The Hot Delusion: The rise & fall of the beauty canon

Опубликовано: 13 Май 2026
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Why is hotness no fun anymore? 😔

In today's video, I explore how "hotness" & attraction is changing due to the internet. I use the Dazed article 'Too much exposure to hot people is warping our dating standards' by Juno Kelly as a prompt for this debate.

CW: References to body shaming.

Article link: https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/a...

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Sources:
1. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-tr...
2. https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2019-7679...
3. https://link.springer.com/article/10....
4. https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive...
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/op...
6. https://www.sensisagency.com/nexus/na....
7. https://scholarworks.harding.edu/cgi/....
8. https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-cul...
9. https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2...

Chapters:
0:00 An ugly decree
1:25 That’s that Lelo Espresso
3:31 Rating people’s hotness…numerically?
9:43 The Hot-Pocalypse?!
23:12 Announcement

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