SKIMS Advent Calendar Drama... (Influencers Defend It?!) | Reaction & Commentary by @sergiomendes on 3Speak
Sharing my commentary and thoughts on the viral outrage surrounding Kim Kardashian's $148–$150 SKIMS Holiday Accessories Advent Calendar. What was supposed to be a premium 12-day unboxing experienc...
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I have swear to myself many years ago that I wouldn't be looking into any more social media drama, and I've been really good, but Kim's Advent calendar drama. It's been going down, and I talked about it, and I think, how in 2026? Are people still supporting brands and products created by the Kardashians? That's my first question. Second, how they are still relevant. Like, please people wake up. Now, this Schim's Advent calendar... like, resuming for what I know, it's really expensive and basically it's a couple of squishies and hair ties from what I saw. And the price, it's wild, which scam, okay? We get it. Now, this video that I want to react... It's titled, Kim's Advent Calendar Drama, Influencers Defend It. And this is the part that I think it's going to be even more problematic, because Red Flag, these are the influencers to block straight away, because how you as a consumer are going to defend this. There's no defense. Obviously, this is on the T-SPIL channel. I haven't listened to her for many, many years. Sorry, girl. I'm trying to stay away from the drama. But if someone's going to tell me and show me the things, it's going to be her. So, if you guys are having fun, if you guys are enjoying this video, please don't forget, drop a like, subscribe to the channel, turn notifications on, and share this video with your friends. And let's jump in, because let's see who is defending it, the reasons, and let's talk a little bit about why do I think this is a big problem. It's Advent calendar season, and you know what that means. These brands are trying to get rid of their unsold, unwanted garbage. And what better way to spread holiday? Girl, just tell everyone how it is. Ah, so good. Like, people need to have that notion. I think people don't know that either. then to package that garbage up, call it an advent calendar, and charge us $200 a pop. Okay, let's, and these people that she's showing, all of them, I have all of them blocked, so far. Every single year, there's always that one brand that has the most audacity, and quite literally packages up the debris from the floor of their warehouse, and this year, it was skim. It's a mess, so let's get into it. Come on girl. I don't know about you guys, but when I think about getting myself an advent calendar, I usually get those cheap nostalgic ones. Simple times, remember those. And we were so happy. The chocolate was not even that good, the majority of the times, at least at my house, because we didn't have a lot of money, so you were really the cheap ones. from like Walmart, sometimes I'll splurge and get a lint or kinder one for like $20. But in recent years, advent calendars have truly become something else. I think these brands realized that they could get rid of their unwanted stock that didn't sell throughout the year, and instead of having to liquidate it or throw it out, they can put it in some pretty packaging and have us unknowingly buy their trash. I would hope for people to wake up and know that because these prices every year and we'd like social media and the videos going viral and the trends of opening and the money that generate in views and also free advertisement for them. It's just wild. It's wild. As a consumers, I think we really need to start waking up and... See who we support and why and stop stop buying. I think we all need to stop buying so much. Yeah, you could argue that there's normally a description of what's inside on the website, but looking at that would defeat the whole purpose of an advent calendar being to collect every day leading up to Christmas. Exactly. And brands know that. They know no one is looking at that description, they know people have high hopes that they're going to be getting some good stuff inside, and they know they can get away with it because usually advent calendars are a final sale. A sample free size of the serum. Honestly, this is another person that I still don't know how he is relevant and people are showing support. Because, come on, he almost, he almost had the redemption arc. But then the redemption. We all know how... how that's been going. This is a no way to say that all brands that do an advent calendar are trying to scam you. There are a lot of really good advent calendars out there. The lush one seems to be pretty decent every year. I've heard good things about the Sephora one. But every year, we get a Zoella. Every bad advent calendar is always compared- Oh my gosh, I remember the Zoella drama, guys. A lot of you were probably not even alive. And those were the days where I was consuming a lot of drama content. And the Zoella drama, oh, that advent calendar, Zoella, Zoella, you will always be remembered for that girl. That will always be in your CV. to the infamous Zoella calendar. You know, the one that had the paper and pens and a random cookie cutter inside of it for 50 pounds. I can remember that being the biggest drama. People were like, there's absolutely no way she's charging that much for this crop. But looking back now and comparing it to what some brands are doing, I'm like Zoella was ahead of her time because now brands are putting even worse inside of theirs, doubling the price and getting away with it. Every year there's a new brand that tops Zuella for worst advent calendar of all time. And this year, that brand was Skims. Skims came out with an Advent calendar this year, and it was being labeled as an accessories calendar. Obviously, they probably were... Now, accessories for $276 Canadian. What do you think it's gonna be? Okay? Because first of all, this is already a scam. but their products from what I see online, they are really expensive, okay? I get it. So why are you buying in the first place? And why is this brand still going? That's the biggest problem these days, and that's why I want to watch this video, and I cannot wait to get to the part where people are defending it, because it is wild for us that no matter how expensive things are. We are just accepting it because the majority of these products that are really expensive these days, they are not like High line or whatever, or you want to call it. There are products that people need to use every day, and people use every day, and they are charging prices. Wild. We're going to be putting bras or underwear inside of it because of sizing. But Skims does have a pretty big accessory section, so customers had high hopes that they would be getting some cute stuff. Like, let's take a look at what Skims has. They have socks, hair clips, hats, wallets. I mean, it still all looks like overpriced shit to me. But you could put together a pretty decent advent cal- Yeah, like a small wallet, some socks. A beanie. Because I think none of that was there. And that's what people thought they would be getting, especially for the price. Sleepers. Skims listed their calendar at $276 Canadian. For $276, I better be able to voucher in one of those stores for a brawn underwear because what? What accessory could possibly be worth near $300? Agreed. The description of the Avon calendar. A dozen reasons of a very countdown on the holidays with this game's successors, Candar, featuring 12 days of fun. 12. Okay, so it's not, it's just like a very short one. It's one of the small ones. No, no, no, 12 items for 200. Says, a dozen reasons to celebrate. Countdown to the holidays with the Skims Accessories Advent Calendar, featuring 12 days of fun surprises. From hair accessories to keychains and more. Unwrap a mix of Playcholidone and everyday favorites. And they did list what's... Okay, so let's see the list, because I haven't seen this list yet. Bear keychain. Three pack of hair elastic. Three pack of scrunchies. 3 pack of bobby pins, skim squishy, 2 pack of clips, 2 pack of braelastic headbands, oh, more bobby pins, okay, comb keychain, logo keychain, so four keychain so far, another scrunchy. for a compact mirror keychain, another keychain. What? Okay, okay, so, again, if you're buying this for yourself, you don't want to know, because you want a surprise, that's part of it, because otherwise, why you've even got to buy it, but if you go and check and you still buy it, that's on you, because this is clearly not almost. $300,000 that I think it's around 150 or a little bit more like USA dollars. This is wild, guys. Side of the box under the fit in the fabric section, but like I said earlier, who wants to go and look at that when the whole idea is to be surprised? They did have a section that said similar items under the advent calendar, so I feel like people may have looked at that and figured they'd be getting similar things in their calendar. But if they did, they were in rush shock. When people start... For what I was on that list, I would pay $20, 20 USA dollars, which is probably 40 Canadian. And that's already way too expensive. For a couple of scrunches and key... Key chains? No, no, no. To receive their calendars, they decided to open them right away for a TikTok video. Of course, like everyone does this days. This is the worst advent calendar I have ever seen in my life. The first video I saw was by this creator, so let's watch her video together and be prepared, it's bad. I have to treat myself. Okay, let's watch this. Skims the Advent calendar. It's supposed to have accessories, holiday goodies. One, you have a cute teddy charm. Ooh! We have some hair ties. 3. I have some skims silk hair tie. 4. They're new, because I have skims clips. Imagine you opening this and you know that you paid $300 for this. But these are like skims bobby pins. I'm sorry, if I paid near $300 for an advent calendar and I'm already getting hair ties and bobby pins, bobby pins inside of it, you guys, from a billionaire. Oh my God. They are ugly. Is that the squishy? Oh my, it's worse than I thought. I cannot wait to see how these influencers are defending these brands. What do you mean? Like squishy thing, but with their logo? Honestly, thank God they put this in there, because I'd be stressed to you if I spent $300 for the dirt under Kimberly's couch. Six. How is she still smiling? I will be having a mental breakdown at this point in the video. Hair ties? I don't want to feel stupid hairbands. A bra strap. They literally took the unsold bras, and they were like, you know what? Cut the straps off of them. We can turn each strap into a limited edition hairband, and then we can use the fabric from the bra for the bare keychain. They have the hair pins in red. It's functioning? Can I use it? Oh, okay, it functions. I can actually use it, but it's a charm. The brush I paid near $300 for it actually functions as a brush. It's ugly. What a steal. This is day 10, day 11, more 12. Like we have a compact. Kind of sad, I didn't put an ornament. Wow. I've seen pictures. I've seen pictures and it looked sad, but now seeing her opening. each and every single one of them, if I was opening that, like, imagine you buy that for a family member, that you know it's a really big fan of the Schem's product, and you don't know much about the brand, so you look at that thing, but like, I guess, like, if you're buying for someone else and you look at the list, because you can look at the list, you're going to be like, I'm not going to buy this, this is crap. I don't know, this is, this is wild. How can anyone defend this? That's my question, and that's what we need to see. And that's what we are here for. That's the T we are here for. We're probably getting there. Yeah, they're definitely a sasserine. I don't know how this girl was able to stay composed and do not rip them a new hassle. This looks like the back of my dresser, like not even the junk drawer, the back where all the I haven't looked at in years falls down 20 dollars. That's what I would pay for it. Not even. I really think the Simms employees went dumpster diving behind the Simms factory for this shit because there is no way. People in the comments have been reacting to the unboxing and everyone agrees this is shameful and quite literally a scam. We had people writing, how is Kim Kardashian not ashamed? $160 for hair ties? Oh my god. Okay, I guess it's $160. I genuinely would not pay any more than $20 for that. Yeah, I'm with a $20 purchase. Uh-huh. Why is no one talking about the random bra straps? And everyone who's done an unboxing has had the same reaction. It starts off a little bit optimistic, and it ends in disappointment. If the box is not even that pretty. It's just like, it's a chip box. So even there, they saved money. Because if it was just like this fancy, super high quality material box, it's a card box with some... paper on top, so very, very cheap as well. Like, I haven't seen no one commenting about that, but even that was probably a few cents for that box for each of them. What? How can anyone defend this? Come on, tea spill. Spill the tea? Oh, freaking cute. Number two? Skim's hair last place. Okay, okay. Not judging. You better judge, girl, you better judge. More hairs crunchies. I'm not sure what this is for, is it like... Oh my god. What are these for? The bra strap gets me. The bra strap gets me every single time, because what do you mean? That's ridiculous. I bet everyone who was unboxing this thought they were about to pull out an actual bra. like at least attach maybe a gift certificate for a bra to redeem on the end of the bra strap. I can understand that you can't put bras in here because everyone is a different size, but for that amount of money, at least give them a gift certificate. I never thought I would see the day where Zoella's calendar actually looks like a great deal in comparison. It's ridiculous. How can anyone defend this? Like, you are defending a brand that clearly, and we all know that doesn't care, the brand or the people behind it, they don't care at all about their consumers, they just care about themselves. And that's ad, that's ad. Because I feel like we should be heading in a way that we really try and support brands that show some care for their consumers and for the real people that are making them millionaires. A candle, a room spray? We were truly spoiled and we didn't even know it. I will say, and I do really well... Is it well a redemption? ...where everyone can come together and agree that something is bad and have a laugh about it. I've been laughing at this pile of the stuff that was in the Skim's advent calendar for like 20 minutes. This is literally the shit that my cat collects from around my house. No, Kim, because you're so right. Why did I not ever think when I was in a pickle and I didn't have any headbands to come through? Why didn't I just think about using my bra strap? Kim was on to something. I get it. My application. Yes. I love it. I feel like there's usually an influencer or two who will maybe try and defend a brand's bad product to stay on the PR list. But everyone, even influencers, were dragging Kim over this calendar. I'm dying, you guys. I had to cut this whole part out of my video and come back and now update you, because of course, I- Okay, okay, okay, so this is what we came for the T to see who is defending it and who we are blocking. which probably they are already blocked. I'm pretty sure, because I've been blocking so many people online these days. But let's see what are the reasons and who is defending schemes and Kim Kardashian. Kim Kardashian! That's another one that she's blocked, because how do you, how, why do you even keep watching her videos to start with? But that's a story for a night of day. We're not going to get into a drama channel in here. Influencer is trying to defend this calendar, and not only defend the calendar, but blame it on the customers who are mad, saying they aren't true Skim's fans. Sorry. Who's this influencer, you may ask? I'm going to give you one guess. Pause the video and write who you think this. Also, there's only one influencer defending it. Influencer is because of... Of course it's them. Kim Kardashian has broken the internet again with her skim's ad pet calendar, the internet. Glamzela. I know she's been, people used to love her as well, but I know she's been in a lot of dramas. I haven't seen, I think I have blocked her as well, because I think I was just like, girl, you're, you're just into deep already. So, yeah, I'm not surprised, I'm not surprised. She is, I feel like she is one of those that it's, like, it grew up to be out of touch. is fuming. People are saying they wasted their money and it's a rip-off. Well, we're gonna find out what's in this advent calendar as somebody who actually buys every single skim's launch. Like, I own all the skims launches, I buy everything, I know the prices for everything, so I will actually tell you if this is a rip-off or not. You're already saying that you're so rich, but let's be fair, I think she had like a... I don't know a lot about her, but what I know is that I think she had a very, very big, like, losing weight journey, and then I think she was using a lot of the shapewear, and I remember seeing some videos, I think, probably was with schemes where she would wear the shapewear and all that stuff. So we know that there's a long relationship in there. but let's see if sims is defending the skim's calendar she started off by doing an unboxing of the calendar that's unforgiving straight away i would say this is like $56 okay so if you would buy that for $50 you should just honestly jump off the cliff I'm sorry, I'm not gonna measure my words. Just go and jump off a cliff. Because you are part of the problem. Ish, approximately $56, and it doesn't even have a face. Someone in her video commented and said, I literally just got the same bear for free at Target today. They were just giving them out. And it has eyes and eyes for free. So, they actually have a Skims collab with silk scrunchies. These are not silk scrunchies, I can tell right off the bat. So these are just ready to prioritize, okay. All right, so silk scrunchies, again, these are not the silk scrunchy collab, though. So I don't think this is a wow moment for me. I would definitely say if they were the silk branded ones, I would be wowed. Throughout this whole video, Glamzilla only gives two critiques to the spot. and this is one of them. Okay, skims little clips. Yeah? What's the excuse, girl? Oh, I got an extra one. Did I get an extra one? Oh my guys, I got an extra one, and he was only $300. Ugh. Girl, you don't even use those. What are you talking about? Come on! Extra one, yes I did! Oh my god, I got three bobby pins, one of which is clearly broken for $300. See, this is why I wanted to watch Teeth spill. We are in the same wavelength. These are not the same quality as the ones that I spent $80 on, but... very cute nonetheless because I like the color. I think it's gonna look really great in my beauty videos. I think what's even more shocking than her reaction to Kim's Couchland was her admitting that she's bought all this shit herself and spent a disgusting amount of money on said shit. A little skim squishy thing, I don't think this is worth it. I think that's actually just something cute. Okay, see this, this is nice. These are skim's quality. Yes. Why didn't she start with that? Now we're talking. Now it's worth it. The way she is struggling to be positive. You can tell. She have been saying a couple of negative things, but she's trying to just keep it positive. And you can see she's struggling. What the... 100% these are amazing. I could tell by just touching them. I would actually spend $80 on this because I'm a huge... Yeah, because you are out of touch. Huge fan of skims. Bross... Oh, no, are these, these are not bra straps. These are not bra straps. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So, Skims actually hasn't launched something like this yet. So it's... Because... It's crap. One of those headbands, but it's like a bra strap vibe, okay? So it really grips your head because it has that…