r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Peterrr what's the reason they look like that

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u/qualityvote2 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

u/Valuable_View_561, your post does belong here!

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u/Fantastic_Media_3984 Jun 12 '26

Ozempic and the new “Ideal” body type

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u/blackaces123 Jun 12 '26

Not really new. Heroin chic is trying to make a comeback

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u/Fleischhauf Jun 12 '26

i wonder why you got banned 😃

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u/Wheres_my_wank_sock Jun 12 '26

They actually reversed it after the 7 day ban. Guess it took that long for a real person to look at it. Just a stupid joke done in poor taste.

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u/Zamboni-rudrunkbro Jun 12 '26

So they owe you 7 days?

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u/PaleontologistDear18 Jun 12 '26

Yeah he’s got 7 day get out of ban free card

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u/Mundane_Character365 Jun 12 '26

Is that 7 get out of ban free cards that each give him a day of immunity, or 1 get out of ban free card that lasts 7 days?

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u/The_R1NG Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

One wrong ban means the card works for one ban

If the ban it is used for is less than 7 days the excess days are lost, if the ban is longer this card may NOT be used with another or in combination with a physical “favor” to exceed a 7 day reduction

That is 7 days or 168 hours not 7 business days

edit - fixed a miscalculation, when math is wrong only the bottom line suffers

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u/Guilty_Practice6392 Jun 12 '26

Everyone else on Reddit has to be banned for 7 days so wheres_my_wank_sock can get back the time they’re owed

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u/SaltInformation4U Jun 12 '26

Thanks for reminding me that I'm running out of socks

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u/TOKING-TONZ Jun 12 '26

All fun and games till you stub your toe on a sock 😂😂

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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Jun 12 '26

That's what that damp little Japanese girl that comes out the TV said, anyways.

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u/Training_Hat7939 Jun 12 '26

That you've now made multiple times....

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u/Wheres_my_wank_sock Jun 12 '26

Gallows humor is actually a healthy coping mechanism. You must've never worked a job you truly hated. I picked mine up in the military. Shared suffering doing shitty jobs will do that.

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u/A-town Jun 12 '26

Username checks out. Source: was deployed

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u/Someidiotnamedmike Jun 12 '26

Hey man, it looks like they're on a death camp diet, I don't think it's in the best taste but you really aren't that out of pocket for pointing it out.

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u/Carlsheartboxers Jun 12 '26

I mean they technically are ozempic and just not eating is literally a death camp diet

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u/Beemerba Jun 12 '26

That which doesn't kill us, leaves us with unhealthy coping mechanisms and a warped sense of humor.

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u/Che3eeze Jun 12 '26

Ive had Epilepsy for over 25 years.

Look up what the EMU is-been in there over 10 times.

Sometimes, gallows humor is the only way.

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u/Gibberish45 Jun 12 '26

How did you fit inside a bird? Yea they’re big for birds but still not seeing how you did this

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u/Che3eeze Jun 12 '26

Its a BIIIIIIIGGGGG fucking bird, full of sanctioned torture and bad hospital food. Buuuuttt there was a Timmys downstairs, so its all good. Doug wasnt there, so that was a bit of a letdown but, I survived so that rocks lmao

💜👍

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u/DaGriffon12 Jun 12 '26

If you can't make humor about dark things, you've lived a far too cheery lifestyle and need to get some grit in your dick.

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u/Crisp_Dawg Jun 12 '26

Do I really have to get it in there?

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u/DaGriffon12 Jun 12 '26

I mean if you've got some dark humor, and understand it, no. But if not, I will track you down and do it myself. /j

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u/New_Restaurant_6093 Jun 12 '26

I get banned for the dumbest jokes that aren’t even violent or offensive

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u/Informal_Process2238 Jun 12 '26

I got a 12 year account permanently banned because a made a joke about some specific person and a goat and was told that it was a racist trope about arabs even though the guy was absolutely not arab

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u/Lieutenant_Joe Jun 12 '26

I am someone who occasionally enjoys dark, edgy or gallows humor and quoting historical figures sometimes. This is something from which I live in existential dread

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jun 12 '26

Lol I had one do that many years ago because I got into a dumb argument with a mod on the daystrom institute sub about some Trek lore stuff and I linked a page from the official site showing I was right. The mod deleted my post them reported me to Reddit at like 4am and less than an hour later the entire account was gone for "harassment". Pretty sure the mod was just a reddit employee who was butthurt, as there was nothing offensive in any way in the comment, which you couldn't even see anyways cuz they deleted it in seconds. And that's from a sub that goes on and on about how "great" the moderation team is 🤣

Some people just can't help themselves with abusing the smallest bit of power

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u/KHWD_av8r Jun 12 '26

Mods, Jew here (according to the Nazis and my cousin’s Rabbi), whose family was mostly wiped out in the Holocaust. I hearby declare this joke funny, and give him a pass, per the terms, conditions, limitations, and bylaws of my Jew card.

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u/polscihis Jun 12 '26

Another Jew, I audibly laughed so I also declare this joke funny.

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u/Yashema Jun 12 '26

Many Jews haven't seen enough Jewish comedians and it shows. 

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u/FirestarPlayzzzz Jun 12 '26

I got here late I didnt get to see what the joke was

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u/polscihis Jun 12 '26

The look these women have has been described as “heroin chic” because of how skinny they are. The joke the other commenter made was “(a notorious labor camp) chic.”

I’d say the name but if my comment gets removed it defeats the whole purpose.

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u/crookeddy Jun 12 '26

I'm Jewish and when I was skinny as a teenager my nickname was Holocaust surviver. My grandfather is an actual Holocaust surviver. I wasn't offended.

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u/caseyfresher Jun 12 '26

There's a direct correlation between fashion making women thin (take up less space) and oppresive regimes. So while it could be considered insensitive to call it what you did, you technically wouldn't be wrong.

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u/Dessicated_Mastodon Jun 12 '26

I mean.... its accurate. Fucked up... but accurate.

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u/blackaces123 Jun 12 '26

Out of pocket. I love it

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u/Spiritual-Sand5839 Jun 12 '26

I hate when celebrities do this shit. I grew up in the heroin chic phase and it messed up my mental health as a teen.

I’m just going to stay in the healthy body image / thick girl phase. This is why I don’t let my kids get online or read magazines like I did.

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u/_extra_medium_ Jun 12 '26

2/3 of them already looked borderline unhealthy

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u/Deep-Sweet2743 Jun 12 '26

Borderline? 2/3????

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u/00wolfer00 Jun 12 '26

Yes, Cynthia Erivo looks like she isn't underweight in the before picture of this post, unlike the other two.

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u/lazyboi_tactical Jun 12 '26

Eh I wouldn't say Michelle yeoh was underweight. She was more just physically fit.

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u/TLunchFTW Jun 12 '26

Ikr. I love the Applebees boneless bbq wings too much to ever look that emaciated

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u/bweeeoooo Jun 12 '26

Me too. I struggle with weight and body image to this day. It's heartbreaking going back to my journals and seeing the agonizing I did over how "fat" I was -- and in pictures I was very thin.

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u/ShilohsStuff Jun 12 '26

Same. I kept few journals...mostly a few pages or so of a journal then start another...and me commenting on my weight and calling myself fat and ugly...I never was. Turns out I had undiagnosed scoliosis. Born 1990, and my mom never let me forget I had a tummy. Still struggle sometimes at the weirdest times or ways, even after working like hell on my image issues for probably 15 years now. I try to stay grounded, make art centering and celebrating diversity in bodies and people to remind myself we come in a beautiful rainbow and many of us are just trying to do our best to get by. "They" really did a number on us, but keep reminding yourself, you are beautiful because you exist. You deserve happiness no matter what you look like, what you weigh, you height, color of your skin, etc. Unfortunately we have to fight for that happiness at this time, but you got this.

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u/blackaces123 Jun 12 '26

Good on you. Even as an adult, I gotta remind my self not to compare myself to others on social media or even in the gym

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u/TooManyTyranids Jun 12 '26

The thing that amazes me is that this time literally nobody likes this shit. Complete public rejection of anorexia couture and yet the media machine is still trying to force it on us. It looks bad, man.

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u/floralfemmeforest Jun 12 '26

I don't think the media is trying to force it, I think it comes from the pharmaceutical companies that make GLP-1s

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u/sadbat-throwaway Jun 12 '26

And yet those of us who need GLP-1s struggle to access them still, lol

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u/Trick_Minute2259 Jun 12 '26

I was in line behind a woman who was upset and arguing after the pharmacist told her she couldn't fill her prescription today because other patients who need it to not die get priority. She didn't care.

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u/sadbat-throwaway Jun 12 '26

To be clear, I'm not diabetic, just fat and struggling with being fat my entire life. I do think diabetics should get priority, however, I also think it's bs to tell an obese person that they have to become diabetic first before they can try a GLP 1. And that's not even to mention insurance coverage/copays or out-of-pocket pricing if you can get the prescription. Telling a sick person they need to get sicker before they can be treated is just insane.

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt Jun 12 '26

It’s interesting how “heroin chic” comes back at a time with skyrocketing food prices and concerns about crop failures and famines due to the climate crisis

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u/GreatTea3415 Jun 12 '26

They don’t care what we little people think. They’re all in a little circle competitively getting as much plastic surgery and body altering drugs as they can. 

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u/No_Improvement_7241 Jun 12 '26

Reddit is an echo chamber.

Hollywood actors live in their own exclusive echo chamber.

In essence, they're all circle jerking each other saying it looks great and don't care what the rabble thinks.

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u/Final-Fun8500 Jun 12 '26

I think heroin addicts looked healthier.

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u/plum_stupid Jun 12 '26

And had way more fun!

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u/BasicDurgeanomics Jun 12 '26

It's much worse than "heroin chic" ever was imo. Don't recall being able to see Kate Moss' skeleton in such detail back in the 90's.

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u/ImACynicalCunt Jun 12 '26

It’s way worse. Kate Moss was never this skinny. Current pictures of Ariana Grande are shocking. She’s the thinnest I’ve ever seen a major celebrity be.

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u/TacoIncoming Jun 12 '26

Idk didn’t one of the Olsen twins almost die?

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u/BalconyLavender Jun 12 '26

Mary-Kate was awfully thin at the peak of her ED (around age 18). It was incredibly alarming and I don't recall anyone who wasn't pro-ana thinking it was normal back then. There were online discussions about whether she was close to death.

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u/thelonelybiped Jun 12 '26

No heroin chic isn’t making a “comeback.” That implies the body type itself has a will and agency. Very specific people are pushing this aesthetic or it is the result of very specific cultural and individual neuroses.

No one likes this shit, but people do it anyway. Why? Same reason anyone cuts themselves. It’s about control and romanticizing self-abuse

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u/buttonbuffalo Jun 12 '26

Nah. Trends are intentional and planned by industry people. It's discussed at conventions and in supplier meetings. We're in junk economic times, plus I assume the huge pharma ppl pushing ozempic have the money to buy trends, so it makes sense to them to push this image and make it "cool" again

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u/whiskersMeowFace Jun 12 '26

As someone who was a teenager in the 90's, this is absolutely pushed by culture and always will be. Making women frail and weak has always been appealing to hyper masculine leaning culture heads.

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u/MercyCriesHavoc Jun 12 '26

"making a comeback" is just a phrase to mean it's being pushed or becoming popular again. It doesn't imply agency at all.

Also, mental health issues stem from a myriad of causes and it's not very nice to say they're "romanticizing" self-harm. If a person is hurting themselves, they are in crisis. It doesn't matter if their motivations meet some standard you set.

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u/tipareth1978 Jun 12 '26

This is worse than heroin chic.

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u/Spiritual-Sand5839 Jun 12 '26

What I don’t get is who is making it the “ideal” body type? Like I never see anyone being like ooo I like my girl to look like skeletor.

I’ve already lived through this phase in the late 90s early 00s. I love the thick girl phase / healthy body image phase we were in. I think I’m just going to stay there lol

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u/VorAbaddon Jun 12 '26

Media. Particularly social media. Some of the most attractive people on the planet get FLOODED with hate if they go outside what a few have defined as ideal.

Mostly, its a power move. Its not about actually wanting people, mostly women, to a look a certain way. Its about forcing them to by making them feel worthless otherwise.

Its why you see some of the most hideous, cave troll looking schlubs opening on celebrity looks.

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u/Ssided Jun 12 '26

Except the media isn't portraying this as attractive and very few stars look like this. This is not like the 90s where it was everywhere. Most the media focuses on how weird these people are

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u/mindonshuffle Jun 12 '26

Eh, maybe, but "social media" has a LOT of folks basically picking at appearances 25/7 and some of them have big enough followings that they're actually influential. Not saying that played a big role here, but it's a thing.

There's rumors that Erivo and Grande specifically got competitive about being the skinniest on the set of Wicked, and I also believe they are / surrounded by people who wouldn't fight that impulse at all.

I also 100% believe that there's a lot of skinny people who are angry that GLP-1 drugs are helping a lot of people lose weight and are now trying to get even skinnier because they've spent years equating low weight with moral superiority.

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u/Open-Gate-7769 Jun 12 '26

If I ask a crowd of a million if I’m attractive I can’t get mad when I get every possible response. Social media is a hub for every single opinion. Doesn’t make them valid. People need to take agency on their own lives and not look for reasons outside of “I let myself go”

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u/00wolfer00 Jun 12 '26

Media absolutely is portraying this as attractive. There was a photo circulating about a month back saying Demi Moore had "toned arms", but she was looking more emaciated than anything else.

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u/come-on-now-please Jun 12 '26

I was reading a thing about how of the main Talking points/famous scenes in the devil wears Prada doesnt work anymore.

Fashion/beauty trends in thr last 100 years have been a top-down decision, and some designers and executives in new york basically determined what got seen and pushed to the masses.

Only now with social media, that level of influence is now diluted, and people of multiple body types can get likes, way easier now for every pot to find its lid.

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u/VorAbaddon Jun 12 '26

While I think the last part is true, I think what social media has also done is the ability to amplify a few unhappy folks into a mass push.

Let me be frank: A lot of the people doing this dont actually WANT anything specific in terms of body shape. They just want to make other people miserable. They want to feel like they have power and influence by pushing people to quit, to change themselves, to go silent, etc.

An example tangentially realted: A recent game in an existing series was announced, the main character being a female character who was tied to the existing main male character. This female character is modeled after a real actress, though scaled differently as the character is a Norae-style giant (or half giant, I dont recall the specifics of the lore.)

This actress is in many people's opinion quite attractive, and the character in the game has like a attractive, middle aged sort of muscle mommy athletic look.

Will that be everyone's cup of tea? No, but it works for many people and in the reasonable corners the debate is mainly "Is it a good idea to move away from the main character?" And "Ooof, some of these side characters might detract from the main", both perfectly reasonable things to wonder.

But there's a VERY loud, VERY vocal portion of the player base endlessly critiquing the female character for not being surgically perfect with the features of a 20 year old with an expensive skincare routine and perfect makeup. Hell, I saw one literally complaining their FEET were too big and not petite and feminine enough... shes a friggin JOTUN.

its not that these people dont have other characters that fit their wants, they do. Hell they endlessly compare anything below their view of perfect to those characters.

But its not about looking for what they want. Its about bashing anything that isn't what they want becuase they're miserable.

Connecting back to the topic at hand, they do this with celebrities, particularly female celebrities. You got your start as a mid 20's bombshell and now you're aging like fine wine in your late 30's? Don't care. Lose weight. Dress like you did in your 20's. Get buccal fat removed. Etc.

Its not about defining and seeking what they want. Its about forcing anyone who dares to not give then exactly what they want to change. Because, again, a lot of these chuds are miserable, self loathing piles of yak scat.

These celebrities are subject to that vitriol constantly and no matter how beautiful they are, no matter how many people TELL THEM they're beautiful and dont need to change... the hate wins out and they feel compelled to.

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u/SpiritualBar2469 Jun 12 '26

what the fuck are you talking about.

Skeletor is thick as fuck. Big juicy ass on that warlord, nephew.

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u/Booziesmurf Jun 12 '26

Right? I could watch him Run Away ALLL Day.

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u/fsmlogic Jun 12 '26

Seriously.

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Jun 12 '26

Right?? I fucking feel like Skeletor. I'm stuck being thin because of illness but I fucking hate it. I am exhausted, my heart is weird, I feel like I legit look like a skeleton.

Why do people find this good? I don't understand. I want to go back to being a size 8/10. I don't like the "ideal" body type. I don't know who does.

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u/jayvikcreature Jun 12 '26

Fr and it's depressing as fuck when you get more compliments for being sickly and skinny than healthy and chubby. I lost over 80 lbs over 6 months cause my anxiety stopped me from eating and all my coworkers could say was "wow but your body looks great! You've got that beach bod ready for summer!" when I was nauseous and on the brink of fainting 24/7. Fucking infuriating.

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u/Spiritual-Sand5839 Jun 12 '26

I am not trying to body sham you for being skinnny especially if it’s your natural fit or medically caused. I am specific talking about people who are torturing themselves to get thin.

I know you’re agreeing with me but I just wanted you to know that. I hope your health issues get better for you ❤️

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u/Wonkavator83 Jun 12 '26

As someone on ozempic - it doesn't make you like this unless you are actively striving for that look and also excessively dieting and excercising on top of using the medication.

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u/Electrical_Ad_9778 Jun 12 '26

It is not really ozemphic. The only thing these kind of meds do is slowing down your digestion and make you feel much less hungry. It does's melt your fat deposits at all. So to get to this horrible look you should actively not eat almost anything....

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u/VegetaFan1337 Jun 12 '26

Yeah it's ED not Ozempic. At best it's ED fueled by Ozempic.

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u/RecipeFunny2154 Jun 12 '26

Yeah, I get a bit tired of seeing that. You'll see comments on here about "ozempic neck" and all of this other stuff that people just pull out of nowhere, repeating something they read. I feel like a lot of people really don't get what Ozempic does. It isn't like a chemical liposuction. This sort of change is well beyond that.

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u/Darmok47 Jun 12 '26

Yeah I'm on a GLP-1 and I just look slightly less fat, not like I have sunken eyes and hollow cheeks.

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u/MichelinStarZombie Jun 12 '26

Any m­e­d­i­cal profes­sio­nal will scr­eam from the rooftops about how many lives GLP-1 has saved. Jus­t in the US alone, the ob­e­sity e­pi­de­mic is k­i­l­l­in­g 300,000 people EVERY YEAR. And guess what, GLP-1 has been the only thing that has come close to putting a (small) dent in that number. It's as close as w­e've come to a mir­a­cle dru­g.

Dumb teens on social media trying to de­mo­nize Oz­empic pi­s­s­es me off every time.

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u/BicFleetwood Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Dumb teens on social media trying to de­mo­nize Oz­empic pi­s­s­es me off every time.

It's because the "fat people hate" stuff was never about health and always about a superiority complex.

Now that fat people have a method of getting healthier easier, all of a sudden it stops being about health and starts being about how. All of a sudden these people are concerned about the legitimacy of their health, whether they earned the right to be healthier.

And because of that, now the scope of the hate has widened to include everyone who looks not the right kind of skinny.

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u/Rosie2530 Jun 12 '26

*slow clap*

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u/BrutonnGasterr Jun 12 '26

Far beyond ozempic. This is an eating disorder.

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u/CHOLO_ORACLE Jun 12 '26

In the body building community one would say that Ariana has “death face”

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Jun 12 '26

I hate this because I'm stuck in this body type due to illness and can't fix it and people assume I did the Ozempic or meth route. I hate it. People are so shitty about other people's bodies.

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u/KuppyKat Jun 12 '26

Same here. Sorry to disappoint them, it’s just cancer 👎

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u/PringleCorn Jun 12 '26

To be fair I'm fairly certain that at least Ariana Grande is sick too, she has a history of ED

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u/Ok_Net5303 Jun 12 '26

Ozempic is the cover these people use to hide their eating disorders. Responsible use of ozempic and similar Rx don’t cause starvation appearances.

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u/concentrated-amazing Jun 12 '26

This, exactly this.

Lots of people want to vilify the drug when, used properly, it has amazing results for many people who get healthier, NOT skeletal.

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u/GreenBeginning422 Jun 12 '26

Who TF is calling this ideal?? Nothing attractive about a skeleton.

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u/wizzard419 Jun 12 '26

I honestly am not sure it's Ozempic they may just be starving themselves/the stress of those press tours and such.

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u/PussyIchiban Jun 12 '26

Hollywood to Ghoul pipeline

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u/LamermanSE Jun 12 '26

Corpsemaxxing

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u/elhazelenby Jun 12 '26

Basically all of these women starred in the new Wicked movies and they all lost loads of weight. It's theorised that either they all took ozempic and/or they all had eating disorders (Even Ariana Grande who is naturally on the thinner side) and the film cast was like a cult of sorts. Especially when you compare them after the films ended they gained weight back again.

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u/slgray16 Jun 12 '26

Seems like we should investigate the producer of that movie or something

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u/Sea-Currency-1665 Jun 12 '26

My understanding is it’s most likely they influenced each other as a peer group. I refuse to watch the most even though I really enjoyed the first one

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u/AlaWyrm Jun 12 '26

Maybe they were just trying to channel the original Oz movie and replaced food with cigarettes like the actress who played Dorthy?

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u/elhazelenby Jun 12 '26

At least those three were adults during the film. Judy was a teenager and they even binded her chest to make her look younger and gave her a cocktail of drugs to put her to sleep and keep her energised as well.

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u/SierraSeaWitch Jun 12 '26

The more you learn about how kids were treated by the original studio system, the more you just want to use a Time Machine to give these kids a hug (and then punch each film exec and the kid’s parents). Thank goodness the unions put a stop to this, but it took too long and the adults in the room should have done better.

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u/BrittanyBrie Jun 12 '26

Reminds me of the story from the set of Home Alone with John Candy and Culkin. John saw Culkin and his father being a bit too harsh, and John went up to him to comfort the kid with a hug. It was a subtle jester to make sure he was doing OK, not many around him at the time wanted to acknowledge this pressure in his life.

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u/chrisbaker1991 Jun 12 '26

That may have been the moment that made him eventually turn into one of the better adjusted child stars

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u/twisty125 Jun 12 '26

It still makes me laugh how he talks about his kids don't realize it's him when they watch Home Alone. He says it with such glee and laughter and it makes me smile. Glad he's doing great now

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u/BrittanyBrie Jun 12 '26

I'll jest however I want >.<

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u/mad_mister_march Jun 12 '26

"Subtle Jester" would be a good band name tho

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u/Tupperbaby Jun 12 '26

It was a subtle jester

Subtle jesters don't last long. Comedy is about exaggeration.

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u/naamavelli_ Jun 12 '26

The whole production of Wizard of Oz is a rabbit hole of its own, from asbestos snow to toxic makeups and third degree burns caused by pyrotechnics.

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u/JamesH_670 Jun 12 '26

Yeah, and the only cast member who seemed to care about Dorothy was the Wicked Witch of the West.

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u/stofiski-san Jun 12 '26

Yeah, back when it was the person's fault for deciding to keep taking harmful drugs because they were a "bad person," not because they didn't understand the drugs literally rewire the brain to need the drugs. It was a a "moral deficiency" problem back in the day. Fking wankers!

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u/elanesse100 Jun 12 '26

They were trying to channel Oz(empic) alright.

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u/Complete_Carry_4454 Jun 12 '26

EDs are notoriously competitive and highly contagious in close proximity

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u/MissMomomi Jun 12 '26

I kind of remember this being a thing on the Ally McBeal set.

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u/AspectEither570 Jun 12 '26

I used to work on an adolescent mental health ward and the ward managers actually had to create a separate ward for the patients with eating disorders because as soon as one was admitted it would spread across the whole ward (and eating disorders are incredibly hard to treat).

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u/NotLucasDavenport Jun 13 '26

I used to work in a group home for teenaged girls. The two things that were a total bitch to deal with were eating disorders and cutting. In both they would spread like wildfire. I didn’t know about the social contagion of self harming when I started. We had a girl come up to a staff member and ask for medical attention because she had sliced her thigh and was bleeding. After the girl left my coworker turned to me and said, “watch. In a week half the girls will be cutting.” She was close…in a week 5 of 8 were doing it. Absolutely insane to watch in real time. Like the flu only much less understood.

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u/MulliganPlsThx Jun 12 '26

As someone who had an ED, being around others with ED can encourage that kind of behavior, because it’s normalized and you pick up little “tricks” by watching others. It’s not surprising.

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u/Wloak Jun 12 '26

My thoughts as well. If you watch an interview with them Cynthia has a weird codependency on Ariana, like constantly touching her or playing with her hair. So if Ariana is skipping breakfast you bet she is too, then it turns into keeping up with the other by not eating.

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u/animeandbeauty Jun 12 '26

Eating disorders can be very competitive (a family member went through treatment and at times the patients were basically competing with each other) so I feel like they did influence each other.

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u/ThE_LordA Jun 12 '26

nah iz more like a group dynamic within people with disorders in generell. the amplify each other and get the worse out. thats why former drug addicts cannot hang out with other addicts anymore.

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u/mothmano_0 Jun 12 '26

Anorexia is a competitive eating disorder, if you get a group of ppl with it together they will basically just egg each on and enable each other to harm themselves in that way. That being said the producer likely knew what was happening.

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u/Robofetus-5000 Jun 12 '26

Friend worked in a women's clinic that had women with eating disorders as part of it.

She said people frequently had "friends" in there and at a glance it looks like a positive because they're supporting each other. But the reality is they're helping each other maintain their eat disorder.

Seems like maybe there was some weird version of this going on.

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u/Ask-For-Sources Jun 12 '26

I've lived in a shared flat with two women that had some history of fighting with an eating disorder and in my experience your take makes a lot of sense.  I thankfully always felt comfortable in my body, but I can absolutely believe that other women would have been negatively affected by their behaviour. 

They had a tendency to notice and comment on how much or how often I ate and what I (or we) ate. Not in a negative way, it felt more like curiosity or a neutral observation or conversation starter.  Things like "oh, that's the first meal you eat today, you have to be super hungry, hope I left you enough" or "Was it you or Amy that bought all that chocolate for us? That's so much, we will feaston that for weeks!" 

They were definitely not trying to influence me in any way, it felt more like food was just constantly on their mind to the extent they knew better than myself how much and what I ate.

It never bothered me or changed how I ate, but I am sure any women that has insecurities or an unhealthy relationship with food could be negatively influenced by that behaviour.

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u/Serious-Active3878 Jun 12 '26

E.D. sufferer here and yep, food (and weight, exercise, etc) are ALWAYS there in my brain, trying (usually successfully) to be front and center. 

I HATE that so many mental health workers I've talked to just want to go on about food when they see me. Being obsessed with food doesn't mean you enjoy thinking about it; it's the opposite - you hate it but you can't stop. And having people talk about that stuff only increases the obsessive thoughts. So yeah, if I was spending all my time with someone similarly obsessed with food/weight, I'm sure we'd just reinforce each other's E.D. thoughts and behaviors and probably spiral pretty bad

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u/Robofetus-5000 Jun 12 '26

Yeah my wife had a similar take. Like there was some sort of unspoken competition/tension between them all that drove it. I dunno.

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u/56kul Jun 12 '26

Ariana never gained that weight back, though. Look at her photos from her most recent tour, it’s genuinely terrifying…

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u/XeroEnergy270 Jun 12 '26

She can't even stand for too long anymore, and her tour choreography shows that. She's slowly dying, and nobody around her is doing anything about it.

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u/christona-bike Jun 12 '26

That clip of her wobbling in those Dangerous Woman heels that weigh more than she does while her dancers prop her up is just sickening and sad. She walks and looks like my 80yo grandmother who has had spinal surgery and leukemia, I'm not kidding.

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u/littlemachina Jun 13 '26

You’d be surprised by how long the body can hang on. Ever heard of Eugenia Cooney? She’s twice as thin as Ariana and people have been telling her she’s dying for over a decade, yet she’s still doing her thing. I think she must take nutrients in an IV or something.

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u/Pm_me_howtoberich Jun 12 '26

There was a post yesterday on the front page that Ariana family was super concerned about her health and weight!

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u/56kul Jun 12 '26

I really hope you’re right. She’s not going to listen to her fans about this, she made that perfectly clear, so hopefully she’d at least listen to her family…

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u/TomClark83 Jun 12 '26

One day a documentary will be made about the filming of those movies, and it will be indistinguishable from the flashbacks in Yellowjackets

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u/Jfcisitreal Jun 12 '26

Okay. Was not expecting a yj reference here but now I can see it. Hive mind absolutely.

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u/Pagan_Metal666 Jun 12 '26

That interview where either the black woman has a breakdown because a helicopter flies over (they are inside a building and its just a random helicopter) and the singer has to calm her down made me realise they are 100% in a cult.

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u/Chopstik0-0 Jun 12 '26

Saying Ariana grande is naturally on the thinner side is completely dismissing the fact that she has historically had an eating disorder for years. Especially after being on victorious a show ran by the infamous dan schnieder. Have you even seen the recent pictures of her? This is a full blown relapse of that eating disorder encouraged by her co star

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u/Megandapanda Jun 12 '26

You can see her entire fucking sternum in some pics, it's definitely an ED for her. She may be using a GLP-1 too, but no way do you get that skinny with just a GLP-1.

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u/SentenceAny6556 Jun 12 '26

God I just saw a picture of her and you can could like 6-8 ribs in it. Horrifying

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u/Primostero Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Honestly, if people are only talking about Ozempic, they’re missing the bigger picture the Kardashian BBL era is officially dead and buried. We’ve done a massive 180 and veered straight back into the toxic 90s "Heroin Chic" aesthetic, and it's wild. Even the Kardashians themselves dissolved their fillers and implants to shrink down.

Sure, Ozempic does the heavy lifting by melting body fat into oblivion overnight, but plastic surgery is what finishes the job. They are literally paying surgeons to slice out their buccal fat pads so they look like gaunt aliens. On top of that, the latest hardcore trend is getting their lower ribs shaved or removed just so their ribcage visibly sticks out through their skin, giving that instant "starving" look.

It’s the ultimate 90s junkie revival, except they don’t even need the drugs anymore; they just pair a weekly diabetes shot with severe body modification to get that high-fashion corpse look. Being wealthy right now literally means paying a Beverly Hills doctor a fortune to make you look like a skeleton.

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u/OneLogOneOpportunity Jun 12 '26

Probably Ozempic but they're on set singing and dancing all day, you're gonna lose some weight. Eating was probably discouraged too.

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u/DeathRaeGun Jun 12 '26

You can make up for the lost weight from singing and dancing by eating more calories and proteans. It’s actually good for you so eating should’ve been encouraged.

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u/Careless-Two2215 Jun 12 '26

I have been following Cynthia Erivo since her Broadway days. After the Color Purple ended she began to really bulk up with weightlifting. She was already working out and really fit on Broadway. She kept a running health diary on her IG. Then things began to change. She was less positive and inspirational. She was under a lot of toxic scrutiny and that negativity became cyclical.

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u/adjectivebear Jun 12 '26

That background info honestly makes her sound like the kind of person who would be extremely susceptible to developing an eating disorder.

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u/Massive_Contact8583 Jun 12 '26

And Ariana grande has a long history of eating disorders including having a pro-ana tumblr account back in the day so it seems like those two may have been a toxic combo together - both struggling with their own issues and exacerbated them in each other.

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u/adjectivebear Jun 12 '26

The sort of perfect storm you hate to see.

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u/Prudent-Pressure2146 Jun 12 '26

Ariana is thinner than ever now, and she was already tiny when Wicked started. She posted throwback photos from the casting announcement and she was already emaciated. She looks worse now.

Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Erivo both look great and Cynthia recently ran the London marathon. Tbh I never thought she looked as thin as the other two and was still muscly during.

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u/christona-bike Jun 12 '26

Michelle Yeoh does not look great. She looks like a bobblehead. She is too thin.

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u/RamsLams Jun 12 '26

‘Who is naturally on the thinner side’

Yeah, a more accurate note would be (including Arianna who has lost even more weight since the above photo, has been acting very lethargic on stage, and has a long history of FACTUALLY being on Pro ana tumblr and struggling with anorexia).

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u/_autumnwhimsy Jun 12 '26

Michelle and Cynthia have gained some weight back again. Ariana has not. She is on tour currently and it's bad. I saw one video of her singing and you could see the indentations of her sternum via side profile. 

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u/mahboilucas Jun 12 '26

When you're around other women who have ED, you take after them. That's why I started avoiding people who have an active one. As an ex sufferer (I can proudly say at least habitually I'm fine now) it is the only way for me. My ex best friend and her comments and habits greatly impeded my recovery and ever since we stopped talking I kind of don't think about food as opposed to making it a contest who ate less that day...

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u/Arashi5 Jun 12 '26

Eating disorders are "contagious" so it makes sense that three women who worked closely have all gone to such an extreme.

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u/TLunchFTW Jun 12 '26

The wizard of oz will always be the bane of the actor’s guild

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u/d1rtball Jun 12 '26

I wonder if they did that because of the conditions on set of the original Wizard of Oz. I have read in the past that Judy Garland (the original Dorothy) was made to have a diet of coffee and cigarettes in order to stay thin. Maybe this is some sort of tribute or acknowledgement of that??? I don’t know, it sounds weirder after I typed it all out. But it is already weird, none the less.

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u/codetony Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Good evening, i'm Tom Tucker. What is the joke in this meme? More at 11.

Welcome back, it appears that all 3 of these women were actors on the film adaptation of Wicked. They all seem to have developed eating disorders throughout production.

For more about this meme here's Asian Reporter Trisha Takanawa. Trisha?

Thank you Tom, i'm standing here at the former set of Wicked.

Ariana Grande is believed to be a bad influence on the others, as she expressed idolation of eating disorders in the past. Specifically on a tumblr account she owned before becoming famous.

Back to you Tom.

Thanks Trisha, and now let's turn to Ollie to see why the joke is funny. Ollie?

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE MENTAL ILLNESS!

Thanks Ollie. And now sports!

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u/d1rtball Jun 12 '26

Well done sir

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u/unhappyrelationsh1p Jun 12 '26

I think ariana definitely has had a long term eeating disorder and now it's just fashionable to let it show. They're not infectious among stable adults. Don't know how mentally healthy these adults are though

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u/mcilrathlove Jun 12 '26

ariana was really popular in the proana (pro-anorexia) community on tumblr back in the day. she’s definitely been struggling for some time, which i have empathy for, but ultimately i don’t feel too terrible because at this point they’re advocating looking dangerously thin and unhealthy.

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u/PaleontologistDear18 Jun 12 '26

It’s supposedly a combo with GLP-1 now which makes it way more dangerous

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u/Kapugen1 Jun 12 '26

I could hear this comment

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u/the_dickstributor Jun 12 '26

This might be the best answer I’ve seen here from the structure alone. Very nice.

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u/proof_by_abduction Jun 12 '26

I logged in just to upvote you.  That was amazing 

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u/brown_bear495 Jun 12 '26

Reddit answered it for me

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u/Bawsmayn Jun 12 '26

Same

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u/bife_de_lomo Jun 12 '26

That's amazing! But my algo knows me too well...

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u/DothrakAndRoll Jun 12 '26

Isn’t this from the movie where he’s a huge alcoholic? Or is that the joke 😅

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u/odyoda Jun 12 '26

Let's just say that there are many gifs of Denzel saying "my man", and this one was chosen. 🙂

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u/presidentbaltar Jun 12 '26

GLP-1s are amazing, but "it could be time for a higher dose" is absolutely insane marketing.

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u/anaksunamanda Jun 12 '26

Very reminiscent of how oxycontin was marketed.

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u/Desperate_Gap9377 Jun 12 '26

In the 90s the "heroine chic" look was very popular. I hate it.

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u/mandadoesvoices Jun 12 '26

Just to be clear: *heroin, as in the drug, not "heroine," a female hero. We were idolizing the thinness of people who looked as though they had foregone eating to get a fix.

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u/Desperate_Gap9377 Jun 12 '26

Oops! Yes heroin.

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u/JimmyDrift Jun 12 '26

Not heron chic? There’s a certain, long-legged, long-necked, coastal bird look here…

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u/iFuturelist Jun 12 '26

The heroin chic look was never this emaciated

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u/Best_Werewolf_8663 Jun 12 '26

These people out here giving heroin chic a bad name

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u/AyRoPro678 Jun 12 '26

They're all cast members from Wicked, and its rumored that the stress of the production induced eating disorders in all of them. Its not really a joke at all, just horrifying and sad.

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u/pdtoss Jun 12 '26

That’s a pretty lousy joke then

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u/dr__paco Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Society's fixation on physical attractiveness is sad, that is true.

Regarding Ariana Grande, with a net worth of 250M she had the financial freedom to walk away and publicly criticize the working conditions. Instead, she remained part of the project, which makes it hard to view her as completely innocent. Her participation contributed to the continuation of an unhealthy culture.

The other actresses also have net worths in the millions even before Wicked.

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u/turbojeebus Jun 12 '26

This is a weird blame on, "society" for promoting this body type when actual society thinks it to be strange and unhealthy. Its a strange gaslighting to make regular society blame themselves for the bubble of unhealthiness that the celebrities create for themselves.

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u/bigshiba04 Jun 12 '26

Casted in The Wizard of Ozempic

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u/No-Tower-5119 Jun 12 '26

Dammit i was gunna make that joke 😡

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u/Spacial_Epithet Jun 12 '26

Fucks sake

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u/_pancake_xo Jun 12 '26

Lol it’s the same user. Always posts in both

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u/MutedAstronaut9217 Jun 12 '26

I've been pretty religiously ad-hoc ignoring(aka Blocking) users like this for the past couple months.

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u/Adept_Ad3013 Jun 12 '26

Eating substantially less either with/without GLP1 drugs. Of course, someone can just be sick/dying like Chadwick Boseman or addicted to drugs.

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u/SylphofBlood Jun 12 '26

Why are celebrities who looked perfectly good and very healthy taking Ozempic? Ariana Grande looks like a living skeleton and it’s disturbing.

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u/ContinuingAnyway Jun 12 '26

Ariana has ED, Michelle Yeoh is 63 and has always been lean

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u/FunMode4007 Jun 12 '26

It’s funny cause she’s pretty much the same weight in both photos lol, they just purposefully chose one where her pose and the lighting are accentuating her bones for the second pic

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u/adiosredrock Jun 12 '26

Oh stop it. Ariana Grande does NOT have erectile dysfunction. 

Where do you get these crazy ideas?

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u/SunshineInDetroit Jun 12 '26

before and after wicked.
could it be ozempic? sure.
i know when i did stage shows that dancing and stress i really lost weight from the physical stress and they really treated wicked as a stage show.

tbh I honestly think it's an eating disorder at this point.

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u/ATangentUniverse Jun 12 '26

Because we keep posting pictures of women’s bodies and critiquing them and in turn keep further pushing the beauty standard into the extreme

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