Tiktok #skinnytok blocks due to severe weight loss, turbulent food content

Tiktok says it has prevented the search results for the “Skinnytok” retail tag due to the high volume of content that enhanced disturbed eating and unhealthy weight loss behaviors on the social media platform.

“We regularly review our safety measures to treat advanced risks and prohibited the search results for #skinnytok because it has become associated with the content of unhealthy weight loss,” said a statement from Tiktok via email to CBC News on Wednesday.

“We continue to restrict videos from adolescent accounts and provide health and information experts in TIKTOK search,” the statement said.

The term Skinnytok has become widely used to describe a sub -culture online from influencers and content creators who strengthen severe thinness.

Under the #Skinnytok umbrella, creators make videos with one lines like “like” like “.Sleeping is the outfit,Encouraging viewers to achieve their goals by following the advice of severe weight loss.

Now, searches for Skinnytok will not achieve any results except for a message that drives users to verify expert resources. In Canada, viewers will see contact information and links to groups such as the National Center for Eating Disorders and Vanorexie et boulimie québec.

Tiktok’s decision to prevent Skinnytok came after the platform noticed an increase in content that enhances troubled food and unhealthy weight loss behaviors earlier this year, according to the official spokesman.

In April, the Minister of State in France for Digital Affairs Clara Chapas told the retail brand to the country’s digital control and European Commission.

Chapas and French nurse Charlyne Buigues have made a campaign to ban Tiktok the hashtag since April. The structure of the petition began to obtain the retail mark that was banned from approximately 35,000 signatures.

On the first of June, Chapas in French said X: “Today, Tiktok confirmed that he has finally removed this unacceptable hashtag from his platform. This is the first collective victory. I am with it.”