TikTok bans ‘Legging Legs’ trend

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TikTok has banned the time period “legging legs” after an alarming trend circulated on the platform that was flagged as doubtlessly triggering for these with consuming problems.

Although the hashtag #legginglegs has since been deleted from the platform and now directs customers to details about consuming problems or disordered consuming, the short-lived trend made its influence. It first went viral after ladies started to share movies of themselves in yoga pants exhibiting off their thigh gaps.

As it was gaining traction, TikTok customers swiftly started to push again towards the trend, saying that the trend could possibly be significantly damaging by encouraging consuming problems and physique dysmorphia.

Therapist Holly Essler condemned the trend in a video, saying: “If you have seen this on social media, it’s repulsing.”

“Basically it’s a trend saying that if you have leggings and you wear leggings your legs have to look a certain way in them,” she continued. “Again, this is disgusting. Do not let social media tell your body that it is a trend. If you have a body and you have leggings, you have legging legs.”

“Thank you for speaking up against these toxic trends that lead girls to so much insecurity and worse,” one particular person wrote within the remark part of Essler’s video.

It isn’t simply Essler who criticised the recognition of the trend, plus-sized influencer Ashlee Rose Hartley (@ashleyrosehartley) shared her ideas in one other video that has obtained over 2.1mil views on the platform and 900 feedback from ladies who felt the identical method in regards to the poisonous trend.

In the overlaid textual content of her video, Hartley wrote: “I just saw a new trend called ‘legging legs’ that’s circulating on the internet & it’s young people critiquing their legs in leggings & saying that the perfect legs for leggings is a giant square thigh gap & small legs…here to remind you all that legs are legging legs.”

“I have been crying for the past 4 hours bc I don’t have ‘legging legs’ and my bf has been trying to comfort me the entire time,” one viewer commented beneath the video. Hartley responded, “I’m so sorry you’re feeling that. Just know you’re beautiful no matter what. Trends like this are designed to be exclusive but keep shining.”

Another TikTok consumer @emilyxpearl chimed in on the discourse, expressing how appalled she was on the folks on the app.

“Do we understand what we are doing to the younger generation of women?” she mentioned in her video. “Do we understand that there are 15-year-old girls that wear leggings every single day that now feel that they cannot wear leggings because they don’t have legging legs…the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”

She added, “Do you understand that because of your video telling some little girl that she doesn’t have legging legs, she now feels that she can’t fit into society?”

The “legging legs” trend perpetuates the concept that one singular physique sort and look is right, spreading misinformation and doubtlessly harming impressionable and susceptible minds within the course of. An estimated 28.8 mil Americans reportedly expertise an consuming dysfunction inside their lifetime, in response to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. Researchers have discovered that social media utilization could cause physique picture points together with consuming problems and physique dysmorphia.