After the wave of criticisms, Tiktok has eliminated the chubby filter – literally “chubby filter” – which transforms the appearance of the body of those who use it, creating a fattened version. It is proof that we are still far from a more realistic and less toxic representation of our bodies, especially on social media.
Tiktok | Photo with the “chubby filter” from the profile of @Evelyn.luca
When Meta announced the end of the Beauty Filter, the filters that modify the connotations of the face by transforming us all into Clones of an unattainable beauty model and artifact, we had hoped that something could change, that i social they could finally be ready to welcome one more realistic and less toxic representation of our bodies. But that hope died Before it could be something more an illusion.
In recent weeks The Chubby Filter has become viral on Tiktokliterally “Pypose filter“, which through artificial intelligence transforms the appearance of the body of those who use it, creating it a fattened version. Regardless of how aware users who used it were, this filter is clearly denigrant and offensive towards anyone who does not respect the standard of A toned, muscular and above all thin bodyas proof that the fatophobia It is hard to die, especially on social media.
What is the chubby filter
In all this story, a partially positive note is there: these contents have received so many criticisms that in the end Tiktok decided to Remove the chubby filter. The social network – reports the BBC – explained that the filter had been created and loaded by Capcutapp separated by Tiktok, but still owned by the same parent company, the Chinese Bytedance. However, the videos with the filter are still visible, but the social network said it is working for Do not make them finish among the “recommended” contents and to block their display for teenage users.
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What is the problem behind this filter
Tiktok’s response, however, is not enough to erase the problem. A filter that imitates the bodies of overweight people is clearly an indication of A Grassophobic and toxic culture of the body. Body Positivity has absolutely nothing to do with it. In addition, these videos risk being a form of Body Shamingor worse, of bullying towards overweight people or simply who do not reflect that model of lean and filiform body.
This is why many asked that the filter was deleted. Among these Sadie, a 66,000 follower Tiktoker, he told the BBC that he received Lots of reports by women or girls who have eliminated from the social network due to the unease tried to see those videos: “I don’t think people should feel ridiculous for their body Just because they enter a social network, “he wrote in a comment on one of the contents with the Chubby Filter.” Basically those who used this filter was said that they seemed disgusting because they were changing‘And for me who I am a forming woman, who essentially resembles the photo of the “after” created by the filter, was really disheartening“.
According to experts, this kind of content, in addition to feeding the stigma of weight, can induce people to develop Eating behavior disorders: “We always talk about the usual, old false prejudices according to which Overweight people are lazy Or they have something wrong, “explains the nutritionist Emma Beckett to the BBC.” La fear of taking weight – he added – increases the dissatisfaction of his body, fueling the Toxic culture of diets And the obsession with food and exercise “.
