2023-07-05 10:00:09
At lunch, she is seen eating salad, fish, green beans and bread, which she is “forced to finish because a nurse [la] look at “. At dinner, a soup, half a slice of ham and a yogurt. Vanessa is a teenager with eating disorders (TCA) and a tiktoker with 2,000 subscribers. From her hospital room, she regularly films her meal tray.
Vanessa is one of the many users – overwhelmingly young, even very young women – of the hashtag #recovery (“recovery”) found on TikTok (22 billion views) or on Instagram. Accounts entirely focused on their process of recovering from eating disorders. In their profile, they mention their current weight, their lowest and highest weight, as well as, if applicable, the number of hospitalizations. On their Instagram account, an entire wall of photos all alike, of meal trays photographed from above, with their victories or failures of the day: “I managed to eat a cookie, my fear food [“aliment qui fait peur”]. » They also talk regarding sport, their parents, their distress, often.
The #recovery film or photograph their daily diet under the hashtag “What I eat in a day” (#whatIeatinaday), very popular content on social networks. When we look at Vanessa’s account, out of twenty-six content posted, the theme comes up twenty-four times. Even what his mother and sisters eat is listed in pictures.
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Eating disorders, especially anorexia and bulimia, have been on social media for years, under various keywords. For years, too, platforms have been trying to banish all forms of incitement. In the decades 1990-2000, already, AOL and Yahoo! prohibited references to anorexia and bulimia. To circumvent this censorship, users gave them first names: “pro-Ana” for anorexia, “pro-Mia” for bulimia.
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Pro-Ana sites then exploded, in 2008, on the Skyblog blogging platform, owned by Skyrock. Young people share their everyday life through the prism of their TCA: excuses to avoid eating in public or appetite suppressant advice, absurd slimming challenges… They also post many so-called “inspiration” photos, such as thinspo (glamorizing thinness), the good hope (aestheticizing the visible bones). According to a report published in 2013, there would then have been nearly 600 sites on this theme.
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