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Know your meme
‘She’s a 10 but,’ as all memes that went viral these days, it has its origin on TikTok.
TikToker @leahhwoodss posted a video of herself and her friends playing a car game on May 31st, 2022.
Leah presents the scenario, “He’s a six, but he drives a nice truck; what does that make him?” One player says “an eight,” another says “a 7 and a half,” and she passes the camera to the next player, who presents another scenario. In three weeks, the video received over 1.4 million views. — Source: Knowyourmeme
As with all memes, they can be funny or reveal a deeper societal issue — the misogyny that some men display on social media when they claim a meme for themselves.
And isn’t this the reason why recently Elon Musk tweeted;
Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so.
Although in itself, when women rate men it can also be viewed as sexist, especially if all you see is a one-minute video, the context of any conversation is lost.
I have to admit, I’m not a big fan of TikTok. The algorithm appears to be too smart for me and it is quite scary.
Go ask yourself the next time you are on TikTok, how much time do you end up spending on the social media network that knows exactly what you want to watch.
In other news, Facebook is trying to be the next TikTok. ‘Copying’ is something Facebook is very good at, especially when you don’t sell your company to Mark Zuckerberg, look at Snapchat.
21 Hilarious “She’s A 10 But” Tweets That Will Make You Feel Called Out — Buzzfeed
- she’s a 10 but she uses goggles in the pool
- She’s a ten but she’s actually two fives stacked in a trench coat
- She’s a 10 but she asks you if you’d still love her if she was a worm
- shes a 10 but puts her milk before her cereal
- she’s a 10 but she had unrestricted access to the internet at a young age
- shes a 10 but she started listening to lana del rey at the ripe age of 13
- she’s a 10 but she cries on her birthday every single year
- “she’s a 10 but” is the premise of most Seinfeld episodes
- she’s a 10 but forgets about her animal crossing island for 6 months
- she’s a 10 but cried & broke down when zayn left 1d
- she’s a 10 but it’s because of inflation
- she’s a 10 but she audibly gasps whenever she hears a one direction song playing while out in public
- she’s a 10 but she listens to phoebe bridgers at 8 am in the morning
- She’s a 10 but goes to Starbucks everyday
- She’s a 10 but she’s forcing teenagers to dig holes in the desert
- she’s a 10 but she has a weird hatred for mayonnaise but likes everything with mayonnaise in it but despises tomatoes yet loves ketchup and
- she’s a 10 but her gay awakening was marceline from adventure time
- She’s a 10 but she’s 27 years old with no money and no prospects and is already a burden to her parents.
- she’s a 10 but she’s calling a cab while he’s having a smoke and she’s taking a drag now they’re going to bed and my stomach is sick and it’s all in my head but she’s touching his chest now he takes off her dress now let me go.
- she’s a 10 but she’s never understood the epic highs and lows of high school football
- shes a 10 but she takes two hours to pick music for her instagram story
And why not a He’s a 10 but, meme
The Rating Game
Here’s how it works: Someone ranks an imaginary person on a scale of one to ten, then adds a trait that either raises or lowers their ranking (they bring you coffee in bed or know a lot about poetry but never talk about it) (they never change their sheets or know a lot about poetry and talk about it constantly).
I don’t have a problem with mundane fun, I engage in it myself. The problem is when some CIS men ‘claim’ memes as their own to weaponize them against women.
Look at this one.
As one user, @deannaculen, put it, the most accurate reenactment of the men recreating this meme is simple: “She’s a 10 but she’s a girl. Zero.” — Source: Mashable
A story that resonated with me even before the “She’s A 10 But” viral TikTok video was all over social media comes from Hogan Torah — Not Everyone is a Seven.
The lens through which we look at each other. The scale of 1–10, it has been around long before the TikTok game that had gone viral.
The majority of the world are fours, fives, and sixes. The scale applies from the onset of puberty until close to death. You don’t age out of being attractive or unattractive. It just matters less as you mature. — Words by Hogan Torah.
To which, I say is true. Now that I’m in my 50s, it just matters less to me, how I look or how others see me or not see me.
Mark Zuckerberg was once a misogynist CIS white male rating Harvard women
If everything in the movie The Social Network is true, Facebook started as a ‘hot or not’ website, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied it during a hearing in Congress where he was asked to testify about the Cambridge Analytica data leak.
He said it wasn’t a precursor to Facebook but Facemash the prank website, as he called was nothing but a juvenile project. He started two years before he started working on Facebook.
To be fair, he was 19 years old.
USRepLong: “What was FaceMash and is it still up and running?” Mark Zuckerberg: “No Congressman, FaceMash was a prank website that I launched in college, in my dorm room, before I started Facebook.”
In the same hearing when pressed further by Congressman Long;
Then Long, who can clearly read the minds of every feminist woman watching, took it a step further and asked, “You put up pictures of two women and decided which one was more attractive of the two, is that right?” This caused Zuckerberg to become even more annoyed and say, “Congressman, that is an accurate description of the prank website I made when I was a sophomore.” — Source: Elle
On the Facemash website, Mark wrote these words.
“Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes.” — Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg, a computer science concentrator, explained that he created the site — www.facemash.com — by hacking into House online facebooks and compiling ID photos onto his website, allowing viewers to vote for the “hotter” of two randomly chosen photos or rate the looks of students in a particular House against fellow-residents. — Source: The Harvard Crimson
Mark Zuckerberg as portrayed in the movie The Social Network, wrote on his blog, about what many believed to be his ex-girlfriend — ‘Jessica Alona is a bitch.’
In a separate report by Buzzfeed News,
In a journal he kept on the site, Zuckerberg mocked some of the students’ photos as “pretty horrendous.”
“I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive,” he wrote.
Facemash was met with outrage and was quickly shut down. — Source:Buzzfeed News
In closing, the‘ She’s a 10 but,’ meme might be funny, but it has a misogynist past.
Even today, women are judged by their looks or simply by their womanhood if not, America would have already had a woman president, the most qualified person in 2016 Hillary Clinton.
Mark Zuckerberg said these very misogynist comments about Harvard women. We can assume that most of them if not all are highly intelligent women.
And yet to Mark all the women whose photos he hacked are subject to his judgment.
I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive,” — Mark Zuckerberg
Yes. To Mark Zuckerberg, some farm animals look better than women. If the meme,‘ She’s a 10 but,’ sounds too familiar it is because that’s how Facebook came to be.
Thank you for reading.
Sources:
21 Hilarious “She’s A 10 But” Tweets That Will Make You Feel Called Out
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Special thanks to Hogan Torah.
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