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Damian you're always posting  pictures on Facebook and Instagram
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why because I like to do that I like  people to see my pictures and my
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videos but live on social media is  fake I mean real life is different  
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son I really don't understand what  you're talking about that I don't get
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it then I think you need to hear this  story because this is a real life
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story Steph was looking at Instagram there  were # blessed yoga photos and # Sunday  
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breakfast pictures she saw photos of  fresh bread and coffee with hearts  
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in the milk on the other side of  the city Matt was doing the same
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thing his Instagram was full of # fitbody gy  selfies and # [ __ ] live holiday photos stev  
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put some flowers next to her breakfast and  took a photo of it her eggs and coffee were  
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called now but the plate looked good  the plate was from an expensive Art  
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Market she had borrowed the flowers from her  neighbor's Garden probably only 10 people a  
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day walked past all Mrs Robinson's garden  flowers are for everyone to enjoy aren't  
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they she thought if she put the picture in  Instagram more people could see the flowers  
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step changed the colors on her picture to make  the orange juice more orange and the pink roses
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brighter she was choosing an Instagram  filter when she noticed true beauty she  
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had downloaded it the day before  and then forgotten about it her  
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picture looked perfect with that filter  she posted the photo for her 15,000
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followers she hoped some of them could feel  jealous of her life then she threw the foood  
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on her plate into the bin she didn't want to  eat it now that it was cold Matt was ready  
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to give up he had worked out for an hour and  he had put cooking oil on his skin so that it  
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would look shiny but the photos still didn't  look good he only wanted to be fit so that he  
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could put photos on social media he looked  at his Instagram again he hoped to see some
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ideas some ideas he could copy then he  noticed an ad for True Beauty pictures  
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as Bey beautiful as you are see the real you  with true beauty available in your app store  
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for zero dollar because true beauty is free  that's what he needed he downloaded the app  
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in minutes he had the perfect selfie in the  photos his body looked amazing he posted the  
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photo for his 27,000 followers then he got  in the shower to wash off all the cooking
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oil he remembered reading about  all the fat under the city in the  
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sewers millions of people lived in  the city most of them washed their  
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cooking oil down the sink the oil went  to the sewers it made a disgusting mess
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and some poor worker had to clean it  or did the oil go into the ocean and  
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kill dolphins he couldn't remember  but it wasn't his problem was it it  
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was someone else problem both Steph and Matt were
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surprised surprised to get so few likes  and they weren't prepared for the negative  
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comments they received susq remind me never  to get breakfast at your place jimm guy 21 you
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disgusting the rest of the comments were  even worse both social media influencers  
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looked again at the pictures they had posted  step's pictures showed horrible green eggs  
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with flies all over them the flowers were  dead and the coffee looked disgusting and  
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Gray in Matt's picture his body was covered in  something that looked like dirty butter it was  
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in his hair and in his nose and worse  the fall his hands were really really
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dirty it looked as if he had been digging in the  
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garden or worse they both both tried  to delete the photos but they couldn't  
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the negative comments kept coming in a  way it was step's most popular post and
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also 50 people had shared Matt's post already  just then everyone who had installed the true  
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beauty filter received a message from the person  who had created it Steph and Matt read dear
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user thank you for making true beauty such  an amazing success 50 million downloads in  
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the first 24 hours wow it's more than I  ever hoped for honestly guys I'm so hash
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blessed I'm I know that each of you really truly  
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cares about showing yourself as you really  are are you as beautiful on the inside as  
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you are on the outside if you want your  pictures to show the real you it's time
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to be as beautiful in real life as you are on  your social media have a truly beautiful day  
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beautiful people love true beauty PS you can't  remove the filter or delete the pictures you  
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posted using it # sorry not sorry PPS by the way  after the first time you use true beauty it will  
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change all your photos from that moment on for the  next 24 hours not many people posted photos online
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there was only one way people could  see if the filter was still destroying  
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their photos they had to post pictures  first and then see how they looked the  
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results were not pretty a few of  the biggest influencers offered a
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reward they joined together to offer a million  pounds for the first person to remove the filter  
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but they couldn't post a picture of themselves  holding the money because the pictures were so
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ugly so they had to stop advertising  the reward it didn't matter anyway  
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the person who developed through Beauty  was too clever and no one could remove  
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the filter the step stopped trying to  take pictures after five more horrible
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pictures she couldn't remove the  true beauty filter the only thing  
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she could do to hide the ugly pictures  was to make her account private now no  
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one could see anything she had ever  posted in her life she felt depressed
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she didn't want to do anything if she couldn't  post photos of it she went downstairs past Mrs  
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Robinson's Garden the flowers were more  beautiful than ever she noticed the smell  
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for the first time lovely she stopped and and  smelled a large purple rose hello said Mrs  
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Robinson Steph was surprised because she didn't  know Mrs Robinson was there oh sorry said Mrs  
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Robinson I was just putting water on the plants  at this time of the year there's always so much  
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to do Steph looked around she hadn't realized it  was hard to make a garden look nice in fact she  
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had never really spoken to Mrs Robinson she  had a new thought do you want some help she
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asked after all she didn't  have anything else to do oh  
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thank you dear that would be lovely Mrs  Robinson looked delighted stev actually  
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felt happy for the first time since  the whole true beauty nightmare had
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started a couple couple of hours later  to be honest Steph didn't think the  
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garden looked very different but Mrs  Robinson said she had been a great  
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help step had enjoyed herself a lot Mrs  Robinson had been an actress in the past
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and she had some amazing stories to tell take a  picture of us dear said Mrs Robinson as a step  
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was living one of those selfies everyone loves  Steph almost said no what could she do with photos
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now but Mrs Robinson would be happy  with an ordinary picture step supposed  
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she could take one she took a quick  picture of the two of them they were  
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standing together in front of the Roses  smiling and looking a little bit shiny and
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hot later that evening she looked at  the picture on her phone she changed  
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the colors a little bit but the Roses  looked beautiful anyway with or without  
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any changes and nothing could improve  the smiles on her and Mrs Robinson's
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face that's a really beautiful picture she  thought it's a shame true beauty will destroy  
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it if I pass it but then she had a thought she  went back and read through Beauty's message
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again and then she posted her picture when  the picture went online it looked exactly  
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the same she made her account public again  then she added some text to the photo me and  
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my neighbor in her garden # true beauty true  beauty is on Insight one of step's followers  
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Matt saw her photo at first he was just pleased  to see a nice photo for a change he hadn't been  
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to the gym for two days he supposed he was  kind of depressed maybe he felt bad because
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he hadn't exercised or maybe it was because  all of the horrible ugly photos he' seen then  
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he had an idea as he read at steps post  maybe it wouldn't work but it was worth  
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trying he picked up all the paper plastic  and glass in his house he put it into the  
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three different piles then he looked  again at at step's picture he went and  
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knocked on his neighbor's door he asked  her if he could take her rubbish to the
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bins the young mother who answered the door was  surprised at his offer of help but she said yes  
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while Matt was at the recycling bins he took  a photo of himself next to the Green Glass
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bin he posted the smiling selfie  with the hashtag true beauty he  
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saw that hash true beauty was  the fifth most popular hashtag  
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his picture like many of the others was  nothing special it was just a smiling
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guy a guy who was doing something ordinary  after helping his neighbor it was a truly  
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beautiful photo now do you understand what  I'm talking about it's about true beauty
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son yes that I get you but you gave me  some great ideas to post new pictures
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oh God and what about you did you  understand the meaning of this
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story I hope you liked this story if you could  improve your English a little more please  
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subscribe to the channel and share this video with  a friend thank you very much for your support take
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care
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