SIO489: TikTok Banned #Skinnytok and It Was Right to Do So
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jenessa Seymour joins to discuss why TikTok's move here is aligned with what we know about eating disorders from the literature, and what happens when the internet doesn't draw a line like this.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. |
| 0:14.8 | This is episode 489. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm your host, Thomas Smith. |
| 0:17.9 | And with me again, Lydia Smith, how are you doing? |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. |
| 0:21.8 | Where's Holly? |
| 0:22.4 | Is Holly here? |
| 0:23.2 | No Holly today, but we do have another guest. |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.8 | Okay. |
| 0:30.5 | No offense, but I miss Holly. |
| 0:32.7 | We do love Holly. |
| 0:32.9 | We do love Holly very, very much. |
| 0:34.7 | But today we're actually going to have Dr. Janessa Seymour join us |
| 0:38.1 | because we are going to discuss some things that were happening over on TikTok that caught her |
| 0:44.8 | eye, specifically related to a hashtag called Skinny Talk. Skinny Talk. Skinny talk. Yeah. And |
| 0:52.6 | what the science says about eating disorders and the Internet. |
| 0:57.2 | We're going to be talking about what happened there, what the science says about eating disorders |
| 1:02.0 | and how they can proliferate across, you know, the Internet and with friend groups and things of that nature. |
| 1:08.9 | And then Jeness and I both kind of share some of our |
| 1:11.1 | experiences as kids growing up in society, as girls growing up in society and dealing with those |
| 1:16.7 | pressures. Always excited to have Janessa here. She always brings so much. Yeah. The knowledge that she |
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