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Grownkid

Instagram & Unrealistic Body Standards

Grownkid

Grownkid & Joy Coalition

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.84.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Does Instagram make us insecure? In this episode, we discuss how we feel about the social media standards that are causing so many teens to feel sad and inferior because of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome back to Teenage Theory Pete. We're back once again in the heat of California. Tom is how are you surviving in this heat? I'm not cool

0:20.6

You're on Brandi again, Thomas every time I look you're on Brandi. Do they add new things?

0:26.7

I'm looking through Instagram. I guarantee it. Speaking of Instagram, that's perfect.

0:35.7

Oh my god. We asked you guys what do you guys want to just talk about? We don't know what to talk about. What we do is just we need inspiration.

0:45.7

We asked you guys on Instagram, give us topics. While someone said you have to talk about the unrealistic standards that social media sets on people and teenagers especially.

0:59.7

So how do you feel about that? What are your thoughts on that? You think it's real? Do you think it's true?

1:05.7

You think social media really does have an impact on how you see yourself? Because Thomas, you use Instagram. I think the most out of us. So you care about your feed a lot.

1:19.7

For sure. Instagram does play a pretty big primary life. I know stupid. But it has always been ever since I got Instagram. I put so much effort into how my feed looked.

1:35.7

I remember your son's favorite feed. I archived everything. No, you should unarchive it. Please DM that.

1:45.7

Maybe tell Thomas to unarchive his seventh grade post. They're so funny. Remember the one where you're holding a choreo and your like your show and then I just kept.

1:55.7

And then guys say nice stuff daddy.

1:58.7

And I thought nice.

2:00.7

You're weird.

2:01.7

So okay. Anyway, you guys are secure about your thumb. Thomas, your thumbs are cute. Yeah, you do have cute thumbs.

2:09.7

Okay. Well, thank you. Because you can hide like all the bad stuff about yourself on Instagram. I think that's why I like it so much because I can build my own kind of image. My desired image that I want.

2:23.7

Like, I don't know. Because if you see my Instagram and you meet me in person, obviously like you're just like, okay, well.

2:30.7

He thought his address had to be. Yeah, I'm not as I thought like I don't know. It's just what what's the image you want to portray yourself as.

2:39.7

Honestly, I don't know. I just I just want people to like me. Like I've always had that problem going to school and worrying about other people's opinions.

2:52.7

And so Instagram kind of allowed me to be that type of person.

2:59.7

When they start though, they start with Instagram that you always want people to like you.

3:04.7

No, I don't think you have a thinking that way.

3:08.7

I think it like, okay. Probably during the end of elementary and going to middle school, that was when like you hit the hardest because I don't know.

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