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Amala Ekpunobi

Can We Stop Calling Beautiful Women “Mid”?

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

There’s a new trend on social media of mainly men posting photos of beautiful actresses and saying they’re “mid,” or only average-looking.Do we genuinely overestimate the attractiveness of famous people, is this incel energy, or are they just trolling? Let’s get into it.


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0:00.0

Giselle Bunchan, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Gigi and Bella Hadid.

0:05.6

When you hear these names, are you thinking absolutely beautiful woman or mid?

0:11.6

Let's talk about it.

0:12.4

Young Apollo with the Belly!

0:18.0

Guys, before we get into this discussion, please like and subscribe.

0:20.4

I want as many people to find this channel as possible so you know what to do.

0:23.8

Now, there's an epidemic upon us.

0:25.6

And it's a bad one.

0:26.7

Of men on the internet calling clearly gorgeous and probably objectively beautiful women,

0:33.8

mid.

0:34.2

For those of you who don't know what mid means, it means poor quality below average, not that attractive.

0:39.2

I'm with it.

0:40.9

I'm here.

0:41.6

And according to Urban Dictionary, used to insult or degrade an opposing opinion,

0:46.8

labeling it as average or poor quality.

0:49.6

Now, I've seen people on the internet using this to degrade the looks of women,

0:55.1

in particularly female celebrities.

0:57.3

This has been happening most recently to Margot Robbie,

1:00.2

with a viral tweet from a man by the name Nicholas Verola, who said,

1:03.6

this is her without makeup, definitely mid.

1:06.5

Ooh, yeah.

1:09.0

Um, I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there.

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