You don’t need a mask, you’re not a dog. What is skinnyky and why is it dangerous?

Taktik, after the political pressure from Brussels and Paris, banned the Hešteg associated with the content of weight loss. Especially young and poor women under the #Skinnyt, in recent months, have flooded a popular video platform in a content in which they promote extreme diets and behavior that can be compared to eating disorders.

It is an old -new dietary culture full of fatfobic manifestations, in which, in particular, a woman can not become worse than it gaining weight. After years Points of positivity The content and even an increase in interest in strength training by women is a #skinnytok a step back and for the millennium and an unpleasant memory of what it was like to grow up in the 1990s and zero years.

Experts warn that this content can hurt people, especially the most vulnerable: children. Combining leanness with health or even morality can hurt mentally and ultimately physically.

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For some time, people seeking #skinnyt found a buzz YOU ARE MORE Than Your Weightyou are more than your weight. Currently, the report will be that we are not alone in this, even with redirection to resources on income disorders in the local language, including Slovak. You won’t get to the videos through the Handeg.

According to Anna Steiner, psychologist and manager of the help of helping to live, the ban is a very important step in the protection of young people.

« Although the videos do not disappear, their visibility will be reduced – especially for new users who would easily get to the content easily. From now on, the Both of the Hešteg makes a targeted entry into a community promoting extreme diet, unhealthy food control and idealization of disease weight loss, » she told Closer.

However, similar bans and buzz do not change the social network algorithm in any way, which continues to promote similar content. Those who have already watched #skinnytok will continue to see similar videos, and even show them to people who have not actively showed them.

Women in our editorial office follow the fitness content associated with the sport they do: running, pilates, strength exercise. Most of the time, our fairs with the recommended content are full of people who do these sports professionally and follow current scientific knowledge. Have different bodies and solve Sport And performance, not primary appearance.

And yet we have jumped on us « skinny » advice on how we should put off the delicacy after three bite or that the scoring in the abdomen means that the body applauds us.

« You don’t need a mask or reward, you’re not a dog, » says a young woman in one video. « Skinny is the outfit, Slim is proof that you put yourself in the first place, « says the second, and during his monologue shows how slim looks in a t -shirt and low -waist jeans.

Between the importance of the drinking regime or everyday walk, you will find mockery comments, notes that food consumed in private will always be seen in public or statements that losing weight is easy and if you are not doing well, you are not just trying.

Photos of poor women are also common as an inspiration for weight loss. (Source: Screenshot Tictek)

Classic « Eat Less, Movement more » add more bizarre advice on how to just smell the food and then postpone, how really people are not hungry but thirsty, and how if they want something « bad » to wear their dream outfit, which they still do not fit. Then they say the taste will pass.

It sounds like proanorectic blogs, once popular on the Tumblr platform, just wrapped in motivational videos about success, the first impression or about investing in yourself.

When similar advice was spread by « skinny influencer » Liv Schmidt, in 2024 Ban received from Tiktok. Schmidt built the brand that she was lean, and had hundreds of thousands of followers, even a private group in which they were to support each other in weight loss. It operates to this day, the instagram account still works.

Once on Instagram she motivated that at holidays She does not eat as tourists, because her memories do not bind to food, but to the slim belly in the swimsuit.

However, the sentence, which is obviously problematic, resonates in many women. You will also find fresh, barely a week old videos in which women in Tictoku want to return to the social network.

He also enjoys the American conservative women’s magazine Evie that openly supports Donald Trump And it spreads gender stereotypes or toxic information about femininity. Schmidt has received a large profile in the magazine, and the publication promoted unhealthy access to weight loss before.

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Many women do not see its content as problematic, rather they say that as one of the few has the courage to tell the truth.

« Skinnyts is manipulative precisely by advocating harmful, unhealthy and idealized views and behavioral patterns into the context of something healthy, » Steiner comments. This is manifested by mixing relevant advice (for example, the importance of sufficient hydration) with misinformation.

#skinnytok hides pressure on the look of words such as optimization or wellness, but as a result, almost all tips, drinks, nutritional supplements or online programs you hear about, promote leanness, even at the expense of health.

The slender belt, sticking bones, daily exercise and starvation associate with health, self -discipline and self -care.

« Stirring good with harmful creates the illusion of credibility, and this is all more dangerous. And since our brain better remembers what is emotionally strong or often repeated, even false or harmful thoughts – for example, very slim people are successful or worthy of admiration – they may gradually seem to be a normal man. »

Liv Schmidt operates the so -called. Skinni Société. (Source: Instagram/@livsschmidt)

The hesh is prohibited but the trend does not have to end

Currently, children aged 6-11, who have food intake disorders, are also increasing in Slovakia. Although Tiktok is not the only reason why this is happening, the organization’s desire to live for Closer has confirmed that the content on this network really affects children.

« In a spring 2025 survey, which involved 168 teachers and experts in education working with children from 6 to 12 years, up to 83 % ranked among platforms that, in their experience, have the greatest impact on body perception and behavior.

Return to toxic diet culture already last year signaled tRend Heroin Chicthat promoted the extremely skinny bodies or TREND BALLERINA ARMSthat has reduced the workouts purely to the look regardless of the benefit or risk to our health.

The emphasis on leanness was reflected in the « fashionable » rows, instead of self -acceptance again from magazines and social networks, it is said that we should lose weight in the swimsuit, train to have our feet in leggings, or even not go to pilates if we weigh more than 90 pounds.

On the piers and the headlines of magazines it looks like that era of positivity points we forgotand both het and praise, all celebrities that have lost weight with medicines like ozempic are facing the same extent. Regardless of whether or not they admitted it. The company goes through a cultural shift towards the lean cult.

In prevention, according to a psychologist, it is not enough to only have prohibitions of similar content, but we need to teach children to teach critical thinking and implement various preventive activities.

However, the social network rarely can bear such nuances and detailed debates, pushing fast, visually engaging content to the forefront. The division of meals, habits or bodies into good and bad from the perspective of the algorithm works best.

Official children can use official children from thirteen, and within sixteen or eighteen some functions are limited. However, this does not mean that younger children are not in the Tictoku.

Ticker spokesman for EURACTIV He confirmed that the hesh skinnytok The platform has banned all over the world. She was blocked by the Hašteg because it is « associated with unhealthy content of weight loss », but the win is attributed to the French government, which pushed the tech giant to stop the spread of this content.

French Minister for Digital Technology Clara Chappazová traveled to Dublin in May to meet the team for the trust and security of Tiktok.

According to her post to LinkedIn He accompanied her President Arcoma Martin Ajdari, who supervises the implementation of the EU law on digital services at national level, and President Cilni Marie-Laure Denis, head of the French Data Protection Authority.

The only present representative at the EU level was the French Member of the European Parliament Stéphanie Yon-Courtin from the Renew group, no one went to visit the commission, adds EURACTIV.

At the same time, the European Commission has begun to investigate Tiktok in the context of the Digital Services Act, focusing on children more than a year ago, in February 2024. The proceedings are still ongoing.

This is not the first time that social networks face criticism of people from professional and political circles for the potential threat to children and youth.

Just a few years ago it became clear that in a company Metaunder which it falls Facebook and Instagram, knew that the content they see young people is hurting their mental health. Nevertheless, they continued to use algorithms so that it was difficult for young people to close. In the United States for these allegations a company She also faced a lawsuit.