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rue's avatar

as someone currently in recovery from anorexia, i’m disgusted by skinnytok. eating disorders aren’t glamorous, they’re miserable. i literally can’t escape skinnytok and it’s driving me insane. i’m so sick of it.

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ARGYLE's avatar

man ive been having an ana hatepost brewing in me for a while like this shits making people stu-pid

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rachel's avatar

having to relive this era after going through it as a teenager is jarring. i feel quite confident in my ability to handle my ed now as an adult but the perpetual need to compare online is awful. i’m glad i’m not the only one who is disgusted by the glamorization and discussion with such young girls as well as adults

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April Purinton's avatar

I studied pro-ana internet content as part of my women’s studies major in the very early 2000’s. I haven’t thought about it much in the years since; so much has happened with technology and everything going on in our world that it’s like drinking from a fire hose. I’m so sad for your experience and that over twenty years later it’s only become more of an issue. We collectively need to overpower our phones. And for those of us who are parents, we need to ask some really hard questions about phones and our children.

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Vixen's avatar

Tik Tok is cancerous in so many ways, I can't stand it. I am not surprised that it promotes eating disorders now.

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Mads's avatar

As someone who managed to swerve 2014 tumblr but ended in edtwt in 2018 this makes me glad im not on TikTok anymore but scared for this generation of little girls (and boys)

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PostPlandemicChronicles's avatar

Wow. Yeah I remember that thinspo trend back on 4chan.

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victoria's avatar

i was also on proana tumblr, when i was in middle school and overweight and not even knowing what the ana meant cause, i was literally a child. glad tumblr is dying off because it harbored some of the most toxic behavior and ideals in our generation. skinnytok will never thrive as much as tumblr because now people have put faces to the ideals, that they know are controversial.

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morgan's avatar

amazing point

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victoria's avatar

🥹🫡🫡 tysm

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madeline's avatar

thank you!! What's so sickening is that this type of content started showing up for me not long after I created my account on ig and tiktok, and having not engaged with anything similar. So dangerous and we've been here before, young girls are so impressionable.

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

Wellness culture is sick

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⋆⭒˚.⋆ grace ⋆⭒˚.⋆'s avatar

Being a woman in the age of the internet can be so exhausting. Now cross out “in the age of the internet” and it’s true going back thousands of years. Thanks for writing this, it’s so depressing feeling all the progress of body positivity (which even still wasn’t without faults including fat phobia) being rolled back, especially when it’s happening at the same time as women’s rights are being repealed. The nauseating deja vu of history repeating itself.

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Mike smith's avatar

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

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Lena's avatar

Have you ever had gyros?

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Mike smith's avatar

I haven't, I just remember the scene. With the collar bone challenge (how many coins can you put on the collar bone). I became fascinated with the whole subculture and wanted to learn more about the mental state just incase my daughter ever dabbled in pro ana and pro Mia stuff.

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morgan's avatar

this is rooted in transphobia. for argument's sake, even if what you were saying is true (which it isn't), trans people experience body dysmorphia for a vastly different reason. it is much more complex. in this scenario, a trans person's desire to get rid of their curves isn't because they believe having curves is "bad," it's because those features are often considered feminine. as someone who witnessed the pro-ana community firsthand, about 99% of the members are young, white girls trying to romanticize their suffering. i think the last thing trans people need is to be blamed for another subgroup that has nothing to do with them; this reads as a blatant cop-out.

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