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Maintenance Phase · January 9, 2025 · 58m
The 2025 Grifties
The annual awards show for the worst wellness grifts of the year: SkinnyTok, smart toilets that analyze your stool composition, and restaurants offering smaller portions 'for women and short kings.'
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Hobbes uses smart toilets (devices that analyze stool composition for health markers) as the reductio ad absurdum of the biohacking treadmill: when you've optimized your sleep, diet, exercise, and supplements, the only frontier left is analyzing your excrement.
Highlights
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SkinnyTok as the new pro-ana — diet culture rebranded for a new generation
Gordon documents how TikTok's SkinnyTok trend promotes extreme caloric restriction (sub-1,000 calories/day) under the branding of 'wellness' and 'that girl' aesthetics, reaching an audience too young to remember the pro-ana movement of the 2000s.Was this useful?