It's yet another example of AI-driven tools being used in ways that can reinforce harmful beauty ideals — and it just kind of ...

Participants in the trend used an AI-driven tool, created by a user on the editing app CapCut, to alter themselves to look larger.

“Literally when did we start body shaming again?” the caption added. “Why are we going backwards in 2025!!!” A spokesperson for TikTok confirmed to The Independent that the filter had been ...

A viral filter which made people appear overweight has been removed from TikTok, after the BBC reported it had sparked a wave ...

Luna, a health and wellbeing app for teens, also criticized the filter for promoting “body shaming and unhealthy beauty standards.” CNN has reached out to TikTok for comment. The company told ...

TikTok has removed a controversial "chubby ... Many shared "before and after" images, but others described the trend as body shaming and harmful. Body image experts and social media users alike ...