"edtwt" meaning in English

See edtwt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From ED (“eating disorder”) + -twt. Etymology templates: {{af|en|ED|-twt|t1=eating disorder}} ED (“eating disorder”) + -twt Head templates: {{en-prop}} edtwt
  1. (Internet slang, neologism) A Twitter community for those with eating disorders. Tags: Internet, neologism Categories (topical): Twitter Related terms: edblr
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          "ref": "2021 August, Kathrin S. Gibson, Thinspiration and Fatspiration on Body Dissatisfaction (thesis), Texas State University, page 7:",
          "text": "The recent use of TikTok videos using fatspiration, and to a lesser extent thinspiration, on Twitter (@caloire, 2020) has brought a lot of negative attention to Eating Disorder Twitter (edtwt) and to a lesser extent other pro-ana and eating disorder communities on other platforms. There are those within edtwt who are arguing against TikTok users posting thinspiration and fatspiration content (@dietlix, 2020; @somehowatypical, 2020). However, this continues to be an issue across social media platforms.",
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          "ref": "2022, Remington M. Valdivia, quoting a Redditor, Unmuted: An intersectional approach to Latinx women with eating disorders (thesis), University of Nevada, Reno, page 40:",
          "text": "Christ, what a shitshow that place is. Full of bullies shamefully spouting harmful tips and this constant sense of superiority coming from all of them. I know we’re all sick but coming back to this sub feels like a breath of fresh air; everyone’s nice, encouraging and willing to call out any harmful toxicity that pops up, while edtwt seems to fester in it.",
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          "ref": "2022, Zoe Alderton, Preventing Harmful Behaviour in Online Communities, Routledge, →ISBN:",
          "text": "More recently, thinspo has become a recurring theme on social media platforms. On edtwt, there are multiple accounts dedicated to frequent reblogging of thinspo content such as extreme weight loss progress pics, very thin people in poses that emphasise this like closing their fingers around their upper thighs, thematic groupings like #legs, and photo sets of recognisable thin celebrities such as KPop idols.",
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          "ref": "2023, Taylor Drake, How We Haunt Ourselves: The Pro-Anorexia Fandom Around Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls (master's thesis), Athens, GA: University of Georgia, page 26:",
          "text": "For this thesis, I followed one account that was a mixture of pro-ana and media fandom content, which caused my otherwise fandom-oriented timeline to become full of dieting tips, edtwt [Eating Disorder Twitter]^([sic]) memes, and even intra-community arguments.",
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          "text": "Table 5 illustrates the top 10 keywords and hashtags associated with the classified categories. It enables comparisons between categories’ words and displays the most frequently used hashtags. […] The ED-user category has a significant relation with ED content such as proana, edtwt (twitter warning), body image, skinny, and fatspo.",
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