{"id":23823,"date":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/23823\/lau-hotties-because-judging-covers-is-acceptable-online"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:34:53","slug":"lau-hotties-because-judging-covers-is-acceptable-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/23823\/lau-hotties-because-judging-covers-is-acceptable-online\/","title":{"rendered":"LAU Hotties: Because Judging Covers Is Acceptable Online"},"content":{"rendered":"As if the hype surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/23657\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">AUB Crushes<\/a>, LAU Crushes, BAU Crushes and whatever-the-hell else crushes wasn&#8217;t enough to sustain the Facebook users of Lebanon, the fad has recently given birth to a brand new trend: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/LAU-Hotties\/500628203331747?fref=ts\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">LAU Hotties<\/a>.<br \/>  <br \/>  As mentioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/ivysays.com\/2013\/04\/17\/lau-hotties-the-new-facemash\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivy Says<\/a>, the page is a throwback to Facebook&#8217;s original purpose&#8211;Facemash&#8211;which allowed people to rate classmates on the basis of their looks. <br \/>  <br \/>  Forget for a minute, the sheer shallowness of the page; forget its demeaning purpose. Think instead, how it reflects the Lebanese culture, in that someone thinks it&#8217;s actually alright to use people&#8217;s pictures without their permission in order to secure likes. And they&#8217;ve gotten nearly a thousand supporters for it.<br \/>  <br \/>  What is her value? Is her body nice enough? Are his eyes colored? Should I like it? Or is that other chick more worth my like?<br \/>  <br \/>  We&#8217;ve reduced ourselves to calculating self-worth on the basis of goddamn likes. We&#8217;ve become full-fledged narccissts that feed off of pages like LAU Hotties and AUB Crushes, where people waste hours searching for their own face and name.<br \/>  <br \/>  &#8220;How many likes for this hottie?&#8221; asks the page owner, hoping to get worthless internet points to win an imaginary popularity contest.<br \/>  <br \/>  I weep for this generation.    <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" data-id=\"452269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23823-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23823-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23823.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" 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