Coolhunt 2 – the ‘bikini bridge’
After the ‘thigh gap’, a new disturbing trend emerged on social media: ‘the bikini bridge’.
The ‘bikini bridge’ was a prank by users of the 4chan/b/message board. A group of users of the online message board spread a series of images and tweets promoting the bikini bridge.
They created fake screenshots of celebrities tweeting about bikini bridges.
But now it turns out to really become a new hype, where young women love to show their slim body and abdomen. The term ‘bikini bridge’ is not entirely new. The term, actually a variety of the selfie, is apparently established for a few years by the American students. Which references to a tight woman’s body. Urban dictionary describes it as ‘When bikini bottoms are suspended between the two hip bones, causing a space between the bikini and the lower abdomen’.
This trend, encourage not only women with anorexia , but also ensures that many women are going to feel uncertain about their bodies and strive for an unhealthy beauty ideal.
Even though this trend was initially to be a hoax, it ensures that the visitors of anorexia sites now can go on twitter and facebook.
The social media creates competition among influencable women and young girls who want to look better and slimmer than their friends.
This is not cool and they definitely have got to do something about it, because even though there are also campaigns where the woman can be fuller, the young girls believe things faster when their friends do.
After the ‘Selfie’, the ‘thigh gap’ and the ‘bikini bridge’ new trends will be noted and the insecure girls will take it over very soon.
links:
http://www.lindanieuws.nl/wereldwijven/devriesmies/verontrustende-nieuwe-trend-bikini-bridge/
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/bikini-bridge-started-internet-prank-real-damage-article-1.1569783
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