Greta Menchi is one of the most popular youtuber for teenagers in Italy. She is a 20 years old girl from Rome who uses her youtube channel as a diary, talking about literally EVERYTHING. In my opinion she is very spontaneous and genuine and she always makes you smile somehow.
Usually her videos are very "easy" and she doesn't speak about very serious topics, but once in a while, she did.
In the video called "DIETA, SEGRETI E TRUCCHI:La bellezza nei social, parliamone! " ("Diet, secrets and tricks: beauty on social medias, let's talk about it!") she expresses her thoughts about this very actual topic.
Greta started saying that she is one of those people "live your life and let the others live theirs" but that she doesn't like people flaunting their skills,their thinness or obesity and for this reason she wanted to talk about appearance in social medias.
Her point is that in this days, on social medias, we are used to see just PERFECTION: we cut every information that is "inconvenient", we see super skinny girls that show of their body like it is "the perfect one" (#BodyGoals), but in reality they are ANOREXIC, or again, campaigns to promote "curvy" girls that are obese. Curvy doesn't mean obese!
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM!
Obesity as much as anorexia is an illness.
She is not talking about those people that say: "I like L'AMATRICIANA, I BIGNÈ, I love food and i want to enjoy it because life is short".She is talking about people that present SICK BODIES as examples of HEALTHY ONES.
ANYWAAY she was just saying that what we see online is not always real, and those people that are really like that is because they work hard every day to reach their goals, they go to the gym, follow a diet and usually they have personal trainers that help them every single day!
Waking up, looking on Instagram to models and saying:" I want to be like that" is NOT ENOUGH, fasting or skip meals is NOT THE RIGHT WAY.
Than she made some examples of how 3/4 of what we see online doesn't represent reality. Makeup and photoshop and apps to modify pictures make everything that is online BUL***IT! One of her examples was this super famous picture of Kim Kardashian:
( Yes i had to take a photo of the video because i couldn't find the picture :))
THAT PICTURE DOESN'T REPRESENT REALITY, EVERYONE CAN LOOK PERFECT WITH THAT MAKE-UP
It seems stupid to say this things because your reaction is like "I know that it is fake, do you think i'm dumb?" But still every single girl in this world would look at that picture and hope to be like that....
Another example that she used was her self. I found this part very interesting and i think it gives a lot of credibility to what she was saying. Greta knows that a lot of young girls take her as an exaple and idol to imitate. So she showed with HER legs how can your "pose" in a picture change the reality.
Here the shot from her video:
What it can look like....
What it really is!
In general i think that like always she used her spontaneity and irony to present e very important topic that she really cares about.I loved how she tried very hard to tell the teenagers to choose the right people to get
motivation and inspiration from and mainly to get REAL examples.
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