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The Controversy Behind TikTok’s Ban of ‘SkinnyTok’: The Disturbing Truth Behind the Trend
- On June 7, 2025, TikTok blocked search results for the hashtag 'SkinnyTok' worldwide and redirected users to mental health support resources to limit harmful content exposure.
- This action followed rising concern from European policymakers and wellness experts linking 'SkinnyTok' to unhealthy weight loss and eating disorder content that violated TikTok's policies.
- 'SkinnyTok' videos often glorified extreme thinness, encouraged toxic dieting mantras, and targeted young women and teenage girls through algorithm-driven promotion of disordered eating behaviors.
- A 2024 study found young women can be harmed by such content within eight minutes, with individuals with eating disorders seeing 4343% more toxic videos, according to health experts and researchers.
- The ban aims to reduce harmful exposure and reflects calls for broader cultural shifts and improved regulation, though experts caution damaging content may persist beyond the banned hashtag.
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TikTok just made a move aimed to help protect teen girls’ mental health — but it feels like too little, too late. The social media app announced that they banned the hashtag “SkinnyTok” from being searched worldwide after pressure from European policymakers. What Is SkinnyTok? According to Politico, the TikTok ban happened because of the popularity of “SkinnyTok,” with young women promoting extreme diets and weight loss tips. “[We] have bl…
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TikTok blocks ‘skinnytok’ hashtag to curb harmful content
Popular short-form video platform TikTok has blocked searches for ‘skinnytok’ in an effort to reduce the popularity of potentially harmful content. The social media app is notorious for cultivating niche communities based on negative subject matter. TikTok has blocked users from searching for ‘skinnytok,’ a trending term that directs people toward content promoting unhealthy eating … Continued
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