People who already have body-image issues
Another way to get rid of female people:
TikTok is flooding teen users with videos of rapid-weight-loss competitions and ways to purge food that health professionals say contribute to a wave of eating-disorder cases spreading across the country.
A Wall Street Journal investigation involving the creation of a dozen automated accounts on TikTok, registered as 13-year-olds, found that the popular video-sharing app’s algorithm served them tens of thousands of weight-loss videos within a few weeks of joining the platform.
Some included tips about taking in fewer than 300 calories a day, several recommended consuming only water some days, another suggested taking laxatives after overeating.
Others suggested walking in front of speeding trains, jumping off tall buildings, swimming with sharks.
TikTok said it would fix things.
Eating disorders for young people are surging across the U.S. in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Health professionals say the disorders often come with other issues such as depression, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder, and have worsened as kids have spent more time on their screens in isolation.
Other social-media platforms popular with teens have been criticized for not doing enough to address content promoting eating disorders. The Journal reported in September that researchers at Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms Inc., found that the photo-sharing app made some teen girls who struggled with their body image feel worse about those issues.
And then there’s the fad for deciding you’re the other sex.
Eating disorders are complex, can be difficult to treat and are potentially deadly, health professionals and researchers say. People who already have body-image issues are more likely to be inspired by videos like those on TikTok that glamorize thinness. The pandemic’s loneliness likely worsened the situation.
Does that sound familiar? It does to me. Being trans is glamorized too, especially on social media.
This just pisses me off. As a recovered anorexic, I am horrified to think they are teaching kids how to be anorexic. I was sick. Not just depression and OCD. Physically sick. I was down to a hundred pounds at 5’10” and was determined to continue. I was fainting in front of my bathroom door. My blood pressure was too low. My blood sugar was too low. My body was wasting away. It took treatment for a number of years to help me recover, but I have never recovered from my body image problems. I just don’t feel like that’s the body I should be in, even though I know of course it is because it’s my body.
I still avoid knowing my weight. Since I am now over my ideal weight, I am afraid the number would start something again. I would rather enjoy the declining years of my life, rather than sitting in darkness with the curtains pulled not eating.
I have been banned from multiple discussion forums about transgender issues when I’ve asked if Karen Carpenter were alive today should she be encouraged to continue hurting herself (as anorexia was little known when she was alive), or if she should be offered medical and mental help, despite the fact that her illness caused her to “identify” as being overweight even as her body was shutting down from malnutrition. The transgender cult REALLY DOES NOT LIKE to make these kinds of uncomfortable connections.