TRY NOT TO CRINGE *POINTE SHOE EDITION* 

Try not to cringe challenge? No problem because Josephine will not cringe, she will just look ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED :)

I’m going to have to watch Josephine review one of the Barbie movies after this, because I can’t let this be my last image of Josephine for my day. She deserves better.

Where can we contribute to the Josephine’s Mental Health Counseling fund that needs to exist for when she does these videos 😂

Omg heart in my throat. A girl at my studio was in class and the shank of her shoe snapped and she snapped her entire arch in her foot. So many broken bones and ligaments. Ended her career. She had just been accepted into a ballet company. 😢

FYI, the second video of the girls walking on the tops of their toes, those aren't ballet dancers, those are rhythmic gymnasts. From a former RG and current dance mom 😊 and yes, her ballet teacher cringes every time she does it

I am not a dancer… never was never will be but I LOVE your videos and now I know what a “dead” point shoe is!😅

Josephine, you teach more than proper pointe shoe fitting. You actually teach how to be *nice* to other people.. how to say something kind and come from a place of showing concern, rather than saying something mocking or mean. I saw the blurb about your brothers being bullied and that it led you to have a no bullying policy. I think we all need to learn that lesson from you.

There was a girl whose shoe came partly off during her performance at YAGP this year. She was trying to keep going but thankfully they stopped her and asked to her to leave the stage before she got hurt. Then she came back later and was able to dance again. I think all competitions should allow this rather that making a dancer try to continue with a damaged shoe.

I hope Josephine is recovering well, post trauma. 😅 I'm usually too distracted by Jo's reactions but even I was horrified by this one. Well done! 🎉

Josephine, I'm in NZ and in my late 30's an I've always really liked ballet but never thought it was for me... But thanks to watching your content 24/7 while recovering from COVID-19, a month ago, I finally decided to give it a real go... And let me tell you, I've been (ballet) training, stretching and exercising every day (for hours) during the last month, and my instructor told me that it's time to get demi-pointe shoes, as she thinks my feet are strong enough and she wants me to achieve my goal of going on pointe (without EVER doing ballet in my life)! Thanks so much for giving me the inspiration and the courage to try ballet... My dream is to, next summer, fly over to the Bay Area and get fitted by YOU!!! Here's hoping, right?!

Second video sent me hard flashbacks as a former rhythmic gymnast…a russian rhythmic gymnast. You don’t want to be called “iron like feet” so we always walked like that to improve the arch. (Btw I quit cuz some girls dropped a heavy 6ft bench on my foot and it was broken to pieces

I definitely failed the no cringe challenge on all of these. Horrifying! lol

As a former rhythmic gymnast, I can confirm the on the second video where their walking on their knuckles that we had to do the everyday, and it was torture.

One of the more horrifying videos to be sure. Just about had a heart attack myself due to some of those videos. So much wrong! Your editors are monsters!

can we do a nice video of josephine reacting to beautiful dancers? i think we all deserve it after this lol.

Thank You Josephine! Your videos are so heartwarming and fun to watch! Hello, from Florida, US 🩰

It's all fun and games until someone breaks an ankle.

I love how Josephine laughed so hard at the first one where she threw the shoes she almost choked😂❤ 1:16

I’m not a dancer, but I love Josephine and her channel. These reactions are a riot! 😂😂😂 FYI- I used to dance on my tiptoes in my Converse tennis shoes when I was a kid in the 70s. 😂

Oh Josephine, why did you do this? You poor girl! Those clips were horrifying! I'm not a dancer and I only started watching ballet a few years ago so I don't have very close emotional ties to ballet shoes. I was doing OK with the first few clips were they were merely abusing the shoes, although I know how I would feel if I saw people casually trashing and mutilating sports or music equipment I love dearly. 🥴 Then, the sudden cracking of the feet in hideous position started. 😳🫣😵‍💫Honestly, I couldn't finish the video. 🤢 Please don't do this psychological torture to yourself again! It's not necessary for entertainment purposes. It doesn't matter how much you cringe or don't cringe! You're such a consistently sweet and kind presence on RU-vid and you should not be treated like this! The professional dancer with the needle in her shoe, does she have a RU-vid channel? What is her full name please? Thank you for making the video, but honestly, please no more - for your sake!! 🙏🌸🫶❤

I want to 'like' this video because I want to support the channel, but Josephine looked like so much pain and I don't want her to be scarred for life 😭😭😭

LMAO predict whether she'll cringe? my immediate thought was oh, Josephine is going to give us ALL the emotions! I was not wrong. Love you!

This was eight minutes of watching Josephine's ballet soul leave her body, but I was also cringing with her haha!

This is very random, but I would love a video on how to pose/model with pointe shoes. Mostly thinking for recital photos or maybe Instagram.

It's just wild to me that these kids are valuing following a trend more than the risk of career ending injury. Dead shoes and cups are d a n g e r o u s, please stop before one of you slip and break a leg 😭

No way that you couldn't cringe at this. Horrific!!!! I feel your pain!

00:04 and im sitting here, wondering WHY JOSEPHINE ISNT SITTING ON THE COUCH BUT ON THE CUSHION ON THE FLOOR?????

YOUR FACE THROUGHOUT THE VIDEO WAS PRICELESS 😭😭😭

3:47 absolutely made me jump out of my skin, I am personally triggered. It wasn't pointe, but I did have a dancing-related incident where I broke the middle three metatarsals in one of my feet which you can only do by going completely over on your foot like in exactly that way but with weight on it. That was like 20 years ago. My entire being has left the stratosphere with this reminder regardless. Mine was just a cruel accident involving sliding on the stage floor, that person's shoes are like a horror movie in one image. Edit: Oh no, there was much more. Actually dying inside Edit: I honestly think it's worse to watch than to do. Like, was I also a nervous wreck watching that ballerina continue to dance like a pro with the one heel loose? Yes. Did I continue my dance to the end in the above story? Also yes. No one knew anything had happened until I finally got backstage and only at that point did I break down.

Try not to Cringe Challenge Josephine: I got this. I have amazing self control. 2 videos in Josephine:😱😱😱😱😱😱 I'm gonna need a beer. You guys are driving me to drink My daughter and I both lost with them girls walking on the knuckles of their feet. We literally were screaming. Our dog looked at us as if we had lost our minds. 😅

Those wicked dead shoes snapping was a damn jump scare 😂

I’m beginning to think ppl are sending in these videos just to torture you hon. I’m not even a dancer and some of them make me queasy🫣🤢😅 You’re a trooper for watching 🫶🏽

I gasped every time you did Josephine.😩 I feel for you.

watching the cup videos gets me, too. I keep waiting for someone to twist a foot off. Which hurts a lot, btw, and takes a long time to rehab due to more than one surgery and 2 different casts after.

I didn’t realize the first video was showing bullying at first… I thought it was a poorly executed example of breaking in pointe shoes! 😂

omg omg 😲😲😲 Those girls walking on top of their toes 😭😭😭😫😫 I was screaming "omg omg no" the whole time 🤣🤣

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG “20 MIN. AGO” LESGOOOOOOOOOOO❤❤❤ 04:17 i’m mentally and feet-ly traumatised, does this person even have bones. I thought your feet could get further then this 05:33😭😭 thats just. I feel you girl😭❤

That one where the girl lifted her leg from her knee, I realized I can do that too! I think it’s just about being double jointed in the legs because my friends can’t do it.

I can't tell if that's wine flush or sheer frustration on Jo's face 🤣

I was shaking in discomfort at these videos but then laughing at Josephine's editing team and them playing with the sound effects in the video 😆 this was INTENSE

I think it's the sound effects that are getting to you more than watching these things happen. It's the crack and crunch that are making you squirm the most. Also, are you actually drinking wine or cranberry juice?

@3:10 : " _ make sure you don't have any kind of needles stuck in there. _ Huhh.. yeah girl ! " ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ More seriously, I never had any blister when I was on pointe. I can't stand pain, so I had a big ritual, which included nail trimming, massages with a cream, streches, bandages on the first and second toes... And I would always wear thight or socks to let the foot slide in the shoe with no frictions, which wouldn't caused heat, then blisters. I never danced professionnally, but I would expect more care for the feet and body in all as your art grows with you. Am I missing something ?

We need more, i love these videos and tiktok reactions xx

1:56 Imagine doing a pirouette on that😭

"You are driving me to dRiNk!"-Josephine 2023

One of the funniest moments of this video is Josephine drinking wine from a straw😸

WE NEED MORE TIKTOK REACTIONS PART 21

OMG! I bet that was really hard to get through that. Go take some time for yourself and forget everything that you saw. ok.😉

The Pointe Shop stop torturing Josephine challenge. (Please no more. This was fun but also very not fun.)

No dancer worth her salt would risk an injury by dancing in dead shoes. This bunch are not gonna be around for longer than the retweets and uploads. Don't worry, Josephine.

When they bend their toes backwards I’m cringeing along with Josephine. Girl you and I cannot do poker faces

I'm not even on point and I could tell when something's not right like we have the same thing going on our mind I'm like oh hell no 😂😭

At least none of them are dancing that Sleeping Beauty suite. You know what I'm talking about.

4 mins agooooo!! I love josephine so much she makes my days❤

Poor Josephine... The torture! 😂

Honey the way I that I LEAPED out of my chair. I legit thought the worst.

I don’t dance, but have always wanted to. I don’t quite have the right grace or physical control of my limbs to dance (maybe someday I’ll do a barre fitness class or something) I’ve watched so many dancing movies and TV shows, I would love to see what you think of Dance Academy (the first clip made me think of Tara pointe shoe slapping someone, if you know, you know)

As a ballet teacher who preaches taking core of your body i feel DISRESPECTED

The next "cringe" video should be only videos of beautiful feet moments, so Josephine keeps waiting for the "shoe to drop" but in the end it's just happy videos.

How many times did Josephine cringe??? 👀 Comment below!

I miss shoe fitting vids.

I cannot tell you how many times I jumped out of my skin. I am traumatized for life!

Ok can we just talk about the missing cushion on the sofa behind Josephine 🤔🤓

me: reads comments before watching the video and doesnt think its that bad. also me: I get to 3:46😢

Ballet core:🩰💕💗💞💝 Real ballet core:🩰😭😩🦶🤕🥲

THANK YOU Josephine for doing your videos. I hope people hear you & become better educated of right & wrong about ballet. Saying that... *RANT TO FOLLOW* you were warned The *plastic cup* pointe shoes has been WAY overdone & is insulting to true ballerinas! They are making a joke out of boys & girls and men & women who work very hard. All just for views. Getting to the physical level to go on pointe. It takes years of training to do it safely. Bones have to be strong enough. That won't happen until a certain age. By the way "cuppers", you or someone who sees you & tries it can really hurt. By popping on some cups to pretend your a ballerina. You might snap a tendon or breaking an ankle. Even if you are a ballet dancer, cups are NOT BALLET SHOES! Does your teacher know you're doing this? I bet they don't. The "cupper" videos are boring. First 2 or 3 might have been funny. Over at least 40 not & I don't watch YT for hours. Please stop. I am shocked if anyone, but your friends are watching these "cup" videos. Unless you created the idea.

Josephine kept looking to the heavens lol

Long video: Good! Killing yourself and us with that soul-wrenching footage: 😬You don't have to do that, Jo.

at one point when i was younger my friend (yes she did ballet) came up to me and just said "I found my moms old pointe shoes and she's teaching me how to use them!" i don't even dance and after watching all these videos that is KILLING me

second one is rhythmic gymnastics btw and we do that like every day and it doesnt really hurt 😊😊

Egads! What is this thing I keep seeing where people roll over onto the knuckles of their feet? It’s scary and damaging, pretty much assures that they won’t ever be able to be on pointe correctly… or even demi-pointe. Those poor children walking around like stiff legged soldiers on their curled-under toes!

me eating cereal and covering my face with the bowl

The saddest part is the " Pay attention to me," videos. Asking for followers with comments like help me get to Xk so I'll get money because I want to be a dancer... total cringe.

Her face at 3:47!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I feel like this was just a scheme to get Josephine to look at more cup video.

Can we all just pause for a moment and appreciate the pain and suffering that Josephine is willing to undergo for us to provide us with quality comedic content? 'Cause I seriously think that this might be the video that sends her to therapy for some sort of trauma...

So bad. This should of come with a trigger warning. That girl wrote that her pointe shoes weren't even supporting her mental health. My feet are aching in sympathy and my mental health is triggered.

ya idk what it is i just can’t be mean or make fun of ppl i think its probably because i was also bullied when i came to the u.s. i didn’t have an accent or anything but kids can be huge assholes sometimes, or all the time 😅

Not me drinking apple juice and making bracelets and josphine screaming internally

I know who once in school used to like to dance on dead pointe shoes... She doesn't do it anymore but still...

i love your videos so much :)

I vote not doing this again, if only to avoid unintentionally encouraging people to take risks that could lead to injury in an attempt to get views.

Hi

We need a cup counter at this point Ngl, I kinda expected the whole video to just be cups 😂

Dead shoes are a nightmare yes springing to pointe is easier but in the long run they damage your feet

Brutal, absolutely brutal. Watching these clips was traumatic. It's like watching fail videos when someone lands on their face.😬🙈

I kinda don't get risking it for a video, dead shoes don't even make their feet look good anymore :(

Does your wine cup have a lid on it to prevent some tiktoker from using it as a pointe shoe?

How about watching someone who as been dancing in cups for hours and see them pour their blood out of the cups when they're done?

I used to work for a foot and ankle surgeon and I’m just looking at these dead shoes and cups like why? Why do you hate your feet? Please love them, they love you!

Are you okay, Josephine? Blink if you need help and puppies.

I would love it if you reacted to first position!

Inn Keeper! More wine!!! (LOL)

Bro her hair is literally always so shiny and healthy 😭😭😭

She went through 5 stages of grief in this video.

*joshephine trying not to cringe when they cut the point shoes on the first one*

1:17 SAME JOSEPHINE SAMEEEE

The second one was not ballet, it’s rhythmic gymnastics. The intense training that these little girls have to do for that sport makes me want to cry. It’s like torture

Take a sip every time Josephine looks up at the ceiling.

Damn sometimes I wish I was a ballerina but then I remember point shoes