There is a lot of truth to this comic: https://imgur.com/J3FHs7J
I've got freckles; they really work the same way. Got bullied for them all through childhood. Hot girls with freckles are hot and people love their freckles. Drab girls with freckles get picked on and their freckles are gross. In adulthood, nobody's picking on me for having freckles, but I hear how other adults talk about their attraction to other people. Fortunately I'm firmly middle aged so my prospects tend to be less focused on appearances by definition.