Think before you hashtag that photo
Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus have spoken about how being constantly bombarded with photos and comments about their appearance negatively affected their mental health, and celebs aren’t the only ones susceptible to social media sabotage. Whether it’s searching for #hairinspo or the perfect #ootd to emulate, social media has become a go-to source for certain types of inspiration—but according to a new study, certain hashtags can actually cause serious harm.
Kyla Fox, a Toronto-based clinical therapist and eating disorder specialist, says that these types of “inspo” pics give the impression that a positive physical transformations mean slimming down, which is defs not the case for everyone. In addition to fitspiration, the study, which was published in the Journal of Eating Disorders, also looked at the hashtags “thinspiration” and “bonespiration”—which clearly have more negative connotations. Fox notes that these hashtags are not just problematic because they idealize images of extremely thin individuals or those with protruding bones, but also because they perpetuate a stereotype about what it looks like to have an eating disorder.
“They have a lot of implicit messages, regardless of eating disorders, about our standards of beauty, our standards of acceptance, expectations about how we should look and therefore how we should feel about ourselves, those are all potentially really dangerous,” she says.
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