Blogger Gains Internet Following By Smashing Her Face Into Bread Products
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Editorial Staff in
Bizarre
On 1st February 2016
An anonymous blogger from Brooklyn has become an internet sensation for fearlessly documenting her bizarre fixation with bread. This woman films herself as she plunges her face into different types of bread, and posts the footage on her Instagram page, ‘Bread Face Blog’. The tagline reads: “Bread Face – giving the people something they didn’t ask for.”
Bread Face hasn’t revealed her name, but we do know that she’s 27 years old and works as a copywriter by day. With over 40,000 Instagram followers and thousands of likes on each video, her bizarre bread smashing habit has managed to catch the attention of various magazines like Buzzfeed, Vice’s Munchies, and The New York Times. Obviously, they’ve all had one common question to ask her: Why is she doing this?
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Speaking to Munchies, Bread Face said: "It started over the summer. I bought a green tea roll cake from a Korean bakery and I started off gently powdering my face with it. It felt so good." So she just kept going with other types of bread until it eventually became her thing. "I like the way it feels!" she told Buzzfeed. "And thought maybe it would make someone happy out there."
Turns out, Bread Face was right her first video involving a potato roll, posted six months ago, became a big hit. And since then, her string of completely random, utterly pointless bread videos set to carefully curated background scores have caught the attention of thousands. In fact, #breadfacing is a major trend now, one that has inspired several other people to smash their own faces into bread loaves and post the footage online.
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Despite her massive following, many of Bread Face's fans are disappointed when they get to know that she started the practice on a whim, and that it isn't a performance art or fetish she derives pleasure from. "I think this always disappoints people but there was actually very little thought that went into this," she told Munchies. "I wanted to put my face in bread, and so I did."
"Breadfaceblog is what it is," she added. "If it's something people laugh at, roll their eyes at, or get turned on by that's all great." So although her videos receive bizarre reactions, it doesn't really bother her at all. "People say very blunt, honest things to me about their sexuality that they'd probably never be able to say in real life and I think that's awesome. People have even asked to buy the smooshed bread afterwards which is so amazing."
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"If I'm filling a once-empty slot for someone sexually then that's awesome," she told NY Times. "I get it. I don't think it's weird food is tactile and sexy, and we can't help what turns us on, just don't overindulge yourself. The other part of me wonders if anyone would even bring that up if I weren't an Asian girl. I mean I don't wonder that much, I know the answer."
Bread Face never really has a plan when it comes to plunging face-first into bread she picks the breads at random, based on what she has at hand, or is about to eat anyway. Her favorite ones so far have been the Kaiser roll and the Wonder Bread. The background music is pretty random too she just uses the songs that she's currently listening to or the ones she never gets tired of listening to. "I don't pair the breads with the songs, but I will say that the songs do affect how I "face" the bread," she said. "Proof: the naan Breadfaceblog."
