The term 'tan dysmorphia' has taken over For You pages. Is there anything to it?
in the US, but there are still millions of people across this country who use sun beds every year. [Editor’s note: And, unfortunately, people say tanorexia here too.]
So, when I first heard people talking about tanning dysmorphia, I dismissed it as another ignorant phrase. In the past few weeks, however, I have seen the sameThe videos start with people whounder the cast of a filter, and then quickly the screen changes, revealing their actual skin. One video is captioned, “Tan dysmorphia? Not after this filter.” There is no evidence that the filter was designed for this use, but a trend has been born from it nonetheless.
The original filter being used for these videos has since been removed from the app, but the videos that feature it are still up. And a lot of similar filters are still available, such as Cotton, with 202k videos, and Ratu, which has 40.3k videos. On noticing this trend, my feelings were nuanced: My knee-jerk reaction was to roll my eyes, but after I scrolled through more videos, I felt a mix of sympathy, confusion, and genuine curiosity. Sympathy because it’s clear these young girls do feel dysphoric about their tans, confusion because tanning is a controversial topic on many levels, and curiosity because I wasn’t sure the term “tan dysmorphia” had any real merit.
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