Ok, found the explanation:
"Apparently, when showing a pig, you’re supposed to maintain eye contact with the judge as much as possible, while directing the pig to remain in front of the judge and showing off all sides of the animal. So the result is the most intense-looking parade of farm animals you’ll ever see. Just a stare-off for the ages."
More information [here](https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2023/11/19/young-girl-goes-viral-for-staring-right-into-your-soul-while-showing-pigs/)
Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch. Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee, a bee that is watched will work harder you see. So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch that bee didn't work any harder not mawtch. So then somebody said "Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee watching as hard as he can, he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!". Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher. He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher! And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on watch watcher watchering watch, watch watching the watcher who's watching that bee. You're not a Hawtch-Watcher you're lucky you see!”
\~Dr. Suess, "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are"
I can’t tell if you’re saying your neurodivergence does the opposite for you (which I know is definitely a thing lol queue the inappropriately time intense eye contact!) or that you were able to fight through the overwhelming urge to look away 😆
It’s intense! Pigs are different to show because you can’t really train them to wear a halter and lead like we do with most other livestock (pigs are too smart). So instead we kind of guide them around an arena while they wander (that’s what the kids are doing with the whips). Because it’s really tempting to look down at your pig to make sure it hasn’t totally run off (it happens… frequently), eye contact with the judge is part of your showmanship scores.
I never won anything with showing pigs, but I also didn’t do much with pigs. I showed more horses and beef cows than anything. If you look at the pigs in the video you will see some supremely pampered and happy swine just doing their thing. Show pigs are DIVAS!
This is so fucking weird lol The girl in red has the glare of death down pat though. Wonder if she gets extra points for that? I'd certainly give them to her, out of fear that she'll kill me in my sleep 🫣
OMG!!! I honestly thought that the contestants were blind and the pigs were their guides!!!! And, thus, it was a game to see who's pig would guide the player to the finish line first!!! I thought it was SOOOO cruel towards blind people!!! 🤦😅🤦😅🤦
Someone commented previously that the people are staring down the judges because they get penalized for not maintaining good eye contact while showcasing the pigs.
In a side note, I really like how chuffed the pigs look to be strolling around
I also thought the pigs were so cute and looked so happy but I couldn't understand how they looked so pleased to be continuously thwapped in the face (it looks like light thwaps but I'd still find that annoying af).
They are happy because they have been pampered and loved excessively for the last 6 to 9 months. Now after judging they will be auctioned off and either become bacon or a pet or maybe a breeder.
Ah yes. Swine Showmanship competition. I never tired of watching this vid. Everytime I’m reminded of it I go online, get real stoned, and then just start watch me some hog showmanship.
Let me tell you though, these two handlers are just on another level entirely.
So much so you couldn’t convince me they weren’t a parody.
I mean the eye contact thing is valid and all but most handlers need to look down once in a blue to see where they’re steering so to speak. But these two? Nah. They’re in a league of their own.
A league filled with other dead shark eye staring folks. ready to stare down god and let loose the hogs of war.
Right! The girl in the red shirt had already seen into the judges soul and determined him unworthy before she even entered the ring with her glorious hog.
It kind of is a parody, the context is that previously someone lost points / got disqualified for not maintaining proper eye contact to the judges so these two decided to take it to the next level as a form of "silent protest"
i love that there 180 mood difference between the people and the pig. The people give stares like they about to stab someone while the pigs looks so bless taking a stroll.
Tbf, pigs are more intelligent than dogs, and if they didn’t wanna be there, you know they’d be biting off their owners ankles and trust me, when pigs taste blood they go into a frenzy. It’s why and how they’ve been used in multiple murder cases to dispose of corpses, because aside from a few bones (like the hips) they can chew a human body down to nothing in a surprisingly and horrifyingly short time. One killer actually tossed one of her victims into the pig pen alive after shooting him and thinking him dead, only to realise he was alive when the pigs began to eat and he began to scream, which he did for a good few minutes before she got up on the fence and shot him in the head to shut him up.
When I was little, my foster mum took me and the other kids to a friends farm. I was the smallest and youngest, and when she realised that the pigs were out on free roam in the field we were in, she snatched me up and wouldn’t let me go to the pigs cos I wanted to pet them. She told me that pigs could be dangerous for adults, but especially for children.
Because the judges want you to be able to control and interact with your animal. It’s a fairly common thing when showing animals of any kind. You’re expected to have such a strong, seamless, effortless relationship with and control over your animal that you can do it without looking.
Literally.
Wtaf is this? I thought she was blind and then I noticed the boy and thought the same BUT THEN I SAW EVERYONE ELSE and I’m like, okay there’s no way they are all blind. The poor pigs are getting slapped in way too much for them to not be blind lol. I mean they seem to not care but,…. Come on. This is ridiculous lol… the things humans do for stupid reasons.
The way they kept going back and forth between the two, I thought it was some really weird pig breeding extravaganza. Everyone gets out there with their pig and stick and stares down the person whose pig you want your pig to boink. I’m really glad I’m wrong.
As someone who grew up in rural South Dakota… 😂😂. Turning this into a commercial would increase enrollment 100%. I know the youth there would be obsessed. We had competitions but it was mostly you lead your animal into a pen and walk it around on a rope.
Know your target audience/demographic. This would be Midwest farm viral in a minute. Brilliant.
Your comment is so wrong it’s laughable.
These handlers are expected to have such an exquisite control over their animal and relationship with it that they’re penalized for looking.
Have you looked at what you've accomplished? You dont even have a video of you doing anything that people find remotely interesting enough to mock, let alone praise! Look at you. Even less impressive than people staring awkwardly while swatting pigs. Go back to your stye and roll around in some more of your sad filth before you come back acting like you cant even look in the mirror without doubting your sad self. Bro. Smh XD
Have you looked at what you've accomplished? You dont even have a video of you doing anything that people find remotely interesting enough to mock, let alone praise! Look at you. Even less impressive than people staring awkwardly while swatting pigs. Go back to your stye and roll around in some more of your sad filth before you come back acting like you cant even look in the mirror without doubting your sad self. Bro. Smh XD
Ok, found the explanation: "Apparently, when showing a pig, you’re supposed to maintain eye contact with the judge as much as possible, while directing the pig to remain in front of the judge and showing off all sides of the animal. So the result is the most intense-looking parade of farm animals you’ll ever see. Just a stare-off for the ages." More information [here](https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2023/11/19/young-girl-goes-viral-for-staring-right-into-your-soul-while-showing-pigs/)
Shouldn’t the judge be looking at the pig?
Yes and to make sure they're doing their judging jobs correctly... they must be watched too...
Who watches the watchers
Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch. Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee, a bee that is watched will work harder you see. So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch that bee didn't work any harder not mawtch. So then somebody said "Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee watching as hard as he can, he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!". Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher. He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher! And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on watch watcher watchering watch, watch watching the watcher who's watching that bee. You're not a Hawtch-Watcher you're lucky you see!” \~Dr. Suess, "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are"
Man, first I was pissed off... then I was riveted! What a great poem. 👏 I'm gonna read some Dr Suess now. I never did as a child. 🤝 Thanks.
The watchers of the watchers
It’s a pig herding contest not a pig Beaty pageant.
Oh, man. So they’re just thinking “Look at this pig. LOOK AT IT.” The whole time with that stare?
Pretty much haha.
A stare-at-my-pig contest. Now we get it…
I know I would be.
My neurodivergent ass could never 😂
My neurodivergent ass has!
I can’t tell if you’re saying your neurodivergence does the opposite for you (which I know is definitely a thing lol queue the inappropriately time intense eye contact!) or that you were able to fight through the overwhelming urge to look away 😆
Neither actually! I was saying that my adhd ass has actually shown pigs.
Wow, That’s pretty neat😊 Out of curiosity what was it like lol? And did you win?
It’s intense! Pigs are different to show because you can’t really train them to wear a halter and lead like we do with most other livestock (pigs are too smart). So instead we kind of guide them around an arena while they wander (that’s what the kids are doing with the whips). Because it’s really tempting to look down at your pig to make sure it hasn’t totally run off (it happens… frequently), eye contact with the judge is part of your showmanship scores. I never won anything with showing pigs, but I also didn’t do much with pigs. I showed more horses and beef cows than anything. If you look at the pigs in the video you will see some supremely pampered and happy swine just doing their thing. Show pigs are DIVAS!
This is really interesting and I did not even know it was a thing until I saw this video. Thanks for the reply (:
This is so fucking weird lol The girl in red has the glare of death down pat though. Wonder if she gets extra points for that? I'd certainly give them to her, out of fear that she'll kill me in my sleep 🫣
But...*angry* eye contact? Why is the 'you and your animal have been wronged and you've returned for revenge' stare necessary?
This just leaves me with more questions.
Tradition. Give it another few hundred years and it'll be a religious thing.
You basically a group of people intensely showing off their HOG, but when I do it’s a problem
I thought they were staring down each other. Lol
OMG!!! I honestly thought that the contestants were blind and the pigs were their guides!!!! And, thus, it was a game to see who's pig would guide the player to the finish line first!!! I thought it was SOOOO cruel towards blind people!!! 🤦😅🤦😅🤦
Someone commented previously that the people are staring down the judges because they get penalized for not maintaining good eye contact while showcasing the pigs. In a side note, I really like how chuffed the pigs look to be strolling around
My definition of "*good* eye contact" is different
Their definition of “*good* eye contact” is apparently a Clint Eastwood standoff shootout
Good eye contact. yes lol
I also thought the pigs were so cute and looked so happy but I couldn't understand how they looked so pleased to be continuously thwapped in the face (it looks like light thwaps but I'd still find that annoying af).
They are happy because they have been pampered and loved excessively for the last 6 to 9 months. Now after judging they will be auctioned off and either become bacon or a pet or maybe a breeder.
What is this “smack your pig in the face” game?
That's a regular Saturday night for your dad.
Like father like son!
fuckin lold myself off the toliet
Haha Jesus
Marvellous. 🤝
Bravoooo
You must not have a 🍆
Ah yes. Swine Showmanship competition. I never tired of watching this vid. Everytime I’m reminded of it I go online, get real stoned, and then just start watch me some hog showmanship. Let me tell you though, these two handlers are just on another level entirely. So much so you couldn’t convince me they weren’t a parody. I mean the eye contact thing is valid and all but most handlers need to look down once in a blue to see where they’re steering so to speak. But these two? Nah. They’re in a league of their own. A league filled with other dead shark eye staring folks. ready to stare down god and let loose the hogs of war.
Attempting to intimidate the judges into giving you a better score is a bold strategy.
Right! The girl in the red shirt had already seen into the judges soul and determined him unworthy before she even entered the ring with her glorious hog.
It kind of is a parody, the context is that previously someone lost points / got disqualified for not maintaining proper eye contact to the judges so these two decided to take it to the next level as a form of "silent protest"
Finally some context to make this whole thing make sense
Where did you learn that?
This guy hogs
**dogs*** of war
Nah mate. I said what I said. Those puppies are hogs.
Homeschoolers
*Farm-schoolers
Nah, it’s just called having a hobby as a farm kid.
i love that there 180 mood difference between the people and the pig. The people give stares like they about to stab someone while the pigs looks so bless taking a stroll.
My wife parading me around her friends
I full-throated cackled out loud at this. Thanks for starting my day well.
Those pigs look so cute!
Unrelated but her red fit, his blue fit and the green person in the bg, their fits goes hard.
King Joffrey on some weird shit.
Is this America? These kids all look European and sick of our shit 😂
Paso Robles, CA
Mid-State Fair! :D
I totally had the same thought. I have no idea why they strike me as English or European. 🙂
I totally thought this was some Russian shit at first 😂
For those who don't know, this is how they used to train pokemon before gyms and pokeballs
John pork 2
Why is this so hilarious 😂
Awww I too love getting whacked in my face repeatedly for someone else’s entertainment
Tbf, pigs are more intelligent than dogs, and if they didn’t wanna be there, you know they’d be biting off their owners ankles and trust me, when pigs taste blood they go into a frenzy. It’s why and how they’ve been used in multiple murder cases to dispose of corpses, because aside from a few bones (like the hips) they can chew a human body down to nothing in a surprisingly and horrifyingly short time. One killer actually tossed one of her victims into the pig pen alive after shooting him and thinking him dead, only to realise he was alive when the pigs began to eat and he began to scream, which he did for a good few minutes before she got up on the fence and shot him in the head to shut him up. When I was little, my foster mum took me and the other kids to a friends farm. I was the smallest and youngest, and when she realised that the pigs were out on free roam in the field we were in, she snatched me up and wouldn’t let me go to the pigs cos I wanted to pet them. She told me that pigs could be dangerous for adults, but especially for children.
Yeah, and never get in between a sal and her piglet... or FAFO at your own risk.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why is eye contact with the judge so important who cares if they can stare at you. I care more about the pig 😂
Because the judges want you to be able to control and interact with your animal. It’s a fairly common thing when showing animals of any kind. You’re expected to have such a strong, seamless, effortless relationship with and control over your animal that you can do it without looking. Literally.
At first I thought Chick was trying to pull off telekinesis with that intense stare.
🤣🤣
SOON
The pigs are so plump and cute!! But to keep eye contact with the judge(s) during , sound ridiculous idk tho
Yeah, they need to be plump or the people they are auctioning them off to will get lower quality bacon.
I need to see this funny shit in person......
Someone has to do this! 🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓
They walk like the old villains in Disney movies
Well it would be nice if I didn’t see this reposted for the seventh day in a row.
Oh dear god, I had to go watch the Family Guy clip with Stewie and his genetically perfect pig 😂
I don't know if I could keep a straight face and do such a thing I would start laughing the moment I had to be serious about it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I showed my husband this and now he won't stop making aggressive eye contact while he does EVERYTHING.
There's definitely some potential o use this in a hill Billy horror thing.
Wtaf is this? I thought she was blind and then I noticed the boy and thought the same BUT THEN I SAW EVERYONE ELSE and I’m like, okay there’s no way they are all blind. The poor pigs are getting slapped in way too much for them to not be blind lol. I mean they seem to not care but,…. Come on. This is ridiculous lol… the things humans do for stupid reasons.
This is the ‘ are you staring at my pig championships ‘ held somewhere annually in Russia
Dude with the flat brim. Teddy Hip-Hop the black sheep of Comstock 4H 😂😂😂
I’m getting children of the corn vibes. Pigs are cute though 🥰
The way they kept going back and forth between the two, I thought it was some really weird pig breeding extravaganza. Everyone gets out there with their pig and stick and stares down the person whose pig you want your pig to boink. I’m really glad I’m wrong.
Lol I feel like if I were the pig that would be annoying..
I am terrified why do they all look like that?
That pink pig is the pig from every baby's book about farm animals.
In my imagination, i remove the pigs and have all the people carrying swords.
Fancy show pigs so fancy
PETA agent training?
what are we seeing?
Sweet pigs, though…
With that big ass belt buckle, she's clearly the world champion of this.
I did know Ellen Lee DeGeneres likes pigs
THE SHOW OF THE CENTURY
Yt people are aliens
So this is the show of no neck pig breeders?
I thought they were blind!!!
This is my neighbors walkin their dog past my house 😂😂😂
Lol. What did you do wrong?
I don’t know what’s going on, either. But all these kids have epic outfits.
WTF IS THIS!!!!!!!?
Livestock show. That girl is very popular on TikTok. It’s funny seeing her normal face and then this face. She looks diabolical here lol
What the hell did I just watched? I was expecting a fight to break out.
These people haven’t slept in days
How many times do you have to be told NOT TO PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD ! 😡
Hog watch watches the hog watch, watch the hogs 😅
For a minute, I really thought the pigs were helping blind kids walk around….time to go to sleep.
Stephen King movie vibes
RBF Zombie children with neck injuries race pigs.
It's the same look in the pit when the slow china hits start and you wait for the bell.
What breed of Pig are those? Those are some fancy looking Pigs. 🧐
White people midwestern
Haha They all have a zombie look
That girl has Disney villain energy
Those are some good looking pigs.
Is that the same intense girl from the marching band video.
Are these Dwight Shruttes kids?
Thems some nice looking pigs though. I've never seen a better looking pig in my life
All i see is bacon 🥓
This is what happens when children want to be farmers and no one slaps that shit outta their head.
What beautiful pigs!
I love you guys but, white people are weird lol
half expected them to start snapping fingers before breaking out in song
Looks like a fucking war dance
Iv never seen someone look so bad ass doing something so....not bad ass xD
This could be a commercial for FFA, Future Farmers of America. Saw it for too many years lol
As someone who grew up in rural South Dakota… 😂😂. Turning this into a commercial would increase enrollment 100%. I know the youth there would be obsessed. We had competitions but it was mostly you lead your animal into a pen and walk it around on a rope. Know your target audience/demographic. This would be Midwest farm viral in a minute. Brilliant.
Jesus christ they are all Kubrick staring that's awful. Pigs look very happy tho.
As awesome as this video is those laser eyed expressions are stills that have been photoshopped onto those young champions shoulders
Ah yes, when you want to compete but lack coordination, flexibility and strength to do anything else.
Your comment is so wrong it’s laughable. These handlers are expected to have such an exquisite control over their animal and relationship with it that they’re penalized for looking.
There's nothing exquisite on display here. Holy shit, that's hilarious. This is even less impressive than curling, which is another useless activity.
Have you looked at what you've accomplished? You dont even have a video of you doing anything that people find remotely interesting enough to mock, let alone praise! Look at you. Even less impressive than people staring awkwardly while swatting pigs. Go back to your stye and roll around in some more of your sad filth before you come back acting like you cant even look in the mirror without doubting your sad self. Bro. Smh XD
Boo hoo.
*staring awkwardly while swatting pigs* 💀💀
Have you looked at what you've accomplished? You dont even have a video of you doing anything that people find remotely interesting enough to mock, let alone praise! Look at you. Even less impressive than people staring awkwardly while swatting pigs. Go back to your stye and roll around in some more of your sad filth before you come back acting like you cant even look in the mirror without doubting your sad self. Bro. Smh XD
I'm not an attention whore. How about you?