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246 Adriana Lima is a 9.5 according to the chart but when I posted her without makeup she got a 6.25. "Experts" on facial aesthetics bahaha (i.redd.it) submitted 3 years ago by Gingercel88 PINK PILLED 3 comments share save hide give award report crosspost hide all child comments BEST COMMENTS adrianalima 5th St. Gym D You look like you could beat me up lol. Good facial symmetry and nicely colored eyes. You look in great shape. 6.25 Add a comment ADRIANALIMA Posts & Share Follow No 9.5. Top 0.02% (1 out of 5,00 Adriana Lima Freida 9.0-Top 0.1% (1 out of 1,000

249 Looks-matches according to truerateme. Everyone here was rated a 4. (i.redd.it) submitted 3 years ago by Gingercel88 PINK PILLED 44 comments share save hide give award report crosspost hide all child comments and

The truerateme starterpack Narrow eyes, tiled jaw, poor skin texture. 4.7 The users Banned for rating anyone over 6 The mods

The r/TrueRateMe Starter Pack Decent bone structure: 6.5/10 Your nose is asymmetrical: 6/10 Not bad. I've seen better: 7/10 Hair and skin could use some work: 5.5/10

Wild Geerters @steinkobbe. Jun 26 This subreddit really is a place where you're only allowed to post if you hate women 1 1 1 30F. Curious. 1 835 CHO 2,789 65.5K 4/8 (→ 7.7 FLEX 9. SIXSIXSIX 39m Newbie -2 Good-Treat731 MOD O Trusted Rater Warning for overrating. Rule 1. 3rd strike, permaban applied. EaterOfMilf 45m Newbie -2 Reply • 18m : Reply • 39m : Vote ↓ Vote Vote Good-Treat731 MOD O Trusted Rater Warning for overrating. Rule 1. 3rd strike, permaban applied. Vote

AND AWW rat albert this sub is f------ insane 135 @ratbitebaby. Jun 26 rat albert @ratbitebaby 123 5,436 9:21 PM Jun 26, 2023 12.1K Views abcarnage 10m e ● od lips. Pretty teeth. Nice jawl y pretty. Moose-9832 • 11m e ₁116.8K Reply Reply I don't believe in b------- number ratings on people but in what world is she a /5.5/ : :

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About

/r/TrueRateMe, also known as True Rate Me, is a subreddit dedicated to rating people on the basis of their looks. The subreddit was made in 2017 in response to subreddits like /r/rateme with the aim of providing more "objective" criticism to people that submit photos of themselves to be rated. /r/TrueRateMe is known for its narrow and rigidly defined rating scale and its moderators have been accused of being incels that are biased against women. The subreddit also routinely bans users that provide "incorrect" ratings. Screenshots from /r/TrueRateMe were shared widely on Twitter in June 2023, leading to viral discourse and criticism of the Reddit community.

Background

/r/TrueRateMe was created on August 15th, 2017, with the aim of providing an objective alternative to other subreddits like /r/rateme. As per the guidelines provided by the subreddit, "ratings are based on facial aesthetics," where "5 is average" and 0 and 10 ratings represent unattainable extremes. The subreddit also issues warnings and immediate bans to users to provide "unrealistic/sugarcoated ratings" in order to maintain accuracy. ^[1]

"Objective" Rating Scale

The sidebar notably provides guides to help people rate men and women on the subreddit. These guidelines are in the form of a rating scale from 1-10, with examples provided for each tier (shown below).^[2]

10- God-tier, basically no one meets this standard 9.5 - Top 0.002% (1 out of 50,000), Ultra attractive, Super top model tier Adriana Lima Im Jin-Ah (Nana) 9.0 - Top 0.005 % (1 out of 20,000), Extremely attractive, Top model tier Kelsey Merritt No examples because this level is unattainable Liza Soberano Freida Pinto Mini Anden 8.5 -Top 0.03% (1 out of 3,000) AND Anais Mali Damaris Lewis Sui He 8.0 - Top 0.134% (1 out of 750), Very attractive, Model tier True Rate Me (TRM) Women's Rating Guide Ana de Armas Vita Sidorkina Maia Cotton Kelly Gale Sharam Diniz Hoyeon Jung Taylor Hill Chou Tzuyu Shanina Shaik Rania Benchegra 000000 Melodie Monrose Madison Beer Elsa Hosk Phoebe Tonkin Michela Quattrociocche 9.0/9.5 Extremely rare, this range will consist of the best-looking women of all time, with virtually every facial feature being top tier. These women have great bone structure: strong, projected jaw; high set, prominent zygomatic processes; excellent facial symmetry and harmony; large almond eyes; full lips; and fine eyebrows. Skin will show intact collagen and be clear, both signs of youthfulness. The face will be almost perfectly harmonious with a majority of facial features being feminine and cohesive. Supermodels and some actresses can be found in this category. 8.0/8.5 Uncommonly seen, these women are attractive with and without makeup and have high facial aesthetics. Face consists of attractive and feminine features: rounder, large eyes with little upper eyelid exposure; high cheekbones; feminine, small chin and overall soft and harmonious traits. Face may not be perfect, including one or two less attractive or more masculine features, however, this is negligible overall. Models and actresses can be found in this category.

5.5 - Top 30% (1 out of 3) - Above average Katelyn Tarver 5.0-50%, average Camille Winbush PAL Gabriella Ellis IS Keke Palmer Taissa Farmiga 4.5 - Bottom 30% (1 out of 3), Somewhat below Average Rumer Willis Madeline Zima 4.0 - Bottom 15% (1 out of 6), Below average Kelly Marie Tran Elizabeth Moss 3.5 Bottom 6.66% (1 out of 15) Summer Glau Kim Wayans Saoirse Ronan 2000 Joey King MIN Melissa Rivers Brie Larson Abby Wilde Mae Whitman Adrianna Bertola Tichina Arnold Sarah Roemer Mayim Bialik Bailee Madison Kimberly Elise Steffinnie Phrommany Lena Dunham Constance Wu Missi Pyle Rila Fukushima Heather Matarazzo Amy Schumer 5.5 These women will be above average and somewhat good-looking, with some positive facial features and some negative features. Hair and skin will be healthy. Face will be somewhat attractive to some people, but only be slightly above average to others. Overall, face will be fairly harmonious and these women will be considered better looking than average. 5.0 The majority of women fall in this range. Face is not head-turning but makeup can be used to accentuate facial features to the point of being considered slightly attractive to a decent amount of people. Facial flaws may be noticeable: recessed maxilla, narrow palate, asymmetry, excess upper eyelid exposure, excess buccal fat, and imperfect skin. 4.0/4.5 A decent amount of women fall into this range, and they will not be considered particularly attractive but also are not ugly. Possible flaws are noticeable: masculine features, bushy eyebrows, large nose, strong chin. Face lacks harmony and flaws detract from overall attractiveness. These women may possess a niche or unconventional face or style. 3.0/3.5 These women are considered unattractive by a majority of people. Many facial flaws will be noticeable. Overall, these women lack an appealing face, but are not repulsive.

10- God-tier, basically no one meets this standard Tim Chung No examples because this level is unattainable 9.5 - Top 0.002% (1 out of 50,000), Ultra attractive, Super top model tier John-Erik Hexum Atesh Salih 9.0 - Top 0.005% (1 out of 20,000), Extremely attractive, Top model tier 8.5 - Top 0.03% (1 out of 3,000) True Rate Me (TRM) Men's Rating Guide Chris Hemsworth Hrithik Roshan Jordan Calloway AJ Harris Francisco Lachowski Ian Somerhalder Oussama Guessoum Massimo di Sante Akash Kumar 8.0 - Top 0.134% (1 out of 750), Very attractive, Model tier Toni Mahfud Mike Thurston Mukasa Kakonge Pierre Vuala Hernan Drago Sendhil Ramamurthy Charles Melton Youssef Sawmah Marcello Alvarez Rohit Khandelwal Daniel Dae Kim Rael Costa 9.0/9.5 Extremely rare, Most attractive men of all time. These men have very great bone structure, projected and square jaw, high set, prominent zygomatic processes; excellent facial symmetry and harmony, strong brow ridge which results in hunter eyes, strong eyebrows. Skin will show nearly no flaws and be clear. The face will be almost perfectly harmonious with a majority of facial features being masculine and cohesive. Supermodels and some actors can be found in this category. 8.0/8.5 Uncommonly seen, these men have very high facial aesthetics. Face consists of attractive and masculine features: Square jaw, hunter eyes with little to no eyelid exposure; high cheekbones; masculine, large, high set, and defined chin. Overall they will have strong and harmonious traits. Face may not be perfect, including one or two less attractive or more feminine features, however, this is negligible Models and actors can be found in this category.

7.5 - Top 0.62% (1 out of 160) P Harry Roselmack Richard Madden Remington Hoffman Aditya Roy Kapur 7.0 - Top 2.5% (1 out of 40), Attractive aveth di Keith Powers 6.5 - Top 6.66% (1 out of 15) Zaquan Champ Jan Uddin Darius Jordan Xolo Maridueña Diego Boneta Şükrü Özyıldız2 6.0 - Top 15% (1 out of 6), Well above average, Fairly good-looking Ross Butler 5.5 - Top 30% (1 out of 3) - Above average Tony Chung Bryce-Hall Sam Retford Fabian Rios Dababy Choi Siwon Nicolas Tagliafico Sam Asghari Penn Badgley James Maslow Zaid Ali Sanjaya Malakar Mohammed Assaf Ronaldo Adam Saleh Avan Jogia Alp Navruz Steven Yeun 7.0/7.5 Somewhat uncommon are the most good looking men seen on a day to day basis. These men stand out from the crowd and may be able to model or be successful as "Instagram Model" or influencer. A majority of facial features will be masculine and attractive, but they may possess a few flaws: crooked nose, slight asymmetry, long midface, Negative Canthal tilt, ect. These guys will be considered the most beautiful of the university, neighborhood, workplace. The overall face is attractive and has good harmony. 6.0/6.5 These men will be good-looking with mostly positive facial features and some negative features. Hair and skin will be healthy. They will have one feature that stands out (great eye shape, defined jaw, very symmetrical face etc) and have some flaws. Face will be attractive to a majority of people but may be polarizing to some. Overall, face will be harmonious and these men will be considered better looking than average. 5.5 These men will be above average and somewhat good-looking, with some positive facial features and some negative features. Hair and skin will be healthy. Face will be somewhat attractive to some people, but only be slightly above average to others. Overall, face will be fairly harmonious and these men will be considered better looking than average.

Incel Accusations

/r/TrueRateMe's rigid rating scale has drawn accusations of sexism against the moderation team from some over the years. In October 2017 (two months after the subreddit's creation), Redditor /u/CuckKiller2017 (a person claiming to be a former moderator of /r/TrueRateMe) posted to various subreddits claiming the forum to have purportedly been created by members of /r/incel with the clear objective of trying to "fool women" into thinking they are unattractive. One such post was uploaded to /r/Drama^[3] on October 13th, 2017, where it gathered over 100 upvotes in five years (seen below).

134 LEAKS Truerateme is a Dangerous Scam (self.Drama) submitted 5 years ago by CuckKiller2017 /r/Truerateme[¹] is a subreddit designed by people from /r/incels[²] explicity as a space to try to fool women into thinking they're unattractive. I should know, I'm a Mod there. It's an incel campaign like the push to convince people not to tip any female waiters or any number of other pushes to attack women out of a sense of deep self-loathing and hate. At Truerateme, high scores, particularly for women, are deleted by moderators such as myself and people who give high ratings are permanenetly banned, while no ratings are ever deleted for being too low, too insulting, or too crude. This gives us the capabilities to "gaslight" women and control how they see themselves. Posts that question moderators the slightest amount are deleted and people not with the program get banned. One moderator of this sub is presently being investigated by police for encouraging someone who posted here to commit suicide, and indeed some early posts proposing this subreddit described it as a place we could build to encourage people to kill themselves based on a warped self-image. Early attempts were to brigade to other sureddits like /r/rateme[³] and vote women down, but moderators there banned brigaders, so we had to create our own space here. Most "girls" who post on /r/truerateme[4] are guys with alt accounts who steal pictures of friends or from other rating subs and pretend to be them to make it seem like a legitimate sub. This practice is encouraged by moderators. I've been a moderator at /r/Truerateme[5] myself and had a change of heart and will remove myself and will tell the truth about this place. 36 comments source share save hide give award report crosspost hide all child comments

The post accuses members of /r/TrueRateMe of routinely brigading subs with /r/RateMe to give women low ratings. The post also claims that many of the images of women posted to /r/TrueRateMe aren't made by the women themselves, but by men who found the images on the internet. This practice is supposedly encouraged by moderators.

Twitter^[4] user @sapientiamagna posted a tweet sharing screenshots of a message they purportedly received from the same Redditor after posting to /r/TrueRateMe on March 6th, 2023 (seen below).

That’s the message I received pic.twitter.com/a48zRWsDa0

— Caleb Riker Anarcho Something or Otherist (@sapientiamagna) March 6, 2023

Developments

The subreddit /r/TrueRateMeTears has been active since September 24th, 2019, and serves to criticize posts on the forum.^[10] Examples of top posts on the subreddit include side-by-side comparisons of men and women the subreddit has rated with 4s (seen below, left) and a post where a photo of Adriana Lima (ranked in the top percentile in the rating chart) received a 6 rating (seen below, right).

In June 2023, screenshots of ratings delivered by members of /r/TrueRateMe were shared on Twitter.^[5] On June 21st, 2023, Twitter^[6] user @RightWingCope shared a screenshot from the subreddit where a woman was given a 7 rating and threatened with a ban for overrating by a moderator. The post gathered over 60,000 likes in a week (seen below, left). On June 23rd, Twitter user @RightWingCope^[7] shared another set of screenshots from the subreddit, gathering over 50,000 likes in a week (seen below, right).

Right Wing Cope @RightWingCope redditors are a different breed bruh r/truerateme u/Big-Grape-1478.23h 1 1 1 1 27F, shoot DIO_04__ 8h Newbie -1 7 out of 10 : 5:01 PM . Jun 21, 2023 1.6M Views 1 Reply Main_Ad_7939 MOD • 3h Trusted Rater Warning for overrating (7). Rule 1. Please review the sub's Wiki, Women's Guide, and Women's Primer. ↑ Vote 1,264 Retweets 163 Quotes 63.1K Likes 1,202 Bookmarks :

Right Wing Cope @RightWingCope redditors are out of control ↑ r/truerateme. Posted by u/Ok-Initiative9519 8 days ago 4.0k 18F i am curious lol Gog 1.7k Comments Award Share Save Hide Report 11:16 PM Jun 23, 2023 · 2M Views 1/4 4 Gibbor28 7 days ago Newbie -2 Cute 100% 7 0 Reply Share 5 ... jerry00193 MOD Moderator Overrating. Rule 1. 3 strikes, you're out. Reply Share ... 830 Retweets 154 Quotes 52.5K Likes 1,449 Bookmarks - 7 days ago :

A now-deleted June 26th tweet from @steinkobbe^[8] showed a moderator threatening people with bans for issuing ratings above 7. The tweet gathered over 65,000 likes in two days (seen below, left). On June 28th, Twitter^[9] user @the_binp posted a screenshot of moderators threatening people with bans for both overrating and underrating a woman. The post gathered over 19,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).