Remember the days of social media, when it was about 2 AM musings on whether bagels should be toasted (they should not) or whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is)? Who’d have thought that so quickly it’d become a tool for pressuring people into eating disorders?

And yet that’s exactly what a subset of TikTok has become. As VICE’s own Paige Gawley wrote on April 11, “Creators use tough love style phrases to promote unhealthy beauty and weight standards. When you search ‘SkinnyTok’ on TikTok, you’re first greeted with a message from the app that promises ‘You are more than your weight.’ The app also links resources to help those struggling.”

It wasn’t enough to allay the concerns of European regulators, who’ve slammed the app as not doing enough. As Gawley pointed out in her criticis

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