Feminist Issues, Human Interest, Videos

She Took A Selfie Every Day For A Year: The End Is Heartbreaking (VIDEO)

A video is circulating around the internet that is sure to make you stop and think. In the video, a young woman takes a selfie every day for a year and we watch a dramatic and disturbing transformation.

 

The pictures all start out happy and normal, typical selfies from a young woman, but suddenly you start to see bruises. By the end of the video her right eye is swollen and the rest of her face bloody, and you begin to realize she is a victim of domestic violence. She’s holding a sign that says:

“Help me, I don’t know if I got until tomorrow.”

The video was produced by a Serbian television and radio broadcaster, B92, with the hopes of bringing awareness to domestic violence in the country, but it definitely is a message that we can relate to in America as well.

In our country alone, 4, 774,000 woman are victims of domestic violence every year. Between 2001-2012 11,776 women were murdered by an ex-partner; that’s nearly double the number (6,488) of military members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same time period.

Yeah that’s right, nearly double the number of lives lost in two wars. That’s insane!

Domestic violence is an insidious problem and one that is often times difficult to detect. What’s more is that it is an extremely hard situation to free yourself from if you are a victim.

If you’ve never experienced it, it’s easy to say,”Oh, I would never put up with that!” Because every single person of domestic violence probably thought the same thing before it happened to them. The only thing just as painful as the physical ramifications of it, are the feelings of desperation and shame.

Domestic violence crosses all color lines and economic statuses. It affects young people and older people. It leaves children without parents and a multitude of mental health issues later on. It is horrific.

This video was an outstanding way to bring awareness to a problem that runs rampant globally. B92 deserves a round of applause and a big thank you.

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  • Josh Ouellette

    Just because this girls video was uploaded in 2012 doesn’t make the message any less important. Women deal with this on a daily basis.

    • ding-o

      Josh: I also know that a lot men and women deal with domestic violence on a daily basis. But why did the author uses a video from 2013, hides this fact and claims it’s “circulating around the internet”?

      If the main goal of the article is to bring awareness about domestic violence, why not use a more recent video?

  • Damian A

    What Josh said. This is always relevant. Do not trivialize domestic violence by comparing it to a trending topic.

    • ding-o

      Damian: I’m not trivializing the subject, but the content.

      • rogerrramjet

        There is no difference dumbshit.

        • ding-o

          Subject: domestic violence
          Content: a serbian video made on 2013 to raise awareness about domestic violence.

          If it’s not already clear to you please check what a non sequitur is.

  • Donald Joyal

    Always a relevant and important topic. I’m sure many people did not see it the first time around and the more exposure this kind of inexcusable brutality gets the better! But perhaps there’s a reason you don’t see it that way.

    • ding-o

      Donald Joyal: I agree with you, domestic violence is a very relevant and important topic and it’s very possible that some people didn’t see the video at the time. But, why did the author doesn’t makes mention of the date of the video? If the main point is domestic violence, why not better use a more recent video?

    • Josh Ouellette

      Indeed. I never seen the video.

      @disqus_KwApbXUxTc:disqus The date is irrelevant, the whole point is to tackle the issue of domestic violence. How the date of the video is relevant to that is beyond me. And as I said, I doubt there are many videos that do this good of a job of pointing out the issue and gaining sympathy towards it. Most other options would be a video of a woman being beaten, that’s not exactly the best video to use in this situation. Most people won’t have the guts to upload a video about them being physically abused, they’re ashamed.

      • ding-o

        I just checked on youtube and found 2 short films (9′) and a one minute ad that could be used. My point here is that there’s no Domestic Violence awareness videos shortage.

        The date is irrelevant to the video, but it’s an important fact to the article. I’m critiquing the article, not the subject (Domestic Violence) or the content (the video). And that’s what no one here gets.

        Take a look at the two sites this article links that are related to the video. In the first one (Newsner) there’s no author, no mention of the date of the video, there isn’t even a date from the article! You can only have an approximation about that because of the address (—.com/en/2014/11/….). Do you think that an article like that is trustworthy?

        The second one is a link to a wikipedia article. Really? It took me 4 minutes to find the page of the advertising agency that produced the video and talks about it ( ‘One Photo a Day in the Worst Year of My Life’ : News : Saatchi & Saatchi).

        Now compare how other news sites wrote about this video. Most of them make mention of the date and have more references (sites linked) on them.
        And this gets worse because this site loves to mock on Fox News lack of journalistic professionalism. How do this site makes those “Faux News” articles without biting their own tongue?

  • rogerrramjet

    What an asshole. I suppose the only way you get it up is beat your wife.

    • ding-o

      (This is my 4th attempt to reply all of you guys. Seriously, I thought I could only find this kind of censorship on conservative sites, but… the more you know!)

      rogerramjet: What a peculiar individual you are. I suppose the only way you discuss with people who doesn’t think the same as you is by making false assumptions and insulting them. I guess that’s the way you like being treated.

      • rogerrramjet

        YOU missed the entire point of the video and instead chose to denigrate it for having already been done and not something new.

        THAT made you an asshole.

        The subject matter is a DAILY occurrence for far too many women in this world. The video should be shown daily as far as I am concerned. When it was first released is irrelevant.

        • ding-o

          +”YOU missed the entire point of the video and instead chose to denigrate it for having already been done and not something new.”
          -Prove it. Quote whatever I’ve said to support this idea of yours. Please.

          +”THAT made you an asshole.”
          -Would you like to be insulted by some stranger?

          +”The subject matter is a DAILY occurrence for far too many women in this world. The video should be shown daily as far as I am concerned. When it was first released is irrelevant.”

          -A lot of bad stuff happens daily to certain groups (women, men, poor people, ethnical minorities, etc). So according to you, for example, a white woman should see every day the same video about domestic violence and another one for street harassing (at least); a gay black male should see (at least also) everyday a video about racial profiling, another one about homophobic bullying.
          Hmmm, I wonder if that’s practical.

  • Megan J. McConnell

    And those are just the female victims statistics… These numbers are horrific enough, but it’s way worse than that with inclusive and accurate stats.

  • Mike Askew

    dingo I don’t care if it were 2010 or earlier, I just saw it and I’m a firm believer of an eye for an eye and me just seeing this and it’s my sister, daughter or relative and you are the cause of these photos……..

    • ding-o

      “and you are the cause of these photos……..”

      care to explain?

  • JeanClellandMorin

    I don’t understand the daily selfies. What was the objective ? / Jean Clelland-Morin

  • hoser4

    The Dingo ate his brain cells.

  • ding-o

    Why I am being an idiot?

    I find ironic that you’re against a type of violence (domestic) but you have a violent behaviour towards me.
    Hypocrisy much?

    • Josh Ouellette

      Sure they could have used a more recent video.. If there is one. Most people won’t come out about being physically abused, I commend the woman. Even if it was 2 years ago.

      • ding-o

        Dude, it’s a awareness campaign, she didn’t come out.

        I think you didn’t see my first question, so let me ask you again:
        But why did the author uses a video from 2013, hides this fact and claims it’s “circulating around the internet”?

        • Josh Ouellette

          I think you didn’t see my answer to your first question. “The date is absolutely irrelevant.” Who the hell cares if they lie about the date, at least they are trying to bring awareness to domestic violence rather than posting just the exciting shit that most sites post. I commend them on that and you should too rather than getting all upset over one little fib. You’re really acting kind of childish. Any mature person wouldn’t care about them lying about the date, they’d just be happy that they are tackling an issue that most sites won’t waste time on. That’s proven by the fact that YOU are the only one whining over them lying about the date. Everyone else can appreciate the effort of them bringing awareness to the issue. This kind of post doesn’t get noticed half as much as “miley cyrus has a camel toe” or “suge knight got arrested for murder.” So I commend them on even sharing a topic/issue that no body cares about besides the victims of such a crime and their families.

          • ding-o

            I must say that when I wrote my first comment I was only “upset” because of the absence of the date. After my last reply, which casually was also to you but in the Donald Joyal comment thread. Please check it out.

            You say I’m acting childish because I’m “whining” about some little detail, but what about the other people that have insulted me? I think that their anger, intolerance and over reaction was far worse than my comment or the quality of this article. Why you don’t say anything to them?

            This is not about to question Domestic Violence or the video it was used, it’s about the quality of the article. Like I wrote in another response here, this site loves to mock Fox News because of their, bias, lies and general lack of journalistic professionalism. So, why can’t we critique ifyouonlynews articles quality? I’m not saying this site is equal as Fox News (because it isn’t) but the quality of their articles and news can be improved. Do I like this site? Yes, but it’s sometimes depressing to see all the hate, racism and ignorance that some?/ a lot? of people from the U.S have. That’s why I made my comment in first place, because I want this site to improve. Sadly what you guys have showed me is that one must be all-for or all-against something.That if I like this site everything they do is perfect and relevant.

            Maybe some of you should think about how you can become as unreasonable as the conservatives and right-wing people you love to criticize.

  • ding-o

    I’m just amazed! You just diagnosed me with a psychopathology just from reading and misinterpreting my comments. Having a face to face interview? Nah. Establishing rapport? Nah. Getting sure the client (in this case, me) matches the criteria the DSM-V says for one or various psychopathologies? Nah, , 2cool4followingthemethod.

    “The above was unkind ’cause I’m upset and sad. I say this to you with ask compassion and concern. ”
    What was unkind? Do you think the insults jose and rogerramjet wrote to me are unkind?

    “If you think video portrayal is in anyway normal, acceptable or ‘ok’ you probably grew up around abuse. If so, it’s highly likely you will abuse and your children will abuse or allow themselves to be abused.”
    And you can see the future also! This is just incredible.
    Your amazing ability to diagnose people with a mental illness and to see other people’s past and future can only be matched with your low reading comprehension skill.

  • ding-o

    Because they are dependent. Domestic violence victims are the product of a abusive and manipulative relationship in which the aggressor basically destroys his/her partner’s self esteem. This is normally obtained by denigration (“You’re ugly/ No one likes you/ If you leave me no one will care for you and your kids/ You’re stupid”) and economic violence (“I give you the money you need, and I decide how much”).

  • Owen Thomas

    And double those numbers if you include MALE victims of domestic violence. How about not being misandrystic, k?

  • lorimakesquilts

    Why does it matter that it was a few years old? Old videos make the rounds all the time. It not as if anything has changed that much when it comes to domestic violence. Your objection irrelevant to the article. It’s like saying we shouldn’t bother with Shakespeare because it’s old.

    • ding-o

      There’s nothing wrong with the video, it’s about professionalism. Going on with your analogy, it’s like I made an article with the headline “Check out this amazing play that is circulating around bookstores about a failed romance of two young italians whose families had rivalries!”

      • lorimakesquilts

        The internet is not a book. They are completely different animals. There was nothing wrong with how the video was portrayed. It has been making the rounds.

        • ding-o

          Ok, let me add one more word to my first sentence, hoping you’ll get it this time:

          “There’s nothing wrong with the video, it’s about journalistic professionalism.”

  • ding-o

    Yeah, mob mentality and excessive reactions when having a cognitive dissonance pretty much explain most comments. And most of those people like to read news about “Conservatives go full racist on Facebook. Check it out!” and like to think “what a jerks!”
    Oh the irony!

  • ding-o

    “Why not ask him to please explain what he meant by his comment.”

    That’s because they don’t want to have a constructive conversation about this. They only want to get on to the assumptions bandwagon and start with the insults.

    Honestly, your and Lou’s comment restored my faith about this site comments section.

  • ding-o

    I know my first comment was a little bit acid and sarcastic, but it wasn’t made to insult someone unlike of some replies I received.
    Well, I thought that for a news site that has categories like “humor” or “weird news” and loves to mock conservatives, my comment would be tone-appropriate.