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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

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[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Honestly, it sounds like your algo is trying to push you into ED spaces.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Erectile Dysfunction spaces??

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry for dropping a whole-ass book chapter lmao

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

no, it's good info

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah let's kill that fuckin boner

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago
[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So spaces that are made for supporting those with eating disorders, right? anakin-padme-2

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 23 points 2 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@hexbear.net 10 points 2 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@hexbear.net 32 points 2 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

[–] autism_2@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you basing this off of comments from people named 𝒷𝓊𝓃𝓃𝒾 ౨ৎ because that's just anorexia Twitter

[–] Boynomoder@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Their names really do be like that lol

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could be your specific algorithm mate because I haven’t seen these these things you mention.

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think I accidentally watched an ad for a treadmill and it’s been down hill from there

[–] Chump@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Make peace with it, because there is no earthly way to stop the algorithm now.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You’re fucked mate. The eternal fat shaming death spiral has begun.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 21 points 2 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.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Makes me wanna gatekeep fatness

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] FemboyStalin@hexbear.net 12 points 2 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.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] buh@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Zoomers aren’t brave enough to bring back jorts with polos

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i used to work with this 20 year old girl and she told me kids now call fat people “big backs”. what does that even mean?

[–] Sulvy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

lol the kids at my work use this too. Basically "fat ass"

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Makes me wanna gatekeep fatness

Hell yeah! Drive the prices of greasy unhealthy food down so there's more for us fatties!