Douglas Quenqua lends a gentle touch to the adolescent search for approval through YouTube: Sammie, a shy 13-year-old girl from New Jersey, stepped out of the shower and pulled on a plain gray T-shirt. She left her hair wet and decided not to apply makeup. Careful not to wake her family, she looked into the camera and spoke in a near-whisper. “People at my school and camp say I’m the most ugliest person they’ve ever seen, she said, and I could be the ugliest person that could ever be living. Be honest and tell me if I am ugly or not...I can take it, but please don’t say really mean stuff.” She titled the video, Am I Ugly or Pretty and — like thousands of other young girls who have made similar videos — uploaded it to YouTube. Several months, 72,000 views and more than 2,000 comments later, she was no less insecure about her appearance, she said in a telephone interview in December. But she had learned a lot about the cruelty of people. “I don’t like to look at that video anymore, she said. It makes me upset. There are people telling me to kill myself, and it’s kind of heartbreaking to know there are people like that out there.”
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:52:05 +0000
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