| ▲ | fainpul 3 days ago | |
> we had magazines, TV, and the web, they all had advertising, and no population-level impact on child & teen mental health impact was observed as these were adopted That is not true. Distorted body perception, anorexia etc. due to omnipresent photoshopped models in magazines and poster ads where a thing decades ago. Things escalated with social media, but there were issues long before that. | ||
| ▲ | insane_dreamer 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
> Things escalated with social media, but there were issues long before that. The escalation, the ubiquitousness, is the problem. It's like the difference to your health between having a can of coke week and drinking a 2 L bottle of coke every day. | ||