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Hey, humans! Today we’re going to talk about selfies – but first, look at my Harry Potter shirt. Look at it. Look at it.
Here’s the thing: I think a lot of people associate selfies with vanity and conceitedness and cockiness and all of these kind of negative things, but I think that selfies are a really, really great thing. Like, for the first time in history, people can take photos of themselves and control how they’re seen and how they portray themselves to everyone else, which is a power that we haven’t had—like—ever.
Obviously when photographs came into being, you had to have someone else take a photo of you and that stayed that way for a long, long time until we have good enough cameras on our phones that we can just take pictures of ourselves, and that’s magic! You get to control the way the world sees you. What’s more empowering than that?
You get to decide who you are via your pictures. That’s fantastic, but someone sees someone else taking like 50 selfies of themselves and they’re like, “Oh God, what a conceited person. They just want to see pictures of themselves,” and “Oh, I can’t believe that they would do such a thing.”
But, you know, the line between like conceitedness and confidence is hard to draw. I would make the argument that selfies are really like a form of self-love and self-confidence and self-esteem, because in a world where the media is telling you that you’re not good enough, especially for young girls, it can be really hard to see yourself in a positive light. But with selfies, you have the power to take pictures of yourself and be happy with them and share them with the world and say, “Look, this is how I look and I’m happy with it, and this is me.”
Yet here are people taking pictures of themselves and saying they’re happy with how they look and everyone else is calling them vain and conceited – and that’s not cool. But for me, I love the idea of selfies, but I honestly don’t think that I look that good enough, and so I don’t take that many, and I think that’s a problem, and I’m trying to work on it, and I’m trying to take more selfies as a thing for self-love and self-confidence.
But I get weird looks when I try to take selfies in public, like people look at me like I’m that stupid teenager, like I’m that dumb kid who is just so conceited and has to take selfies with everything. I think this is changing. I think it’s becoming more socially acceptable to take selfies, but people still make fun of people who have selfies take or who make duck faces or whatever. They’re all just forms of self-expression and of remembering the things that we’ve done when we get to the future, and I think it’s great. I’m so sad that people make fun of people for taking selfies.
I’m going to show you some of my selfies. I’ll have them run here while I’m talking. I’m not particularly proud of them, and I don’t usually post them just because I feel like my face looks weird close up, but the whole point of this video is that you should look good in your own skin and you should be able to take pictures of yourself and show them to the world. That’s what I’m doing right now and I hope you like that.
Anyways, if you get one message out of this is that you should love yourself and you should take selfies and screw what everyone else thinks because you’re beautiful and you know it. You can take all the photos that you want and share them with whoever you want and it’s all up to you.
All right, well that’s all I’ve got for you today. Give me a thumbs up if you like the bun. I’m trying out some new hairstyle things because my hair is getting longer. You can give me some ideas for new hairstyles in the comments if you want. I’m trying to work on it and let me know in the comments what you think of selfies. Do you take a lot of them? Do you not take a lot of them? Just let me know your opinions on it and I hope to see you next week. Thanks so much. Bye.
