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After being in the redpill space for maybe 7 years now, maybe longer, I finally got my first rating.
Not sure how to feel about it tbh. It's what I expected.
People have, mostly jokingly anyways, have asked why I avoid ratings/etc if I'm a looksmaxxing mod. The biggest problem for me was other people not understanding how the rating system worked giving ratings, and then sharing their ignorant opinion about it with me didn't really seem appealing (I didn't give a fuck). I also didn't want to spend money for someone who knew what they were talking about (felt kind of gay to do). The number itself also doesn't provide any helpful insight by itself, it doesn't tell me what I should change and so on. So I've just always kind of avoided it.
But as looksmaxxing got more popular, so has the access to the info about ratios/measurements/etc, and there's been a lot of services that have popped up where you can self-measure more easily and for free. Even then, I always avoided it, just because I was more confident in my ability than whatever unknown closed-source AI algorithm would show me.
So this was my first time getting rated by a source other than myself. And to be honest, I feel kind of complicated by it. One rating isn't really enough for it to mean anything, and I know my failos better than anyone/anything else. I also can see my face in person and I know an image does not fully capture how I look.
But it gave me the same score I gave myself. So I guess the external validation feels weird, after so many people telling me I was closer to X or Y and feeling like it was wrong. If so many people tell you you're not how you see yourself, you kind of start to gaslight yourself a bit. Even if the score is "wrong" (I'm fat asf so there's a lot of room for error), I guess it still feels weird to see.
I guess none of it matters though.
I just thought it was interesting after avoiding it for so long.
Not sure how to feel about it tbh. It's what I expected.
People have, mostly jokingly anyways, have asked why I avoid ratings/etc if I'm a looksmaxxing mod. The biggest problem for me was other people not understanding how the rating system worked giving ratings, and then sharing their ignorant opinion about it with me didn't really seem appealing (I didn't give a fuck). I also didn't want to spend money for someone who knew what they were talking about (felt kind of gay to do). The number itself also doesn't provide any helpful insight by itself, it doesn't tell me what I should change and so on. So I've just always kind of avoided it.
But as looksmaxxing got more popular, so has the access to the info about ratios/measurements/etc, and there's been a lot of services that have popped up where you can self-measure more easily and for free. Even then, I always avoided it, just because I was more confident in my ability than whatever unknown closed-source AI algorithm would show me.
So this was my first time getting rated by a source other than myself. And to be honest, I feel kind of complicated by it. One rating isn't really enough for it to mean anything, and I know my failos better than anyone/anything else. I also can see my face in person and I know an image does not fully capture how I look.
But it gave me the same score I gave myself. So I guess the external validation feels weird, after so many people telling me I was closer to X or Y and feeling like it was wrong. If so many people tell you you're not how you see yourself, you kind of start to gaslight yourself a bit. Even if the score is "wrong" (I'm fat asf so there's a lot of room for error), I guess it still feels weird to see.
I guess none of it matters though.

then we can both be truly rated by 50 threads making fun of us.
