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

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Sparkling Cow said:
Have you ever visited ed twitter? I just discovered that someone I know have an account for that and I got curious if it is similar to tumblr days of ed.
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InfantCrippler said:
IMO ed twitter seems to skew younger than ed tumblr... or maybe I‘m just old. There‘s also so much fucking kpop. I’d say the community overall is just as toxic, maybe even more because tumblr actually cracks down on pro-ana content nowadays,
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ED twitter also heavily overlaps with SH twitter and is mostly filled with people below 18, even below 13 in some cases (:_(It is indeed just as toxic from what I've gathered, complete with heavy glamourising and cute photo edits of body checks and self harm.
I've never seen pro-SH people like pro-anas though, it's more making everything seem cutesy with hello kitty stickers as opposed to directly saying "you shouldn't eat lol"
 
most of the kids on ed twitter just seem like the old ‘wannarexics’ from ed tumblr days...like they stick around for a few months and then deactivate their accounts bc they probably realised its a horrid landscape. I do feel sorry for them though :(
 
it's so horrifying for me to look at this knowing i used to be a part of this community. i can't really believe it myself anymore because it's so far removed from my current reality.

for me it was about control. i felt powerless in all other areas of my life, so i felt like my weight was the one thing i could control. i also felt that i was ugly, and that being skinny could be at least one saving grace. i have matured and learned to love myself now, but it's still so crazy to know that i was capable of that level of self hatred and self harm. scary tbh.
 
petite said:
it's so horrifying for me to look at this knowing i used to be a part of this community. i can't really believe it myself anymore because it's so far removed from my current reality.

for me it was about control. i felt powerless in all other areas of my life, so i felt like my weight was the one thing i could control. i also felt that i was ugly, and that being skinny could be at least one saving grace. i have matured and learned to love myself now, but it's still so crazy to know that i was capable of that level of self hatred and self harm. scary tbh.
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you seem like a nice person but this is kiwifarms and sharing very personal information is generally frowned upon, as there are people here who will happily use it to fuck with you.

stay safe and I'm glad you're not an anachan
 
There is an anorexic girl I like to keep up with on insta. I think she is in school to be a nurse? I don't know much about her but this picture made me laugh.
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I used to be so far down this rabbit hole and I honestly feel ashamed I was on MPA and PrettyThin (now shut down) for as long as I was. The horrible advice given, the mindset of a lot of people had/have on there is so toxic and members would shame those just looking for support in recovery. What had me most disgusted was the 13/14 year olds who would come on and ask for "Ana mentors" or people to "teach them the lifestyle" which is so beyond fucked up but the sites fostered that attitude.
I hope others found a way to recover but the way a lot of the "lifers" on the site spoke I have little hope for the long time members.
 
BoneyBlondie said:
I used to be so far down this rabbit hole and I honestly feel ashamed I was on MPA and PrettyThin (now shut down) for as long as I was. The horrible advice given, the mindset of a lot of people had/have on there is so toxic and members would shame those just looking for support in recovery. What had me most disgusted was the 13/14 year olds who would come on and ask for "Ana mentors" or people to "teach them the lifestyle" which is so beyond fucked up but the sites fostered that attitude.
I hope others found a way to recover but the way a lot of the "lifers" on the site spoke I have little hope for the long time members.
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Holy shit, that's real? I always thought of it as creepypasta or internet urban myth or something.
 
Just Dont said:
Holy shit, that's real? I always thought of it as creepypasta or internet urban myth or something.
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Obviously not the person you quoted but I'm quite familiar with MPA especially because Reasons, and I will say these days while you sometimes get a young person coming on and making a thread asking for 'tips and tricks', the replies tend to be people telling them to leave the site, to the point where they actually have a sticky banning this 'newbie hazing'. People get really aggy about it, very 'wow this isn't a diet you don't want this pain you're obviously just a chubby 12 year old eat more veg'.
However, if you stick around you can find threads like 'What're your worst behaviors???' that have hundreds of replies and are pretty obviously just 'tips and tricks' but phrased in a more palatable way. You can also always go back to threads from 2014-ish back when it was way more pro-ana. I found one on wayback machine with over 2 pages of people telling each other how to purge.
So these days the way you're picturing it is probably a bit of an urban legend, the only 'ana coach' you'll find is someone who is secretly a 40 year old man creeping on teens, but they're's def some stuff there if you know how to look. In general I would say pro ana communities are way less terrible than the media makes them out to be but way worse than they pretend to be
 
I wonder if pro-ana groups have moved to platforms like Telegram? I feel like forums aren't used that much by younger people
 
milkmanagement said:
Discord is more likely
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yes, they mostly use twitter with invites offered to group chats on there or discord and sometimes snapchat. spent a few days peeking around ED and SHtwt and saw invite offers getting posted multiple times a day.
i don't think there'd be anything interesting in them, just young mostly-girls (with neopronouns, because those are extremely prolific there, it reminds me of 2014ish tumblr) posting skinny people and/or gore.
i did see a tweet that wanted people to post body checks with id proof before they could join a group chat, though. definitely not a nonce behind the screen!
 
Polexia Aphrodisia said:
you seem like a nice person but this is kiwifarms and sharing very personal information is generally frowned upon, as there are people here who will happily use it to fuck with you.

stay safe and I'm glad you're not an anachan
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Not even personal information. Gaining control over your life applies to most if not all anachans.
People are in all honestly not as special they think they are.
 
One thing that I wonder about Pro-Anas, is that do they have either envy or desire, to either be in or wish their country were instead like the ones where starvation has happened or is common place, i.e. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or North Korea? Or maybe some of them even use joke terms of their countries for their "diets", i.e. "The Venezuelan diet", and even praising those countries for having low obesity rates?
 
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