🤝 Community Pro-Ana - "I need to lose 20 more pounds or I'll never be pretty!"

[Susanna]

So I've browed this thread and browed the pro-ana.."eating disorder support forum" and I don't really understand it's purpose? Is it a space for people with EDs to just compare and get worse? or is it genuinely a support forum?

Kind of, yeah. It's thinspiration, when your motivation is flagging you can log on and look at pictures of thin people to hopefully get it back.

Also, is there any correlation to these pro-anas/EDs and having korean? idols in her profile pictures?

Aesthetics. Skinny korean boys are hot, it's as simple as that.

 

[festering wound]

So I've browed this thread and browed the pro-ana.."eating disorder support forum" and I don't really understand it's purpose? Is it a space for people with EDs to just compare and get worse? or is it genuinely a support forum?

Also, is there any correlation to these pro-anas/EDs and having korean? idols in her profile pictures?

The site only rebranded to Eating Disorder Support Forum within the past year or two. For the first decade of its existence, it was known as MyProAna. They rebranded after the original owner sold the site and the new owner forced them to change their name because they thought it was a bad business move to be seen facilitating a pro-ED forum.

The people on there say they're not actively encouraging or triggering people with EDs to get worse but you'll find countless threads of people giving each other tips on how to eat less, how to purge, how to hide their ED from their family, how to fake a higher weight for doctor's appointments, how to manipulate blood test results, etc. etc. Not to mention all the skelly bodycheck threads, "let's all get down to this weight together" threads, and a dedicated thinspo section which is 50% kpop girls because Korean beauty standards require them to be very thin.

 

[Elysian]

The site only rebranded to Eating Disorder Support Forum within the past year or two. For the first decade of its existence, it was known as MyProAna. They rebranded after the original owner sold the site and the new owner forced them to change their name because they thought it was a bad business move to be seen facilitating a pro-ED forum.

The people on there say they're not actively encouraging or triggering people with EDs to get worse but you'll find countless threads of people giving each other tips on how to eat less, how to purge, how to hide their ED from their family, how to fake a higher weight for doctor's appointments, how to manipulate blood test results, etc. etc. Not to mention all the skelly bodycheck threads, "let's all get down to this weight together" threads, and a dedicated thinspo section which is 50% kpop girls because Korean beauty standards require them to be very thin.

Forums like this tend to have dedicated subforums for people in recovery to get support with actual recovery stuff, but having all that on the same website as the subforums with the thinspo and weight loss advice is like hosting an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a pub.

 

[Internet Wizard]

I feel like edtwt/ed tumblr are the pooner version of egg_irl

 

[saucy paws]

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I feel like edtwt/ed tumblr are the pooner version of egg_irl

Pretty much. Those spaces are littered with "boys" who are all autistic women in their mid teens to early 20s. Any actual males who interact are anorexia fetishists or ana coaches. There was one notable case where an exercise addicted female tried to pass as an anorexic biological male and gained a pretty large following as all the actual straight women on the website started thirsting over her. Anyways, yeah, starving to shed the effects of female puberty is a surprisingly common phenomenon.

 

[often puzzled]

LCF had extended downtime recently, and there was some lack of communication about what had happened and when/if the site would return. I'm archiving the pro-ana threads, because it's too much bone-rattling, infighting, and general bad behavior to lose.

There's a partial index to the first 103 threads in this LCF post.

General introduction to the players to explain who they are/were and where they are now (if known). It's worth remembering that no one got a mention on LCF because they were well-behaved and really trying to recover.

Spoiler: the players

Adapted from the thread index:

Emily, Aly, Ash, Crying Emily, Gracie, Laura (Forever Flourishing), Emily Crocker, Olivia/Ivi/lmndrp_, turtle, Zoe, parismelodyraven, random IG girls & morbidly obese bulimics, everything is a shoop.

My notes: There really are/were that many people named Emily. There are also a bunch named Laura. The OP censored some names because discussion of some of these people got banned (generally due to histrionics). There will be more banned people in the years to come. One Emily got pregnant and cut out the pro-ana antics when her child was born. Another Emily got cut off from her family and went to rehab. She also no longer participates in the pro-ana stuff. I'm not sure about the other Emily.

Laura is still around and is currently losing weight rapidly after being released from years of inpatient treatment, and she appeared on a BBC documentary a few years back. Paris Melody Raven is also still around and will be bone-rattling until she drops dead. Ash is Ash Issacs, and we all know that she's eternal (and that she has her own thread here).

Aly (Italian Aly) eventually ended up with her own set of threads. She's still extremely active on Instagram but is no longer doing ED content: she broke her leg, gained weight, did provocative posing and remained cluster B, and then she had a heart attack during COVID. She's still an oddball but is pretty inoffensive these days.

Cassie appears in these early threads-- eight years ago, mind-- and is moving toward faking DID. She eventually admitted that she didn't have it but is in an inpatient for anorexia even as I write this.

Spoiler: the threads: 1-10

001:

original : https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/44088.html#44088
Archive: https://archive.is/yCuJM

002: >>74624 – Olivia's first appearance

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/74624.html#74624
Archive: https://archive.ph/c3G2w

003: >>79031

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/79031.html#79031
Archive: https://archive.ph/1CbnZ

004: >>83974

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/83974.html#83974
Archive: https://archive.is/wEPAD

005: >>89109

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/89109.html#89109
Archive: https://archive.ph/91lXA

006: >>94114 – ccaty's first appearance

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/94114.html#94114
Archive: https://archive.ph/COqR7

007: >>99329

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/99329.html#99329
Archive: https://archive.ph/AifwB

008: >>106059 – Cassie's first appearance, Jenna fakes cancer & deletes, Laura still in the background

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/106059.html#106059
Archive: https://archive.ph/MCaU6

009: >>112288 – Emma and Kayla's first appearances

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/112288.html#112288
Archive: https://archive.ph/dxURU

010: >>117640 – First appearances of "Healthy" Cacia and Kell who's "refeeding" at 400lbs

Original: https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/117640.html#117640
Archive: https://archive.is/bYxJc

 

[grump]

Is proana shit still around in some significant way? I assumed it was driven to effective extinction in the early 2000s when platforms started cracking down on them and the other most controversial communities since all I hear about is fat acceptance these days. I get that there may be some scattered small groups out there like with stereotypical manosphere incels but unlike incels people don't even talk about proana anymore.

 

[Speakeasy Electric]

Is proana shit still around in some significant way? I assumed it was driven to effective extinction in the early 2000s when platforms started cracking down on them and the other most controversial communities since all I hear about is fat acceptance these days. I get that there may be some scattered small groups out there like with stereotypical manosphere incels but unlike incels people don't even talk about proana anymore.

They’re all over X (twitter)

 

[Battery Low]

If you search X for "edtwt" and stuff like fasting etc then you'll find loads. It takes forever to get a handle on where the drama and big accounts are though.

I think a few forums are still around but no idea how easy those are to get into.

 

[internet enjoyer]

Yes they definitely are still around, sometimes the hastags also get censored on x, so they might have alternatives like #ricecaketwt (?) etc.

If you just search thinspo, you'll see many people liking, commenting etc.

 

[Mark Robinson BussyLiquor]

Hey, wymyn! You are fat!

 

[internet enjoyer]

I've seen multiple versions of a post come up on edtwt, screenshot of a text conversation something like:
Person with ED: 'omg bb i'm x kg' or 'I just purged' etc
BF: not acting outright negative or even being supportive

Then one of two reactions:
1. Omg he is an actual psycho for supporting you, he wants you to die. Leave that guy
2. Omg that is so cute <3

There is no winning it seems like... not sure how people can be a partner to ed people, be for them emotionally, be concerned for their wellbeing at the same time.

I feel like alot of things contradict in an ED - this is not everyone, but i feel some people will want people to feel concern for them, but when trying to help them out of it, they are upset about it. Then if people around pretend to not notice it, the ED person will feel isolated. If you support them, you are encouraging something that is harmful to them.

I understand it is a mental illness and not always logical, but there is no good ending to it, they will never be happy. And there are such high levels of double think, I don't know how a person with an ED makes sense of anything - even the people in the ED community cannot agree with each other.

 

[glioblastoma multiforme]

And there are such high levels of double think, I don't know how a person with an ED makes sense of anything

It goes something like, the narrative in your brain that you hear all the time turns against you. You can fully know it is illogical and makes no sense but if your head is going to shout at you for hours about making the slightest mistake, you go along with it.

I think all EDs end up with the patient being unable to challenge that nitpicky part of you that makes you feel bad in some way if you do the wrong thing. That nitpicky part of you has overly focused on one part of life, i.e. food. I'd suspect that quite a lot of mental illnesses develop like this but with different focuses.

As for attention, no idea, at some point you are complicit with that worse part of yourself.

 

[veritarded]

dunno if this was posted about elsewhere but about two weeks ago some youtuber named ready to glare made a video about edtwt. i don’t have an archive cause she privated the video because of backlash but she made a community post. some users have criticized her for poking the hornet’s nest multiple times in the past, and every time she gets backlash for it she uses her own ED as a shield
l | a
she got more backlash from the community post cause why would you make a whole video about how toxic edtwt is and then suggest that your audience go check it out?

anyways, now one of the biggest communities on edtwt has been banned and people are understandably believing it’s because ready to glare’s audience mass reported it


the communities made after starving, interrupted’s ban were also banned



in case you were curious about the trove of intellectualism that is now lost into the void, here are some choice posts from starving, interrupted

Spoiler

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

>ana-chans freaking out over showers making you absorb water
Imagine the smell.

 

[Mark Robinson BussyLiquor]

What kind of doctor who owns his own clinic would choose to make ends meet an ER? I'm not American but it sounds like total bullshit.

It's quite common in the US. It's a way to maximize money.

 

[Pol Poggers]

Remember girlies: if Nikocado Avocado can look like a Holdomor victim so can you


In addition to twitter you can also still super easily find ana-chans on tumblr, but it's literally just the same shit they've been doing forever.

in case you were curious about the trove of intellectualism that is now lost into the void, here are some choice posts from starving, interrupted

They're doing some groundbreaking research on the how to avoid weight gain front tho:



But I do really enjoy the food abominations they create so I was wondering if anyone knows other places like r/ShittyRestrictionFood? Wading through a bunch of retarded proana posts to find the, obvs, rare meal pics doesnt do it for me.

 

[Elysian]

But I do really enjoy the food abominations they create so I was wondering if anyone knows other places like r/ShittyRestrictionFood? Wading through a bunch of retarded proana posts to find the, obvs, rare meal pics doesnt do it for me.

There’s an orthorexic lolcow called The Fit Vegan Ginger who made food abominations like that and would post them on her blog. She has a thread here if you want to see more ana-chan food abominations.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/anna-j...ion-nutrition-annas-organics-lynchburg.14839/

 

[often puzzled]

But I do really enjoy the food abominations they create so I was wondering if anyone knows other places like r/ShittyRestrictionFood? Wading through a bunch of retarded proana posts to find the, obvs, rare meal pics doesnt do it for me.

Not sure if this would quite scratch the itch, but there's a Shitty Restriction Food counterpart called r/GoodRestrictionFood. Some of it is normal(ish) food in very small portions, and some of it gets more into weird substitutions and food substitutes. It does have more meal(ish) things than SRF does.

 

[glimpse bank fur]

I was wondering if anyone knows other places like r/ShittyRestrictionFood? Wading through a bunch of retarded proana posts to find the, obvs, rare meal pics doesnt do it for me.

There's some pretty grim shit on r/1200isplenty (they mean 1200 calories per day, of course).

r/safe_food is historically another good place to find nasty ana recipes and food pics, but right now they seem to be mostly posting collages of their favorite packaged shelf-stable chow.