Watching Girls Die Online
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Female starvation as spectacle has a very long history. But now ‘thinfluencers’ have millions of followers.
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When raw food influencer Zhanna Samsonova died in July at the age of 39, after reportedly eating only fruit for the past seven years, she was just the latest person to join a tragic club: anorexic influencers who have starved themselves to death in public. Other recent examples include Amy Ellis earlier this year, who had 140K followers on TikTok, and J…
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