This is one of the most truthful, inspirational and positive videos I have ever seen. Its an Always advert and its about girls being judged and insulted for doing things like girls and this having an effect on them during puberty. I first saw this video when it popped up as an advert when I was trying to watch another video, I normally skip these adverts as soon as I can but for some reason the first 5 seconds of this video encouraged me to watch the rest. I made the right decision to watch this as something so simple as asking girls and boys to do simple actions 'like a girl' can create such an interesting and truthful 3 minutes. The whole point of this campaign was to show people that running like a girl, fighting like a girl, throwing like a girl ect, shouldn't be an insult because girls still win medals and achieve things in life just like boys do. So far 51 million people have viewed this video and I can imagine that most people at the end feel that they have learned something from watching it purely because of the message they are putting across. Its a shame because at the beginning of the video the girls are even insulting themselves because it has been drilled into every girls head that girls can't do things as good as boys and its bad to act like a girl. However, this campaign shows that being a girl is good thing and that knocking a girls confidence even lower when going through puberty can have a horrible effect on the rest of her life. The piece of text that really stood out for me during the video was 'lets make #likeagirl mean amazing things' which will hopefully encourage people to stop insulting girls when they are going through a hard time in their life. They are also getting social media involved in their advert to get people talking about it and raising more awareness of their campaign and story through twitter and their website by sharing and hash tagging; this obviously worked because of how many views the video has got. Always have created a really successful campaign here that I would say 90% of girls can relate to because of puberty and their period, and this video will give girls more confidence to not let people get to them. I would definitely advise everyone to watch this video!
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