Shea Glover, an 18-year-old Pace University student from Illinois, is gaining a lot of attention for her viral video project in which people react to being called beautiful. 
 
 In the caption for the video, Glover wrote that she conducted an "independent project, which evidently turned into a social experiment halfway through, regarding beauty" at her former performing arts high school in Chicago. Glover told ATTN: via email that she decided to take on this project because she wanted to capture the beauty in her life. 
 
 "[W]hen I get inspired by the beauty in people or nature or whatever, I film it," Glover told ATTN:. "It makes me happy and it's good film practice so that's pretty much why." 
 
 Glover put classmates, faculty, and friends on camera and told them that her video project was focused on things and people she found beautiful. 
 
 As soon as they realized that this meant they were beautiful, many of the subjects blushed or smiled, appearing flattered that Glover was complimenting them. 
 
 While many seemed to love Glover's project, others appeared at least a little uncomfortable with it, and one woman seemed to think it was some sort of cruel stunt. 
 
 This response, unfortunately, isn't all that surprising, as many people have body image issues and suffer from immense insecurity in our culture. There's also a great deal of bullying in real life and online, so it's not too shocking that someone might mistake the genuine kindness behind this video for cruelty. It can also be difficult for some to recognize and own up to their beauty. Glover explained this to ATTN:. 
 
 "Unfortunately 'beauty' as in physical appearance is valued so highly in our society, yet talking about our own beauty is taboo. A lot of people don't like to think of themselves as beautiful beings, especially adolescents, so it made them visibly vulnerable." 
 
 Regardless, Glover's project has received ample praise on social media. 
 
 "It's been fucking crazy man," Glover told ATTN:. "I had no idea it was going to blow up like this. I would say about 90 [percent] of the responses are positive." 
 
 Glover's experiment garnered a slew of dynamic reactions on Imgur as well: 
 
 Watch the full video below: 

 Video Captures High School Students' Diverse Reactions to Being Called 'Beautiful' 
 
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 How would you react to being told you're beautiful by a random co-worker or classmate? Would you be happy, flattered, pleased or even angry?Shea Glover decided to film her high school classmates – some she knew, most she didn't – as she told them that she's, "taking pictures of things that she finds beautiful," for an art project.Woven together in one video , Glover, 18, shows the high schoolers as their faces shift and react to being called "beautiful." Many of the students look emotional and flattered from hearing the word, saying, "Aww, that's sweet, you're making me blush," or doubtful, asking, "Oh! Are you serious?" One student is even angry, incredulous that she would be called beautiful, telling Glover to "Shut. Up." as she walks away.The video has almost 4.5 million views on YouTube, with Ashton Kutcher even posting the video on Facebook Friday.Glover made a vlog Thursday in response to the reactions – good and bad – to her video.(Warning, contains explicit language)"It was interesting to see how different people perceived it, how men perceived it, how women perceived it, how younger people perceived it versus older people," she says. "Because it wasn't really a social experiment. It was literally me just filming beauty that I saw in people."Glover, who made the video as a senior in high school and now attends Pace University in New York, said the idea for it came to her suddenly."I was like, 'I just got this new camera, I'm feeling really inspired and happy, so let's just go film beauty.' And that's what I did. And halfway through I realized that the reactions are actually pretty interesting, so let's just make a video out of it."Some of the commenters, though, criticized Glover for appearing to focus on how her classmates look "Some of the people in the video, and a lot of the viewers, found me to be talking about physical appearance and complementing about physical appearance, which actually wasn't my intention," she says. "It wasn't really meant to be a compliment to brighten people's day, but I'm glad that was a byproduct, I'm glad that I could make them really happy and realized that so many people don't hear it or don't tell themselves that."And Glover addresses how people's perception of beauty can be too narrow."Even if it was about appearance, if you can't find 20 people in a school that you find beautiful, maybe your idea of beauty is a bit skewed, and maybe it's a little too small," Glover goes on to add. "Maybe you need to widen it because I see hundreds of beautiful people all them time when I'm walking down the street.""I really do live for the beauty and find beauty everywhere and I'm always inspired by it, really, honestly, and that's why I try to film it."
– What happens when you tell someone they're beautiful? As 18-year-old Shea Glover discovered, all kinds of different things. As a high school senior in Chicago, Glover was playing around with her new camera, taking photos of people she found beautiful, when she realized their reactions to being called beautiful were "actually pretty interesting," she explains, per People. So instead of snapping photos, she clicked her camera's record button. The resulting video captures the subjects' reactions as Glover tells them she's filming beauty. And they're priceless. Many people smile widely or sheepishly. "That is so nice," says one girl. "Now you're making me blush," adds a young man. One woman, however, gets frosty. "I'll cut you in the face," she says before turning away. "You better watch your ass," she adds. "Clearly you’re being goofy." A male also seems bewildered by the compliment. "I kind of don’t believe you," he says. "A lot of people don't like to think of themselves as beautiful beings, especially adolescents, so it made them visibly vulnerable," Glover, now a Pace University student, tells ATTN. "Unfortunately 'beauty' as in physical appearance is valued so highly in our society, yet talking about our own beauty is taboo." Since the video was posted to YouTube in May, however, it's been viewed 6 million times and Glover says 90% of the response has been positive. Though her beauty-inspired project "turned into a social experiment halfway through," she adds "beauty in people or nature" still inspires her every day. "There is so much beauty in the world," she writes in one of the video's captions. "If you blink, you'll miss it." (Watch this 18-year-old interview himself at 56.)