The Influence of the Body Image Presented Through TikTok Trend-Videos and Its Possible Reasons

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10.2991/assehr.k.210609.072How to use a DOI?

Keywords

TikTok, negative body imaging, harmful effects, stereotyped, trend

Abstract

There are papers criticizing the impact of negative body imaging caused by social media. TikTok is an extraordinary Internet platform where everyone can upload videos to provide the public with the easiest way to get a sense of presence. TikTok makes the images under the beautiful filter tend to be standardized. The main purpose of this article is to discuss how this global popular social platform TikTok enhances body stereotypes and body humiliation trends, and what impact it has on the public and society. The research objects of this article are TikTok users and believers who fall into the trend of comments and compromise themselves in order to attract the attention of others and the typical videos they upload. In the main text, the author introduces and analyzes a series of popular TikTok videos with hash tags. The paper proves that TikTok does spread the trend of physical shame, and has a negative impact on the public’s physical and mental health, body concepts, and potential threats to society.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiayan Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - The Influence of the Body Image Presented Through TikTok Trend-Videos and Its Possible Reasons
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 359
EP  - 363
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210609.072
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210609.072
ID  - Liu2021
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