But tears rushed to my eyes as I watched a video of a little Black girl calling herself ugly. The young queen nonchalantly makes a comment that she’s “so ugly” while she’s getting her locs ...

Others compared the device to the futuristic dystopian technology from Black Mirror. However, the video - which got 3.5 million likes and more than 17,000 comments - is not all it seems.

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