[Applause] hold that check High to the sky ladies and gentlemen Make some [Applause] [Music] noise I went to this zende look like contest and here are my thoughts there honestly weren’t a lot of people probably because of the weather and the viral Tik Tok telling people not to go if you haven’t seen it yet she talked about how Society treats women who know they’re attractive differently than men who do I just wasn’t expecting so many people to be like upset over having like a Zeno one or like the reason being it was in Oakland or like nobody looks like Zena so the contest turned into less of like who looks the most like Zena and more into like who embodies Zena is what the um person hosting it was saying because of all like the discussions that were happening before the event actually happened [Music] I think anybody who attends one of these contest is setting them up for a little bit of criticism um I have seen you know I feel like some of the more recent ones people have started to become a lot more critical I think with the first one like Timothy shalamay everybody thought it was fun and silly and even if all the contestants didn’t look like Timothy shalam like they’re still the main discourse was about how silly it was but I think with a lot of the contests like in the last like week or so they have been more like criticizing the people who have attended there was a bunch of people you know making fun of people’s looks and um I really did not like that energy um but there have also been a lot of people who have been really supportive and really commenting on the fact that there’s a little bit of sexism you know going on between you know the male celebrity contest versus you know the only female one which is women are judged more harshly in society and that is like a fact and I have been getting comments on my Tik Tok itself about people’s looks like Beyond comments are saying that they don’t look like Zena like that’s not the point that’s fine if they don’t um we were just there for fun and to like enjoy the event itself um but beyond comments like that we were getting comments on like people’s bodies and like things like um and like their clothing and whatnot the point of these is to show up and have fun and like meet new strangers and like talk about common interest and whatnot like we met new people there and they were all there like cheering having fun so um I think regardless like the event should be focused on the fun part