Everyone who's average to below average looking has seen this: you're scrolling through your timeline, see someone who is extremely conventionally attractive, and see a caption of something like “Ugh! I look so ugly today!” while the person in the photo is anything but.

This leaves me, someone who is average looking at best and like many others, who is less attractive than the person in the selfie to think, “if you're ugly, then what does that make me!?” Then you're left to continue scrolling down your feed and unconsciously compare your appearance to those of your peers.

So, here is a message to the 10’s of the world: stop calling yourself ugly. You're making the rest of us look bad.

Listen, we all know you're not ugly, and we also know that you know you're not ugly. Being ugly means being so insecure about your looks that you would never even dream of posting a selfie on social media where you could possibly get harassed for the way you look, not constantly posting photos of yourself with captions that fish for attention. You wanna pretend you're ugly? Alright, well let me give you a few pointers.

Step one, spend most of your formative years (especially middle school) not making eye contact with any of your peers. Don't go and hang out with your friends because you're embarrassed that you'll say something or look stupid. Learn to hate going out to eat because you're afraid of people staring at you, and spend a lot of time in self-inflicted isolation.

Next, do not talk to anyone of the opposite sex. Don't be friends with them, do not interact frequently with them, and sit back quietly and watch all of your close companions get asked to dances and on dates while you get to 5th wheel with them everywhere. You wanna flirt with a guy you think is cute in one of your classes? Too bad, you've already decided he’ll laugh in your face. Oh, and get ready for all your friends to try and hook you up on dates while you reject them right off the bat because you've learned to fear being turned down so bad that you’ve given up on romantic relationships.

Get ready to be afraid to get involved in extracurricular activities, especially ones that require popularity or showing your face frequently, like student council or theatre. You may love public speaking, but your insecurities make you hate it. You might also mumble a lot since you don't really like talking to people, especially since people have to look at you when they talk, and we don't want that, do we? Or, we learn to not talk at all, since more attractive people with more confidence usually interrupt us anyways.

Lastly, create a subconscious division between you and your peers. You have to learn that there are two types of people in this world: people who go on dates, get asked to dances, have tons of friends and go to crazy house parties, and then there's you. You don't fit in that other category and you never will, so stop trying to wish you could do those things because you'll only make yourself more miserable than you already are. Remember, you can't get rejected if there's no one in your life to reject you in the first place!

Now, appropriators of ugly culture, do you still wanna complain about your looks in your photos? No? Then shut up.