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A 22-year-old social media influencer, who has been criticised for promoting anorexic behaviour by sharing videos of her promoting dieting and limiting calories, has been banned from TikTok.t)..
Tiktok disabled the account of Liv Schmidt, who had over 670,000 followers, last week after The Wall Street Journal wrote a profile about her..
When the publication sought answers from the social media platform about the videos Schmidt posted, the company disabled her account..
The videos shared by Schmidt have been polarising as they feed into the current online discourse about unhealthy and quick ways to lose weight that can build up to disordered eating, especially in the era of popular weight-loss pills like Ozempic which have quickly become a favourite among celebrities..
Before her account was disabled, Schmidts videos were criticised for bringing back the diet culture of the early 2000s even amid an ongoing body positivity movement..
