{"id":4282,"date":"2025-10-16T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:44:55","slug":"you-are-beautiful-watch-this-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/10\/you-are-beautiful-watch-this-video\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Beautiful. Watch this video\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watch their faces. It\u2019s fascinating how often you can see the cognitive dissonance, the battle of voices triggered in an average human\u2019s head by being told they are beautiful. I don\u2019t think this was the filmmaker\u2019s point\u2014in fact, I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s sort of the opposite\u2014but it\u2019s kind of heartbreaking. Why the hell should it be so hard to be told you are beautiful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is ten years old. All of these kids are adults now (hopefully). <em>Gott in Himmel<\/em> how I wish there was a follow-up video of each of them being shown this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"people react to being called beautiful\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aW8BDgLpZkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch their faces. It\u2019s fascinating how often you can see the cognitive dissonance, the battle of voices triggered in an average human\u2019s head by being told they are beautiful. I don\u2019t think this was the filmmaker\u2019s point\u2014in fact, I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s sort of the opposite\u2014but it\u2019s kind of heartbreaking. Why the hell should it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/10\/you-are-beautiful-watch-this-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Are Beautiful. Watch this video\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[182,572],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/115384382703058905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}