I feel like every week there’s a new trend or term that skinny people are using to shame each other and call each other fat. And the threshold for who is and isn’t fat just keeps moving down. Makes me wanna gatekeep fatness, body dysmorphia be damned.

I genuinely don’t think there’s been this much a cultural shift towards an obsession with thinness since Heroin Chic.

Edit: I hear y’all loud and clear. Time to reset my algo

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        34·
        4 days ago

        Eating disorder.

        Imagine a social media echo chamber of only people with severe body dysmorphia, anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder, in which they actively encourage one another to worsen the severity of their eating disorder, switch their non-anorexic ED habits out for anorexia, and post edited body photos to encourage others’ dysmorphia, and attempt to become models or influencers based on their body mass and unhealthy relationship with food.

        None of this violates social media TOSes and the algo seems to really like spreading this type of content to people susceptible to taking psychic damage from it because it results in obsessive use of the social media platform. This content causes lots of people to relapse, and does real harm both to the poster and the users viewing it. Other eating disorder sufferers trying to avoid the toxic mutual encouragement of their disorder have no recourse or option to avoid it, other than resetting their algorithm repeatedly or entirely disengaging from all social media platforms permanently. Obviously that has pretty dramatic social consequences, especially for the demographics most susceptible to this sort of ED related peer pressure.

        Seemingly, the method for “catharsis” in order to counter this content has become the occasional singling out of individual social media users who post this content and public shaming of them in other social media spaces. Obviously this doesn’t actually help anything, it’s just the public bullying of some random teenage girl.

        This is a real issue on social media for young women, and the only solution is the same as all other issues on social media: redacted-1redacted-2

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        23·
        4 days ago

        anakin-padme-3 No, only for encouraging each other’s ED, posting extremely filtered skinny-ness pics or doing body shaming! But don’t worry, there are plenty of people in the comments getting mad at them for having the audacity to post stuff that triggers their own ED… by also body shaming them.

    • Hohsia [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      Hell is now a never ending rabbit hole for impressionable minds

      Really love this for humans! Instead of noticing the problematic effects of a powerful tool, we continue to double down and fully embrace the coercive nature of Silicon Valley

  • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    4 days ago

    I haven’t seen anything specific but I wouldn’t be surprised if the wealthy’s access to ozempic drugs will make the class association with thinness even stronger and make fatphobia even more acceptable in public discourse

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    4 days ago

    I’m making the assumption this is in response to stuff seen on social media: don’t put any stock into social media trends, they’re not real. The constant need to go viral and be relevant pushes people to come up with total bullshit and pretend like it’s the hottest new thing despite all of ten people in existence being aware of it, and social media makes it easy to fall into echo chambers that reverberate that until it seems like a cultural hegemony.

  • FemboyStalin [she/her,any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    We are shifting as a culture further rightward and one part of that is policing bodies. This is one way they do that. Fatphobia is such a big “in” for fascist thoughts to start rotting people’s brains.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Are you on some kind of corpo, algo driven social media feed?

    Yeah, you’re getting profiled and pigeon-holed.

    Probably you should stop using the real world Euclid class SCP cognitohazard that is algo driven social media, or at the very least, follow proper safety protocols.

    EDIT: Alternative phrasing:

    Shits bad for your head, choomba, turns you into a vidiot, gives you the brainrot. Its all full of fake ass posergangs, got a niche for everyone… don’t be a gonk, lay off that shit, else it’ll kill you.

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    It’s the 90s super skinny model trend coming back just like cropped t-shirts, baggy pants, and tennis skirts. I think it’s stupid but it’s just another regression from progress for some reason…