Smoothies, bone broth, and fitspo: the historicity of TikTok postpartum bounce-back culture DOI
Bethany Johnson, Margaret M. Quinlan, Audrey Michelle Curry

et al.

Medical Humanities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 50(2), P. 352 - 362

Published: May 28, 2024

TikTok, a now iconoclastic social media platform, hosts millions of videos on health, wellness and physical fitness, including content postpartum ‘bouncing back’. At present, few studies analyse the urging viewers to bounce-back or potential influence these videos. Given acknowledged relationship between use adverse mental health outcomes (eg, lowered self-esteem, increased stress, disordered eating risk), an investigation bounce-back-related TikTok explores important intersections fitness cultures embodied experience recovery. Using qualitative thematic analysis (n=175), we explore three themes: (1) Smoothies: eat, but don’t be fat; (2) Bone broth: with today’s trends; (3) Fitspo: moving your body matters. Importantly, recycle historically constructed thinking about what makes ‘good’ ‘bad’ body, invoke vintage diet-culture tropes (ie, drinking water fill up before eating), maintain potentially dangerous expectations for caregivers rooted in historical gender, race class constructs. This results postfeminist mishmash modern maternity practices traditional hierarchies. Unpacking historicity assists practitioners, scholars users understanding impacts video new parents, as well how flag contextualise harmful content. Future should examine other subcultures, teen mothers trans messaging directed at impact those communities.

Language: Английский

Smoothies, bone broth, and fitspo: the historicity of TikTok postpartum bounce-back culture DOI
Bethany Johnson, Margaret M. Quinlan, Audrey Michelle Curry

et al.

Medical Humanities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 50(2), P. 352 - 362

Published: May 28, 2024

TikTok, a now iconoclastic social media platform, hosts millions of videos on health, wellness and physical fitness, including content postpartum ‘bouncing back’. At present, few studies analyse the urging viewers to bounce-back or potential influence these videos. Given acknowledged relationship between use adverse mental health outcomes (eg, lowered self-esteem, increased stress, disordered eating risk), an investigation bounce-back-related TikTok explores important intersections fitness cultures embodied experience recovery. Using qualitative thematic analysis (n=175), we explore three themes: (1) Smoothies: eat, but don’t be fat; (2) Bone broth: with today’s trends; (3) Fitspo: moving your body matters. Importantly, recycle historically constructed thinking about what makes ‘good’ ‘bad’ body, invoke vintage diet-culture tropes (ie, drinking water fill up before eating), maintain potentially dangerous expectations for caregivers rooted in historical gender, race class constructs. This results postfeminist mishmash modern maternity practices traditional hierarchies. Unpacking historicity assists practitioners, scholars users understanding impacts video new parents, as well how flag contextualise harmful content. Future should examine other subcultures, teen mothers trans messaging directed at impact those communities.

Language: Английский

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