The intended audience is mostly college students. A difference between this video and the "Guy Buys Condom" video is that this video isn't really gender specific for the audience. The girl in this video is portrayed as clingy (toothbrush), stupid (movie), over-thinking, and easily distracted (make-up) girl. A girl watching this video might laugh and realize that they don't look or think as ridiculously as the girl in this video does. Whereas a guy that might watch this video would laugh because women are usually associated with these thoughts and actions and they might feel this is an accurate representation. The "Guy Buys Condom" is portrayed in a way that makes you feel sympathetic towards him whereas you don't have the sympathy for the girl in this video because she doesn't seem near as embarrassed. The intended purpose is make guys and girl laugh about a common embarrassing situation.
This video makes very general assumptions about the entire situation. It makes the assumption that women care a lot about how they look, by having the girl make a reference to how she looks in her shoes and then the comment about makeup. They video also makes the assumption (which I touched on above) that it is less embarrassing for a girl to buy a condom. The girl in this video does not freak out as much as the guy in the "Guy Buy Condom" video and she really isn't embarrassed until she see one of her old professors. Since the video can be perceived in two different ways and because it is so different the the "Guy Buys Condom" video is why it is one of my favorite POV videos.
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