If you have been scrolling through your Facebook or Twitter lately, yuh know, if you have nothing better to do (like us), you may have seen some #dontjudgechallenge videos. These typically short videos comprise of people making themselves unattractive usually by drawing on unibrows, feigning acne marks, marking their teeth, wearing glasses, etc. After this, they then magically transform into, well, a besssss person, generally to send the message that you should not judge a book by its cover.

Now, these videos have been said to have created awareness on the matter that you should not make immediate negative judgements about someone based on their appearance, and encourages confidence . However, shouldn’t the deeper message perhaps lead to that beauty is skin-deep? (As cliche as that sounds). I mean, yeah we should not judge a book by its ‘ugly’ cover or so you trying to say, but you argue that by just…making the cover better? Yuh eh making sense. Instead, it seems that these videos solely hold the purpose of already attractive people mocking others. For example, those with skin problems, glasses, and unibrows, just to name a few, and solely to highlight that they were, in fact, not beaten with an ugly stick.

As with everything that has gone viral, several videos have been made in response to this #dontjudgechallenge to emphasize why it is actually insulting and does not have the effect that it was supposedly meant to have. While some of these videos are truly entertaining, and QUITE the tief head (AH meaaaaaan), the only other thing we see from these videos besides a bunch of vain people, is that make-up truly is the devil!

What are your thoughts/opinions on this new trend? Let us know! Should we judge the don’t judge challenge?