A 20-year-old college student is calling on TikTok to make a change after she was diagnosed with anorexia.
What began as an innocent app on her phone, turned into a life-changing realization for one 20-year-old woman.
Isabel Romea, a computer science major at Swarthmore College, says her life took a turn after she started scrolling on TikTok. Like many during the pandemic, Romea turned to social media as a distraction. That's when she discovered TikTok - an app featuring everything from dance videos to home renovations.
For Romea, it was the endless supply of cooking videos that caught her interest. However, the 20-year-old says those cooking videos quickly turned into "What I Eat in a Day" videos.Suddenly her feed was flooded with videos encouraging calorie counting, and it began bombarding her with "good" and "bad" foods."I never chose to begin watching these videos; the algorithm chose for me," she said.
As the videos kept coming, Romea says she began obsessing over food and developed a negative body image, which eventually became a major health issue.MORE HEADLINES:
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