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>>apolli+(OP)
"A worldwide cultural phenomenon"? I have never even heard her name, not a single time. Maybe your world is smaller then I thought.

>>mlang2+OM3
There are probably plenty of people on HN who don’t know who the Kardashians are. Heck, I bet plenty of people in the US who can’t name a Democratic presidential candidate.

But if you read English books in an English-speaking country and you semi-regularly visit a English language bookstore, she is a big deal.

If you look at the first picture of this article in the New Statesman:

https://www.newstatesman.com/%E2%80%8Beimear-mcbride-goldsmi...

She is the person right in the middle.