One Lloydminster high school student’s school project is showing the positive effect that kind words can have on people.
Sixteen-year-old Olivia Brockhoff filmed the reaction of peers and staff at her school after they were told they are beautiful. She said the idea came from a viral YouTube video from a few years ago.
Throughout the video, Brockhoff tells her subjects the project she’s working on involves taking pictures of people she thought were beautiful. That leads to smiles, laughter, blushing and a few tears throughout the short video.
She said she never expected her project for her communications media class would be shared and viewed more than 10,000 times.
“It made more of an impact than I thought it would,” she said. “I didn’t expect any news organizations to even see my video, so having different ones reach out to me is insane.”
Brockhoff said she is “insanely proud” of her video. She was so excited to get it done that she spent hours after school editing it.
Posted by Liv Brockhoff on Sunday, November 24, 2019
She said her intended message is that a “compliment can go a long way” because you never know what someone is going through.
“I want people to know they are enough. Never change to fit in,” said Brockhoff. “I also hope people start complimenting people more, even if it’s someone you don’t know.”
Her video ends with a message that says “now it’s your turn to make someone smile.”