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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by VibeCoder@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

Erectile Dysfunction spaces??

[-] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago
[-] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Sorry for dropping a whole-ass book chapter lmao

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

no, it's good info

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

Hell yeah let's kill that fuckin boner

[-] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago
[-] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 23 points 3 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 3 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

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