Everyday People React To Being Called Beautiful

I conducted an independent project, which evidently turned into a social experiment halfway through, regarding beauty at my performing arts high school in Chicago. I want to clarify that my intentions were not to get a reaction out of people. I was simply filming beauty and this is the result. Here it is. Source YouTube
siftbotsays...

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lucky760says...

I don't know if it's my aging... or parenthood... or sleep deprivation...

but a lot of this video made me teary-eyed.

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siftbotsays...

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, December 4th, 2015 8:46am PST - promote requested by lucky760.

newtboysays...

My first thought was she's a raging homophobe who assumes a compliment from another girl is a come on and responds by protesting too much.
But of course, I've been known to be wrong before.

StukaFoxsaid:

Imagine how hurt you'd have to be inside to act like that. You have to go through some serious shit to have that kind of attitude.

eoesays...

I wonder how this would go with a male photographer -- quite differently I believe, especially with the generally patriarchal society we live in.

What I loved about this video is even the people who one could argue weren't so attractive, when they smiled and when you took a moment to look at them in the right light, they were quite beautiful.

I agree that that one woman probably had some sort of traumatic experience that gave her such skepticism. I also found it really interesting that there were a handful who you could tell were really, really skeptical, but just not to the point of profanity. Poor people -- they don't believe anyone could find them beautiful.

Lastly, I'm curious as to how objectively beautiful Shea is. If she's a very attractive woman, I could see why some of the people were skeptical. They assumed it was some sort of joke or prank. I could easily see this being a joke or prank and Shea posting this on youtube saying, 'LOLZ LOOK AT THESE UGLY PPL HOO THINK THEIR BEUTIFUL! LULZ!!!!'

JustSayingsays...

Let me get this straight: cutting people because they gave you a compliment is inappropriate?
Well, shit. Not only do I not get any compliments, on top of that I'm carrying a razor around for nothing!
Stupid feel good videos.

oritteroposays...

She has posted a reaction video, so you can judge for yourself (language warning though, watch on mute if you're easily offended):


eoesaid:

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Lastly, I'm curious as to how objectively beautiful Shea is. If she's a very attractive woman, I could see why some of the people were skeptical. They assumed it was some sort of joke or prank. I could easily see this being a joke or prank and Shea posting this on youtube saying, 'LOLZ LOOK AT THESE UGLY PPL HOO THINK THEIR BEUTIFUL! LULZ!!!!'

eoesays...

@oritteropo:

The video definitely answers some questions:


  1. She goes to an arts school and was able to do "anything" for her final project. No dig to her, but there's some privileged shit right there.

  2. She's not super attractive, but she's cute and obviously very extroverted, friendly, and undoubtedly popular. If I was a shy nerd and was confronted by her (and probably having seen her be this way before in the halls), I'd definitely be skeptical and assume she was being an asshole to me.

  3. Regardless, she does seem pretty genuine.

  4. God damn, college art kids are annoying with all their "wow, I'm so laid back I fucking curse all the fucking time for no fucking reason or some shit. Fuck."


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