PSA to minors in ED communities
If you are a minor, please don't post body checks. That is bad news.
I also get that a lot of you feel like you have to, though, so I'm going to try and give you some pointers to make it less dangerous for you.
Don't show your face, never show your face. That doesn't just go for minors, either. Just don't show your face in body checks. There are two reasons for that, one of them is doxxing, of course. You don't want somebody to recognize you in a body check if it gets spread around. The second reason is to lessen the opportunities for exploitation. AI is all the rage, you don't want some guy making AI porn of you somewhere. Honestly, they don't even need the AI, pedos are just happy with a BC that has a face in it.
Wear clothes, not underwear, not a bikini, full clothes. I get that you're trying to show off your tummy a lot of the time, best case scenario you should just wear a flattering tanktop, but croptops work too. Just don't show more than you feel you need to. And split your different body parts across multiple photos. Ex: belly in one pic, chest/collarbones in one pic, arms in one pic, legs in one pic. Just, if you're separated into multiple pieces, it's harder for people to get a read on the full picture. Makes you safer from doxxing and exploitation.
Block adults. Block all your adult followers. If you don't feel comfortable blocking every adult, block every single non-ana account that follows you. Yes, sometimes people are secret anas and they follow with their main blog, but sometimes people are fetishists. Especially NSFW blogs, block the hell out of those! Always do that when you're a minor! Fake ana blogs also exist, use your judgement to decide which ones are real or fake, I don't have a solid guide for that.
And finally, I'm sorry everything sucks. EDs suck, the internet sucks, your parents probably suck, school probably sucks, shit likely sucks really bad right now. And I'm not going to give you a time-frame but things will improve. The AI bubble is popping, climate change is a fight we're slowly beginning to win, there are more public resources available for mentally-ill teenagers than ever. You'll get there.
