TikTokers call for ‘chubby filter’ to be banned

Tiktok BBC users told them that they believe that the viral tool that causes people to be overweight should be banned from the platform.

The AI ​​(AI) is known as a “fat filter”, and it takes a picture of a person and adjusts his appearance to look as if it was weighing.

Many people have shared their photos before and after pictures on the platform with jokes about their difference – but others say it is a form of “body sample” and should not be allowed.

Experts also warned that the candidate may nourish the “toxic diet culture” via the Internet and may contribute to eating disorders.

Tiktok did not respond to the comment.

Sadi, who has 66,000 followers on Tiktok, is one of those who call for a “average” candidate to be banned.

“I felt that girls are like girls,” said 29 -year -old Bristol.

She said that she had called her the women who said they had deleted Tijk from their phones because the trend made them feel bad towards themselves.

“I don’t feel that people should make fun of their body just to open an application,” she said.

Dr. Emma Picky, a food and nutritionist, told the BBC, she felt that the trend was a “big step” in the stigma.

She said: “They are just the same ancient wrong stereotypes about people in larger, well -known bodies, and something that must be avoided strongly,” she said.

She warned against having a broad social effect.

“Fear of weight gain contributes to eating disorders and dissatisfaction with the body, it nourishes the culture of a toxic diet, which makes people obsessed with food and exercises in unhealthy ways and open them to fraud products and meals.

“Everyone presses compliance with the narrow standards of beauty and health, rather than finding what is better for their body – which causes harm to everyone, whether in physical or mental health.”

Written by Jessica Sherwood, BBC Social News

Filters – that use artificial intelligence to treat a person’s appearance – common in Tiktok.

Many are not harmful – for example one popular direction that makes him look as if the person was made of Lego.

It is often designed by individuals who do not have a link to Tiktok – this seems to be the case with the new “fat filter”.

Some of the most popular videos using the candidate I loved tens of thousands of times.

For the purpose of this article, I used the candidate on myself.

I felt incredible.

As a very positive person in the body and has struggled with his self -image in the past, its use cannot be far from the way I personally use social media and I was unhappy because Tiktok pushed it to me in the first place.

This filter appeared on the Tiktok page “for you” on the last day, although not participating in any healthy weight content.

After watching the video and reading the comments that were – the way the Tiktok algorithm works means that it has begun to suggest similar videos from others who use the filter, and even another can convert artificial intelligence.

Fortunately, it also started to show the showers of the creators who criticize this trend, and whom we spoke to in this article.

Artificial intelligence photos and filters have become common on Tiktok and quickly accepted to use fun – in the same way that you may remember some Gen -ZS and Millennials Snapchat filters.

But such filters, although they may look enjoyable, can be very harmful to a person’s mental health and encourage them to compare themselves not only with others, but an unrealistic version of themselves.

The British Broadcasting Corporation spoke to a number of Tiktok users who said they were uncomfortable with the candidate.

Nina, who lives in North Wales, said that she felt that she was feeding on “narration” spread over the Internet to link people’s appearance with their own appreciation.

“This is a poisonous view I thought we were moving about,” she said.

“If the candidate is clearly offensive, he must be removed,” she told the BBC.

Emma, ​​who lives in Air, agreed.

“My first idea when I saw” a fat filter “is how harmful it is.

“People used to say mainly that they seemed disgusting because they were” full “and as a curved woman, which appeared mainly like” photo “on this candidate, it was frustrated for me.

Nina said she was happy to see people criticizing this trend, which she described “immoral and not sensitive.”

“We must raise each other, and not lower the bodies of each other,” she said.

Sadi agreed that she should not be allowed – however she felt that there may be other things that Tiktok could do.

“Maybe she should have a warning,” she said.

“If there are topics of shame in the body, eating disorder, or anything like that, then I think that there should be a way for the brand of signs that, if these people want to spread it, they publish them, but they are not pushed to a wider audience.”