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Some context, it’s (likely) the continuation of a long “thinspo” war started with tumblr and google image search. They now figured out how to do that for videos
by wruza 2y ago
Some context, it’s (likely) the continuation of a long “thinspo” war started with tumblr and google image search. They now figured out how to do that for videos.
The topic is actually complex. On one hand, it is/was a beauty standard which drifts with time and visits corners. On the other, for a huge part of population anatomy and genetics simply don’t allow to be “beautiful”. Internet raised that up to 11, so people invented this “everyone is beautiful” idea, which is controversial. As a result, some people started praising “the body”, which sometimes get obviously unhealthy and, tbh, repulsive.
Personally I see it as a typical western craze. You had one problem, now you have two and there’s no middle cause it means undo both and do nothing and you’re unable of neither.
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The platform will still allow 13- to 17-year-olds to view the videos, but its algorithms will not push young users down related content “rabbit holes” afterwards
Actually sounds reasonable. Wish they did it for all topics or at least halved the suggestion rate or whatever knob that is. Or split recent interest from long interests, with the ability to purge the former without plowing through history.
- archagon 2y agoHow is “repulsive” anything other than a social construct?
- throaway89 2y agoevolutionary instincts to dislike biologically unhealthy traits
- archagon 2y agoA crash course in art history will plainly show that obese people were considered noble and desirable throughout the ages.
- throaway89 2y agoNoble and wealthy, yes. Beautiful, no.
- archagon 2y agoYes, beautiful. Time to revisit your priors.
- throaway89 2y agoDesireable. Not beautiful, or at least not more beautiful than women of average or slim build. It wasn't attractive to be heroin chic or rail-thin like a 90's supermodel, but it also wasn't attractive to be obese or heavily overweight.
- wruza 2y agoIt really depended on what lifestyle was considered expensive and heavily varied with geography and food regimes. Although for a long time being well fed was a primary indicator for wealth, until it lost importance. That said, I don’t think that ancient malnourishing is comparable to modern fitness.
- FMecha 2y agoOther factor in this decision appears to how fitness/workout content tends to have a politically right-leaning slant that can push one into reactionary rabbit hole: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pandemic-fitness-trends-have-gone-extreme-literally-n1292463 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pandemic-fitness... (2022) Which appears to be related to how gym people/environment tending to lean conservative in general.
- wruza 2y agoFrankly that reads like a conspiracy theory from someone in the middle of a crisis. I highly doubt that even if real it has anything to do with thin-obsessed female minors.
- FMecha 2y agoIt is a legitimate growing concern for men's fitness content and the (young) men who watch those. But if their focus is on women's thinspo stuff (given the title concerns both weight and fitness), that could be a "one stone, two birds" situation, assuming the exposure restrictions work.
- vasco 2y ago> Or split recent interest from long interests, with the ability to purge the former without plowing through history. These are all current youtube features, you can purge any video from history and you can go into separate "recommendation holes" that youtube splits by interests