ArticleJournal of eating disorders2024
Let's talk about body neutrality: content analysis of #bodyneutrality on TikTok.
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- TikTok and Eating Disorders: A Narrative Review.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Tick-Tock, the Time Has Come: Leveraging TikTok to Understand, Prevent, and Treat Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Positive, Neutral, or Just Normal? A Focus Group Study on Adolescents' Knowledge, Familiarity and Perceived Effectiveness of Body Positivity and Body Neutrality on Social Media.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- "And just like that, quiet": a content analysis of TikTok videos on food noise.Nutrition & diabetes · 2026Article
- Body Image Evaluation and Sociocultural Attitudes Toward One's Own Body Among Women Practicing Pole Dance.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Expanding the Scope of Open Weighing to Target Anxiety About the Consequences of Weight Gain in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Body Positivity and Eating Behaviors Among Women Attending Fitness Classes: Associations with Body Mass Index.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Assessment of the content and quality of palliative care videos on Chinese social media: A cross-sectional analysis.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundTo date, over 1.3 billion videos with the hashtag #bodyneutrality have been viewed on TikTok. Despite this, little existing literature has unpacked how body neutrality is conceptualised on TikTok. We examined how TikTok creators construct meaning and generate discourse surrounding #bodyneutrality.
methodsExtending on previous works in the body neutrality space, we conducted a hybrid content/thematic analysis of TikTok videos in three different languages (English, Spanish, and Italian). Initially, 300 videos displaying "#bodyneutrality" were identified on TikTok. The first 178 TikTok videos were analysed, following the principles of data saturation and feasibility.
resultsWe developed three themes: (1) The normalisation of diverse bodies, (2) The rejection of appearance as fundamentally important, and (3) Body neutrality is (better than) body positivity.
conclusionsIn line with conceptualisations of body neutrality in existing literature, some content emphasised the importance of devaluing physical appearance. Building on existing definitions, most creators also framed body neutrality as speaking to the fundamental humanness of owning a body and attempted to normalise various body shapes/sizes. Conversely, some content employed #bodyneutrality to promote or examine body positivity principles or to condemn appearance-based stigmatisation. Our study is one of the first to examine how body neutrality is understood and employed by people in the real world.
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