US EditionSkinnyTok, the TikTok Trend that Promotes Leanness and Threatens Adolescent Health
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Associated with shock phrases, engaging music and stories of physical transformation, young women promote extreme leanness on TikTok. These messages, very shared on the social network, call for educators and health professionals.
The disturbing presence of content promoting weight loss on TikTok creates an unattainable beauty ideal for almost half of teenagers.
The cult of thinness is back. In recent months, a disturbing TikTok trend has invaded the platform: under the hashtag #SkinnyTok, videos distilled extreme tips, sometimes dangerous, to lose weight at all times.... Read more about Elle.fr
Young girls believe the trend romanticizes extreme thinness and eating disorders. Now Tiktok is taking action.
The disturbing presence of content promoting weight loss on TikTok creates an unattainable beauty ideal for almost half of teenagers.
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- 50% of the sources lean Left, 50% of the sources are Center
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