Why eating disorder content is all over the internet [Ad-free]
Added 2025-08-06 07:00:09 +0000 UTCEating disorder content has been a problem on the internet since as early as 2001, but it accelerated with the advent of social media. Today we’re examining why it’s become more prevalent than perhaps at any other time. EJ Dickson, a writer who investigated the #SkinnyTok community for The Cut, joins us to talk about the introduction of eating disorder content in the mainstream internet, its causes and characters.
Our guest EJ Dickson is a senior writer at The Cut. You can check out her investigative piece on Liv Schmidt and #SkinnyTok here, and follow her work everywhere @ejdickson.
Comments
So thankful that you did an episode on this phenomenon. I had never considered before that I was basically part of the first generation of teenaged girls to be posting in these eating disorder spaces. Just now realizing that the blog that I kept was part of perpetuating the problem.
Ramona Chatman-Morris
2025-08-22 00:12:11 +0000 UTCThought it would port over as audio to other platforms but looks like not. Just added the audio version and going forward we'll post both.
Panic World
2025-08-06 16:21:42 +0000 UTCIs there an audio-only version?
Joshua Berger
2025-08-06 15:20:49 +0000 UTC
