Weird times and feeling old.
I was scrolling through the comments on a YouTube video that had nothing to do with dieting or losing weight, but the content creator was thin and the first comment said something to the effect of "edtwt is coming for you"
On a hunch (experience?) I accurately figured it was ED Twitter, so I googled it.
Since you need an account to really explore Twitter, I made an account and started browsing the ED content.
So weird. So different from the 2008 days of ED content online. It's mostly quippy sayings with weird memes making reactions to the quippy sayings. The few "thinspo" photos that exist are very obviously AI or HEAVILY photoshopped and it sent me into a weird introspective spiral of "Am I old? Is this motivational? People know this stuff isn't real, right? This isn't even motivating because it's so obviously exaggerated... but are people raised in this digital world thinking this is real life? Is this better or worse than my earlier days of starving?...." and so forth.
It was a strange experience.
I'm not saying nothing from "my day" was photoshopped (some of it obviously was) but this just seemed like a whole other level.
I'm off to keep scrolling because it's late, I'm tired, and endlessly curious.
I’ve heard about EDTWT, but definitely have not explored it. I lurk around in reddit, and edsupportforum sometimes, and that’s enough for me
ReplyDeleteEDTWT has always sounded very meanspo based from what I’ve heard, and kind of gives me the ick. It’s always felt like the blogosphere is the least toxic, and a good balance between not being recovery focused but also not completely proana
I remember some crazy photoshop thinspos back in the day, to the point of ridiculousness, but I probably fell for them in the early days. I guess that after spending so long surrounding ourselves with it, we have a better radar for what’s real or not than some of the girls who are in the early days of their ED