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title: "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful"
description: "Poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and … different."
url: https://www.mathys.to/writing/inspiration/to-this-day-for-the-bullied-and-beautiful-6500/
section: inspiration
published: 2015-05-26
last_updated: 2026-05-03
---

# To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful

*Poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and … different.*

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> Even my dreams got called names. Silly, Foolish, Impossible.

See the original animated movie "To This Day" [he](http://twitter.com/Koyczan) made which now grossed over 16 million views on YouTube alone.   
And share his website: [http://www.tothisdayproject.com](http://www.tothisdayproject.com/ "http://www.tothisdayproject.com").  
Bullying is for shit.

> "He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy"

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