Over the past few days, a new trend has taken over social media using the hashtag, #20beautifulpeople or #20beautifulwomenchallenge. If someone is tagged in a friend’s post on instagram containing the hashtag, #20beautifulpeople, their task is to post a picture his/herself and tag another 20 people they view as beautiful.

“It probably made people feel good about themselves. It gave them confidence,” Nicole Verdeyen (11) said.

The real question is: will this task ultimately fulfill its duty to make those 20 people tagged in a picture feel beautiful, or will it do the complete opposite?

“I don’t really like it. Not necessarily because it’s a way to exclude people, but people are going to feel excluded when they don’t get nominated,” Anja Stanic (11) said.

For others, tagging 20 people in a post that tells them they are a beautiful person is not so much a bad thing for girls’ self-esteem.

“I think people did that because girls want to feel good about themselves for a change. It makes them feel special if they get nominated. I think whoever started doing this, did it because girls don’t tell eachother how beautiful they are very often. It was a nice change,” Emily Miklusak (11) said.