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YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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I'm sorry what. What is wrong about weight and fitness videos for youth? Watching those types of videos is what has lead me to lose 100 pounds in real life? Out of everything they have the option to restrict not that I want anything restricted to be honest.
Read 👏 the 👏 god 👏 damn 👏 article.
I did read the article and my point still stands. If idealizing people that are better than you wanting to be better than what you currently are Is now something that is bad than we have failed. No matter if it's your physical condition, knowledge, wealth, anything. We as a human race should always push each other to be better than before.
It isn't about people better than you. It is about idealized and generally unrealistic body standards.
These are not videos about getting to a healthy weight and exercise routine. "Certain look" is a crappilly phrased way of saying unrealistic body standards, but that is what it means.
I still don't see it. Example being Hugh Jackman from the new Deadpool movie. There are interviews with with saying "yes I just eat 5k calories a day of chicken, veggies, and fish." That is 100% false and not true. If someone watches that interview because they wanted to either know how he managed to look like that or just because they liked the movie. but then in the recommended section it does not show someone who actually knows shit about fitness and steroids etc how would they know. Sometimes that rabbit hole is good. And can bring upon knowledge. A lot of fitness influences speak out on what would be considered "unrealistic body standards" as it is unhealthy to attempt to look that way.
As for trying to make you nose looks a certain way I can't really speak on that. but I still believe that the restriction of anything on a site such as YouTube is a dangerous precedent to set.
Edit: clarity
It is kind of funny that you think the recommendations would be informative instead of some shill peddling the same "you can do it with 5000 calories and exercise" bullshit. A rabbit hole is going further down the same hole.