Netflix Drops ‘Bring Me the Beauties Documentary’ and the Internet’s Favorite ‘Cursed’ Meme Is Now a Legitimate Obsession Explained by History
Meme historians are having a field day as Netflix officially greenlights “Bring Me the Beauties Documentary,” turning a decade-old ironic Twitter shitpost—where users demanded absurdly specific hyper-specific visuals of “beauties” from any random historical footage—into a legit deep-dive series. The phrase originally went viral as a parody of over-zealous documentary producers who’d beg for “the beauties” in old film reels, only to get grainy images of confused peasants. Now, the irony is thick enough to cut with a machete: the actual documentary is a serious academic exploration of beauty standards throughout history, which has only made the meme harder to kill. Viewers are currently split between genuinely fascinated historians and those who just want to watch the cursed faces that started it all.