Influencers Still Do This Disturbing Body-Negative Behaviour. But It Helps To Recognise It.

Let’s have a check-in about body checking. Even if you don’t know this behaviour by name, you’ve probably seen it modelled by influencers.

In a looks-obsessed space like social media — and a cultural moment like the present, in which discourse surrounding weight loss drugs is unavoidable and #SkinnyTok content is so ubiquitous that TikTok banned the hashtag — repeatedly scrutinising your appearance and documenting it online isn’t a big stretch. In fact, on the fitness side of TikTok, explicit “body checks” are super common...