.G_Russo1 writes that while TikTok has surged in popularity, 'it’s become clear that the app is not properly designed to uplift plus-size creators.'
In the two years since TikTok’s surge in popularity, it’s become clear that the app is not properly designed to uplift plus-size creators — unless they fit a narrow beauty ideal.In NYLON’s bimonthly column Plus Us, writer Gianluca Russo explores the many ways in which fat people are discriminated against — both systematically and on an interpersonal level — in society today, and looks to open up difficult dialogue in order to provide support, advice, and resources to the community.
TikTok’s algorithm is what has set it apart from apps like Instagram that have begun to feel too mechanical. That very algorithm — on top of the app’s influx of fake and robotic accounts in use — also raises the opportunity for hateful vitriol., a 2020 report found that TikTok’s algorithm censored users that were deemed “ugly, overweight, disabled, or poor.
Additionally, some have used the term to create a division between themselves and plus-size folk, not identifying with the term “fat” or wanting to be lumped into the community that exists higher on the weight spectrum.
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