The Influence of the Body Image Presented Through TikTok Trend-Videos and Its Possible Reasons
The Influence of the Body Image Presented Through TikTok Trend-Videos and Its Possible Reasons
Jiayan Liu
TLDR
It is proved that TikTok does spread the trend of physical shame, and has a negative impact on the public's physical and mental health, body concepts, and potential threats to society.
Abstract
There are papers criticizing the impact of negative body imaging caused by social media. TikTok is an extraordinary Internet platform where everyone can upload videos to provide the public with the easiest way to get a sense of presence. TikTok makes the images under the beautiful filter tend to be standardized. The main purpose of this article is to discuss how this global popular social platform TikTok enhances body stereotypes and body humiliation trends, and what impact it has on the public and society. The research objects of this article are TikTok users and believers who fall into the trend of comments and compromise themselves in order to attract the attention of others and the typical videos they upload. In the main text, the author introduces and analyzes a series of popular TikTok videos with hash tags. The paper proves that TikTok does spread the trend of physical shame, and has a negative impact on the public's physical and mental health, body concepts, and potential threats to society.
