TikTok users have had enough of fatphobia. A recent movement on the social platform is rejecting fat-shaming and celebrating all body shapes, after a trend that shamed plus-size people was dubbed “offensive”, “silly” and “weird”.

It first began when a series of videos became popular where people filmed themselves in baggy t-shirts or oversized hoodies with the caption “I bet she’s fat under those clothes”. Set to the song “Love Me” by Lil Wayne, they might then pull their clothing tight across the waist to “reveal” a slimmer, hourglass figure. 

The trend’s message – that wearing greater clothing is OK so long as the body underneath continues to be acceptable by mainstream beauty standards – immediately drew criticism from other users. So that they began fighting back, and the audio has now been taken over, flooded by videos that reject the trend and are racking up hundreds of thousands of views.

This recent trend begins the exact same as the unique one with the crucial difference that as an alternative of showing a slimmer body at the tip of the video, people refuse to participate and share a message of body positivity, or they pull their clothing tight to disclose their “chubby” or “fat” bodies.  

“I’d somewhat be fat than body shaming other people to spice up your individual ego,” user @soulmori writes on her video which has been viewed over a million times, while @spookigio26 wrote: “Why does it matter??? This trend is offensive and disgusting to our beautiful plus sized women” on a video with 3.5 million views. 

“And what about it” said @casischaotic, while @lauri_bnl just wrote “fuck this trend”. Overall, across all of the videos the prevailing message is that there may be nothing improper with being fat. “I refuse to let girls think this isn’t a good looking weight for this reason trend,” user @chloecost writes in her video.

This anti-fat shaming trend is just the newest of body positive videos on TikTok which proves that social media might be used for good. In 2020, users have fun “undesirable” physical features through historical images and artistic endeavors, while earlier this 12 months an anti-filter trend rallied against the unrealistic ideals of beauty trends and photo editing. 

Mainstream culture, social media, capitalism and the patriarchy all feed into the concept our appearance and bodies are a very powerful things about us; that physical “beauty” ought to be prioritised above all else. This trend reminds us that it is a lie. As @thesophialiu wrote on her video, “our bodies are the least interesting thing about us.”

Watch a few of the perfect videos below.