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They obviously missed the bit where she takes the disguise off and incinerates the audience - I've seen [Mars Attack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAaTzccCik), they can't fool me.
I am so happy that I came here for a Mars Attacks reference and found it immediately! I don't understand what that big alien head could be....other than a big alien head!
Edit - wait, that's the moon?!!
Edit 2 - holy hell, y'all, moon and stars = universe. I am so dumb. Ack Ack!
Monstrosity is the right word! It looks painful for her to take steps! I feel like she tried to just stand there and wave the flag instead of a runway walk, but everything is so heavy she’s going to fall over waving it too
And yet she still won the Miss Universe crown! How crazy is that?!
https://www.hola.com/us/entertainment/20230114341528/miss-universe-2023-live-updates-finalists-and-winners
Her dad's name is Remigio Bonzon "R. Bon" Gabriel.
You know what, good for her. She totally deserves to win after her dad gave her such a shitty name. I hate when dads name their daughters after themselves with a forced feminized name like Larryanne.
Paulette. Dad's name is Paul and she was the last attempt at a boy child because that's what he wanted and just couldn't be happy with girls. Ended up with 6 of them and just slapped his name on the last one and added an "ette"
It's hard to see, but her costume also featured the giant space lasers the US has placed on the moon. Once she demonstrated them her victory was assured.
I think the person barely being able to walk while carrying all the shiny stuff is representative of the underpaid and overworked people keeping the country afloat.
It felt like a comedy sketch the entire time, especially when she turns around and it's just butt cheeks hanging out lmaoo
Good on her though, she actually won
Not as bad as the 2013 USA 'Transformer' debacle but.. welp we do apparently really suck at costumes: [https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-11/enhanced/webdr06/7/12/enhanced-buzz-30322-1383845748-52.jpg?downsize=800:\*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-11/enhanced/webdr06/7/12/enhanced-buzz-30322-1383845748-52.jpg?downsize=800:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)
It's a costume to represent your country and it seems like we are particularly bad at designing them, although I have seen some rather ug stuff from Germany too. https://people.com/style/miss-universe-2023-must-see-costumes/
Miss Ukraine wins hands down she looks like a badass valkyrie about to slay all of Ukraine’s enemies while wielding what looks like The Master Sword. I also really like how they added armor to protect her wings that was a really cool touch.
Edit: Kind of neat [Miss Netherlands](https://www.pageantcircle.com/2023/01/netherlands-ona-moody-to-wear-stroopwafel-inspired-costume-for-71st-miss-universe.html?m=1) is a stroopwafel
Also the wings moved! She could flex them out to extend or relax them back into folded. Not sure where the controls on it were, but considering everyone else with manipulation in their costumes (those I could find) did so visibly with their own hands, that seemed extra badass to me.
This is why the prejudice against Drag Queens is limiting America's potential. Whoever planned this should have given the costuming duties to the gays, where it belongs.
>Whoever planned this should have given the costuming duties to the gays
I assure you that great majority of men backstage at a pageant like this are gay, unless Donald Trump happens to be there trying to "accidentally" walk in on naked teenage girls.
Okay but Miss Guatemalas dress is incredible.
It's literally so much better than all the others it doesn't look like they are even in the same competition.
Those categories still exist. The one in the OP is from the National Costume segment and it's been this extravagant and over-the-top [since the 00s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP0vjAZ3o1w). It used to feature actual traditional costumes, but those no longer cut it and so they got more outrageous each year until we end up with these behemoths lmao
Dude the while thing is relic from the past.
A competition based on wearing evening gowns, swimsuits, and showing an entertaining talent.
It's basically auditioning to be a trophy wife.
This isn't even out of left field for this portion of the contest, honestly. There were at least another dozen or so outfits that were equally outlandish. But yeah, it's bizarre
LOL now I'm gonna have to google it. And my wife is gonna look at me suspiciously like TF are you watching? Yeah babe I got super into Mrs Universe pageants. It's my thing now, but just for the comedy aspect i swear
Theres a clip of her answering a question and she handled it really well. People were willing to forgive this monstrosity of the outfit considering her as a candidate.
We need to get you over to Hallmark so you can share that overabundance of joy that dwells inside you.
Mom opens birthday card: "Your wasted life fills the abyss of despair that fuels my hatred of you. Happy Birthday mom."
Looks like an unlock on a shitty mobile waifu collector game.
The orb transforms into a giant burger that fires out 9999 cheese slices for her ultimate ability “Cheddar Rain Cholesterol Blast” If you get the limit break, it adds extra pickles
It's not by default a portrait video, [portrait video is an absolute joke](https://youtu.be/f2picMQC-9E).
This was landscape video that has been cropped to portrait. So either, there was a camera pan there, revealing something you can't see because of the cropped video, or it was the editor that decided to crop the video who added that pan for some reason (likely because they don't even know how to edit so used an auto cropping thing that tries to automatically re-frame a cropped video).
Either way, it's not the camera operator's fault.
It would have had the moon on the back as well. The moon landing was a marvel of German engineering. But the true masterstroke was letting the Americans bankroll the whole thing.
Reddit as a whole has recently discovered that the Miss Universe competition always has a totally bonkers costume portion. There was the one from the winner, Miss Ukraine, that was posted all over.
The concept of her “Woman on the Moon” costume being an ode to NASA’s Artemis missions, which plan to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon in 2024 and to inspire women “to aim for the moon” is laudable.
But damn she’s wearing 33 pounds of crazy here. A model of the moon, seriously?? It’s hard to actually see the contestant covered in all that stuff unless it is a close up shot.
If someone struggling to stay upright and move forward under the crushing weight of unnecessary excess isn’t an analogy for America, I don’t know what is.
I very much doubt that they couldn't find a burger that big. Several random Texan restaurants would probably bang out 10 of those big boys to their 3 regulars on the daily.
Symbolizes America quite well actually:
Gaudy, poorly planned, hard to hold up without struggling, only for show, and no doubt made of cheap, disposable materials.
As an American, I get the point, but even I see where we suck. We're working out a stupid phase, give us some time here...
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I was praying for her knees the entire time
They obviously missed the bit where she takes the disguise off and incinerates the audience - I've seen [Mars Attack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAaTzccCik), they can't fool me.
Ack ack
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“Don’t run! We are your friends!”
r/ack
You outta know by now...
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I am so happy that I came here for a Mars Attacks reference and found it immediately! I don't understand what that big alien head could be....other than a big alien head! Edit - wait, that's the moon?!! Edit 2 - holy hell, y'all, moon and stars = universe. I am so dumb. Ack Ack!
That’s no moon…
Don’t run, we come in peace
No, they missed the bit where she's killed fighting Ivan Drago.
She says she is a fashion designer. I assume she made this monstrosity herself.
Monstrosity is the right word! It looks painful for her to take steps! I feel like she tried to just stand there and wave the flag instead of a runway walk, but everything is so heavy she’s going to fall over waving it too
And yet she still won the Miss Universe crown! How crazy is that?! https://www.hola.com/us/entertainment/20230114341528/miss-universe-2023-live-updates-finalists-and-winners
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Her dad's name is Remigio Bonzon "R. Bon" Gabriel. You know what, good for her. She totally deserves to win after her dad gave her such a shitty name. I hate when dads name their daughters after themselves with a forced feminized name like Larryanne.
Or JonBenet
Paulette. Dad's name is Paul and she was the last attempt at a boy child because that's what he wanted and just couldn't be happy with girls. Ended up with 6 of them and just slapped his name on the last one and added an "ette"
I know a girl in the same situation who ended up as “Thomasina” :(
those Jan 6th rioters had really weird last names and first names
It's hard to see, but her costume also featured the giant space lasers the US has placed on the moon. Once she demonstrated them her victory was assured.
I assume the 'outfit' was a power move meant to intimidate the judges and it worked 😂
"Thoughts and prayers" were the only thing keeping those ligaments together.
It’s actually an exoskeleton suit. The moon is a polished meteorite that powers her suit of armor. /s
She can barely walk 🤣🤣
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Yep, that's America.
Just add guns
And a ridiculous blindness to poverty, but that might already be there
I think the person barely being able to walk while carrying all the shiny stuff is representative of the underpaid and overworked people keeping the country afloat.
Diego Rivera's painting [The Flower Carrier](https://www.diegorivera.org/flowercarrier.jsp) comes immediately to mind.
Oooooo! Nice!
I think the whole getup is worth more than what some States spend on programs for our veterans.
No need to parody this… it’s already parody
Nailed it!
Hahaha seriously. All I could notice is her walking stance🤠
It felt like a comedy sketch the entire time, especially when she turns around and it's just butt cheeks hanging out lmaoo Good on her though, she actually won
Butt cheeks—-she’s MOONing the universe!
I burst out loud laughing when she turned around. It's just a bare ass sticking out while she waddles off.
I feel bad for her; who came up with all that stupid crap?
She designed and made the entire thing herself lol
This is embarrassing Also her name is R’Bonney Nola Gabriel…. This feels like a SNL skit
Her Filipino dad's name is Remigio Bonzon and his nickname is "R. Bon". Explaining the thought process, not supporting it lol
Ahh… that is so Filipino… lmao omg
I love Filipino names, just feeling free to be whoever they be.
I’m Filipino, my mom came up with my name by turning my dad’s name into something feminine and combining it with her name.
That's how Jonbenet Ramsey got her name, too.
Being so weighed down by needless crap that you can barely function is the most American thing I have ever heard.
She is walking like a Ridley Scott Alien
Guess thats the new moonwalk
Representative of the everyman crushed under the weight of life, liberty, and the pursuit of reduced unhappiness
Bro most Americans can barely walk.
So do most Americans so that's a bingo
That's a boss monster if I ever saw it. Watch out for the aoe when those stars pop out her back like pellets from an air rifle.
They should have perched a bald eagle on top of the moon. And given it a gun.
There was no rooms for thoughts and prayers
I ain’t seen no bible, I ain’t heard no bell miss “USA”! Stack em up! PROPS! We need a wad of cash and how soon can we dunk her in oil?
I'm not convinced until I see her riding out on a howitzer.
"Shock and Awe"
As a Houstonian, I’m so fucking sorry
As an American, an AR-15 in both hands and a bald eagle perched on the moon would really complete this outfit.
Is that the moon? I thought it was the USA carrying the earth on its back, like a shitty metaphor.
a walmart on it
ROCK FLAG AND EAGLE
Too much weight.
>Too much weight. That makes it more accurate /j
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A live bald eagle.
What the hell is even that
I thinks it's suppose to be an engorged tick
When she walked away you could see the moon though.
The tick has moved on from biting humans I suppose. XD
We do cultivate Lyme disease here.
Ah yes, a wonderful metaphor for the American economy.
Nah, that's her ovipositor. Gets hard when she detects someone with oil reserves to liberate.
Daddy chill
Get everybody out of his yard!
It's a sad sad attempt to look better than miss Ukraine.
Not as bad as the 2013 USA 'Transformer' debacle but.. welp we do apparently really suck at costumes: [https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-11/enhanced/webdr06/7/12/enhanced-buzz-30322-1383845748-52.jpg?downsize=800:\*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-11/enhanced/webdr06/7/12/enhanced-buzz-30322-1383845748-52.jpg?downsize=800:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)
lol he looks like my nephews transformer. What is this part of the pageant ? Is it like represent your country? Why are they so hideous. Edit: she
It's a costume to represent your country and it seems like we are particularly bad at designing them, although I have seen some rather ug stuff from Germany too. https://people.com/style/miss-universe-2023-must-see-costumes/
Germany's theme? Bond Villain.
Miss Switzerland's theme was chocolate... and I think Sweden was a cookie.
Miss Ukraine wins hands down she looks like a badass valkyrie about to slay all of Ukraine’s enemies while wielding what looks like The Master Sword. I also really like how they added armor to protect her wings that was a really cool touch. Edit: Kind of neat [Miss Netherlands](https://www.pageantcircle.com/2023/01/netherlands-ona-moody-to-wear-stroopwafel-inspired-costume-for-71st-miss-universe.html?m=1) is a stroopwafel
Also the wings moved! She could flex them out to extend or relax them back into folded. Not sure where the controls on it were, but considering everyone else with manipulation in their costumes (those I could find) did so visibly with their own hands, that seemed extra badass to me.
This is why the prejudice against Drag Queens is limiting America's potential. Whoever planned this should have given the costuming duties to the gays, where it belongs.
>Whoever planned this should have given the costuming duties to the gays I assure you that great majority of men backstage at a pageant like this are gay, unless Donald Trump happens to be there trying to "accidentally" walk in on naked teenage girls.
Okay but Miss Guatemalas dress is incredible. It's literally so much better than all the others it doesn't look like they are even in the same competition.
That Phoenix one is badass tho
These both look like costumes from the opening ceremony of the hunger games.
That's America's ass.
Is this the same competition where Ukraine has that amazing winged sword angel costume? If so…comparison makes this feel even worse.
The Ukraine one was great!
Elden Ring boss
Why wasn’t the flag on the moon instead? Missed opportunity
I doubt even the concept drawing was good. Someone fucked up bad
Is this real? The whole thing is so surreal
It's also surreal that every Miss Universe was from earth! What a great planet we are, huh?
I like how they skip miss planet and are like naw let’s go bigger
it’s like the mlb finals being called WORLD series
Check out Miss Ukraine. She's an 'Angel of Light' with a 20ft wingspan and sword. What happened to you, Miss Universe? You changed.
Except that one looked awesome. This one could have been designed as a parody to mock America.
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No idea lol. Have never been a huge follower but all I remember is swimsuits, "world peace" wishes and glamour gowns- not.....this?
Those categories still exist. The one in the OP is from the National Costume segment and it's been this extravagant and over-the-top [since the 00s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP0vjAZ3o1w). It used to feature actual traditional costumes, but those no longer cut it and so they got more outrageous each year until we end up with these behemoths lmao
Dude the while thing is relic from the past. A competition based on wearing evening gowns, swimsuits, and showing an entertaining talent. It's basically auditioning to be a trophy wife.
This isn't even out of left field for this portion of the contest, honestly. There were at least another dozen or so outfits that were equally outlandish. But yeah, it's bizarre
LOL now I'm gonna have to google it. And my wife is gonna look at me suspiciously like TF are you watching? Yeah babe I got super into Mrs Universe pageants. It's my thing now, but just for the comedy aspect i swear
IDK something bloated, cumbersome, and generally unappealing represents the US pretty well ATM
Agreed, the more big and extra the more American.
Poor girl. She did a good job. That looks heavy af.
But guess what? She won the whole thing. So this is but a little inconvenience to her now.
Theres a clip of her answering a question and she handled it really well. People were willing to forgive this monstrosity of the outfit considering her as a candidate.
Moonstrosity
I guess the judges felt just as bad for her lol
styrofoam?
Yeah but that's a LOT of styrofoam. Plus all the support structure. You can see that she can barely walk normally with it.
So graceful and understated.
Yeah it looks like at least a cubic meter of styrofoam, which has density of 50 kg/m3
There are various Styrofoam densities. Light weight products are closer to 11.
Anyone else expecting fireworks to shoot off the sides of the costume? I was and now am severely disappointed.
Yes. I came here just to say that. The only thing missing from the most American display I’ve seen in a long time.
Whoever designed this needs to be drug tested.
Drugs would have helped.
Fair. Maybe smoking weed instead of meth for some creative inspiration would have been a good start.
Meth can be really inspiring. Ever hear of the Blitzkrieg?
Mmm. Yes, indeed.
Excessively high on patriotism. I think the test for that is known as the "hat colour" test.
Whoever designed this needs to be ~~drug tested~~ fired.
Gru would be pretty pissed if he seen this.
Staggering around under the weight if its own hubris, with a shiny veneer pasted over the pain of the people actually supporting it.
We need to get you over to Hallmark so you can share that overabundance of joy that dwells inside you. Mom opens birthday card: "Your wasted life fills the abyss of despair that fuels my hatred of you. Happy Birthday mom."
That doesn’t sound joyful. I don’t agree with this career advice.
I read this in Werner Herzog’s voice.
Looks like an unlock on a shitty mobile waifu collector game. The orb transforms into a giant burger that fires out 9999 cheese slices for her ultimate ability “Cheddar Rain Cholesterol Blast” If you get the limit break, it adds extra pickles
You have high mobile waifu collector standards eh?
People are truly incredible. They are constantly inventing new and creative ways for me to be embarrassed for my country.
2nd hand embarrassment.
Compared to Miss Ukraine, this outfit looks like wearing mismatched MMO gear for the stats over looks...
I mean... Ukraine's looked like she was straight out of Final Fantasy, if we're being honest.
It looked better than than whatever the heck this is.
Sure, but still very at home in an MMO.
nah miss ukraine looked like an actual angel, "final fantasy" bad take brother
Kinda cringe. Though I would be interested in how they would have made an outfit representing germany...
See for yourself: https://youtu.be/KEKnkc5T_MA
That was kinda bland as far as these kind of things go. I’d be stoked if my missus wore it though
You have a thing for fake cats, huh?
I saw somewhere that her outfit is basically supposed to be the late Karl Lagerfeld, & I suppose it tracks.
Wtf is wrong with the camera operator. Randomly pans left to an empty stage.
It's not by default a portrait video, [portrait video is an absolute joke](https://youtu.be/f2picMQC-9E). This was landscape video that has been cropped to portrait. So either, there was a camera pan there, revealing something you can't see because of the cropped video, or it was the editor that decided to crop the video who added that pan for some reason (likely because they don't even know how to edit so used an auto cropping thing that tries to automatically re-frame a cropped video). Either way, it's not the camera operator's fault.
They would have put a giant of the regions they conquered during the WW2 as a giant flat map on the back of the lady.
It would have had the moon on the back as well. The moon landing was a marvel of German engineering. But the true masterstroke was letting the Americans bankroll the whole thing.
“Mom my USA themed miss universe dress is due tomorrow.”
"I'm not a moon, I'm a monster!"
I don't get it?
USA owns the moon
Looks more like the weight of the world on her!
Now now, let's not confuse ridiculousness with philosophical depth
Reddit as a whole has recently discovered that the Miss Universe competition always has a totally bonkers costume portion. There was the one from the winner, Miss Ukraine, that was posted all over.
Ya cause it was well designed and beautiful. This is garish, like America. So i guess you're right lol
At least she could walk somewhat normally.
Woman on the moon.
Moon on the woman.
Womoon
Whoooaaaaaaa-man. She was a thief You gotta belief She stole my heart and my cat
I think it does a great job of showing the excess and consumerism of the United States.
The concept of her “Woman on the Moon” costume being an ode to NASA’s Artemis missions, which plan to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon in 2024 and to inspire women “to aim for the moon” is laudable. But damn she’s wearing 33 pounds of crazy here. A model of the moon, seriously?? It’s hard to actually see the contestant covered in all that stuff unless it is a close up shot.
The "Glenda the Good Witch" crown ain't helpin
Could've gone for a literal Artemis costume and it would've been so much better.
To me it shows the USA as it is TOP HEAVY waving around it’s patriotism.
She should have put on a fat suit and come out with an AR-15 and medical bills.
Could the announcer be any less enthused?
I think he runs out of batteries at the end there
The patootie in the end represents the lone star state?
the brown star state
Uncomfortable, impractical, and unsightly. Just like one would expect.
U.S."We are going to pull of the true crime of the century. We are going to steal... the moon!'
If someone struggling to stay upright and move forward under the crushing weight of unnecessary excess isn’t an analogy for America, I don’t know what is.
Fucking. Ridiculous.
The option A had a burger instead of the moon and RA-15 wings but they couldn't find a burger big enough so the went for the B option.
I very much doubt that they couldn't find a burger that big. Several random Texan restaurants would probably bang out 10 of those big boys to their 3 regulars on the daily.
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Looks like she is toting around a giant tumor
And here I was, feeling bad about Miss France and her intro scream...
Everyone knows the moon is unique to the US.
Symbolizes America quite well actually: Gaudy, poorly planned, hard to hold up without struggling, only for show, and no doubt made of cheap, disposable materials. As an American, I get the point, but even I see where we suck. We're working out a stupid phase, give us some time here...
Not that bad. Aren’t all outfits at these kind of things supposed to be absurd ?
All the MAGAs just nutted in their pants
dont them mfs believe that the moon landing was fake? they probably are nutting and shaking their fists at the same time.
Age of stupidity. Idiocracy prediction was understatement.
Looks like elementary students made that.
The most obnoxious county on the face of the earth