association with the deadly surge of crowds at Travis’s Astroworld festival, even though the large head designs predate the tragedy.
‘Tasteless’: Kylie Jenner, 25, came under fire from social media users after celebrating her children’s birthdays with back-to-back parties featuring decorations referencing her ex Travis Scott’s Astroworld album.
Creepy: The party featured large inflatable heads that appeared to be modeled after Stormi’s own face.
Art that imitates life: The heads were inspired by the Travis Scott-inspired inflatable head on the cover of his hit album Astroworld.
Large dead-eyed heads weren’t new to Kylie and her family, having worn them for Stormi’s first birthday.
For her second birthday, she went all out, keeping the Astroworld heads but designing an entire indoor carnival to celebrate Stormi and featuring even more disembodied Stormi heads.
Kylie took a break from Stormi World decorations for her daughter’s first birthday following the deaths in November 2021, when she would have turned four in February 2022.
It was presumably due to the unsettling associations with the deadly event, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped the enormously wealthy Kardashians star from bringing them back for Stormi’s fifth birthday bash.
The last party featured a silver head of Stormi with rainbow-colored slides coming out of her mouth, while another design that could also have been modeled on Stormi featured a catwalk through her mouth for guests to enter.
One Twitter user described the setup as “demonic”.
‘What the hell is up with this messed up theme? So much demonic… I hated what happened at #AstroWorld’, they wrote.
Another person thought he was spitting on the victims of the Astroworld tragedy, as well as their families.
Huge: The last party featured a silver head of Stormi with rainbow-colored slides coming out of her mouth, while another design that could also have been modeled on Stormi featured a catwalk through her mouth for guests to enter.
A year off: Kylie took a break from Stormi World decorations for her daughter’s first birthday following the deaths in November 2021, when she would have turned four in February 2022, but was ready to bring them back this year .
Overkill: One Twitter user described the setup as ‘demonic’
Thinking of the victims: Another person thought he was spitting in the face of the victims of the Astroworld tragedy, as well as their families.
“Kylie Jenner MAKES MOCK at the victims of Astroworld (including a 10-year-old girl who was trampled) with her former Travis-Scott themed birthday party for her daughter, Stormi,” they wrote, including photos of one of the big heads. and images of the 10 people killed at the music festival.
“Kylie wearing astroworld branding to her kids’ birthday party kind of scares me,” another person wrote on Twitter.
‘Isn’t this tacky after the Astroworld tragedy… where children died?’ another person tweeted.
One user even complained that the Astroworld tragedy had tarnished the name of the Six Flags park that Travis named his album after.
Another person joked that Kylie was “probably the least eco-friendly woman” because of the huge decorations.
Collateral damage: One user even complained that the Astroworld tragedy had tarnished the name of the Six Flags park that Travis named his album.
Polluter: Another person joked that Kylie was “probably the least eco-friendly woman” because of the huge decorations
Custom: Aire’s birthday party was a day later, on Thursday. Stormi World’s decorations seemed to hold up, but it also had car-themed decorations.
Although Kylie seemed to have kept the decorations for Aire’s birthday, she had special details suitable for him.
One of the inflatable heads had a path drawn leading to its mouth, with balloons saying ‘Path 1’ around it.
Kylie shared a photo of her birthday cake, which was shaped like a race car and apparently inspired by Disney’s Cars.
Unlike Stormi’s opulent second birthday party, this seemed to be a relatively low-key affair, at least in comparison to that massive carnival.
Despite parting ways with Travis, Kylie didn’t seem to mind repurposing Stormi World’s decorations, even with her connection to him and his job.
The former couple welcomed their first child on February 1, 2018. Aire was born just one day after her sister’s birthday on February 2, 2022.
In early January, it was reported that Kylie and Travis Scott decided to call it quits for a second time after the two stars rekindled their romance in 2020.
Kylie appeared to have flown in on Thursday and was seen landing at the Van Nuys airport with her children that day, despite celebrating Aire’s birthday party on the same day.
She and her family have previously been criticized for opulent private jet travel, which creates pollution and releases enormous levels of greenhouse gases.
Stick With Them: Despite parting ways with Travis, Kylie didn’t seem to mind repurposing Stormi World’s decorations, even with her connection to him and his job.
Parents: The former couple welcomed their first child on February 1, 2018. Aire was born just one day after her sister’s birthday on February 2, 2022.
Short trip? Kylie appeared to have flown in on Thursday and was seen landing at the Van Nuys airport with her children that day, despite celebrating Aire’s birthday party on the same day.
Overblown: Kylie and her family have previously been criticized for opulent private jet travel, which creates pollution and releases huge levels of greenhouse gases.