The Fat Girl Cheat Codes to Obtaining A Skinny Body.
Skinny Girl Activities To Live A Skinny Life A Step By Step Guide on How To Get Skinny.
These are just a few of the most recent video titles fromcontent creatorLiv Schmidt.
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Is skinny back in?
While Schmidt isnt a household name by any stretch, she holds an outsized influenceon TikTok.
(The influencer and her representatives did not respond toRolling Stones requests for comment.)
Unfortunately, social media replicates things we see in mainstream media and also offline patterns.
Many people can swim around in all kinds of toxic social media content without developing an eating disorder.
The more you seek out that content, the more the algorithms will continue to feed it to you.
And as a psychiatric illness, eating disorders have the second highest mortality rate.
The only thing ahead of them is opiate addiction.
Bryn Austin, a professor at Harvard Universitys T.H.
But Austin says theres still more to do across the board.
We need to change the law, plain and simple.
It has effectively shut down nearly all efforts to hold social media platforms accountable, she says.
Influencers undoubtedly make many of those who follow them feel unattractive.
For many people struggling with body image, consuming the content of these influencers is like poking a bruise.
If youre struggling with disordered eating, help is out there.
