“Am I ugly?” Teens turn to YouTube trolls for the answer
As if Photoshopped fashion spreads and in-person bullying aren’t enough, young girls and boys are turning to the Internet to ask the most vulnerable of teen questions: “Am I pretty or ugly?”
A batch of YouTube videos shows teenage and adolescent girls sitting expectantly in front of their computer monitors and asking Internet trolls for their “honest opinion,” a modern day version of “mirror, mirror on the wall.”
The top scorer with nearly 4 million views is a girl named Kendal, who was 14-years-old when she filmed her video last year. With a koala hat atop her heavily made-up face, Kendal hazards, “I just wanna make a random video, seeing if I was like, ugly or not because a lot of people call me ugly and I think I am ugly and fat.”
She flashes some photos – posing in a bathroom, making hearts with her hands and blowing kisses. Many commenters reassure Kendal of her looks, while others accuse her of fishing for compliments.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/am-i-ugly-teens-turn-to-youtube-trolls-for-the-answer/article2349527/
