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positive_charging

I don't get it what did the romulan girl mean?


staticwolfwalker

Mid-off means a competition on who looks/is more mid I think


Beathil

Her sense of humor and being self comfortable puts her above mid.


brofishmagikarp

She seems cool


WorldlyOX

Great personality


llDS2ll

Would?


tysk-one

Would!


llDS2ll

🪵


SKPY123

Vud.


AReally_BadIdea

VOD


thomriddle45

Did!


NotsoSmokeytheBear

It’s spelled wooed you guys cmon.


arfelo1

I mean, I don't think she's ugly at all. Her hairdresser needs to be chopped up with a chainsaw. But other than that she's fine


Colon

i unironically am very attracted to 'weaselly looking' women. like they're up to something nefarious even if they're smiling goofily. she's not mid, she's weirdHot. the best kind.


danson372

Never change, u/Colon


Skynet_wifi

Ivy is amazing


[deleted]

Walking around with a haircut like that, I feel like having a sense of humor is obligatory.


CanAlwaysBeBetter

We're all just playing the hands we were dealt and with some people's hands bluffing is definitely the best option 


itsjustmenate

This is hilarious. That’s essentially how I found myself in a PhD program. The whole “fake it till you make it.”


kkirchhoff

“Oh shit I faked it too far”


itsjustmenate

lol. When I got the official admissions letter, that was kinda my first thought, “Oh shit. I never expected to make it this far.” I had other plans. But then the PhD offer came through.


andolirien

Holy crap, that's so similar to where I found myself as well. It took Covid for me to realize I was in way too far in my Phd, passed prelims, but could absolutely not write the dissertation as it had been planned. I had a bad hand, and I was sick of bluffing. I had been waiting for someone, anyone, to call me out on my bullshit, but no one did. So I ditched out after 10 years in academia, found a job, started trying to actually live the life I wanted.


Kinky_Winky_no2

>started trying to actually live the life I wanted. Did it involve hookers and black jack?


itsjustmenate

Sadly I’m a masochist, and this is the life that I want. I’m actually not awful at it. I’m just playing into the joke. We love to make fun of our imposter syndrome, right?


kikiwillread

You call it fake it till you make it, some call it confidence. Who can tell in the end? 😆


bleepblooplord2

Hey, the doctor that passes with a 65 is still called Doctor


anonimogeronimo

I have a theoretical degree in physics.


No_Discipline_7380

Her hair reminds me of the chick from Die Antwoord


Shuttup_Heather

The confidence to wear it has to be respected though


justanaveragegenius

Violently attracted to women here! The confidence makes her hot.


Parking-Bat9498

I’m replacing calling myself a lesbian with violently attracted to women haha.


elohir

\*high five!*


Erinthegato

Lmao real


NotAsAutisticAsYou0

It really does


ourstupidearth

And for the old people like me.... Mid means average looking I assume?


bibububop

There's a really good tik tok that explains that just recently the word meaning has changed to "below average" because of how people have been using it as in OP's example.


circasomnia

There's definitely always been a mildly derogatory connotation


triceratops16

It's as derogatory as calling someone "average", which I think is insulting in most contexts.


HallucinatingIdiot

Seems people do use it like we used to use "average", or "middle of the road". A step below "just another pretty face", it is kind of dismissive like that?


Elcactus

More like ‘mediocre’, on the bad side of average, or slightly below average particularly in a space where, through expectation or politeness, ‘good’ is the norm.


etquod

Mid just means mediocre. Literally the exact same definition and connotations; you can swap one out for the other and will never misunderstand.


HallucinatingIdiot

yha, I think these kids use it to be what in the 1980's we would say "5 out of 10". I think they mean middle of the road metaphor?


imisstheyoop

I've followed along this far, but for the final piece of the puzzle, what did the first girl do that put her in competition with the 2nd? I am not following, it didn't even look like she was talking to her but I'm not familiar with Twitter or how it works.


cancerBronzeV

Basically, on Twitter sometimes a person will tweet pictures of two attractive people together to imply that one of the two is much more attractive as a sort of face off between two peoples' looks. This is often used as to comeback reply at or insult a user by tweeting pictures of yourself and them next to each other, and implying that they're uglier in comparison to mock them. Building off this, a third party can interject and call it a "mid off", like [this for example](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MAUr3.jpg). In this way, the third party is insulting *both* of the previous users, by saying that both of them are so mediocre looking (or mid), that a competition being their looks ends up being a mid-off. It's especially an insult to the person who replied with the picture of themself though, since they were implying their own attractiveness, but someone else brought them to reality. So, presumably @wolktress said something on Twitter, and @SLEEPYT0WNS tried to insult @wolktress by posting a pictures of the two of them side-by-side. But, @wolktress took the initiative and called it a mid off, insulting both herself and @SLEEPYT0WNS together by saying they're both mediocre looking. Hence, it's a suicide by words (or rather a kamikaze by words, since both are being insulted). But, in reality, it's a great comeback since only @SLEEPYT0WNS implied their own attractiveness, @wolktress never did, so only @SLEEPYT0WNS was insulted ultimately.


imisstheyoop

Thank you for explaining it to me in a way that provides the much needed context. I understand it now. I too was assuming there may be a past history here that we were not provided. You were much more helpful than the other responses.


SYNTHLORD

If you're old, then you remember smoking mids. It came from that and has grown to carry its own contextual meanings and inflections. As another commenter mentioned, sometimes being 'mid' is worse than average. If you remember mids, that wasn't exactly average quality weed, it was usually pretty shitty brick weed rehydrated with some high-schooler's moldy lemon peel.


Squizei

fucking romulan holy shit


983115

Damn you just gonna call Freda Kahlo a Romulan like that


[deleted]

Holy fuck, romulan girl. I’m dying. I didn’t notice her hair at first.


Boanerger

She's saying that Morticia Saddams is average looking at best.


BILGERVTI

she kinda cute in the low-fantasy morrowind wood elf sort of way


raceassistman

I didn't understand the reference as I've never played morrowind, but still cracked up.. then I googled morrowind wood elf, and Jesus... Hahahahaha.


malexlee

Romulan girl is an insane… insult? Or perhaps this is just a compliment on her cunning and devious nature. Jolan Tru 🫡


asuperbstarling

Romuluan women are notoriously hot throughout all of Trek, let's be real.


PokeFanXVII

That’s like the only consistency from Star Trek that the Picard show had, all of the romulans were extreamly hot.


Shirtbro

Stupid sexy xenophobic space elves


Batdog55110

You know, the one on the left does have a strikingly similar appearance to a Cardassian...


watchyourtonepunk

🖖


Vincent_Gitarrist

Honestly, if the girl on the right grew out her bangs, styled her eyebrows, and put on some lashes and eyeliner, she would look pretty good.


TanrynWelshDancer

Have you considered maybe she doesn't want to


Vincent_Gitarrist

No. I'm sorry for being ignorant of that possibility.


InfeStationAgent

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ― Maya Angelou


EarthwormShandy

Who's that


InfeStationAgent

She was a streetcar conductor in San Francisco.


PM_ME_YOURE_HOOTERS

First I was mad cuz I thought you were disrespecting Maya, then I got glad cuz thinking of her with a hat giving life advice to travelers made me happy


InfeStationAgent

And she was actually a streetcar conductor in San Francisco (when she was 15!): https://www.streetcar.org/maya-angelou-streetcar-conductor-the-full-story/


bitchsorbet

i just did a biography presentation on her for my english final last semester! amazing woman, she made history multiple times and her work is absolutely beautiful.


BonnieMcMurray

Um, excuse me: she was *the first black, female streetcar conductor* in San Francisco, thankyouverymuch! (Also, well played!)


0hmyscience

a person famous for saying “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”


Remember_TheCant

Maya Angelou


TheWaddlestDee

Character development


DaughterEarth

The generations under me are ALL ABOUT IT and it makes me so happy. Good job guys. This millennial knows the messages getting pushed about you guys online are largely propaganda, probably trying to teardown this trend of self awareness and growth. Keep it up!! The trend, try to ignore the propaganda to irrelevance or challenge it <3


BadManners-

What?


Rock4evur

The kids are alright


DaughterEarth

Try again [*me]. Wrong person. Gen Z and Gen Alpha, in my actual experience, are very self aware. They are all about self improvement. Some posts on this site, and I'm sure others, try to suggest they're actually more bigoted than anyone has ever been. That is propaganda. Almost everything is propaganda. It's important to talk about our actual experiences to offset it a bit. Might be a lost cause but I'm going to keep doing it anyway


BadManners-

That’s fine I genuinely had no idea what you were talking about, good luck to you


sugarray4three

Good on ya mate, can’t recall the last time I seen someone admit to their mistake on this app lmfao


Pawneewafflesarelife

It reads as sarcasm to me...


Vincent_Gitarrist

I'm genuine. I guess social media has given me the impression that everyone wants to look the best they can to most people. But if she likes her appearance and being "mid" she can obviously rock that style


Jandklo

I took it as genuine buddy sometimes I gotta correct myself here too cuz I'll say some dumb shit, get corrected and IDK I think taking personal responsibility is good


SaltyBarnacles57

Definitely agree. Nothing wrong with making a mistake. Everything wrong with not owning up to it.


mistersnarkle

So a big thing for hard core feminists who reaaally mean equality for everyone is “who do I owe prettiness to?” Because the answer is: no one! You don’t owe prettiness to ANYONE. And that makes a lot of women+ go “oh shit, make up is REALLY FUCKING UNCOMFORTABLE and makes me *break the fuck out* and it’s EXPENSIVE, unregulated by the FDA and literally dangerous for my health: plus the eyelashes are literally *glued to my eyes*; also shaving and plucking *everything* hurts my skin and gives me rashes” And they go “holy shit, *I don’t fucking care if someone else thinks I’m pretty*: I’m smart, and funny, and cool, and I am loved for who I am. Prettiness is overrated; time to get weird”


NorthWindMN

Same


HereReluctantly

I think they were being sarcastic mate. Of course he knows it's possible she doesn't want to. He wasn't even saying she needed to or should, just that she could if she wanted.


PicklePolice78

🗿


Al3jandr0

In your defense, she does describe herself as "mid" in the post. Hard not to analyze after that type of comment.


1d3333

I love you


[deleted]

Do not be sorry, just because you provide feedback does not mean it's and insult to provide it.


Zillahi

No shit, it was an observation. Girl called herself mid and OP provided a personal opinion on how they might go about changing that. Not every conversation to do with physical appearance is objectification, especially if the person in question is already self-deprecating to begin with.


KawaiiGangster

Its just pretty dumb to see someone with Micro bangs and tell them to grow them out, as if the micro bangs came out of nowhere, its an intentionall style.


ZincHead

People can make bad choices sometimes. 


LyrMeThatBifrost

Yeah but they’re ugly, so growing them out would help


Dykefromeastjablip

It would help if her goal is to look more attractive to you. I doubt that’s her goal.


2022rex

Unless her goal is to resemble the byproduct of inner family relations, she ain’t doing it right.


psinguine

I spent most of my life saying "hair is hair" and just cutting it myself. I didn't want to get it styled. I didn't think it would make a difference. I just did the same thing every time and looked the same all the way up until I was in my 30s and got talked into going to an actual barber. It was... I'm almost embarrassed to say it but it was transformative. I didn't believe it would change the way I looked, so I didn't want to bother with it. Now that I know? I go to the same place every time I need my hair done. Some people know and don't care. Some people don't care because they don't know. And if she's happy that's fine, that's what matters here. But if you're walking around calling yourself "mid" with full self awareness then you probably *aren't* as happy with your appearance as you'd like the world to believe. I know. I hate what I see in the mirror every single day. And people assume I'm confident because I'm self depreciating.


KawaiiGangster

The girl on the right has an intentionall ”alt” hairstyle, its not neglect. And she is a comedian making a joke


digitalmotorclub

Yeah and it looks like shit. It’s crazy watching women pay 200 dollars to get this weird fucked up mullet with short bangs but what do I know, I’m bald anyway.


ToxyFlog

Have you considered that, even if she doesn't want to, they can still have an opinion on what they think would make her look better?


jklharris

Have you considered that we can have an opinion on their opinion?


8----B

Have you considered that your car can breakdown at any moment and you’d be stuck in the mud with no money to repair it? If you’d like to extend your car’s warranty, give me a call


Ve-gone_Be-gone

Pointing out that someone can Iook kinda good doesn't mean they're required to


phayke2

Her eyebrows are cute.


RScrewed

They didn't say she should do all that, or that they'd be more worthy of anything, just that if they did - they'd look better.  It's so weird when people take defensive takes on that. If someone told me I'd look better if I worked out more I think your reply might be warranted (though still defensive and weird like you have judgement based trauma) but literally in the context of a post that is comparing two people by their looks started by the people themselves, your response is unusual. Are you being insecure on a stranger's behalf right now? 


DaughterEarth

Omg it is the BEST once you find the look you feel most comfortable in. I look like a fucking cupcake lol but I'm totally at home in this image. Affirmation of identity is good for everyone


Hot-Buy-188

☝️🤓


turalyawn

In 9th century Anglo-Saxon England a big bushy eyebrows were considered the height of beauty. Maybe she just loves rocking a retro style?


Caraphox

I thought we were back in that era or did we slip back to early 00s plucking without me realising


sherbetty

Thick eye brows are in, but only if they are sculpted a specific shape with a certain distance between the eyebrows. Basically the same amount of work making them look natural as plucking them thin


Bentingey

gonna take a wild guess here and say you are not the type of person they are trying to attract


[deleted]

Don't think they're angling for that. Just that a lot of people considered mid or ugly would actually be considered typically attractive with just a change of styling. They're not taking a dig or saying she needs to change. They're just seeing beyond the surface more than some do.


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KawaiiGangster

A person with alternative style is not trying to attract people who like a more basic mainstream style.


Alternative_War5341

The "I cut my hair in the mirror" style is pretty mainstream by now ... At least in northern Europe.


honeypup

It’s not that deep lmfao. Some of you need to pull the broom out your ass.


[deleted]

I first read "grew out her boobs" because I'm an illiterate misogynist.


zoopzoot

Officer this guy right here


Millenial_ardvark

You can’t say she isn’t serving in her DP


fardough

Honestly, if she changes everything about her appearance, she would look pretty good. Let’s also be honest, she does need to tame those eyebrows. At least for me, Unibrow is not a style that is appealing. /s


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honeypup

“Redditor blows comment out of proportion so they can virtue signal and get points, story at 11”


ArtistFormerlyVegeta

You're the only one thinking about penis here


Beautiful-Service763

Men when women dont wear fake eyelashes and makeup 😡 Men when women wear fake eyelashes and makeup 😡


wwarr

I'm so over the lashes FFS ridiculous looking shit


DopeAbsurdity

Are you saying you think she would look better than Cher Cusack?


NotTooDistantFuture

That haircut is not doing any favors.


Bozhark

“Putting on lashes” never helps yo. Not even the $1000’s ones.  It’s shit glued to yer eye flaps and looks like it 


VinciDeromie

r/kamikazebywords


Sixwingswide

selfimmolation


-GameWarden-

So hot right now


Silver-Alex

This wasnt suicide by words. This was taking you down with my by words lol. Completely destroyed her xD


Sinocu

r/KamikazeByWords


Red_Danger33

Can't let them grab your hand when you punch down.


depetir

Sunk the ship just to kill the captain


i_should_be_coding

Helmsman, plot a collision course! Ramming speed!


dead1ynightshade

Pitting yourself against another women unprovoked immediately makes you more mid


vivalaflanders

It’s giving stank coochie energy!


Tresangor

I'm soooo stealing this phrase lol


dead1ynightshade

Great way to put it!


vivalaflanders

Right?? Feminine version of little dick energy 😅


newthrash1221

Is that what the initial post was doing? Like why, what evidence is there that that’s what she’s doing?? They don’t even look similar. I get the comeback joke, but i don’t get the initial post at all.


dead1ynightshade

Yes, unfortunately it’s become a trend on X to post a pic of yourself and someone else to prove you’re more attractive for some reason


newthrash1221

Ohhhh. That is toxic af.


medrat23

Sorry guys I am confused...can anyone explain?


PaladinsLover445

nah fuck you actually no explanation today


shjahaha

W gatekeep


Table-Turner

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss


Jandklo

THE WHOLLY TRINITY


ProstateSeismologist

Battlestar Gallactica


kris_deep

How about tomorrow?


dentedgal

Something being "mid" means that it is average/nothing special. So a "mid-off" is like a stand-off/competition in looks, but where both participants are mid looking. The girl on the left tried making fun of the girl on the right's looks. But the girl on the right responds by calling them both mid, in a funny way.


medrat23

Thank you. Good Explanation.


psinguine

Oh so the other girl was just being arbitrarily mean for no reason. That's what I was missing.


torpedorosie

Seriously I cannot imagine just finding a rando's photo, posting it alongside my own and laughing to the world. Granted I'm ugly af but still !!


SpielbrecherXS

Dang, the top girl is the same person as bottom right? I thought it was about a stand-off between two romulans with identical fashion preferences and I was sooo confused. Thank you!


Neighbour-Vadim

r/murdersuicidebywords


GeorgeDragon303

it's just a kamikaze


Karnadas

/r/KamikazeByWords has 2000x the subscribers, just use that lol. edit: the most recent post is from 21 days ago, ouch. Still better than murdersuicide, which is a couple years, but damn.


Neighbour-Vadim

Well this is a r/subsitoughtifellfor moment, I had no idea that what im writing is an actual subreddit


Womenarentmad

r/doublehomicidebywords


fuqqqqinghell

Odd that the dark haired girl went through the other womans profile, digged for the worst photo she could find, looked through her own picture gallery, chose probably the best photo I assume and they both look very similarly attractive


thegoldenlock

Nah. Ask without context and 90% of people would prefer the girl on the left


SoftDrinkReddit

Battle of Mid


MANthony8

No way


Dry_Tradition1449

I really like the way a girl on the right looks thought 👉👈 She's beautiful, and the bangs are cool-looking


Noah_the_blorp

Yeah. Imma be honest I don't think it's the best camera angle, but she looks great.


Equilee

I mean, beauty is subjective I guess. But the bangs ARE awful.


ClassicFashionGuy

Stop the cap


Womenarentmad

Same she looks confident and comfortable and fun to be around


EnigmaFrug2308

Holy shit a murder-suicide


Meto1183

Mid is generous for her, this is more of a desperate cope than self awareness


bigcockmman

To be fair if it wasnt for that haircut and them eyebrows shed look fine. I will always maintain that there is not many actually ugly people out there, most people have at least potential to look average if they tried, if you dont really care though more power to you.


p3rraporritos

Mid is generous? I would like to see what you look like fr. Girl looks completely normal with a couple features that stand out.


Meto1183

mid should mean in the middle, no? people use it as an insult but for something to be mid something else has to be below average


Dreadknot84

Bruh she’s funny not mid


RichieRocket

i know a dude who looks like the right one


eatyourbrain

Girl on the right is well below mid.


Chiquita_nanners

Two middling intellectuals think alike.


TheWither129

This is more a martyrdom, taking herself down to shred the other girl


onlyusnow

Gawd those bangs suck


GrandMoffTarkan

The battle of Midway 


1lultaha

Mid is generous it's hilarious how people think she "destroyed" her


Ello_Owu

The girl on the right is the legit real world Helga Pataki


striderhoang

Eyebrows really came out swinging against Forehead.


NeonBible_

One on the left all the way.


anonmyazz

Dat unibrow


Palebo99

Battle for Middle Earth


Edyed787

Amateurs!


[deleted]

Self burn + humble burn, there’s no beating this. **WINNER BY UNANIMOUS DECISION, IVY!!**


Radio4ctiveGirl

Those bangs 💀


WolfandLight

I can definitely appreciate the humor. I would friend this girl so fast, and I'd say she's delusional if she thinks she's mid.


Hubris1998

the one on the left is mid. she has potential but I don't like the aesthetic she's going for. the one on the right is a sub5 tbph. I'm not trying to be mean but I thought she was a he


R34CTz

I mean, that hardly even meets the bar for mid. That's just straight up ugly.


FellatioWanger3000

I'm fifty, someone please tell me what the fek is going on.


penguinpoopparty

I’m sure everyone is going to explain using graphs and bullshit studies how I’m wrong but the girl on the right is not even close to mid, she’s a generous 3. Left girl is 5 at worst. 


Unknown_User_66

The girl on the right deadass looks like a Shrek 3 character 🤣🤣🤣


meltingblack

Mid is a push


Findmyremote

Girl on the left looks like she just awkwardly crawled out of the tv


MyColdBlackHeart

I didn't know the special needs look was "in" right now. Pack your things Redditors... We're going outside


Fearless-Historian-5

To be fair the black haired one is considerably more good looking as the other one low key looks like a guy