please tell me more about eugenia cooney,,, at one point I was trying to get into her content but there was a bunch of weird conflicting info but now I want to know
I cannot thank you enough for asking (even though I did beg someone to ask). This was sent yesterday, but I have so many thoughts about her I needed to collect.
Okay, to preface this, I have dealt with a cruel restrictive eating disorder since I was 13, I’m now 21, and have had eating issues my entire life as it runs rampant in my family. I also started getting super into YouTube age 11/12, which is a year or two before Eugenia would blow up. So I like to think I’m qualified to say that I fucking hate her, I hated her long before she came out as a trump supporter, and she fucking sucks.
To start this off, a big misconception about restrictive Ed’s is that people with them are fucking stupid. And I mean that in the way that we can understand facts versus feelings. And what I mean by that is that a lot (if not all of us) can logically understand what our weight and size is, it’s just we feel otherwise. For me personally, I’ve hovered between healthy and tiptoeing on under weight, but even spent some time over. Over these eight years, I’ve known factually this. I saw the numbers on the scale, the size of my clothes, and just general statements from others. The disorder part comes in when I just didn’t feel those facts. I still view(ed) myself as bigger in certain areas or all over.
That’s a basic symptom of restrictive Ed’s. And I know for a fact Eugenia deals with the same thing.
To give a small bit, I genuinely do believe Eugenia is a very very sick person with the severest form of a restrictive ed that one can be. And Ed’s, like any other mental illness, can completely change a person and their personality.
However, that responsibility shifts when you become a public figure.
I know for a fact that Eugenia knows she is on death’s door weight wise. She knows everything I previously said. She knows the number on the scale, the size of her clothes, and the thousands of comments saying so. Even if she doesn’t believe it, which I believe is so, she knows that’s how the public views her. Which is crucial when you are a public figure.
She is aware her body is why she’s a public figure. She has the personality of a napkin, which, to be fair, can be a results of a severe ed. But, as I said, this is all thrown into a completely different context when one is personally is dealing with a restrictive ed and when one is performing it in front of the world.
Eugenia knows factually what she looks like, she just doesn’t believe it.
I do believe her job is a huge factor in why she remains sick. As, as I said, the only way she stays relevant is her body. Understandably, she thinks her relevancy will fade if she recovers. So a small part of me is sympathetic that she is stuck in that cycle. That said, she is a well grown adult and is a big girl who can make big girl decisions. And every day she makes a video with her body, she is choosing views over her well-being.
Though I do recognize this is not directly the fault of Eugenia, she is aware that those who are active fans of her, who regularly view her content, not just check in to see if she’s alive every so often, are either 1) young people with restrictive ed’s looking up to her 2) people with a fetish (yes, that exists).
As I said, she is a big girl who is fully aware of this. I know this as I was the first for some time. And, yes, it is not her responsibility to restrict people watching her videos for the wrong reasons, she has to live with the fact that that’s who she makes an income off of.
I don’t have much proof of this, but I do believe a lot of people who tip her or give her money are fetishists.
From one body dysmorphic to another, almost every pose she does, especially in full body shots, is angled in a way to make her look skinnier. They exist and iykyk. She sucks in a poses and does what she can to be skinnier (not that it’s needed (I believe the posing is more of a kink thing but can’t say for sure)).
It should also be taken into account that her mother is a HUGE enabler.
What people also don’t get is the best way to motivate her to get help is ignoring her. Leaving comments about how sick she appears gives her a high. She chooses money and that high in exchange for being immensely triggering thinspo at the fingers of any thirteen year olds.
And i cannot stress that she knows this. She is not ignorant, in fact, I believe she is very smart.
Eugenia is very sick, but not stupid. Her dignity and legacy is tarnished by greed and needing to prove she’s the skinniest. She is aware the destruction she imposes by being a public figure with her figure, and doesn’t give a fuck. Yes, she is very sick. But a person can be very sick and also a calculated, manipulative individual using their illness for personal, financial, and social gain.
I lost sympathy for her, as someone who gets how devastating her disorder is, long ago. I understand more than the average non-disordered person who sees her as just crazy does. I probably hate her more than those people do as well. I gave her grace for many years because of this, but it ran out long ago. Relapse is normal, but profiting off relapse is not. 
Even though she is a trump supporting twisted individual using her brittle body as a cash cow, I genuinely do hope she gets help and recovers. However, I believe that can only be accomplished if she cold turkey’s the internet. Some people have suggested that she can remain relevant by turning her account into a recovery account, and, though I believe that is possible, her being an internet public figure is way too triggering for her to ever become well and also be engaged with. And I get that is so difficult to make that step. Especially since she is surrounded by enabling circumstances.
However, that hope for her recovery can be existent along with my contempt for her and the need for her to be called out for the destruction her presence leaves. She deserves help, but she deserves to also be responsible for what she has done.
Tldr: you should’ve hated Eugenia cooney long before she came out as a trump supporter and I’m saying this as someone who struggled with the same exact thing she struggles with
I didn’t spell check this so sorry for typos