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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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[–] autism_2@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you basing this off of comments from people named 𝒷𝓊𝓃𝓃𝒾 ౨ৎ because that's just anorexia Twitter

[–] Boynomoder@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Their names really do be like that lol

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

I haven't seen anything specific but I wouldn't be surprised if the wealthy's access to ozempic drugs will make the class association with thinness even stronger and make fatphobia even more acceptable in public discourse

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could be your specific algorithm mate because I haven’t seen these these things you mention.

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think I accidentally watched an ad for a treadmill and it’s been down hill from there

[–] Chump@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Make peace with it, because there is no earthly way to stop the algorithm now.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You’re fucked mate. The eternal fat shaming death spiral has begun.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

I'm making the assumption this is in response to stuff seen on social media: don't put any stock into social media trends, they're not real. The constant need to go viral and be relevant pushes people to come up with total bullshit and pretend like it's the hottest new thing despite all of ten people in existence being aware of it, and social media makes it easy to fall into echo chambers that reverberate that until it seems like a cultural hegemony.

[–] FemboyStalin@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

We are shifting as a culture further rightward and one part of that is policing bodies. This is one way they do that. Fatphobia is such a big "in" for fascist thoughts to start rotting people's brains.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Makes me wanna gatekeep fatness

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Are you on some kind of corpo, algo driven social media feed?

Yeah, you're getting profiled and pigeon-holed.

Probably you should stop using the real world Euclid class SCP cognitohazard that is algo driven social media, or at the very least, follow proper safety protocols.

EDIT: Alternative phrasing:

Shits bad for your head, choomba, turns you into a vidiot, gives you the brainrot. Its all full of fake ass posergangs, got a niche for everyone.... don't be a gonk, lay off that shit, else it'll kill you.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i used to work with this 20 year old girl and she told me kids now call fat people “big backs”. what does that even mean?

[–] Sulvy@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

lol the kids at my work use this too. Basically "fat ass"

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It’s the 90s super skinny model trend coming back just like cropped t-shirts, baggy pants, and tennis skirts. I think it’s stupid but it’s just another regression from progress for some reason

[–] buh@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Zoomers aren’t brave enough to bring back jorts with polos

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

Makes me wanna gatekeep fatness

Hell yeah! Drive the prices of greasy unhealthy food down so there's more for us fatties!