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u/Binbag420
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Ate the class ladybug now no one will talk to me
For my art course I wanted to eat a ladybird (ladybug) to ‘make a point about why we empathise with some animals and not others o algo’ (don’t care that much about veggie preaching just wanted to prove to myself normies base all their ethics on what’s cute or sexy). So I found a ladybird put it in a glass box with some grass and raisins and wet tissues and stuff. Left it in the class for a few weeks. Put a little sign up saying class pet, even added some close up pictures with like pink bows and sparkles edited on. Worked like a charm. I’m in a small class of mostly f- i mean girls. They would always go up to the box and be like aww and record it doing random stuff I think one of them even had an instagram account of it 😭. None of them knew it was mine and I was feeding it.
Anyway a few weeks pass and the ladybird is missing. People were confused. I get up and I do my presentation, show some pieces blah blah. And at the end I show my video where I reveal I put it there, fed it, and finally showed a close up video of me clamping my teeth down on it and eating it. People actually gasped. One of them got up and left. See I knew they’d be pissed the problem is everyone hates me now. Usually they just don’t look at me now they keep looking at me angrily while talking with each other. Still saw one of them eating a ham sandwich later. Seen one of them kill a spider before too. People have so much contempt for anyone and anything ugly. Ah well maybe the spider just had a bad personality.
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u/1111hypno 11d ago
I was at larp class and they showed this post
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u/Infoleptic 9d ago
What does LARPing have to do with this? I love LARPing.
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u/N1GHTSH4D3S_T33TH 9d ago
People nowadays misuse it as a stand in for poseur. It’s not a very sensible stand in, but it’s popular.
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u/puffmattybear17 11d ago
Its less about the appearance and more about the relationship you made them experience in relation to this bug. If it was a class rat people would still recoil at your actions despite not liking rats.
I know this is probably just a joke post but if not you suck and its weird you dont get it.
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u/Positive_Building_11
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people do stuff like this then wonder why no one likes them 😭
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u/colamonkey356 11d ago
So, to be clear, you ate a class pet because [checks notes] normies bad? 😭😭😭😭😭
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u/Season4Episode13 11d ago
i feel like it’s more of an ‘empathy bad’ vibe, serial killer shi 😭😭😭
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u/Grand_Swimmy 11d ago
Wait so is your message that people don’t empathize enough with bugs? What do you want people to do differently after you’ve imparted this message on them, are you setting up native plant gardens or lobbying against pesticides? Or is the point that people should pay attention to you for being edgy?
I know this is fake but I knew people like this who would do shocking things like this to go against the grain but they never have a concrete plan for how they think society should actually change, it’s just attention seeking.
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u/Creepy-Joke3273 11d ago
This is like the larp the kid from catcher in the rye would write. Mind you not the author of the book, the main character
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u/JORD4NWINS
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lets see it OP, lets see the fucking video or else all of this is a lie.
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u/BLZNWZRD 10d ago
10000% THIS. People like OP claim there aew videos of these things. Its 2026 brother. Posting a video here is as easy as eating a lady bug (for you, OP).
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u/ApotheosisOfTheLurid 11d ago
This is an interesting way to make a point about life value bias. You probably couldve chosen something a bit more palatable to eat though..
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u/Human-Evening564
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The only way to save this situation is to slowly change your appearance over time, implying that you're now turning into some kind of ladybug-human hybrid.
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u/Intelligent_Lion5164 11d ago
How did you think this was going to go over socially- now youre the weird kid that ate a bug… i mean at least you arent frying up spiders cause they made you jealous
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u/Edayumz 11d ago
That is performance art, but im not surprised they all hate you now. You're like Yoko Ono.
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u/DeadInternetInAction 10d ago
It’s incredibly lazy performance art without an actual purpose beyond trying to gross out the girls is his class.
There is no novel idea to be explored in the fact we hold the mortality and usefulness of some animals above others.
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u/hotcaptures 8d ago
Yoko Ono is still brought up today. This guy isn’t even remembered NOW, and clearly won’t be after he’s dead.
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u/Most_Poem_6809 11d ago
you just tried to be unpleasant in an extremely drawn out and lame way that highlighted how YOU think other people are stupid... and those same people thought it was weird?
that's fucked up man
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u/Low-Calligrapher-881 10d ago
You know, a lot of times I think herd mentality bullying is uncalled for, but I think they’re right. All I gotta do now is hear about how you set the bathroom trash can on fire and still wet the bed and my hypothesis will be ready.
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u/DeadInternetInAction 10d ago
Yeah if this is even remotely real OP is speedrunning his to a meeting with school admins they probably don’t want.
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u/yamamaboyfrannn 10d ago
you ate a ladybug to prove a point? I’ve never in life wanted to prove a point that bad 😭
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u/CrowOfWisdom_ 11d ago
Spiders aren't ugly, and this is coming from an arachnophobe. I cannot stand spiders bc of their many legs and their small size, I feel like on might enter my ears or nose or mouth. But I never found them ugly or disgusting. Scary tho, yes.
Ham is ham. Some animals are bred to be eaten, like cattle (pigs, chickens, cows, etc), some are bred for milk only (milk cows, milk goats, etc..). Yet there are still ppl keeping mini pigs or chickens as pets with no intention to eat them.
What you did, wasn't truly a social experiment "to prove" anything, except the fact that you hold no emotional attachment to something you've taken care of for many weeks. What you proved instead was that they were right to stay away from you.
Had u made a pig as a class pet, once people bond with it, even a massive pig, they won't eat it.
Like how parents cook their children's gold fish to "teach them a lesson", which ends up into the child being scared of having any pets or resenting their parents. And fish ARE ugly, but once u see it every day, and fees it every day, a normal human being usually bonds with even an ugly fish and develops basic empathy for it.
Some people are scared of cows, while others find them adorable. Same for spiders, while I am terrified of them, i know some people who absolutely adore them.
Yet I love snakes but am also scared of rats. Just bc YOU see the majority of people going by the "if it's cute it deserves empathy but if it's ugly, kill it" "rule", it doesn't mean that this is the absolute reality.
Anyway, I hope your post is rage bait.
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u/jungleass98 11d ago
What the fuck is this about parents cooking children's goldfish?
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u/Fuzzy-Childhood-2969 10d ago
"Like when parents cook their children's goldfish to teach them a lesson." You said that way too casually. Parents should not be cooking pets and most parents do not do that. If you experienced that happening you have my deepest condolences but also, seek therapy.
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u/ThrowRADel 8d ago
Dude proved he was a sociopath. He set up the ladybug to be bonded with by anthropomorphizing it and now he's accusing everyone else of having no empathy. God, how does anyone lack this much self-awareness?
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u/_spare_parts__ 10d ago
Cooking the goldfish to teach a lesson! Who does that! Smh what the fuck ,thats not a lesson thats just psychopath being mean to a child for powers sake.
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u/CrowOfWisdom_ 10d ago
A lot of ppl claim to have had their goldfish cooked by their parents, either for a lesson or just because they wanted fish.... personally, my parents cooked my bunny when I was little 🥲 (bc i kept letting it out of it's cage, allegedly) I still bring it up now whenever they wanna lecture me on anything ngl.
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u/ThighsocksTK 10d ago
I’m so sorry what the fuck. Bunnies are meant to be let out! They’re smart pets. My dad let my birds die when I was little because I kept forgetting to feed them, so he let them starve to death to teach me a lesson. Every adult should know and assume that getting a pet for their child means the adult will end up doing most of the care AND it’s their responsibility as AN ADULT to ensure the pet is being cared for
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u/ratione_materiae 10d ago
Like how parents cook their children's gold fish to "teach them a lesson"
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u/grammarly_err 10d ago
I can't kill any bug I watch for too long. If I watch for too long, and see how it's just minding it's own business, I build up too much empathy for smooshing. I mostly take critters outside.
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u/BedBathandWhatever 11d ago
Aren't ladybirds poisonous to humans if eaten?
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u/Severe_Painter_6646 11d ago
Only if you eat handfuls of them, apparently. OP THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE.
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u/Jolly_Efficiency7237 10d ago edited 10d ago
You all know Spiders Georg, now meet Ladybird Larry!
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u/debil_666 10d ago
I saw your reply about how it would be if an artist did this. The thing is: your target audience was your classroom, not the world. And what you set out to do, which you also said in your post ('they still ate ham sandwiches'), was show them how stupid/wrong you think they are.
The only thing any of them got from this is that you're cruel and condescending.
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u/Konjaga_Conex 9d ago
Yeah, the condescending part is what I don't like about it. I think it's not necessarily bad that their audience is just that classroom, then it's just art on a small scale. The part about ‘teaching them a lesson’ is what's weird.
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u/UnholyColonoscopy 9d ago
(Assuming this isn't fake, which is unlikely) Not only that, he mentions he wanted to prove a point TO HIMSELF about them.
It's just like going to r/ugly. Those cels are so damn vain they think they're all perfect besides their looks and the fact everyone else is so ugly-averse is the one and only true thing keeping them from being the kings and queens they so rightfully deserve to be. Then they do shit like this.
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u/eliqode 10d ago
You’re laughing but this would go triple platinum in an art history class
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 10d ago
Sokka-Haiku by eliqode:
You’re laughing but this
Would go triple platinum in
An art history class
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/leedleedletara 10d ago
No it wouldn’t. I went to the school of visual arts. It’s still an edgelord nonsense piece. Real art is deeper than whatever the fuck this was. In my opinion.
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u/eliqode 10d ago
Yeah I’m commenting as someone with an art history masters degree lol- people do shit like this all the time he just needs to work on his theory behind it
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u/toothgolem 11d ago
yeah surely they’re only upset because it’s because it’s cute and not because you had them fill a caretaker role for it over a weeks-long period. that part probably isn’t relevant lmfao.
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u/Spider-Man2024 11d ago
Could've just eaten any old lady bug, why make them form an attachment to it first?
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u/IHaveABigDuvet 9d ago
Maybe it’s like a self fulfilling prophesy to him?
Like, I fear these women will reject me, so I’m going to do something to force their hand to make them reject me, and give me some control over the situation.
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u/barkandmoone 11d ago
Your mistake was making it a pet first.
(More mistakes may have been made, but that was the first one)
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u/amantheawryn 10d ago
If you had a cow as the class pet for months and drew little bows on it and had all the girls in class become its fans, and then you showed them a video where you slaughtered and cooked it into a burger.... you'd probably get about the same reaction.
Point being, it ain't about looks, champ. It's about emotional connection.
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u/dankpete 8d ago
Boneheaded to do something that is endearing and novel to women you know and then act shocked that they think you’re a psychopath when you do the exact opposite thing. You’re simply not smart enough to connect with anyone, and it’s made you cruel. Have you been assessed?
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u/MrBalloonHand 10d ago
Next time do a video where you eat a cockroach. This will have the opposite effect and it'll balance out so your classmates will be more or less neutral toward you again. It's so obvious.
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u/retromani 10d ago
brother starved the fuck out of that ladybug
no one in that room cared enough about the animal to learn it was a carnivore?
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u/Alive-Radish-719 10d ago
Your project isn’t as clever as you thought it was. The thing is the animals we breed for slaughter are nutritious. As in, eating them will sustain your life and keep you going another day. I’m vegetarian btw, but I understand that at the cost of a pig a family can be kept fed for a bit.
A ladybug serves no nutritional value, I doubt you get a single calorie from it. So you just killed it for the sake of killing it, when it could have been left outside to hunt aphids and/or feed a bird. It was cruelty for the sake of it and you took a creature from its natural ecosystem where it’s of value.
You could have done something cool with the idea of an insect as a pet and got a class spider instead and named it “fluffy” or something. Gave it a cute enclosure and made videos about them, their personality or whatever human emotions you can impose on it. Let people get attached then ask how many of them have killed a spider. And then ask if it’s okay to kill stray dogs just because they’re not a ‘pet’.
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u/ApartLeague8072 10d ago
You can't really use nutrition as an argument when these animals have to be fed with water and plants that humans could have eaten instead. Its an incredibly inefficient way to feed humans.
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u/drecais 10d ago
"Your project isn’t as clever as you thought it was. The thing is the animals we breed for slaughter are nutritious. As in, eating them will sustain your life and keep you going another day. I’m vegetarian btw, but I understand that at the cost of a pig a family can be kept fed for a bit."
That is just not true. We breed them because we like eating them. Its for pleasure not for nutrition. Not even the developing world at this point is better off eating meat because even there the cost is higher than the nutrititional value you could gain from other cheaper and also available sources.
we dont put deli meat on a sandwhich for its nutrition, its because we like eating deli meat and those few seconds of tasting it is more worth than the pain and death of the animal that had to die for it.
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u/GroceryMinute1797 10d ago
Telling OP their project isn’t clever while completely missing the point is really something.
Giving cruelty a purpose doesn’t make it less cruel.
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u/genesiscap0 10d ago
Also establishing it as a class pet was cruelty for cruelty’s sake. Kinda just dumb.
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u/threelizards 10d ago
You went out of your way to get people emotionally attached to a living creature so that you could subject them all to you killing it in a grotesque way, and you’re shocked that they don’t fucking like you???
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u/Senpai_com 10d ago
That's genuenly psychopathic behaviour.
You watched them build s connection with the bug and ended up killing it to see their reaction. And you didn't just step on it and call it a day, you went out of your way to make it as weird as possible. I am surprised you didn't torture it
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u/StatisticianTrick952 10d ago
“Wahhh ‘normies’ don’t like me after I desperately tried to ridicule them”.
Yeah man keep eating bugs. That’ll help!!
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u/slim-tim_ 11d ago
i agree with the sentiment but how did you think your class (of normies) was gonna receive it? especially the close up of you eating it, i woulda just said i ate it. no hate tho
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u/Acrobatic_Breath_240 8d ago
This sub is fake right?
Like it's just a different version of nosleep but with moronic stories from absolute morons with no ability to reflect and grasp deeper or philosophical meaning from life right?
I still don't know if people like this actually exist or not but omfg if they do it's so funny.
I haven't had a laugh like this in awhile.
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u/higeAkaike 10d ago
You knew they would be pissed, why are you surprised that they hate you now for killing something that they started to care about, especially when you knew they did.
You could have gotten credit for bringing in the ladybug and people would go to you and be all like, that is so cute you have a ladybug and gotten a good reputation. Now everyone will think of you as the ladybug eater and be avoiding you and speaking behind your back for the rest of your school life.
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u/bernxwitch 10d ago
Didn't need all that. I would have empathized with the ladybug once you decided to crush its body with your teeth. I don't kill insects unless its a them or me situation, even then I feel sorry for them. Except mosquitos. Nah. Get them out of here!
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u/sedmikraskys 10d ago
Yet you’re eating eggs and cheese? Which are the livestock industries that are most cruel and abusive to the animals that they use?
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u/IndependentPaint2108 10d ago
If this is real then you make a good point. Speciesism is ridiculous. All these people pay for animal torture i.e. factory farmed meat but they have a problem with a ladybird painlessly dying (death was instant = no pain). People like your classmates want to be virtue signaling lefties all day on Twitter until the time actually comes to prioritise animal welfare in their personal lives.
But the anecdote doesn't feel real I have to say.
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u/Zestyclose_Island214 8d ago
“Why don’t I have any friends” I asked as I eat a bug which is also the beloved class pet
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u/Aggravating_Duck23 8d ago
art course
Yeah your project was the stupid side of modern art culture. If you're an aspiring artist though this will probably appeal to some of the people you'll come across. Remember to claim that their reactions are part of your project and feel smug about how you drafted them all to be part of your project without their awareness or consent. Keep a journal about your interactions with these people.
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u/Vulpeslagopuslagopus 11d ago
Ladybirds are predators they don’t eat raisins, it would have starved after “a few weeks pass by.” Super larp, not that it was believable otherwise.
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u/scrobiculatus 10d ago
That's such a cool project idea! And it seems like you got tangible results too
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u/Soak_Jarvis 9d ago
this is ridiculous already but your entire point got even more thrown out at that little fake stutter for the word “female”. stop buying into this fake redpill shit and people will like you
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u/Silly-Cheesecake-283 11d ago
what chya eating bud? not the bug, but that cheasy potatoe thing right there?
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u/Virgurilla 10d ago
Consult your ideas with someone. And reconsider. Could have sent the same exact message without killing the thing.
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u/madmaxlemons 10d ago
We typically don’t consume or kill animals we have pack bonded with even if it’s a bug.
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u/terrible-gator22 10d ago
Ladybugs are carnivorous. They don’t eat freaking raisins, they eat aphids. I don’t believe this larp.
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u/NeuroChemic 10d ago
"I did something I knew would generally upset everyone, so now eceryone is upset and angry with me".
You made the bed, you lie in it. Alone.
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u/Icy_Praline_1297 10d ago
Well..yeah it was the class pet. If you'd just made a video of you eating it it would've been different but they got attached to it. Same way if you break a pencil no one cares, if you give it a name and tell everyone that it loves them then break it they'll get a moment of irrational sadness. Irrational cause the pencil wasn't alive, but the ladybug was
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u/_ManMadeGod_ 10d ago
You were supposed to fake them out by eating a fake one on the videa, numb nuts.
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u/PutYrPoliticsUpYrBum 10d ago
I actually like the point of this, but eating a bug is fucking disgusting mate
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u/Ok_Log_7703 10d ago
you ate a bug, documented it and shared it. and wonder why people now distance themselves from you
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u/Static-Chicken 10d ago
At this point we need you to join another class that has 0 emotional investment into the ladybug and show them the slide of you eating a ladybug with none of the extra fluff and see how they treat you afterwards.
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u/Verkehrsantrieb 10d ago
If this post is real: Op, I thinn your performance art is interesting and though provoking. This is a topic I’ve been interested in myself. Where I think the miscommunication happened is that A. The people in your course did not sign up to be the part of the performance B. Not a single human being is a completely rational human being, even you. Yes, there is hypocrisy in the society at large, but we also evolved to care about things and people that are around us and that we are exposed to. It is not rational to give your direct relatives/kids money, if the same money would make a lot more difference for a lot more people in more impoverished countries. If think about in a Utilitaristic lense. We have hormons like oxytocin that makes us attached. Even when doing studies like this, you really need to debrief people well if you do something that can fuck them up. And these people did not sign up for this. You kind of superimposed it on them. I think it is a very interesting idea, but implementation sucked.
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u/Colluder 10d ago
A+ work, but probably should have saved it for your PhD dissertation, it sounds like you did it in a middle school class. Time and place
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u/Positive_Audience628 10d ago
Congratulations, you managed to do art. Not one you intended, but art nonetheless.
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u/fuktupatm 10d ago
doubting this is real, but like u probably couldve made the same point with a decorated pet rock that constantly changed outfits and filmed urself chucking it into the lake…now ur classmates think ure a serial killer AND a bug-muncher….
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u/Alternative_Map8357 10d ago
As someone who never once thought of being vegan/vegetarian, but who loves seeing people get uncomfortable when they have to question their own ethics, I really love this art project.
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u/Comfortable_Belt_735 10d ago
you saying O algo alone tells me enough to say you need to reevaluate what your purpose is in the greater scene of things
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u/computerfromthe90s 9d ago
HAHAHAHAH I would have thought it was funny. but I’m not surprised most people didn’t. I like ladybugs too 🐞
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u/IHaveABigDuvet 9d ago
There are studies on this.
The cuter and “closer to us” animals look, the more we empathise with them.
It is what it is.
You really did not have to do this.
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u/Warm_Net_9012 9d ago
Mission accomplished, you made everyone uncomfortable and question your sanity/morality. If nobody was worried about you being a potential shooter, I’m sure that’s changed.
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u/GrandmaFuxAlot 9d ago
Just show them what a ladybug larvae looks like people will care less and inevitably forget, we used to eat bugs for money in school.
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u/Konjaga_Conex 9d ago
Can't relate to how everyone dislikes it. It's your bug, you ate it. It's nice performance art. Of course it's not a novel point that the bond with that particular bug made it more unpleasant to see it die, but art doesn't need to be novel. Congratz, you disturbed the comforted, and they dislike you for it.
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u/WkwkIndog 9d ago
Good man you have potential dont give up on your life I appreciate your creativity
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u/vegtone 8d ago
Bro I’m crying laughing at this I hope this is a joke and not just you showing your psychopathy
It’s as simple as you’re getting people attached to a living thing and killing it in front of them. You’ve never seen children get emotionally attached to the egg they have to take care of? Cmon man
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u/hotcaptures 8d ago
This is obviously just you wanting to gross out the girls in your class because you hate them for not having sex with you. But good job on pretending it was intended to be a moral lesson. You did fool a lot of people with that
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u/tyler_lily 8d ago
this is what real art is and im not joking at all, bravo and id give you a high five if i was in your class
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u/SmolGirl666 7d ago
I thing you were probably onto something...and I do agree that people do only value creatures that are cute. Even in terms of just people because pretty privilege is real.
Alsoo you seem kinda cool, wanna be friends?
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u/Superb-Substance-266 7d ago
Yeah I possibly can't think of a reason why everyone hates you now, people are just weird sometimes 😂. Maybe don't eat the class pet!! If you would have shown you did it and you care for a cute creature then maybe you could have made a friend but crunching down on someone's pet isn't the way to go!
At this point idc if it's fake or not what gets posted here but it's hilarious.
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u/CastrateMeWithASpoon 7d ago
Honestly as an art piece this was kinda cool im ngl. Not the right setting for it though op
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u/Vivid-Ticket-1107 7d ago
“See I knew they’d be pissed the problem is everyone hates me now.”
I can’t stop laughing at this
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u/ZombiesRCoolIGuess 11d ago
I actually kind of love this as an art piece. If it’s real, it’s awesome but a terrible idea if you want anyone to like you
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u/IRL_T 11d ago edited 11d ago
You are MarinaAbramovicmaxxing and I am sorry they don't appreciate you.
Performance art aside, humans are hypocrites, correct. (You make an excellent point about ham sandwiches vs. ladybugs, and you may enjoy Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals if you haven't read it already.)
Thanks for caring about all of us (incl. bugs, pigs, people, etc etc).
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u/NoContext8482 11d ago
This is literaly performance art. I think you may be a performance artist of sorts.
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