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TechCrunch Daily Crunch

TikTok's Steroid Problem

TechCrunch Daily Crunch

SpokenLayer

Tech News, Technology, News

438 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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access paid out nearly 20 million dollars to creators according to X.

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But first in a new report a social media watchdog group details how

0:59.8

steroid content is exploding in some Tik-Toc communities, promoting potentially dangerous and often illegal substances while propagating unattainable body image ideals to boys and young men. Researchers with the Center for Countering Digital Hate

1:15.0

found that videos tagged with hashtags promoting the use of steroid-like drugs

1:20.4

have racked up more than 580 million views among US users in the last three years,

1:26.4

the bulk of which come from young men between the ages of 18 and 24.

1:31.3

Data for views from under 18 users isn't available.

1:34.8

The CCTH groups the substances in question

1:37.4

together under the umbrella of steroid-like drugs,

1:41.1

rather than calling them performance enhancing drugs a term that can be

1:45.4

misleading given the health risks associated with their use.

1:49.5

While the vendors selling these drugs generally don't target underage users directly

1:53.7

according to the report they increasingly rely on social media

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