Remember this? Well it seems that low self-esteem is quite common.
This afternoon, the phrase Pretty Please came up which made me wonder about its etymology and whether anybody has used the phrase Ugly Please. I tried Googling it to see if it is a Googlewhack. I doubted that it would be and expected plenty of hits with pages where people used the phrase Ugly Please. I don’t know if it has indeed been used or not because to my surprise, most of the pages that Google dug up to match to the query term, turned out to be sad people begging for approval and affirmation from others.
Even searching for "pretty please" "ugly please" which presumably would clarify what is being searched for turned up the same results. The last result seen in the screenshot is actually of a news report about this sad trend of youth begging strangers to validate them.
What’s really bizarre is that anyone who has read the comments on any given YouTube page can tell you that the Internet is the last place that anyone should turn for comfort and support; the Internet is the ultimate bully.
After several more variations of the query all turning up the same thing, I gave up and just did a search for "pretty please" etymology. It didn’t give me the answer I was looking for (about how much ugly please has been used), but at least it actually addressed the phrase instead of flooding the results with am-i-ugly pages. (I also tried to search for the literal opposite of pretty please, but "ugly you're welcome" didn’t find what I was looking for, and "ugly thank you" actually found some more sad people.)
Wow, people really need to have (a lot) more self-respect and self-esteem. 🙁
