TikTok and the associated technologies for recording and editing short-form video constitute a large and growing portion of online communication. Previous modalities of social media, including static images and especially text, engendered significant attention to the facticity of the communication: was a statement true or false? Did an event actually take place? For a certain genre of stylized, highly edited short-form video, this is besides the point -- which is to produce a compelling video that portrays a prominent figure in a particular light. We conduct an experiment to evaluate whether ``edits" of prominent politicians can change voter perceptions. We find that ``thirst trap" edits cause an increase in perceptions of politician attractiveness, and that ``badass" edits improve overall evaluations of Trump (but not Biden). Descriptively, we present a distribution of the evaluations of the attractiveness Trump, Biden and RFK Jr, demonstrating significant variation.